James Roy Horner
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Oscar and Grammy winner, a composer, genuine orchestrator and music director, a conductor of film and orchestral music, a person, having created greatest film hits for Titanic and Avatar. This is James Roy Horner. The composer was born on August 14, in far 1953 in Los Angeles, USA, in a family of Jewish immigrants. His father was an occasional film director, production and set designer. It was him who focused the interest of little James on music and film industry. The boy started his music career early at the age of five playing piano. James spent his childhood in London attending Royal College of Music. After earning a master’s degree, James worked at his doctorate in the University of California. After a few successful scoring assignments with the industry leading American Film Institute he completely turned to film music scoring.
His major film score was for the most romantic project of 1979 – The Lady in Red. After this great success Horner gained notice in Hollywood and the composer was engaged in the greatest film project of the 20th century – Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan). In this project the young musician established himself as a mainstream composer.
James Roy Horner is known for his contribution to film music industry. The composer was noted for his bold integration of electronic, choral and Celtic music elements into his film compositions.
James Horner got his great success with 1997 Titanic project. The album of tracks for the film still remains one of the top selling orchestral film soundtracks of all the times.
Horner worked for the two highest grossing projects of the film industry: Avatar and Titanic.
His film score profile includes The Karate Kid, The Perfect Storm, Aliens, The Missing, Troy and many others.
His major film score was for the most romantic project of 1979 – The Lady in Red. After this great success Horner gained notice in Hollywood and the composer was engaged in the greatest film project of the 20th century – Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan). In this project the young musician established himself as a mainstream composer.
James Roy Horner is known for his contribution to film music industry. The composer was noted for his bold integration of electronic, choral and Celtic music elements into his film compositions.
James Horner got his great success with 1997 Titanic project. The album of tracks for the film still remains one of the top selling orchestral film soundtracks of all the times.
Horner worked for the two highest grossing projects of the film industry: Avatar and Titanic.
His film score profile includes The Karate Kid, The Perfect Storm, Aliens, The Missing, Troy and many others.
The horror film Aliens brought the composer his first Academy Award. Still the composer describes as the most stressful nightmare in his career. But fortunately the composer went back from his word and made several successful projects with James Cameron again. Thus the world saw Titanic and Avatar. The Avatar score took more than two years of Horner’s career. The composer recognized Avatar the most difficult film and music project in his career and the biggest and hardest job he had ever undertaken.
23.06.2015 James Horner dies in Plane Crash. Horner was piloting the small aircraft when it crashed into a remote area about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, in the Los Padres national forest.
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2015 | Wolf Totem |
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2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man |
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2012 | For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada |
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2011 | Black Gold |
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2010 | The Karate Kid |
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2008 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
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2008 | The Spiderwick Chronicles |
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2007 | The Life Before Her Eyes |
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2006 | Apocalypto |
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2006 | All the King's Men |
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2005 | The New World |
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2005 | The Legend of Zorro |
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2005 | Flightplan |
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2005 | The Chumscrubber |
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2004 | The Forgotten |
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2004 | Troy |
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2003 | House of Sand and Fog |
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2003 | The Missing |
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2003 | Beyond Borders |
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2003 | Radio |
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2002 | The Four Feathers |
| 2002 | Windtalkers | |
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2001 | Iris |
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2001 | A Beautiful Mind |
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2001 | Enemy at the Gates |
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2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
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2000 | The Perfect Storm |
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1999 | Bicentennial Man |
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1998 | Mighty Joe Young |
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1998 | The Mask of Zorro |
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1998 | Deep Impact |
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1997 | TITANIC |
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1997 | The Devil's Own |
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1996 | To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday |
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1996 | Ransom |
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1996 | Courage Under Fire |
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1996 | The Spitfire Grill |
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1995 | Balto |
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1995 | Jumanji |
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1995 | Jade |
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1995 | Apollo 13 |
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1995 | Casper |
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1995 | Braveheart |
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1994 | Legends of the Fall |
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1994 | The Pagemaster |
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1994 | Clear and Present Danger |
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1993 | The Pelican Brief |
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1993 | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story |
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1993 | Bopha! |
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1993 | The Man Without a Face |
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1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer |
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1993 | House of Cards |
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1993 | Once Upon a Forest |
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1993 | Jack the Bear |
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1993 | Swing Kids |
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1992 | Sneakers |
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1992 | Unlawful Entry |
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1992 | Patriot Games |
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1992 | Thunderheart |
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1991 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West |
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1991 | The Rocketeer |
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1991 | Class Action |
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1991 | My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys |
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1991 | Once Around |
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1990 | Another 48 Hrs. |
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1990 | I Love You to Death |
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1989 | Glory |
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1989 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids |
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1989 | Field of Dreams |
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1988 | Cocoon: The Return |
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1988 | The Land Before Time |
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1988 | Red Heat |
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1988 | Willow |
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1987 | *batteries not included |
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1987 | Project X |
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1986 | An American Tail |
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1986 | The Name of the Rose |
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1986 | Where the River Runs Black |
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1986 | Off Beat |
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1986 | Aliens |
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1985 | Commando |
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1985 | The Journey of Natty Gann |
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1985 | Volunteers |
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1985 | Cocoon |
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1985 | Heaven Help Us |
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1984 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock |
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1984 | The Stone Boy |
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1983 | Uncommon Valor |
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1983 | Gorky Park |
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1983 |
Brainstorm |
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1983 | Krull |
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1983 | The Dresser |
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1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
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1982 | 48 Hrs. |
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1982 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan |
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1981 | The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper |
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1981 | Deadly Blessing |
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1981 | Wolfen |
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1981 | The Hand |
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1980 | Battle Beyond the Stars |
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1980 | Humanoids from the Deep |
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1979 | The Lady in Red |
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