James Horner (born 14 August 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer of film scores.

Horner was educated at London's Royal College of Music, the University of Southern California (bachelor's degree) and the University of California, Los Angeles (masters & doctorate), and began his scoring career working for prolific B-Movie director and producer Roger Corman. He then went on to compose sountracks for a variety of well-known movies, including 48 Hours, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, Field of Dreams, Braveheart, and Apollo 13.

His most famous work is for the film Titanic, for which he received Academy Awards for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for "My Heart Will Go On", which he co-wrote with Will Jennings. His work on Titanic also won three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and went on to become the best-selling film sountrack in history up to that point, with over 24 million copies sold worldwide.

Film scores

• The Legend of Zorro (2005 release)
• The Forgotten
• Troy
• House of Sand and Fog (Academy Award Nomination, best Original Score)
• The Missing
• Windtalkers
• A Beautiful Mind (Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe nominations)
• Iris
• Enemy at the Gates
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• The Perfect Storm
• Bicentennial Man
• Mighty Joe Young
• The Mask of Zorro
• Deep Impact
• Titanic (4 Grammy, 2 Academy Award, 2 Golden Globe awards)
• The Devil's Own
• Courage Under Fire
• Ransom
• The Spitfire Grill
• Jade
• Jumanji
• Apollo 13 (Academy Award nomination)
• Braveheart (Academy Award & Golden Globe nominations)
• Casper
• Balto
• Clear and Present Danger
• Legends of the Fall (Golden Globe nomination) (also the corps song for Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps of Lexington, Kentucky)
• The Pagemaster (Academy Award nomination)
• The Pelican Brief
• Swing Kids
• Once Upon a Forest
• The Man Without a Face
• Searching for Bobby Fisher
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
• Sneakers
• Thunderheart
• The Rocketeer
• An American Tail - Fievel Goes West
• Another 48 Hours
• I Love You To Death
• Glory (Grammy Award, Golden Globe nomination)
• Field of Dreams (Academy Award nomination, 2 Grammy nominations)
• Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
• Cocoon II
• Willow
• Aliens (Academy Award nomination)
• An American Tail (Academy Award nomination, 2 Grammy awards, Golden Globe nomination)
• Cocoon
• Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
• Brainstorm
• 48 Hours
• Krull
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Wolfen
• The Hand
• Battle Beyond the Stars
• Captain Eo

External links

• James Horner Official Website
• IMDB Entry for James Horner
• James Horner - In a world of dreams.