About James Horner
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953–June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.
Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar (2009). Horner's other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner's other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including James Cameron, Don Bluth, Ron Howard, Joe Johnston, Edward Zwick, Walter Hill, Mel Gibson, Vadim Perelman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicholas Meyer, Wolfgang Petersen, Martin Campbell, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells; producers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Kirschner, Brian Grazer, Jon Landau, and Lawrence Gordon; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. Adding to his two Academy Awards wins, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards.
Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously.
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Movie Credits
James Horner has appeared in 11 movies.
These include
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora,
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,
Uncovering Wolfen,
Horner,
Unmasking Zorro,
Alba Gu Brath! The Making of 'Braveheart',
Film Tribute Video Vol.1,
Film Tribute Video Vol.2,
Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner,
Reflections on Titanic and
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'.
TV Credits
James Horner has appeared in 1 show.
These include
Hollywood in Vienna.
Production Credits
Sound
Credited for Music in 27 shows -
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn,
Sorceress,
Between Friends,
The Pied Piper of Hamelin,
Volunteers,
Amazing Stories,
Ninja Terminator,
Off Beat,
Captain EO,
Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure,
Tales from the Crypt,
In Country,
Extreme Close-Up,
Unlawful Entry,
Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits,
Maybe It's Better not to Win - Scoring Searching for Bobby Fischer,
Unmasking Zorro,
Raptor,
Raptor,
The Making of ‘Sneakers’,
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens',
Living in the Age of Airplanes,
Avatar Flight of Passage,
Horner,
Willow,
Willow: Behind the Magic and
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025.
Credited for Original Music Composer in 129 shows -
Up from the Depths,
The Lady in Red,
Humanoids from the Deep,
Battle Beyond the Stars,
Angel Dusted,
The Hand,
Wolfen,
Deadly Blessing,
A Few Days at Weasel Creek,
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper,
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino,
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn,
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,
48 Hrs.,
Something Wicked This Way Comes,
Space Raiders,
Krull,
Between Friends,
Brainstorm,
Testament,
The Dresser,
Gorky Park,
Uncommon Valor,
The Stone Boy,
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock,
Heaven Help Us,
Surviving,
Cocoon,
Volunteers,
The Journey of Natty Gann,
Commando,
Barbarian Queen,
Off Beat,
Aliens,
Captain EO,
Where the River Runs Black,
The Name of the Rose,
An American Tail,
P.K. and the Kid,
Project X,
*batteries not included,
Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure,
Willow,
Red Heat,
Vibes,
Cocoon: The Return,
The Land Before Time,
Field of Dreams,
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,
Tummy Trouble,
In Country,
Dad,
Glory,
I Love You to Death,
Another 48 Hrs.,
Extreme Close-Up,
Once Around,
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,
Class Action,
The Rocketeer,
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West,
Fish Police,
Thunderheart,
Patriot Games,
Unlawful Entry,
Sneakers,
Swing Kids,
A Far Off Place,
Jack the Bear,
Once Upon a Forest,
House of Cards,
Searching for Bobby Fischer,
The Man Without a Face,
Bopha!,
The Pelican Brief,
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story,
Clear and Present Danger,
The Pagemaster,
Legends of the Fall,
Braveheart,
Casper,
Apollo 13,
Jade,
Jumanji,
Balto,
Courage Under Fire,
The Spitfire Grill,
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday,
Ransom,
The Devil's Own,
Titanic,
Deep Impact,
The Mask of Zorro,
Mighty Joe Young,
Bicentennial Man,
Freedom Song,
The Perfect Storm,
How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
Enemy at the Gates,
Iris,
A Beautiful Mind,
Windtalkers,
The Four Feathers,
Beyond Borders,
Radio,
The Missing,
House of Sand and Fog,
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius,
Troy,
The Forgotten,
The Chumscrubber,
Flightplan,
The Legend of Zorro,
The New World,
All the King's Men,
Apocalypto,
The Life Before Her Eyes,
The Spiderwick Chronicles,
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,
Avatar,
The Karate Kid,
Black Gold,
Outlaws - For Greater Glory,
The Amazing Spider-Man,
Reflections on Titanic,
Wolf Totem,
Southpaw,
The 33 and
The Magnificent Seven.
Credited for Music Producer in 1 show -
Commando.
Crew
Credited for Additional Music in 1 show -
Young Guns.
