James Horner

James Roy Horner was an American film composer and conductor. He is known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner worked on more than 160 films and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic, 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. Horner's other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens, An American Tail, Field of Dreams, Apollo 13, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind, and House of Sand and Fog. Horner's other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Willow, The Land Before Time, Glory, The Rocketeer, Legends of the Fall, Jumanji, Casper, Balto, The Mask of Zorro, Deep Impact, The Perfect Storm, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Troy, The New World, The Legend of Zorro, Apocalypto, The Karate Kid, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

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