James Horner: American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)

He scored the music for the 1997 movie Titanic. He won two Academy Awards in 1998. Horner was born on August 14, 1953 in Los Angeles, California.

James Horner
Background information
Birth name	James Roy Horner
Born	(1953-08-14)August 14, 1953 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	June 22, 2015(2015-06-22) (aged 61) Los Padres National Forest, California, U.S.
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	Composer conductor orchestrator
Years active	1978–2015

Horner was killed in an airplane crash near Los Padres National Forest, California, aged 61.

Horner stated composers like Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Buddy Baker, Bruce Broughton, Howard Shore, Leigh Harline, Max Steiner, Sergei Prokofiev, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frank Churchill, Carl Stalling, Richard Straus, Gustav Holst, Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Benjamin Britten, John Williams, Thomas Tallis, Maurice Jarre, Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Giacomo Puccini, Aaron Copland, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bela Bartok, Richard Wagner, Jakob Gimpel, Hamilton Harty, Jan Kubelík, Carl Nielsen, Lalo Schifrin, Oliver Wallace, Frank Churchill, Alex North, Marty Paich, Leigh Harline, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alfred Newman and Nino Rota as influences.

Horner won two Academy Awards, both in 1998:

• Best Original Dramatic Score, for Titanic
• Best Original Song, for "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic

Horner also won two Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, and three Saturn Awards. He was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.

In October 2013, Horner received the Max Steiner Award at the Hollywood in Vienna Gala. That award is given for extraordinary achievements in the music for movies.

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