James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 - June 22, 2015) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music.

His first major film score was for the 1979 film The Lady in Red, but did not establish himself as a mainstream composer until he worked on the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner's score for Titanic is the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time, with his work on Titanic and Avatar, both directed by James Cameron, contributing to the first two films to achieve a $2 billion box office.

Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Don Bluth, James Cameron, Joe Johnston, Walter Hill and Ron Howard; producers including David Kirschner, Jon Landau, Brian Grazer and Steven Spielberg; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Horner composed music for over 100 films; he won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, and three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.

Horner died in a single-fatality crash of his Embraer EMB 312 Tucano turboprop aircraft at the age of 61.

Early life

Horner was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953 to Jewish immigrants.

His father, Harry Horner, was born in Holíč, then a part of Austria-Hungary. He immigrated to the United States in 1935 and worked as a set designer and art director.

His mother, Joan Ruth (née Frankel), was born into a prominent Canadian family. Horner's brother Christopher is a writer and documentary filmmaker.

James Horner started playing piano at the age of five. His early years were spent in London, where he attended the Royal College of Music. He returned to America, where he attended Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona, and later received his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California. After he earned a master's degree, he started work on his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he studied with Paul Chihara, among others. After several scoring assignments with the American Film Institute in the 1970s, he finished teaching a course in music theory at UCLA and subsequently turned to film scoring. Horner was also an avid pilot, and owned several small airplanes.

Career

Horner began his career scoring films by working for B film director and producer Roger Corman. Horner's first composer credit was for Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars. From there, his works gained notice in Hollywood, which enabled him to take on larger projects. One of his first major film scores was for the 1979 film The Lady in Red.

Horner's major breakthrough came in 1982, when he had the chance to score the music to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; the project established him as a mainstream composer. The film's director Nicholas Meyer quipped that Horner had been hired because the studio couldn't afford to use the first film's composer Jerry Goldsmith again, but by the time Meyer returned to the franchise with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the director found that he couldn't afford Horner either.

Horner continued composing music for high-profile releases during the 1980s, including 48 Hrs. (1982), Krull (1983), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Commando (1985), Cocoon (1985), Aliens (1986), *batteries not included (1987), Willow (1988), Glory and Field of Dreams (both 1989). He frequently collaborated with film director Ron Howard, a partnership that began with Cocoon in 1985.

Aliens earned Horner his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score in 1987, at the 59th Academy Awards. "Somewhere Out There," which he co-composed and co-wrote with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for An American Tail, was also nominated that year for Best Original Song.

Throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Horner wrote orchestral scores for children's films (particularly those produced by Amblin Entertainment), with credits for An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), The Rocketeer and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), Once Upon a Forest and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (all in 1993), The Pagemaster (1994), and Casper, Jumanji, and Balto (all from 1995), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and How the Grinch stole Christmas (2000).

Horner produced no fewer than six scores during 1995, including his commercially successful and critically acclaimed works for Braveheart and Apollo 13, both of which earned him Academy Award nominations. Horner's biggest financial and critical success would come with the score to the 1997 film Titanic. The album became the best-selling primarily orchestral soundtrack in history, selling over 27 million copies worldwide.

At the 70th Academy Awards, Horner won Oscars for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for "My Heart Will Go On" (which he co-wrote with Will Jennings). In addition, Horner and Jennings won three Grammy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for the soundtrack and "My Heart Will Go On." Titanic also marked the first time in ten years that Horner worked with director James Cameron (following the highly stressful scoring sessions for Aliens, Horner declared that he would never work with Cameron again and described the experience as "a nightmare").

Following Titanic, Horner continued to score for major productions (including The Perfect Storm, A Beautiful Mind, Enemy at the Gates, The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro, House of Sand and Fog and Bicentennial Man). Aside from scoring major productions, Horner periodically worked on smaller projects such as Iris, Radio and Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius. He received his eighth and ninth Academy Award nominations for A Beautiful Mind (2001) and House of Sand and Fog (2003), but lost on both occasions to Howard Shore.

Horner composed the 2006-2011 theme music for the CBS Evening News. The theme was introduced as part of the debut of Katie Couric as anchor on September 5, 2006. Horner scored various renditions, explaining, "One night the show might begin with the Iranians obtaining a nuclear device and another it might be something about a flower show ... The tone needs to match the news."

Horner recollaborated with James Cameron on the 2009 film Avatar, which was released in December 2009 and has since become the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing Titanic (also directed by Cameron and scored by Horner). Horner spent over two years working on the score for Avatar, and did not take on any other projects during that time. His work on Avatar earned him numerous award nominations, including his tenth Academy Award nomination as well as Golden Globe Award, British Academy Film Award, and Grammy Award nominations, all of which he lost to Michael Giacchino for Up.

Regarding the experience of scoring Avatar, Horner said, "Avatar has been the most difficult film I have worked on and the biggest job I have undertaken ... I work from four in the morning to about ten at night and that’s been my way of life since March. That's the world I'm in now and it makes you feel estranged from everything. I'll have to recover from that and get my head out of Avatar."

Horner also composed the score for the 2010 version of The Karate Kid, replacing Atli Örvarsson. This film—the first that Horner worked on after Avatar—was released in 2010. In 2011, Horner scored Cristiada (also known as For Greater Glory), which was released a year later, and Black Gold. In 2012 Horner scored The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield. In a recent interview on his website, Horner revealed why he didn't return to compose the second movie; that he didn't like how the movie resulted in comparison to the first movie, and even called the movie "dreadful." Upon his departure, he was replaced by Hans Zimmer.

At the beginning of 2015, Horner wrote the music for Jean-Jacques Annaud's adventure film Wolf Totem, which marked his fourth collaboration with Annaud and also Horner's first film score in nearly three years.

At the time of his death, Horner had two films he had scored but had yet to be released: Southpaw, a boxing drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams, which he composed for free due to a love of the film and The 33, from director Patricia Riggen. In July 2015, a month after his death, it was discovered that Horner already had written the score for the upcoming 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven, and had planned for it to be a surprise.

Horner's scores have been sampled in trailers for other films. The climax of the track Bishop's Countdown from his score for Aliens ranks fifth in the most commonly used soundtrack cues for film trailers.

Orchestral work

In 2014, Horner composed the commission piece Pas de Deux, a double concerto for violin and cello, which was premiered on November 12, 2014, by Mari and Håkon Samuelsen with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko. The work was commissioned to mark the 175th season of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Horner also composed Collage, a concerto for four horns, which premiered on March 27, 2015, at the Royal Festival Hall in London by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaime Martín, with David Pyatt, John Ryan, James Thatcher and Richard Watkins as soloists.

Musical borrowing

Horner has been criticized for writing film scores that incorporate passages from his earlier compositions, and that feature brief excerpts or reworked themes from other classical composers. For example, his scores from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock include excerpts from Alexander Nevsky and Romeo and Juliet, both by Prokofiev, while the heroic theme from Willow is based on that of Robert Schumann's Rhenish Symphony. The climactic battle scene in Glory includes excerpts from Wagner and Orff. In the view of some critics, Horner's propensity for borrowing passages from other composers as well as his own earlier work makes his compositions inauthentic or unoriginal; a Filmtracks editorial review of Titanic said Horner was "skilled in the adaptation of existing music into films with just enough variation to avoid legal troubles."

Death and legacy

On June 22, 2015, multiple international news outlets reported that Horner was presumed to have died when his S312 Tucano turboprop aircraft, aircraft registration number N206PZ, crashed into the Los Padres National Forest near Ventucopa, California. The following day, his representatives at the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency posted a message on their website stating that Horner, the only person aboard the aircraft, was killed. His attorney confirmed Horner was in the airplane when it took off after fueling at Camarillo Airport. The Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office on June 25 confirmed Horner's death and ruled the crash an accident. The National Transportation Safety Board's accident ID is WPR15FA195. He is survived by his wife, Sara Elizabeth Horner (née Nelson) and two daughters.

Contemporaries and collaborators around the world paid their respects to Horner, including composers Hans Zimmer, Paul Williams and Alan Menken, and directors Ron Howard and James Cameron. Horner was reported to be committed to the Avatar franchise; Cameron said he and Horner "were looking forward to our next gig." Horner's assistant, Sylvia Patrycja, wrote on her Facebook page, "We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart and unbelievable talent died doing what he loved." Many celebrities, including Russell Crowe, Diane Warren and Celine Dion, also gave their condolences. Dion, who sang "My Heart Will Go On", one of Horner's most popular compositions and considered Dion's signature song, wrote on her website that she and husband René Angélil were "shaken by the tragic death" of their friend and "will always remember his kindness and great talent that changed career." Leona Lewis, who recorded Horner's "I See You" for Avatar, said working with him "was one of the biggest moments of my life."

Post-accident investigation by the NTSB revealed Horner contacted the Southern California Air Route Traffic Control Center, where he received receiving advisories while flying through over the Chumash Wilderness area before he crashed. The NTSB interviewed two witnesses of Horner's last flight, who were living in their homes as Horner flew over; one witness said that the plane flew between 500 to 700 feet.

List of scores

Film

1970s

• 1978 The Drought (for the American Film Institute)
• 1978 Fantasies (for the American Film Institute)
• 1978 Gist and Evans (for the American Film Institute)
• 1978 Landscapes (for the American Film Institute)
• 1978 Just for a Laugh (for the American Film Institute)
• 1978 The Watcher (for the American Film Institute)
• 1979 The Lady in Red
• 1979 Up from the Depths

1980s

Year	Title	Director	Studio(s)	Notes
1980	Humanoids from the Deep	Barbara Peeters	New World Pictures
	Battle Beyond the Stars	Jimmy T. Murakami	New World Pictures	Score reused in later Roger Corman productions
1981	The Hand	Oliver Stone	Orion Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
	Wolfen	Michael Wadleigh	Orion Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures	Replaced Craig Safan
	Deadly Blessing	Wes Craven	PolyGram Pictures United Artists
	The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper	Roger Spottiswoode	Universal Pictures
1982	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Nicholas Meyer	Paramount Pictures
	48 Hrs.	Walter Hill	Paramount Pictures
1983	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Jack Clayton	Bryna Productions Walt Disney Pictures	Replaced Georges Delerue
	Krull	Peter Yates	Columbia Pictures
	Brainstorm	Douglas Trumbull	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	Testament	Lynne Littman	Paramount Pictures
	The Dresser	Peter Yates	Columbia Pictures
	Gorky Park	Michael Apted	Orion Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	Uncommon Valor	Ted Kotcheff	Paramount Pictures
1984	The Stone Boy	Christopher Cain	20th Century Fox
	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Leonard Nimoy	Paramount Pictures
1985	Heaven Help Us	Michael Dinner	HBO Pictures TriStar Pictures
	Cocoon	Ron Howard	20th Century Fox
	Volunteers	Nicholas Meyer	TriStar Pictures
	The Journey of Natty Gann	Jeremy Kagan	Walt Disney Pictures	Replaced Elmer Bernstein
	Commando	Mark L. Lester	Silver Pictures 20th Century Fox
1986	Off Beat	Michael Dinner	Silver Screens Partners II Touchstone Pictures
	Aliens	James Cameron	Brandywine Productions 20th Century Fox	Oscar nomination
	Where the River Runs Black	Christopher Cain	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	The Name of the Rose	Jean-Jacques Annaud	RAI Constantin Film FR3 20th Century Fox Columbia Pictures
	An American Tail	Don Bluth	Sullivan Bluth Studios Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures	Oscar & Golden Globe nomination; also wrote "Somewhere Out There" with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
1987	P.K. and the Kid	Lou Lombardo	Sunn Classic Pictures
	Project X	Jonathan Kaplan	20th Century Fox
	*batteries not included	Matthew Robbins	Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures
1988	Willow	Ron Howard	Lucasfilm Imagine Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	Red Heat	Walter Hill	Carolco Pictures TriStar Pictures
	Vibes	Ken Kwapis	Imagine Entertainment Columbia Pictures
	The Land Before Time	Don Bluth	Sullivan Bluth Studios Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures	also wrote "If We Hold On Together" with Will Jennings for Diana Ross
	Cocoon: The Return	Daniel Petrie	20th Century Fox
1989	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson	Universal Pictures	Oscar nomination
	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Joe Johnston	Walt Disney Pictures
	In Country	Norman Jewison	Warner Bros. Pictures
	Dad	Gary David Goldberg	Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures
	Glory	Edward Zwick	TriStar Pictures	Golden Globe nomination

1990s

Year	Title	Director	Studio(s)	Notes
1990	I Love You to Death	Lawrence Kasdan	TriStar Pictures
1990	Another 48 Hrs.	Walter Hill	Paramount Pictures
1991	Once Around	Lasse Hallström	Cinecom Entertainment Universal Pictures
1991	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys	Stuart Rosenberg	The Samuel Goldwyn Company
1991	Class Action	Michael Apted	Interscope Communications 20th Century Fox
1991	The Rocketeer	Joe Johnston	Gordon Company Silver Screen Partners IV Walt Disney Pictures
1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells	Amblimation Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures	Golden Globe nomination; also wrote "Dreams to Dream" with Will Jennings for Linda Ronstadt
1992	Thunderheart	Michael Apted	Tribeca Productions TriStar Pictures
1992	Sneakers	Phil Alden Robinson	Universal Studios
1992	Unlawful Entry	Jonathan Kaplan	Largo Entertainment 20th Century Fox
1992	Patriot Games	Phillip Noyce	Paramount Pictures
1993	Swing Kids	Thomas Carter	Hollywood Pictures
1993	A Far Off Place	Mikael Salomon	Touchwood Pacific Partners Amblin Entertainment Walt Disney Pictures
1993	Jack the Bear	Marshall Herskovitz	20th Century Fox
1993	Once Upon a Forest	Charles Grosvenor	ITV Hanna-Barbera Productions 20th Century Fox	also wrote "Once Upon A Time With Me" with Will Jennings for Florence Warner
1993	House of Cards	Michael Lessac	Miramax Films
1993	Hocus Pocus	Kenny Ortega	Walt Disney Pictures	Only wrote "Sarah's Theme" with Brock Walsh; film scored by John Debney
1993	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Steven Zaillian	Paramount Pictures
1993	The Man Without a Face	Mel Gibson	Icon Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
1993	Bopha!	Morgan Freeman	Paramount Pictures
1993	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells	Amblimation Universal Pictures	also wrote "Roll Back The Rock (To The Dawn Of Time)" with Thomas Dolby for Little Richard
1993	The Pelican Brief	Alan J. Pakula	Warner Bros. Pictures
1994	Clear and Present Danger	Phillip Noyce	Paramount Pictures
1994	The Pagemaster	Joe Johnston	Turner Pictures 20th Century Fox Warner Bros.	also wrote "Whatever You Imagine" with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Wendy Moten
1994	Legends of the Fall	Edward Zwick	Bedford Falls Productions TriStar Pictures	Golden Globe nomination
1995	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	Icon Productions The Ladd Company Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox	Oscar, Golden Globe & BAFTA nomination
1995	Casper	Brad Silberling	Harvey Films Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures
1995	Apollo 13	Ron Howard	Imagine Entertainment Universal Pictures	Oscar nomination
1995	Jade	William Friedkin	Paramount Pictures
1995	Jumanji	Joe Johnston	Interscope Communications TriStar Pictures
1995	Balto	Simon Wells	Amblimation Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures	also wrote "Reach for the Light" with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Steve Winwood
1996	The Spitfire Grill	Lee David Zlotoff	Castle Rock Entertainment Columbia Pictures	Replaced Bennie Wallace
1996	Courage Under Fire	Edward Zwick	Davis Entertainment 20th Century Fox
1996	To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday	Michael Pressman	Rastar Triumph Films
1996	Ransom	Ron Howard	Icon Productions Imagine Entertainment Touchstone Pictures	Replaced Howard Shore
1997	The Devil's Own	Alan J. Pakula	Columbia Pictures
1997	Titanic	James Cameron	Lightstorm Entertainment Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox	Oscar, Golden Globe & Grammy winner, BAFTA nomination; also wrote "My Heart Will Go On" with Will Jennings for Celine Dion
1998	Deep Impact	Mimi Leder	Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures
1998	The Mask of Zorro	Martin Campbell	Amblin Entertainment TriStar Pictures	also wrote "I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You" with Will Jennings for Tina Arena and Marc Anthony
1998	Mighty Joe Young	Ron Underwood	RKO Pictures Walt Disney Pictures
1999	Bicentennial Man	Chris Columbus	1492 Pictures Touchstone Pictures Columbia Pictures	also wrote "Then You Look at Me" with Will Jennings for Celine Dion

2000s

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2000	The Perfect Storm	Wolfgang Petersen	Warner Bros. Pictures	also wrote "Yours Forever" with Will Jennings for John Mellencamp
2000	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Ron Howard	Imagine Entertainment Universal Pictures	also wrote "Where Are You, Christmas?" with Mariah Carey and Will Jennings for Faith Hill
2001	Enemy at the Gates	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Mandalay Pictures Paramount Pictures
2001	Iris	Richard Eyre	BBC Films Intermedia Mirage Enterprises Miramax Films
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	Imagine Entertainment DreamWorks Pictures Universal Pictures	Golden Globe & Oscar Nominee; also wrote "All Love Can Be" with Will Jennings for Charlotte Church
2002	Windtalkers	John Woo	Lion Rock Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
2002	The Four Feathers	Shekhar Kapur	Lakeshore Entertainment Mandeville Films Paramount Pictures Miramax Films
2003	Beyond Borders	Martin Campbell	Mandalay Pictures Paramount Pictures
2003	Radio	Michael Tollin	Tollin/Robbins Productions Revolution Studios Columbia Pictures
2003	The Missing	Ron Howard	Revolution Studios Imagine Entertainment Columbia Pictures
2003	House of Sand and Fog	Vadim Perelman	DreamWorks Pictures	Oscar Nominee
2004	Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius	Rowdy Herrington	Film Foundry Releasing
2004	Troy	Wolfgang Petersen	Warner Bros. Pictures	Replaced Gabriel Yared; also wrote "Remember" with Cynthia Weil for Josh Groban and Tanja Carovska
2004	The Forgotten	Joseph Ruben	Revolution Studios Columbia Pictures
2005	The Chumscrubber	Arie Posin	Newmarket Films Equity Pictures Go Fish Pictures
2005	Flightplan	Robert Schwentke	Imagine Entertainment Touchstone Pictures
2005	The Legend of Zorro	Martin Campbell	Spyglass Entertainment Amblin Entertainment Columbia Pictures
2005	The New World	Terrence Malick	New Line Cinema
2006	All the King's Men	Steven Zaillian	Relativity Media Phoenix Pictures Columbia Pictures
2006	Apocalypto	Mel Gibson	Icon Productions Touchstone Pictures
2007	The Life Before Her Eyes	Vadim Perelman	2929 Entertainment Magnolia Pictures
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Mark Waters	Nickelodeon Movies The Kennedy/Marshall Company Paramount Pictures
2008	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Mark Herman	BBC Films Heyday Films Miramax Films
2009	Avatar	James Cameron	Lightstorm Entertainment Dune Entertainment Ingenious Film Partners 20th Century Fox	Golden Globe, BAFTA & Oscar Nominee; also wrote "I See You" with Kuk Harrell and Simon Franglen for Leona Lewis

2010s

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2010	The Karate Kid	Harald Zwart	Overbrook Entertainment JW Productions China Film Group Columbia Pictures
2011	Day of the Falcon	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Image Entertainment
2012	Cristiada	Dean Wright	ARC Entertainment 20th Century Fox
2012	The Amazing Spider-Man	Marc Webb	Marvel Entertainment Columbia Pictures
2015	Wolf Totem	Jean-Jacques Annaud
2015	One Day in Auschwitz	Steve Purcell		Documentary
2015	Living in the Age of Airplanes	Brian J. Terwilliger		Documentary
2015	Southpaw	Antoine Fuqua	Escape Artists Fuqua Films The Weinstein Company	First posthumous release
2015	The 33	Patricia Riggen	Alcon Entertainment Phoenix Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures	Second posthumous release
2016	The Magnificent Seven	Antoine Fuqua	Village Roadshow Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures	Third and final posthumous release

Television

• 1981 A Few Days in Weasel Creek
• 1981 Angel Dusted
• 1982 A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
• 1982 Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
• 1983 Between Friends
• 1985 Amazing Stories ("Alamo Jobe")
• 1985 Surviving
• 1989 Tales from the Crypt ("Cutting Cards")
• 1990 Extreme Close-Up
• 1992 Fish Police (theme and pilot episode)
• 1992 Crossroads (theme)
• 1999 Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits
• 2000 Freedom Song
• 2006 CBS Evening News

Short films

• 1986 Captain EO
• 1989 Tummy Trouble
• 2012 First in Flight

Other

• 2015 Album "Pas de deux (Horner)" released in May 2015.

Awards and nominations

Horner won two Academy Awards, for Best Original Dramatic Score (Titanic) and Best Original Song ("My Heart Will Go On") in 1998, and was nominated for an additional eight Oscars. He also won two Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, three Saturn Awards, and has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.

In October 2013 James Horner received the Max Steiner Award at the Hollywood in Vienna Gala, an award given for extraordinary achievements in the field of film music.

AFI

In 2005, the American Film Institute unveiled their list of the top twenty-five American film scores. Five of Horner's scores were among 250 nominees, making him the most nominated composer to not make the top twenty-five:

• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Braveheart (1995)
• Field of Dreams (1989)
• Glory (1989)
• Titanic (1997)

List of accolades

Award	Year	Project	Category	Outcome
Academy Awards	1986	Aliens	Best Original Score	Nominated
		"Somewhere Out There"	Best Original Song	Nominated
	1989	Field of Dreams	Best Original Score	Nominated
	1995	Apollo 13	Best Original Dramatic Score	Nominated
		Braveheart	Best Original Dramatic Score	Nominated
	1997	Titanic	Best Original Dramatic Score	Won
		"My Heart Will Go On"	Best Original Song	Won
	2001	A Beautiful Mind	Best Original Score	Nominated
	2003	House Of Sand And Fog	Best Original Score	Nominated
	2009	Avatar	Best Original Score	Nominated
BAFTA Awards	1995	Braveheart	Best Film Music	Nominated
	1997	Titanic	Best Film Music	Nominated
	2009	Avatar	Best Film Music	Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association	1997	Titanic	Best Original Score	Won
	2001	A Beautiful Mind	Best Original Score	Nominated
	2009	Avatar	Best Original Score	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards	1986	"Somewhere Out There"	Best Original Song	Nominated
	1989	Glory	Best Original Score	Nominated
	1991	"Dreams to Dream"	Best Original Song	Nominated
	1994	Legends of the Fall	Best Original Score	Nominated
	1995	Braveheart	Best Original Score	Nominated
	1997	Titanic	Best Original Score	Won
		"My Heart Will Go On"	Best Original Song	Won
	2001	A Beautiful Mind	Best Original Score	Nominated
	2009	Avatar	Best Original Score	Nominated
		"I See You"	Best Original Song	Nominated
Satellite Awards	1997	Titanic	Best Original Score	Won
		"My Heart Will Go On"	Best Original Song	Won
	2001	A Beautiful Mind	Best Original Score	Nominated
		"All Love Can Be"	Best Original Song	Won
	2003	The Missing	Best Original Score	Nominated
Saturn Awards	1983	Brainstorm	Best Music	Won
		Krull	Best Music	Nominated
		Something Wicked This Way Comes	Best Music	Nominated
	1985	Cocoon	Best Music	Nominated
	1986	An American Tail	Best Music	Nominated
	1989	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Best Music	Nominated
	1995	Braveheart	Best Music	Nominated
	2000	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Best Music	Won
	2009	Avatar	Best Music	Won

Grammy Awards

• 1988: An American Tail - Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television
• 1988: "Somewhere Out There" (from: An American Tail, Winner) - Song of The Year
• 1988: "Somewhere Out There" (from: An American Tail, Winner) - Best Song Written specifically For a Motion Picture or Television
• 1990: Field of Dreams - Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television
• 1991: Glory (Winner) - Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
• 1996: "Whatever You Imagine" (from: The Pagemaster) - Best Song Written specifically For a Motion Picture or Television
• 1999: "My Heart Will Go On" (from: Titanic, Winner) - Record of The Year
• 1999: "My Heart Will Go On" (from: Titanic, Winner) - Song of The Year
• 1999: "My Heart Will Go On" (from: Titanic, Winner) - Best Song Written For A Motion Picture or for Television
• 2003: A Beautiful Mind - Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
• 2011: Avatar - Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
• 2011: "I See You" (from: Avatar) - Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

[ Source: Wikipedia ]