James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 - June 22, 2015) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores, writing over 100. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music.[1][2]

Horner's first major score was in 1979 for The Lady in Red, but he did not establish himself as an eminent film composer until his work on the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.[3] His score for James Cameron's Titanic is the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time.[4][5] He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar.[6]

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

Horner, who was an avid pilot, died at the age of 61 in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft.[7]

Horner was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, to Jewish immigrants.[8][9][10][11]

His father, Harry Horner, was born in Holice, Bohemia, then a part of Austria-Hungary. He immigrated to the United States in 1935 and worked as a set designer and art director.[12][13] His mother, Joan Ruth (née Frankel), was born into a prominent Canadian family. His brother Christopher is a writer and documentary filmmaker.[11]

James Horner started playing piano at the age of five. He also played violin. He spent his early years 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 earning 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, then turned to film scoring.[14] Horner was also an avid pilot, and owned several small airplanes.[15][16]

Career

Horner's first credit as a feature-film composer was for B-movie director and producer Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars.[17][18] As his work gained notice in Hollywood, Horner was invited to take on larger projects. One of his first major scores was for 1979's The Lady in Red.[19]

Horner's big break came in 1982 when he was asked to score Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It established him as an A-list Hollywood composer. Director Nicholas Meyer quipped that Horner was hired because the studio could no longer afford the first Trek movie's composer, Jerry Goldsmith; but that by the time Meyer returned to the franchise with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the studio could not afford Horner either.[20]

Horner continued writing high-profile film scores in 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). Cocoon was the first of his many collaborations with director Ron Howard.[21]

In 1987, Horner's original score for Aliens brought him his first Academy Award nomination.[22] "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.[23]

Throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Horner wrote orchestral scores for family films (particularly those produced by Steven Spielberg's 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 (1993); The Pagemaster (1994); Casper, Jumanji and Balto (1995); Mighty Joe Young (1998); and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000).

Horner scored six films in 1995, including his commercially successful and critically acclaimed works for Braveheart and Apollo 13, both of which received Academy Award nominations.

Horner's biggest critical and financial success came in 1997 with his score for James Cameron's Titanic. At the 70th Academy Awards, Horner received the Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score, and shared the Oscar for Best Original Song with co-writer Will Jennings for "My Heart Will Go On". The film's score and song also won three Grammy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.[24][25] (Ten years earlier, Horner had vowed never to work with Cameron again, referring to the highly stressful scoring sessions for Aliens as "a nightmare".[26])

After Titanic, Horner continued to compose 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.[10] He also 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 composer Howard Shore.

Horner composed the 2006-2011 theme for the CBS Evening News, which was introduced during the debut of anchor Katie Couric on September 5, 2006.[27] He wrote various treatments of the theme, 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."[28]

Horner collaborated again with James Cameron on his 2009 film Avatar, which became the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing Cameron's own Titanic.[23] Horner worked exclusively on Avatar for over two years. He 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.[timeframe?] 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 ."[29]

Avatar brought Horner his tenth Academy Award nomination, as well as nominations for the Golden Globe Award, British Academy Film Award and Grammy Award, all of which he lost to Michael Giacchino for Up.[30]

After Avatar, Horner wrote the score for the 2010 version of The Karate Kid, replacing Atli Örvarsson.[31] In 2011, he scored Cristiada (also known as For Greater Glory), which was released a year later; and Black Gold. In 2012 he scored The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield. In an 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."[32] Upon his departure, he was replaced by Hans Zimmer.

In early 2015, after a three-year hiatus, Horner wrote the music for the adventure film Wolf Totem, his fourth collaboration with director Jean-Jacques Annaud.[33]

At the time of his death, Horner had scored two films yet to be released:[34]

• Southpaw, a boxing drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams (Horner wrote the score for free, due to his love for the film[35])
• The 33, for director Patricia Riggen

In July 2015, a month after his death, it was discovered Horner had also written the score for the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven, planning it as a surprise.[36]

Horner's scores are also heard in trailers for other films. The climax of Bishop's Countdown, from his score for Aliens, ranks as the 5th most commonly used soundtrack cue in trailers.[37]

Horner also wrote the theme music for the Horsemen P-51 Aerobatic Team, and appears in "The Horsemen Cometh", a documentary about the team and the P-51 Mustang fighter plane. The theme is heard at the team's airshow performances.

Orchestral work

In 2014, Horner wrote Pas de Deux, a double concerto for violin and cello. Commissioned to mark 175th season of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the work was premiered on November 12, 2014 by Mari and Håkon Samuelsen, with the orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.[38] Horner also composed Collage, a concerto for four horns, premiered on March 27, 2015 at London's Royal Festival Hall by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaime Martín, with soloists David Pyatt, John Ryan, James Thatcher and Richard Watkins.[39]

Musical "borrowing"

Horner was criticized for reusing passages from his earlier compositions, and for featuring brief excerpts and reworked themes from classical composers.[5] For example, his scores from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock include excerpts from Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and Romeo and Juliet;[40][41] the famous action ostinato from Aliens is originally from Wolfen;[42] the heroic theme from Willow is based on that of Robert Schumann's Rhenish Symphony; Field of Dreams includes cues from the "Saturday Night Waltz" portion of Aaron Copland's soundtrack to Our Town, and the climactic battle scene in Glory includes excerpts from Wagner and Orff.[43] Some critics felt these propensities made Horner's compositions inauthentic or unoriginal.[44][45][46] In a 1997 issue of Film Score Monthly, an editorial review of Titanic said Horner was "skilled in the adaptation of existing music into films with just enough variation to avoid legal troubles".[5]

Death and legacy

Horner was killed on June 22, 2015 when his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft,[47] registration number N206PZ, crashed into the Los Padres National Forest near Ventucopa, California.[16] Horner was the only occupant of the aircraft[48] when it took off after fueling at Camarillo Airport.[49] Three days later, on June 25, the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the crash an accident.[50] 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[51] and James Cameron. Horner was reported to have been committed to the Avatar franchise; Cameron said he and Horner "were looking forward to our next gig."[52] 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."[53] Many celebrities, including Russell Crowe, Diane Warren and Celine Dion, also gave their condolences.[54] Dion, who sang "My Heart Will Go On", one of Horner's most popular compositions and considered Dion's signature song,[55] 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."[56] Leona Lewis, who recorded Horner's "I See You" for Avatar, said working with him "was one of the biggest moments of my life."[57]

Post-accident investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed that the leading cause of the accident was Horner's inability to maintain clearance from terrain during low-level airwork.[58] During the flight, Horner contacted the Southern California Air Route Traffic Control Center, from whom he received advisories while flying over the Chumash Wilderness area.[58] The NTSB interviewed two witnesses of the flight, who were in their homes when Horner flew over them; one said that the plane was flying at between 500 and 750 feet (150 and 230 m). FAA radar data showed that the plane had made multiple low-altitude turns and performed rapid altitude change maneuvers, flying low through Quatal Canyon and skimming mountain ridgelines by less than 100 feet (30 m).[59]

In addition to Horner's failing to maintain clearance, the NTSB determined there were other key factors that led to the accident. Foremost among these was Horner's use of prescription medications for high cholesterol and headaches, and toxicology testing found butalbital, codeine, and ethanol in Horner's body (although the ethanol may have been produced by microbial activity after his death).[59]

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.[60] He also won two Golden Globe Awards,[61] three Satellite Awards, three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.[62]

In October 2013, Horner received the Max Steiner Award at the Hollywood in Vienna Gala, an award given for extraordinary achievement in the field of film music.[63]

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.[64]

• 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

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	Space Raiders	Howard R. Cohen	New World Pictures
	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[65]	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 and Barry Mann 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
	Another 48 Hrs.	Walter Hill	Paramount Pictures
1991	Once Around	Lasse Hallström	Cinecom Entertainment Universal Pictures
	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys	Stuart Rosenberg	The Samuel Goldwyn Company
	Class Action	Michael Apted	Interscope Communications 20th Century Fox
	The Rocketeer	Joe Johnston	Gordon Company Silver Screen Partners IV Walt Disney Pictures
	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
	Sneakers	Phil Alden Robinson	Universal Studios
	Unlawful Entry	Jonathan Kaplan	Largo Entertainment 20th Century Fox
	Patriot Games	Phillip Noyce	Paramount Pictures
1993	Swing Kids	Thomas Carter	Hollywood Pictures
	A Far Off Place	Mikael Salomon	Touchwood Pacific Partners Amblin Entertainment Walt Disney Pictures
	Jack the Bear	Marshall Herskovitz	20th Century Fox
	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
	House of Cards	Michael Lessac	Miramax Films
	Hocus Pocus	Kenny Ortega	Walt Disney Pictures	Only wrote "Sarah's Theme" with Brock Walsh; film scored by John Debney
	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Steven Zaillian	Paramount Pictures
	The Man Without a Face	Mel Gibson	Icon Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
	Bopha!	Morgan Freeman	Paramount Pictures
	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
	The Pelican Brief	Alan J. Pakula	Warner Bros. Pictures
1994	Clear and Present Danger	Phillip Noyce	Paramount Pictures
	The Pagemaster	Joe Johnston	Turner Feature Animation 20th Century Fox Turner Pictures	also wrote "Whatever You Imagine" with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Wendy Moten
	Legends of the Fall	Edward Zwick	Bedford Falls Productions TriStar Pictures	Golden Globe nomination; also wrote "Twilight and Mist" with Brock Walsh
1995	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	Icon Productions The Ladd Company Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox	Oscar, Golden Globe & BAFTA nomination
	Casper	Brad Silberling	Harvey Films Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures
	Apollo 13	Ron Howard	Imagine Entertainment Universal Pictures	Oscar nomination
	Jade	William Friedkin	Paramount Pictures
	Jumanji	Joe Johnston	Interscope Communications TriStar Pictures
	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
	Courage Under Fire	Edward Zwick	Davis Entertainment 20th Century Fox
	To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday	Michael Pressman	Rastar Triumph Films
	Ransom	Ron Howard	Icon Productions Imagine Entertainment Touchstone Pictures	Replaced Howard Shore
1997	The Devil's Own	Alan J. Pakula	Columbia Pictures
	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
	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
	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
	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; based on a book by Dr. Seuss.
	Finding Forrester	Gus Van Sant	Columbia Pictures
2001	Enemy at the Gates	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Mandalay Pictures Paramount Pictures
	Iris	Richard Eyre	BBC Films Intermedia Mirage Enterprises Miramax Films
	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
	The Four Feathers	Shekhar Kapur	Lakeshore Entertainment Mandeville Films Paramount Pictures Miramax Films
2003	Beyond Borders	Martin Campbell	Mandalay Pictures Paramount Pictures
	Radio	Michael Tollin	Tollin/Robbins Productions Revolution Studios Columbia Pictures
	The Missing	Ron Howard	Revolution Studios Imagine Entertainment Columbia Pictures
	House of Sand and Fog	Vadim Perelman	DreamWorks Pictures	Oscar Nominee
2004	Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius	Rowdy Herrington	Film Foundry Releasing
	Troy	Wolfgang Petersen	Warner Bros. Pictures	Replaced Gabriel Yared; also wrote "Remember" with Cynthia Weil for Josh Groban and Tanja Carovska
	The Forgotten	Joseph Ruben	Revolution Studios Columbia Pictures
2005	The Chumscrubber	Arie Posin	Newmarket Films Equity Pictures Go Fish Pictures
	Flightplan	Robert Schwentke	Imagine Entertainment Touchstone Pictures
	The Legend of Zorro	Martin Campbell	Spyglass Entertainment Amblin Entertainment Columbia Pictures
	The New World	Terrence Malick	New Line Cinema
2006	All the King's Men	Steven Zaillian	Relativity Media Phoenix Pictures Columbia Pictures
	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
	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[66]	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Image Entertainment
2012	Cristiada	Dean Wright	ARC Entertainment 20th Century Fox
	The Amazing Spider-Man	Marc Webb	Marvel Entertainment Columbia Pictures
2015	Wolf Totem	Jean-Jacques Annaud
	One Day in Auschwitz[67]	Steve Purcell		Documentary
	Living in the Age of Airplanes[15][68][69]	Brian J. Terwilliger	Terwilliger Productions	Documentary
	Southpaw	Antoine Fuqua	Escape Artists Fuqua Films The Weinstein Company	Posthumous release
	The 33	Patricia Riggen	Alcon Entertainment Phoenix Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures	Posthumous release Haim Saban and Shuki Levy both wrote The Mysterious Cities of Gold for Noam Kaniel
2016	The Magnificent Seven	Antoine Fuqua	Village Roadshow Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures	Posthumous release;[35] originally wrote Whatever You Imagine with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Wendy Moten and Reach For The Light with Mann and Weil for Steve Winwood Paul K. Joyce originally wrote Can We Fix It? for Neil Morrissey

Television

• 1981 A Few Days in Weasel Creek[70]
• 1981 Angel Dusted[70]
• 1982 A Piano for Mrs. Cimino[70]
• 1982 Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn[70]
• 1983 Between Friends[70]
• 1985 Amazing Stories[70] ("Alamo Jobe")
• 1985 Surviving[70]
• 1989 Tales from the Crypt[70] ("Cutting Cards")
• 1990 Extreme Close-Up[70]
• 1992 Fish Police[70] (theme and pilot episode)
• 1992 Crossroads (theme)
• 1999 Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits[70]
• 2000 Freedom Song[70]
• 2006 CBS Evening News[71]

Short films

• 1986 Captain EO[72]
• 1989 Tummy Trouble[73][74]
• 2012 First in Flight[75]

Other

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

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