James Horner

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.
Horner was an accomplished concert hall composer before he moved into writing film scores. 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 while Titanic and Avatar, both directed by James Cameron, are the two highest-grossing films of all time.
Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Don Bluth, Walter Hill and Ron Howard; producers including David Kirschner, Jon Landau 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 when his single-engine Short Tucano aircraft crashed in the Los Padres National Forest. He was 61.
Early life
Horner was born into a Jewish family at Los Angeles in 1953. His parents were Harry Horner and Joan Ruth Frankel. Harry was born in 1910 at Holíč, then a part of Austria-Hungary, but later part of Czechoslovakia. He emigrated to the United States in 1935, and worked as a set designer and occasional art-director. Joan Frankel was born in Canada. James' brother, Christopher, is a writer and documentary filmmaker.
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
One of Horner's first major film scores was for the 1979 film The Lady in Red. He 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. 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).
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) and 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. He frequently collaborated with film director Ron Howard, a partnership that began with Cocoon in 1985.
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 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 in 2015, projects to which Horner was attached included the forthcoming film The 33 for director Patricia Riggen, and Southpaw, a sports drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams. Both films are slated for release later in 2015.
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 Hakon 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. A frequent criticism of Horner has been that his tendency to borrow passages from other composers as well as his own earlier work makes his compositions inauthentic or unoriginal; a Filmtracks review of Titanic called Horner "skilled in the adaptation of existing music into films with just enough variation to avoid legal troubles."
Death
On June 22, 2015, multiple international news outlets reported that Horner was presumed to have died when his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft 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.
Contemporaries and collaborators around the world paid their respects to Horner, including composers 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 [who] died doing what he loved."Many celebrities, including Russell Crowe, Diane Warren and Céline Dion, also gave their condolences. Dion, who sang "My Heart Will Go On", one of Horner's most renowned 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. "We will always remember his kindness and great talent that changed my career."
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	
1980	Battle Beyond the Stars	Jimmy T. Murakami	New World Pictures	Score reused in later Roger Corman productions
1981	The Hand	Oliver Stone	Orion Pictures	
1981	Wolfen	Michael Wadleigh	Warner Bros. Pictures	Replaced Craig Safan
1981	Deadly Blessing	Wes Craven	United Artists	
1981	The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper	Roger Spottiswoode	Universal Pictures	
1982	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Nicholas Meyer	Paramount Pictures	
1982	48 Hrs.	Walter Hill	Paramount Pictures	
1983	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Jack Clayton	Walt Disney Pictures	Replaced Georges Delerue
1983	Krull	Peter Yates	Columbia Pictures	
1983	Brainstorm	Douglas Trumbull	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	
1983	Testament	Lynne Littman	Paramount Pictures	
1983	The Dresser	Peter Yates	Columbia Pictures	
1983	Gorky Park	Michael Apted	Orion Pictures	
1983	Uncommon Valor	Ted Kotcheff	Paramount Pictures	
1984	The Stone Boy	Christopher Cain	20th Century Fox	
1984	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Leonard Nimoy	Paramount Pictures	
1985	Heaven Help Us	Michael Dinner	TriStar Pictures	
1985	Cocoon	Ron Howard	20th Century Fox	
1985	Volunteers	Nicholas Meyer	TriStar Pictures	
1985	The Journey of Natty Gann	Jeremy Kagan	Walt Disney Pictures	Replaced Elmer Bernstein
1985	Commando	Mark L. Lester	20th Century Fox	
1986	Off Beat	Michael Dinner	Touchstone Pictures	
1986	Aliens	James Cameron	20th Century Fox	Oscar & Golden Globe nomination
1986	Where the River Runs Black	Christopher Cain	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	
1986	The Name of the Rose	Jean-Jacques Annaud	20th Century Fox	
1986	An American Tail	Don Bluth	Universal Pictures	Oscar nomination; also wrote "Somewhere Out There" with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
1987	P.K. and the Kid[50]	Lou Lombardo	Sunn Classic Pictures	
1987	Project X	Jonathan Kaplan	20th Century Fox	
1987	*batteries not included	Matthew Robbins	Universal Pictures	
1988	Willow	Ron Howard	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	
1988	Red Heat	Walter Hill	TriStar Pictures	
1988	Vibes	Ken Kwapis	Columbia Pictures	
1988	The Land Before Time	Don Bluth	Universal Pictures	also wrote "If We Hold On Together" with Will Jennings for Diana Ross
1988	Cocoon: The Return	Daniel Petrie	20th Century Fox	
1989	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson	Universal Pictures	Oscar nomination
1989	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Joe Johnston	Walt Disney Pictures	
1989	In Country	Norman Jewison	Warner Bros. Pictures	
1989	Dad	Gary David Goldberg	Universal Pictures	
1989	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	Universal Pictures	
1991	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys	Stuart Rosenberg	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	
1991	Class Action	Michael Apted	20th Century Fox	
1991	The Rocketeer	Joe Johnston	Walt Disney Pictures	
1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells	Amblin Entertainment	Golden Globe nomination; also wrote "Dreams to Dream" with Will Jennings for Linda Ronstadt
1992	Thunderheart	Michael Apted	TriStar Pictures	
1992	Sneakers	Phil Alden Robinson	Universal Studios	
1992	Unlawful Entry	Jonathan Kaplan	20th Century Fox	
1992	Patriot Games	Phillip Noyce	Paramount Pictures	
1993	Swing Kids	Thomas Carter	Hollywood Pictures	
1993	A Far Off Place	Mikael Salomon	Walt Disney Pictures	
1993	Jack the Bear	Marshall Herskovitz	20th Century Fox	
1993	Once Upon a Forest	Charles Grosvenor	20th Century Fox	also wrote "Once Upon A Time With Me" with Will Jennings
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	Warner Bros. Pictures	
1993	Bopha!	Morgan Freeman	Paramount Pictures	
1993	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells	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	also wrote "Whatever You Imagine" with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Wendy Moten
1994	Legends of the Fall	Edward Zwick	TriStar Pictures	Golden Globe nomination
1995	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	Paramount Pictures	Oscar, Golden Globe & BAFTA nomination
1995	Casper	Brad Silberling	Universal Pictures	
1995	Apollo 13	Ron Howard	Universal Pictures	Oscar nomination
1995	Jade	William Friedkin	Paramount Pictures	
1995	Jumanji	Joe Johnston	TriStar Pictures	
1995	Balto	Simon Wells	Amblin Entertainment	also wrote "Reach for the Light" with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Steve Winwood
1996	The Spitfire Grill	Lee David Zlotoff	Columbia Pictures	Replaced Bennie Wallace
1996	Ransom	Ron Howard	Touchstone Pictures	Replaced Howard Shore
1997	The Devil's Own	Alan J. Pakula	Columbia Pictures	
1997	Titanic	James Cameron	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	
1998	The Mask of Zorro	Martin Campbell	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	Walt Disney Pictures	
1999	Bicentennial Man	Chris Columbus	Touchstone 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	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	Paramount Pictures	
2001	Iris	Richard Eyre	Miramax Films	
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	Universal Pictures	Golden Globe & Oscar Nominee; also wrote "All Love Can Be" with Will Jennings for Charlotte Church
2002	Windtalkers	John Woo	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	
2002	The Four Feathers	Shekhar Kapur	Paramount Pictures	
2003	Beyond Borders	Martin Campbell	Paramount Pictures	
2003	Radio	Michael Tollin	Columbia Pictures	
2003	The Missing	Ron Howard	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	Columbia Pictures	
2005	The Chumscrubber	Arie Posin	Go Fish Pictures	
2005	Flightplan	Robert Schwentke	Touchstone Pictures	
2005	The Legend of Zorro	Martin Campbell	Columbia Pictures	
2005	The New World	Terrence Malick	New Line Cinema	
2006	All the King's Men	Steven Zaillian	Columbia Pictures	
2006	Apocalypto	Mel Gibson	Touchstone Pictures	
2007	The Life Before Her Eyes	Vadim Perelman	Magnolia Pictures	
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Mark Waters	Paramount Pictures	
2008	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Mark Herman	Miramax Films	
2009	Avatar	James Cameron	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	Columbia Pictures	
2011	Day of the Falcon	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Image Entertainment	[51]
2012	Cristiada	Dean Wright	ARC Entertainment	
2012	The Amazing Spider-Man	Marc Webb	Columbia Pictures	
2015	Wolf Totem	Jean-Jacques Annaud		
2015	One Day in Auschwitz[52]	Steve Purcell		Documentary
2015	Living in the Age of Airplanes[13][53][54]	Brian J. Terwilliger		Documentary
2015	The 33	Patricia Riggen		
2015	Southpaw	Antoine Fuqua	The Weinstein Company	
Television
1981 A Few Days in Weasel Creek[55]
1981 Angel Dusted[55]
1982 A Piano for Mrs. Cimino[55]
1982 Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn[55]
1983 Between Friends[55]
1985 Amazing Stories[55] ("Alamo Jobe")
1985 Surviving[55]
1989 Tales from the Crypt[55] ("Cutting Class")
1990 Extreme Close-Up[55]
1992 Fish Police[55] (theme and pilot episode)
1992 Crossroads (theme)
1999 Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits[55]
2000 Freedom Song[55]
2006 CBS Evening News[56]
Short films
1986 Captain EO[57]
1989 Tummy Trouble[58][59]
2012 First in Flight[60]
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.[61] He also won two Golden Globe Awards,[62] three Satellite Awards, three Saturn Awards, and has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.[63]
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.[64]
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:[65]
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" (from An American Tail; shared with Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann)	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" (from Titanic; shared with Will Jennings)	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" (from An American Tail; shared with Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann)	Best Original Song	Nominated
1989	Glory	Best Original Score	Nominated
1991	"Dreams to Dream" (from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West; shared with Will Jennings)	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" (from Titanic; shared with Will Jennings)	Best Original Song	Won
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Best Original Score	Nominated
2009	Avatar	Best Original Score	Nominated
"I See You" (from Avatar; shared with Kuk Harrell and Simon Franglen)	Best Original Song	Nominated
Satellite Awards	1997	Titanic	Best Original Score	Won
"My Heart Will Go On" (from Titanic; shared with Will Jennings)	Best Original Song	Won
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Best Original Score	Nominated
"All Love Can Be" (from A Beautiful Mind; shared with Will Jennings)	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 
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