Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino is an American composer and director. He is best known for composing the musical scores for many Disney projects, including Alias and Lost for ABC, The Incredibles, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Sky High, Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, John Carter, Tomorrowland, Inside Out, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Zootopia, Rogue One, Coco, and Incredibles 2. He has also composed the musical scores for many Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Thor: Love and Thunder, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. He has received multiple Grammy awards, an Emmy, Golden Globe Award, and Academy Award. He is also known for collaborating with directors Brad Bird, J.J. Abrams, Pete Docter, Colin Trevorrow, Drew Goddard, Matt Reeves, and Taika Waititi. He also directed and composed the score for the 2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe special Werewolf by Night.
Outside Disney, Michael Giacchino is known for composing for the first Medal of Honor and Call of Duty video games, as well as the Jurassic World and the rebooted Star Trek trilogies, Mission: Impossible III, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Cloverfield (albeit one composition), Super 8, Speed Racer, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes (both of which were made by current Disney subsidiary Fox), Jupiter Ascending, The Book of Henry, Bad Times at the El Royale, Jojo Rabbit, An American Pickle, Extinct, Let Him Go, and The Batman. He also provided scores for Fringe.
==Feature Film Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
2004	The Incredibles 	Music 	Pixar
2005	Sky High 	Music 	Walt Disney Pictures
2005	The Muppets' Wizard of Oz 	Music 	Touchstone Television
2007	Ratatouille 	Music 	Pixar
2009	Up 	Music 	Pixar
2011	Cars 2 	Original Score Composed	Pixar
2012	John Carter 	Music 	Walt Disney Pictures
2015	Tomorrowland 	Music 	Walt Disney Pictures
2015	Inside Out 	Music 	Pixar
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens 	Actor 	Lucasfilm
2016	Zootopia 	Original Score Composed	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2016	Doctor Strange 	Music 	Marvel Studios
2016	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 	Music 	Lucasfilm
2017	Spider-Man: Homecoming 	Music 	Marvel Studios
2017	Coco 	Original Score Composed	Pixar
2018	Incredibles 2 	Music 	Pixar
2018	Ralph Breaks the Internet 	Voice Actor 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2019	Spider-Man: Far From Home 	Music 	Marvel Studios
2019	Jojo Rabbit 	Music 	Fox Searchlight Pictures
2021	Spider-Man: No Way Home 	Music 	Marvel Studios
2022	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Music (Original Themes)	Marvel Studios
2022	Lightyear 	Original Score Composed	Pixar
2022	Thor: Love and Thunder 	Music 	Marvel Studios
2023	Next Goal Wins 	Music 	Searchlight Pictures
2024	Inside Out 2 	Music (Original Themes)	Pixar
2025	The Fantastic Four: First Steps 	Music 	Marvel Studios
==Animated Shorts Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
2005	Jack-Jack Attack 	Music 	Pixar
2005	One Man Band 	Music 	Pixar
2006	Lifted 	Music 	Pixar
2007	How to Hook Up Your Home Theater 	Music 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2009	Partly Cloudy 	Music 	Pixar
2009	Dug's Special Mission 	Music 	Pixar
2009	Prep & Landing 	Music 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2010	Day & Night 	Music 	Pixar
2010	Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa	Music 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011	La Luna 	Music 	Pixar
2011	The Ballad of Nessie 	Music 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011	Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice 	Original Score	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2012	Electric Holiday 	Music 	The Walt Disney Company
2013	Toy Story of Terror! 	Music 	Pixar
2014	Toy Story That Time Forgot 	Music 	Pixar
2015	Riley's First Date? 	Music 	Pixar
==TV Special Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
2022	Werewolf by Night	Director/Music	Marvel Studios
==Compositions for Disney Parks==
Theme Park(s) 	Song
DisneylandHong Kong Disneyland	Space Mountain
Disneyland Paris 	Space Mountain: Mission 2
Disney's Hollywood Studios 	Star Tours: The Adventures ContinueFantasmic!
==Trivia==
*Michael Giacchino is the third out of six composers to work on a Pixar film.
*Michael Giacchino is the first person outside of the Newman family to compose for Pixar films.
*As of the release of Soul, Michael Giacchino is one of Pixar's five composers who has scored more than one than film, the others being Randy Newman, Thomas Newman, Jeff Danna and Mychael Danna. 
**Michael Giacchino has scored the second most Pixar films, only behind Randy Newman.
*Michael Giacchino is the second veteran Pixar composer to score an animated Disney film Zootopia, after Newman who scored The Princess and the Frog.
*Michael Giacchino is the composer to have worked on most of Disney's subsidiaries (having scored Rogue One, released by Lucasfilm; Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Spider-Man: Far From Home, released by Marvel Studios; Zootopia and Ralph Breaks the Internet, released by Walt Disney Animation Studios; The Incredibles films, Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, Inside Out, and Coco, released by Pixar, Jojo Rabbit, released by 20th Century Fox; as well as Disney's live-action films Sky High, John Carter, and Tomorrowland, and the Muppets' TV film The Muppets' Wizard of Oz).
**Additionally, Michael Giacchino has worked with more Pixar film directors than the company's other recurrent composers:
***Michael Giacchino scored Cars 2, directed by John Lasseter.
***Michael Giacchino scored Up and Inside Out both directed by Pete Docter.
***Michael Giacchino scored The Incredibles, Incredibles 2, the live-action film Tomorrowland, and the short film Jack-Jack Attack (as well as the non-Disney related Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), all directed by Brad Bird.
***Michael Giacchino scored the live-action film John Carter which was directed by Andrew Stanton.
***Michael Giacchino scored Coco, directed by Lee Unkrich.
***Michael Giacchino scored the short One Man Band, which was co-directed by Brave co-director Mark Andrews.
***Michael Giacchino scored the short Partly Cloudy, which was directed by The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn.
***Michael Giacchino scored Dug's Special Mission, which was directed by Inside Out co-director Ronnie del Carmen.
***Michael Giacchino scored the Halloween TV special Toy Story of Terror!, which was directed by Finding Dory co-director Angus MacLane.
***Michael Giacchino scored the Christmas TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot, directed by Brave co-director Steve Purcell.
***Michael Giacchino scored the short film Riley's First Date?, while his score for Up was used in the short film George and A.J., both of whom were directed by Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley.
****Michael Giacchino is the only composer to have worked with all 3 Toy Story directors (Lasseter, Unkrich, and Cooley)
*Michael Giacchino is the only Pixar composer to make a cameo appearance in a Pixar film, being Coco which he himself composed.
*Michael Giacchino is the second composer to work on a Star Wars film after John Williams.
*Michael Giacchino also composed the music for the Incredicoaster (originally California Screamin') at Disney California Adventure.
==Gallery==
Michael Giacchino 82nd Oscars.jpg|Michael Giacchino at the 82nd annual Academy Awards in March 2010.
Michael Giacchino John Carter premiere.jpg|Michael Giacchino at the premiere of John Carter in February 2012.
Michael Giacchino SDCC.jpg|Michael Giacchino attending the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.
Michael Giacchino Zootopia premiere.jpg|Michael Giacchino at the premiere of Zootopia in February 2016.
Michael Giacchino SW Rouge One premiere.jpg|Michael Giacchino at the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in December 2016.
Michael Giacchino D23.jpg|Michael Giacchino attending the 2017 D23 Expo.
Michael Giacchino SDCC19.jpg|Michael Giacchino speaks at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con.
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