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 frequent use of Celtic musical elements.
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 multiple times with directors Jean-Jacques Annaud, Mel Gibson, Walter Hill, Ron Howard, and Joe Johnston. Horner composed music for over 100 films, and won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.
==Early life==
Horner was born in Los Angeles in 1953, the son of Joan Ruth (Frankel) and Harry Horner. His father, a set designer and occasional art-director,http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/James_Horner.aspx#2 was born in Holíč, Czechoslovakia, and moved to the United States in 1935. Horner had a brother, Christopher, who is a writer and documentary film maker.
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 subsequently attended Verde Valley High School in Sedona, Arizona. He received his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California. After he earned a master's degree, he started working on his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles, 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 turned to film scoring.MacDonald, Laurence E. The invisible art of film music: a comprehensive history. Ardsley House Publishers, 1998: p. 328 
Horner was also an avid pilot.
==Career==
One of Horner's first major film scores was for the 1979 film The Lady in Red.Women Who Run the Show by Mollie Gregory (2002), pp. 146 He began his career scoring films by working for B film director and producer Roger Corman. His first composer credit was for Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars. His works steadily gained notice in Hollywood, which led him to take on larger projects. Horner made a breakthrough in 1982, when he had the chance to score for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, establishing himself as a mainstream composer. The film's director Nicholas Meyer famously 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 for An American Tail, was also nominated that year for Best Original Song. He would go on to be nominated 10 times in total.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and the 2000s, Horner also 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).
1995 saw Horner produce no fewer than six scores, including his commercially successful and critically acclaimed works for Braveheart and Apollo 13, both of which earned him Academy Award nominations. Horner's greatest 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.HFPA – Awards Search 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").
Since 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: A 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 AvatarHorner assigned to The Karate Kid film remake—was released in 2010. In 2011, Horner scored Cristiada (aka For Greater Glory) which was released a year later and Black Gold. In 2012 Horner scored The Amazing Spider-Man, which starred Andrew Garfield and premiered on July 3. 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.DATES ANNOUNCED FOR HORNER'S DOUBLE CONCERTO, jameshorner-filmmusic.com, May 17, 2014. Retrieved September 19, 2014 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 Martin, with David Pyatt, John Ryan, James Thatcher and Richard Watkins as soloists.Horner Concerto for 4 Horns – London, british-horn.com. Retrieved September 19, 2014
==Musical borrowing==
Many of James Horner's film scores incorporate passages from his earlier compositions, and feature brief excerpts or rework themes from other classical composers, generally avoiding legal action by sufficiently varying the music. 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,Alan Rogers, "My Favourite Scenes–1938" in Reel Music, 4 Nov. 2011.. 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."Glory", in Filmtracks: Modern Soundtrack Reviews (1998, 2006). 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.Thomas Muething, "Wen immer es angeht" (To Whom It May Concern), in: Der Deutsche Film Musik-Dienst, Nr.30/1995 (in German)Alex Ross, "Oscar Scores", in The New Yorker, March 9, 1998.Lukas Kendall & Jeff Bond, "Letters about James Horner's Titanic," in Film Score Monthly, 1997.
==Death==
On June 22, 2015, unconfirmed reports emerged that Horner was killed when his Embraer EMB 312 Tucano turboprop aircraft crashed into the Los Padres National Forest in southern California. He was the sole occupant of the aircraft. Though the pilot was not immediately identified, Horner's attorney said, "We know it's his plane, and we know we haven't heard from him." Variety later confirmed Horner's death. His assistant wrote on her Facebook page, "We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart and unbelievable talent [who] died doing what he loved."
The FAA indicated the official identity of the deceased pilot will be confirmed by the local authorities.
==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. 	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 	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. 	
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. 	
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 Cougar 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: A 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 	
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 	Steve Purcell 	 	Documentary
2015	Living in the Age of Airplanes	Brian J. Terwilliger	 	Documentary
2015	The 33 	Patricia Riggen 	 	
2015	Southpaw 	Antoine Fuqua 	The Weinstein Company	
===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
* 1985 Surviving
* 1989 Tales from the Crypt
* 1990 Extreme Close-Up
* 1992 Fish Police (theme and pilot episode)
* 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
==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.Czech American Timeline by Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr. (2013), pp. 402
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.James Horner to receive Max Steiner Award, January 24, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2013
===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 	
Academy Awards 	1986	"Somewhere Out There" (from An American Tail; shared with Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann)	Best Original Song 	
Academy Awards 	1989	Field of Dreams 	Best Original Score 	
Academy Awards 	1995	Apollo 13 	Best Original Dramatic Score	
Academy Awards 	1995	Braveheart 	Best Original Dramatic Score	
Academy Awards 	1997	Titanic 	Best Original Dramatic Score	
Academy Awards 	1997	"My Heart Will Go On" (from Titanic; shared with Will Jennings) 	Best Original Song 	
Academy Awards 	2001	A Beautiful Mind 	Best Original Score 	
Academy Awards 	2003	House Of Sand And Fog 	Best Original Score 	
Academy Awards 	2009	Avatar 	Best Original Score 	
BAFTA Awards 	1995	Braveheart 	Best Film Music 	
BAFTA Awards 	1997	Titanic 	Best Film Music 	
BAFTA Awards 	2009	Avatar 	Best Film Music 	
Chicago Film Critics Association	1997	Titanic 	Best Original Score 	
Chicago Film Critics Association	2001	A Beautiful Mind 	Best Original Score 	
Chicago Film Critics Association	2009	Avatar 	Best Original Score 	
Golden Globe Awards 	1986	"Somewhere Out There" (from An American Tail; shared with Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann)	Best Original Song 	
Golden Globe Awards 	1989	Glory 	Best Original Score 	
Golden Globe Awards 	1991	"Dreams to Dream" (from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West; shared with Will Jennings)	Best Original Song 	
Golden Globe Awards 	1994	Legends of the Fall 	Best Original Score 	
Golden Globe Awards 	1995	Braveheart 	Best Original Score 	
Golden Globe Awards 	1997	Titanic 	Best Original Score 	
Golden Globe Awards 	1997	"My Heart Will Go On" (from Titanic; shared with Will Jennings) 	Best Original Song 	
Golden Globe Awards 	2001	A Beautiful Mind 	Best Original Score 	
Golden Globe Awards 	2009	Avatar 	Best Original Score 	
Golden Globe Awards 	2009	"I See You" (from Avatar; shared with Kuk Harrell and Simon Franglen) 	Best Original Song 	
Satellite Awards 	1997	Titanic 	Best Original Score 	
Satellite Awards 	1997	"My Heart Will Go On" (from Titanic; shared with Will Jennings) 	Best Original Song 	
Satellite Awards 	2001	A Beautiful Mind 	Best Original Score 	
Satellite Awards 	2001	"All Love Can Be" (from A Beautiful Mind; shared with Will Jennings) 	Best Original Song 	
Satellite Awards 	2003	The Missing 	Best Original Score 	
Saturn Awards 	1983	Brainstorm 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	1983	Krull 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	1983	Something Wicked This Way Comes 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	1985	Cocoon 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	1986	An American Tail 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	1989	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	1995	Braveheart 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	2000	How the Grinch Stole Christmas 	Best Music 	
Saturn Awards 	2009	Avatar 	Best Music 	
Grammy
* 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
==Notes==
==References==
==External links==
*Very comprehensive website about James Horner
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*James Horner interview (1983) from CinemaScore magazine
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