James Horner

Scored the music for "House of Sand and Fog"; received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score

Composed the score for "A Beautiful Mind"; also wrote theme song "All Love Can Be" with Will Jennings; received Best Original Score Academy Award nomination

Penned the dramatic underscore for "Enemy at the Gates"

Wrote music for "The Perfect Storm" and "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

Served as music composer & conductor and song composer and producer ("Then You Look at Me") for "Bicentennial Man"; lyrics for song penned by Will Jennings

Scored "The Mask of Zorro"

Reteamed with James Cameron to provide the Oscar-winning Celtic-influenced score for the blockbuster "Titanic"; also received Academy Award for the film's love theme "My Heart Will Go On", with lyrics by Will Jennings

Received two Academy Award nominations in the category Best Original Dramatic Score for "Braveheart" and "Apollo 13"

Provided the lush score for "Legends of the Fall"

First collaboration with Mel Gibson, "The Man Without a Face"

With Will Jennings, provided the songs for the animated "Once Upon a Forest"

Scored Phil Alden Robinson's "Sneakers"

Reteamed with Will Jennings to write the songs for the animated sequel "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West"

Garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for "Field of Dreams", directed by Phil Alden Robinson

First collaboration with lyricist Will Jennings, the song "If We Hold on Together" used in "The Land Before Time"

Provided the rousing music for Ron Howard's "Willow"

Received first Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for "Aliens", directed by James Cameron, and for Best Original Song for "Somewhere Out There" from the animated feature "An American Tail"; the latter co-written with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

Scored Ron Howard's "Cocoon"

Began to earn critical attention with his score for Walter Hill's "48 Hrs."

Composed the music for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"

Provided the score for Oliver Stone's "The Hand"

Composed first film score, "The Lady in Red"

Began composing for student projects at the American Film Institute

Hired by Roger Corman's New World Pictures to write film scores

Recorded "Spectral Shimmers" with the Indianpolis Symphony Orchestra

Born in Los Angeles, California

Raised in England

Returned to USA after graduating from the Royal College of Music

Taught music theory at UCLA while working on his PhD