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James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.

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Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron’s Avatar (2009).

Horner’s other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner’s other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including James Cameron, Don Bluth, Ron Howard, Joe Johnston, Edward Zwick, Walter Hill, Mel Gibson, Vadim Perelman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicholas Meyer, Wolfgang Petersen, Martin Campbell, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells; producers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Kirschner, Brian Grazer, Jon Landau, and Lawrence Gordon; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Adding to his two Academy Awards win, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards.

Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015) and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously.

Son of Austrian Jewish immigrants Harry Horner and his wife, Jon, the composer’s passion for the seventh art runs in the family, as his father was a well-known production designer and film director, who received two Oscars for his work in the artistic direction of the films The Heiress and The Hustler.

Little James began playing the piano at the age of five and, in his youth, moved to London to study at the prestigious Royal College of Music. He completed his training with a bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Southern California, which opened the doors to the beginning of his career, composing several pieces for the American Film Institute and participating as a professor of music theory at said university.

However, he soon discovered that the academic world was not his thing, but that his true passion was in the seventh art. Focused on the goal of carving out a career in this world, his first important work for a film was in 1979, for The Woman in Red. Afterwards, he worked with producer Roger Corman on the soundtrack of the film Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and with director Wes Craven on Deadly Blessing (1981), works that opened doors for him in the industry.

Horner died on June 22, 2015, when his turboprop aircraft, a Short Tucano with registration number N206PZ, crashed into the Los Padres National Forest near Ventucopa, California. Horner was the only occupant of the aircraft, when it took off after fueling at Camarillo Airport. Three days later, on June 25, the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the crash an accident. He is survived by his wife, Sara Elizabeth Horner (née Nelson), and two daughters.

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