James Horner, Film Composer for 'Titanic' and
'Braveheart,' Dies in Plane Crash
The Hollywood Reporter
By Mike Barnes
June 22, 2015
The two-time Oscar winner, 61, worked on three James
Cameron films, two 'Star Trek' movies and classics like 'A Beautiful Mind,'
'Field of Dreams' and 'Apollo 13.'
James Horner, the consummate film composer known for his
heart-tugging scores for Field of Dreams, Braveheart and Titanic, for which he
won two Academy Awards, died Monday in a plane crash near Santa Barbara. He was
61.
His death was confirmed by Sylvia Patrycja, who is
identified on Horner's film music page as his assistant.
"We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart
and unbelievable talent," Patrycja wrote on Facebook on Monday. "He
died doing what he loved. Thank you for all your support and love and see you
down the road."
Horner was piloting the small aircraft when it crashed
into a remote area about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, officials said. An
earlier report noted that the plane, which was registered to the composer, had
gone down, but the pilot had not been identified.
For his work on the 1997 best picture winner Titanic,
directed by James Cameron, Horner captured the Oscar for original dramatic
score, and he nabbed another Academy Award for original song (shared with
lyricist Will Jennings) for “My Heart Will Go On,” performed by Celine Dion.
“My job — and it’s something I discuss with Jim all the
time — is to make sure at every turn of the film it’s something the audience
can feel with their heart,” Horner said in a 2009 interview with the Los
Angeles Times. “When we lose a character, when somebody wins, when somebody
loses, when someone disappears — at all times I’m keeping track, constantly, of
what the heart is supposed to be feeling. That is my primary role.”
His score for Titanic sold a whopping 27 million copies
worldwide.
His fruitful partnership with Cameron also netted him
Oscar noms for original score for the blockbusters Aliens (1986) and Avatar
(2009). The pair reportedly were also at work on Avatar sequels.
The Los Angeles native earned 10 Oscar noms in all, also
being recognized for his work on two other best picture winners: Braveheart
(1995) and A Beautiful Mind (2001). He also received noms for An American Tail
(1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995) and House of Sand and Fog
(2003).
Always busy, Horner has three films coming out soon:
Southpaw, the boxing drama that stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams and is
due in theaters in July; Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Wolf Totem, out in September;
and The 33, a drama based on the 2010 mining disaster in Chile that’s set for
November.
His lengthy film résumé includes The Lady in Red (1979),
Wolfen (1981), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Star Trek III: The Search
for Spock (1983), Red Heat (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Patriot
Games (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Jumanji (1995), How the
Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
His father was two-time Oscar-winning art director/set
designer Harry Horner (The Heiress, The Hustler).
Horner spoke about the state of his career in a December
interview with David Hocquet.
“I’m much choosier,” he said.’ “I don’t want to be doing
these movies that now 85 or 90 composers want, as opposed to six. And now all
these movies, action movies. I don’t get offered all the movies obviously, but
I see a lot of them and I do get asked to do a lot of them, and I just know
they’re not asking me to do something that I can do something original, they’re
asking me to do a formula and I’m too rebellious.”
HORNER, James (James Roy Horner)
Born: 8/14/1953, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Died: 6/22/2015, Ventucopa, California, U.S.A.
James Horner’s western – composer conductor, musician:
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (TV) - 1982 [composer]
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (TV) - 1982 [composer]
Glory - 1989 [composer, conductor]
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West – 1991 [composer]
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West – 1991 [composer]
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - 1991 [composer, musician]
Legends of the Fall – 1994 [composer, conductor]
Balto - 1995 [composer, conductor]
Balto - 1995 [composer, conductor]
The Mask of Zorro – 1998 [composer, conductor]
The Missing - 2003 [composer]
The Legend of Zorro – 2005 [composer]
The New World - 2005 [composer]
The New World - 2005 [composer]
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