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James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953–June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. 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. 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 wins, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Horner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
James Horner
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A sequel to Apokolips, the war continues with all heroes and villains uniting to fight Darkseid. Lex enters the fray in his mechanical suit, alongside one of the results of Project Rebirth: Superboy, the first successful Superman clone. Despite their best efforts, Darkseid proves to be too powerful for the heroes to defeat, though they manage to inflict numerous wounds. Lex reveals his final move: Superman's body was taken to the Fortress of Solitude by Supergirl, in hopes that it could hold the secret to revive him. Through Stronghold technology, Clark is actually revived, but at the expense of the Stronghold and all of its technology, a fact which Lex reluctantly accepted. Superman enters the battle alongside Supergirl and with the combined power of all the surviving heroes, they manage to delay Darkseid's plans. Darkseid is defeated by Batman when he assembles a weapon, but he is hit by the Omega sanction. In the movie die: Batman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern Hal Jordan/, Joker, Flash (he is downcast by the death of Iris and Batman, he runs away and disappears in a flash of light)
