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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
Composer
for Composer in The Incredible Hulk II (2013)
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After the events of The Avengers, Bruce Banner thinks that there are people out there who don't think Hulk is a hero. And he was right. Ross' compatriot Glenn Talbot launched an attack on Banner for grudges not withheld in him. The Hulk attacks his men and disappears. Betty was just trying to get to know Bruce again after what happened in Harlem with Abomination, so she and her father search for Bruce and Betty's ex-boyfriend Leonard is on Talbot's side to protect Betty. Meanwhile, Hulk ended up in Arizona on the porch of an old friend named Rick Jones, who was a nice and compassionate guy. But Banner needs Rick's help to get to a gamma lab in New Mexico so he can take the Hulk out of him, even if it kills Bruce. But on the way, Rick and Banner get attacked by Talbot's men at the gamma lab where there was an electric sabotage made by Talbot and Leonard was the victim and Rick was mortally wounded by Talbot's men, then saved by the Hulk like Betty and Thunderbolt. In the climax, Bruce now sees Leonard transformed into the electric monster Zzzax and sees his purpose on why Hulk is needed.
