Michael Giacchino
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Michael Giacchino (pronounced "Jee-ah-kee-no") (born 10 October 1967; age 40) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated soundtrack composer from New Jersey. He was recently confirmed as the composer for Star Trek for producer-director J.J. Abrams. [1] Giacchino has worked with Abrams a number of times, writing music for the hit television series Alias and Lost, as well as the the 2006 Paramount film Mission: Impossible III.
Hailing from Riverside, New Jersey, Giacchino attended New York City's School of Visual arts, where he majored in film production. Upon graduation, he began studying music composition at the Juilliard School. During this time, he worked at Disney's New York publicity office which ultimately led him to a job in the feature film publicity department at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, working as an assistant producer for the company's video game division, Disney Interactive. He continued studying and practicing music, however, and by 1998, he was working as a composer at the video game company DreamWorks Interactive.
Among Giacchino's earliest scoring work was DreamWorks Interactive's video game adaptation of the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the first PlayStation console title to feature an original live orchestral score. His subsequent video game scores include the Medal of Honor series (also from DreamWorks Interactive) and titles for the Call of Duty franchise.
Giacchino began his collaboration with J.J. Abrams when the producers of Alias, who were fans of Giacchino's video game soundtrack work, contacted Giacchino to compose the music for their series. When Abrams and Damon Lindelof co-created Lost, they once again hired Giacchino to compose their show's music. For his work on Lost, Giacchino won the 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore). He earned another Emmy nomination that same year for his work on the song "I'm With You" from the 2005 television special The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.
In 2004, Giacchino scored the music for Pixar's hit animated film The Incredibles. He earned numerous awards and nominations for this score, including two Grammy Award nominations (for Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, and Best Instrumental Composition).
More recently, Giacchino again collaborated with Pixar Studios on the 2007 film Ratatouille. Giacchino was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Score category for his work on this film. He also won an Annie for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production and a Grammy Award for Best Score - Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for his Ratatouille score. [2] [3]
Other films for which Giacchino has composed music include the 2005 films Sky High and The Family Stone. He also scored the J.J. Abrams-produced series What About Brian and Six Degrees and the brief musical cue in the hit Abrams-produced monster movie Cloverfield. Giacchino also composed the music for the Wachowski brothers' live-action adaptation of the 1960s animated series Speed Racer [4] [5]. It has also been confirmed that he will be composing the film adaptation of the 1970s television series Land of the Lost. [6]
Giacchino has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (original Dramatic Score) for the episode of Lost entitled "The Constant." [7] This is his third Emmy nomination and his second for Lost.
[edit] External links
- MichaelGiacchino.com - official web site
- Michael Giacchino at Wikipedia
- Michael Giacchino at the Internet Movie Database
