Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino is unquestionably one of the brightest rising stars in film music today. Giacchino is one of the few of the new generation of composers who values and knows how to use melody, thematic development, and orchestral color. A film score fan himself, Giacchino's knowledge of master composers from Erich Korngold to John Williams informs and enhances his work. Giacchino got his start scoring for video games, including The Lost World, the first console game to feature a complete orchestral score. He soon attracted the attention of Steven Spielberg, who hired Giacchino to score Medal of Honor, the WWII game inspired by Saving Private Ryan. Giacchino went on to score four more games in the series, all written in the best John Williams-esque, adventurous tradition. JJ Abrams was a fan of these games, and hired the composer to score for the TV series Alias and all the episodes of Lost, the former displaying a wide range of stylistic techniques and the latter one of the most effective and emotional scores for television. Giacchino's big break in the feature film arena came with Brad Bird's The Incredibles, a wild and lush take on John Barry's James Bond stylings. Giacchino subsequently became a Pixar stalwart, scoring Bird's Ratatouille, Cars 2, Inside Out, the Academy Award-winning Up, and numerous Disney and Pixar short films. He also continued his collaboration with JJ Abrams, scoring Mission: Impossible 3, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, the end credits for Cloverfield (directed by Matt Reeves and produced by Abrams), and the wonderful Super 8. Other notable scores include the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer and Jupiter Ascending, Matt Reeves's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and his masterful, under-seen horror film Let Me In, 50/50 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, Bird’s Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol and Tomorrowland, Jurassic World, and a magnificent soundtrack for Andrew Stanton’s John Carter. Giacchino has recently established a musical presence in the Disney parks, scoring the pre-show music for the new Star Tours and the high-energy, rollicking music for Disneyland's Space Mountain. The composer has only been scoring features since 2004, and he has already amassed an impressive and varied body of work. No doubt his future will promise even more musical gems as his style continues to evolve.

Alias (Seasons 1,2)
The Book of Henry

Call of Duty

Cars 2
Coco
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
War for the Planet of the Apes
Day and Night
Doctor Strange

Earth Days

The Family Stone

The Incredibles**
Inside Out
John Carter**
Jupiter Ascending*
Jurassic World
La Luna

Land of the Lost

Let Me In*

Lost (Seasons 1-6)*
Lost: Via Domus
The Lost World (Video Game)

Medal of Honor**

Medal of Honor: Underground

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault*

Medal of Honor: Frontline**

Medal of Honor: Airborne

Monte Carlo

Mission: Impossible 3
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Prep and Landing
Prep and Landing: Operation Secret Santa
Prep and Landing: Naughty vs. Nice

Ratatouille**

Roar! From Cloverfield
Rogue One*

Secret Weapons Over Normandy*

Sky High

Speed Racer*
Spider-Man: Homecoming

Star Trek
Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Beyond

Super 8**
Tomorrowland*
Toy Story of Terror
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

Up**
Zootopia