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Michael Giacchino

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He and J.J. Abrams have often spoken of their first meeting as if they'd known each other their whole lives, even though they grew up in opposite parts of the United States. See more trivia »

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2014 Tomorrowland (pre-production)
 
2014 Jupiter Ascending (filming)
 
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (filming)
 
2014 Godzilla (filming)
 
2013 Star Trek Into Darkness
 
2008-2013 Fringe (TV series)
– The Boy Must Live (2013)
– Anomaly XB-6783746 (2012)
– Black Blotter (2012)
– The Human Kind (2012)
– Five-Twenty-Ten (2012)
See all 70 episodes »
 
2012 Alcatraz (TV series)
– Webb Porter (2012)
– Sonny Burnett (2012)
– The Ames Bros. (2012)
– Clarence Montgomery (2012)
– Johnny McKee (2012)
See all 11 episodes »
 
2012 John Carter
 
2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
 
2011 Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (TV short)
 
2011 50/50
 
2011 La luna (short)
 
2011 Monte Carlo (music composed by)
 
2011 Cars 2
 
2011 Super 8
 
2011 Star Tours: The Adventures Continue (short)
 
2011 The Ballad of Nessie (short)
 
2010 Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer: Operation: Secret Santa (TV short)
 
2010 Finding Louis (short)
 
2010 Undercovers (TV series)
– Pilot (2010)
 
2010 Let Me In
 
2010 Day & Night (short)
 
2010 Lost: The Final Journey (TV documentary)
 
2004-2010 Lost (TV series)
– The End (2010)
– What They Died For (2010)
– Across the Sea (2010)
– The Candidate (2010)
– The Last Recruit (2010)
See all 114 episodes »
 
2010 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
– Earth Days (2010)
 
2010 Lost: Final Chapter (TV movie)
 
2009 Prep & Landing (TV short)
 
2009 George & A.J. (video short)
 
2009 Dug's Special Mission (video short)
 
2009 Land of the Lost
 
2009 Up (Video Game)
 
2009 Partly Cloudy (short)
 
2009 Star Trek: D·A·C (Video Game)
 
2009 Lost: A Journey in Time (TV movie)
 
2009 Up
 
2009 Lost: The Story of the Oceanic 6 (TV movie)
 
2009 Star Trek (music by)
 
2009 Earth Days (documentary)
 
2009 Lost: Destiny Calls (TV movie)
 
2009/II Checkmate
 
2009 Glock (short)
 
2008 Fracture (Video Game)
 
2008 Speed Racer (music by)
 
2008 Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (Video Game)
 
2008 Lost: Past, Present & Future (TV movie)
 
2008 Honor to Victory (video short) (score composer)
 
2007 Lost in a Day (video documentary short)
 
2007 Lost: Missing Pieces (TV mini-series)
 
2007 How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (short)
 
2007 P.O.V. (TV series documentary)
– The Camden 28 (2007)
 
2007 Medal of Honor: Airborne (Video Game)
 
2007 Ratatouille
 
2006-2007 Six Degrees (TV series)
– A Simple Twist of Fate (2007)
– Objects in the Mirror (2007)
– Surstromming or a Slice (2007)
– Ray's Back (2007)
– Sedgewick's (2007)
See all 13 episodes »
 
2007 Lost: The Answers (TV documentary)
 
2007 Lost Survivor Guide (TV documentary)
 
2006 Shorty McShorts' Shorts (TV series)
– Got Your Nose (2006)
 
2006 Lifted (short)
 
2006 Lost: A Tale of Survival (TV documentary)
 
2006 The Lost Survival Guide (TV movie)
 
2001-2006 Alias (TV series)
– All the Time in the World (2006)
– Reprisal (2006)
– No Hard Feelings (2006)
– I See Dead People (2006)
– 30 Seconds (2006)
See all 105 episodes »
 
2006 What About Brian (TV series)
– Sex, Lies and Videotape (2006)
– Moving Day (2006)
– Two in Twenty-Four (2006)
– Pilot (2006)
 
2006 The Family Stone: Behind the Scenes (video documentary short)
 
2006 Lost: Reckoning (TV movie)
 
2006 Mission: Impossible III
 
2006 Black (Video Game)
 
2006 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (segment "One Man Band")
 
2006 Lost: Revelation (TV movie)
 
2005 Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
 
2005 The Family Stone
 
2005 The Karate Guard (short)
 
2005 Destination Lost (TV documentary)
 
2005 One Man Band (short)
 
2005 Sky High
 
2005 Lost: The Journey (TV movie)
 
2005 The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (TV movie)
 
2005 The Making of 'The Incredibles' (video documentary short)
 
2005 Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell (video documentary short)
 
2004 The Incredibles (Video Game)
 
2004 Call of Duty: Finest Hour (Video Game)
 
2004 The Incredibles
 
2004 Call of Duty: United Offensive (Video Game)
 
2004 Alias (Video Game)
 
2003 Sin
 
2003 Secret Weapons Over Normandy (Video Game)
 
2003 Phenomenon II (TV movie)
 
2003 Call of Duty (Video Game)
 
2003 String of the Kite (short)
 
2002 Medal of Honor: Frontline (Video Game)
 
2002 Redemption of the Ghost
 
2002 Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Video Game)
 
2001 Semper Fi (TV movie)
 
2001 The Trouble with Lou
 
2000 Muppet Monster Adventure (Video Game)
 
1999 Medal of Honor (Video Game) (music by)
 
1999 My Brother the Pig
 
1999 Warpath: Jurassic Park (Video Game)
 
1999 Los gringos (short)
 
1998 No Salida
 
1997 Legal Deceit
 
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Video Game)
 
1995 Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (Video Game)
 
1995 Gargoyles (Video Game)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (15 titles)
2008-2013 Fringe (TV series)
– An Enemy of Fate (2013) (writer: "End Title Theme" - uncredited)
– Liberty (2013) (writer: "End Title Theme" - uncredited)
– The Boy Must Live (2013) (writer: "End Title Theme" - uncredited)
– Anomaly XB-6783746 (2012) (writer: "End Title Theme" - uncredited)
– Black Blotter (2012) (writer: "End Title Theme" - uncredited)
See all 99 episodes »
 
2012 This Is 40 (writer: "The Package", "SS Lost-tanic", "Moving On" / performer: "The Package", "SS Lost-tanic", "Moving On")
 
2011 Kinect Disneyland Adventures (Video Game) (writer: "Space Mountain" 2005)
 
2011 So You Think You Can Dance (TV series)
– Two of 16 Voted Off (2011) (music: "The Incredits")
 
2011 Cars 2 (music: "Mon coeur Fait Vroum My Heart Goes Vroom" / lyrics: "Mon coeur Fait Vroum My Heart Goes Vroom" / producer: "Mon coeur Fait Vroum My Heart Goes Vroom")
 
2004-2010 Lost (TV series)
– Epilogue: The New Man in Charge (2010) (writer: "End Title")
– The End (2010) (writer: "End Title" - uncredited)
– What They Died For (2010) (writer: "End Title" - uncredited)
– Across the Sea (2010) (writer: "End Title" - uncredited)
– The Candidate (2010) (writer: "End Title" - uncredited)
See all 118 episodes »
 
2010 Atop the Fourth Wall (TV series)
– Star Trek/X-Men #1 (2010) (arranger: "To Boldly Go")
 
2008 Cloverfield (writer: "Roar!" Cloverfield overture)
 
2007 Your Friend the Rat (video short) (arranger: "Plan B")
 
2007 Ratatouille (writer: "Le Festin" / producer: "Le Festin")
 
2001-2006 Alias (TV series)
– I See Dead People (2006) (performer: "Alias Theme" - uncredited)
– 30 Seconds (2006) (performer: "Alias Theme" - uncredited)
– Before the Flood (2005) (performer: "Alias Theme" - uncredited)
– The Nemesis (2003) (performer: "Alias Theme" - uncredited)
– Reunion (2003) (performer: "Alias Theme" - uncredited)
See all 34 episodes »
 
2006 Mission: Impossible III (producer: "Mission: Impossible Theme")
 
2005 The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (TV movie) (writer: "When I'm With You", "The Witch Is In The House", "Calling All Munchkins" / producer: "When I'm With You", "The Witch Is In The House", "Calling All Munchkins")
 
2002 Medal of Honor: Frontline (Video Game) (writer: "The Songless Nightingale" / as Michael G. Giacchino)
 
2000 Medal of Honor: Underground (Video Game) (writer: "Each Night He Comes Home To Me")
 
Show ShowMusic Department (18 titles)
2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (additional orchestrations)
 
2011 Star Tours: The Adventures Continue (short) (music editor)
 
2010 14th Annual PRISM Awards (TV documentary) (composer - "Parting Words" from Lost)
 
2009 Up (additional orchestrator)
 
2009 Star Trek (music supervisor, orchestrator)
 
2009 The 81st Annual Academy Awards (TV special) (musical director)
 
2007 Ratatouille (song: music and lyrics by)
 
2007 Medal of Honor: Vanguard (Video Game) (composer: additional music)
 
2006 Mission: Impossible III (orchestrator)
 
2005 The Family Stone (orchestrator)
 
2005 The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (Video Game) (composer: theme music)
 
2005 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (Video Game) (composer: themes)
 
2003 Sin (orchestrator)
 
2002 Redemption of the Ghost (orchestrator)
 
2000 Medal of Honor: Underground (Video Game) (music producer)
 
1999 Medal of Honor (Video Game) (music producer)
 
1999 Warpath: Jurassic Park (Video Game) (music producer, orchestrator)
 
1994 Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (Video Game) (composer: additional music)
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
2011 Super 8
Deputy Crawford
 
Show ShowProducer (1 title)
1994 The Lion King (Video Game) (assistant producer)
 
Show ShowThanks (4 titles)
2012 Broken Glass (short) (special thanks)
 
2011 Kobresia: Fragments (short) (inspirational thanks)
 
2003 Boys Night Out (short) (special thanks)
 
1996 Pinocchio (Video Game) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (13 titles)
2011 Janela Indiscreta (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.72 (2011) … Himself
 
2011 Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (TV series)
Himself
– Creative Team Behind 'Cars 2' (2011) … Himself
 
2011 Pixar: 25 Magic Moments (TV documentary)
Himself - Composer
 
2010 25 fotogramas (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.10 (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)
Himself
– Aloha to Lost (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Live from Studio Five (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.120 (2010) … Himself
 
2010 The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner: Best Original Score
 
2010 Breakfast (TV series)
Himself - Composer
– Episode dated 19 February 2010 (2010) … Himself - Composer
 
2010 The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Winner: Best Original Score
 
2009 Star Trek: Score (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2005 More Making of 'The Incredibles' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2005 The Making of 'The Incredibles' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1990 Celebrating Walt Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': The One That Started It All (TV documentary)
Himself
 

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Composed the music for the Disneyland Resort Paris roller coaster "Space Mountain : Mission 2", opened 9 April 2005, the new version of the original "Space Mountain - De La Terre A La Lune" originally based on Jules Verne's stories and composed by Steven Bramson.

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Personal Quote:

I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it, for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the 60's, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era. See more »

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He and J.J. Abrams have often spoken of their first meeting as if they'd known each other their whole lives, even though they grew up in opposite parts of the United States. See more »

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Frequently works with J.J. Abrams and Pixar See more »

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