Jerry Goldsmith

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Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned 49 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. He was considered one of film music's most innovative and influential composers. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1977 for The Omen), six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and four British Academy Film Awards. He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise, three in The Omen franchise, and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for films including Planet of the Apes, Patton, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Papillon, Chinatown, Logan's Run, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Sleeping with the Enemy, Medicine Man, Basic Instinct, Rudy, L.A. Confidential, Air Force One, Mulan and The Mummy. He also composed the current fanfare for the Universal Pictures logo, which debuted in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. His scores for the 1960's American television series Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, have been pointed out for praise. He frequently collaborated with directors including Paul Verhoeven, Franklin J. Schaffner, Richard Fleischer, Fred Schepisi, Michael Crichton, Jack Smight, Gordon Douglas, J. Lee Thompson, Paul Wendkos, John Frankenheimer, and Joe Dante.