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Use mdy dates|date=August 2011Infobox person| name = Michael Giacchino| image = Michael Giacchino.jpg| imagesize =| caption = Giacchino, with his sister Maria,https://secure.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/gallery/images_gallery.jsp? tagName=Michael-Giacchino '& #39;The Hollywood Reporter THR id'd this incorrectly originally, this is his sister!. Secure.hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved on August 21, 2011. at the 2010 Academy Awards | birthname = Michael Giacchino| birth_date = Birth date and age|1967|10|10| birth_place = Riverside Township, New Jersey , U.S.| death_date =| death_place =| othername =| occupation = Film score|Film, television, and video game score composer| yearsactive = 1995 present| spouse =| website = Michael Giacchino (IPA-it|d?ak'ki?no; born October 10, 1967)Jon Burlingame, "Tunes for Toons," Daily Variety, Dec. 8, 2004 is an Italian American composer who has composed scores for movies, television series and video games. Some of his most notable works include the scores to television series such as Lost (tv series)|Lost , Alias (tv series)|Alias and Fringe (TV series)|Fringe , games such as the Medal of Honor (series)|Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series, and films such as Mission: Impossible III , The Incredibles , Star Trek (film)|Star Trek , Cloverfield , Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille , Up (2009 film)|Up , Super 8 (film)|Super 8 , Cars 2 , 50/50 (2011 film)|50/50 , and John Carter (film)|John Carter . Giacchino has received numerous awards for his work, including an Emmy Award|Emmy , multiple Grammy Award|Grammys , an Golden Globe Award , and an 82nd Academy Awards|Academy Award .
Early life
Michael Giacchino, an Italian American (with dual citizenship), http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/03/08/visualizza_new.html_1731171433.html "Oscar winners thank Italy News in English". ANSA.it. Retrieved on August 21, 2011. was born in Riverside Township, New Jersey|Riverside Township , New Jersey. Giacchino grew up in Edgewater Park Township, New Jersey and graduated from Holy Cross High School (New Jersey)|Holy Cross High School in Delran, New Jersey .fact|date=April 2012 Giacchino began combining images and music at age 10, when he began creating stop-motion animation with homemade soundtracks in his basement. While in high school, an art teacher who mentored Giacchino recommended to his parents that attend the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Giacchino describes visiting the school with his parents thus:Lincourt, Carrie. "Q + A". Visual Arts Journal . Volume 19, Number 1. Spring 2011. School of Visual Arts . Pages 46 - 49.
I thought, wow, this is fantastic. They actually have colleges like this? Where I can do the things that I am really interested in doing? That was amazing to me. I loved SVA. I loved the kind of freedom that it provided. It was kind of like this great experiment-okay, you're here because you like something. So let's see how much you like it. We're not going to regulate you too much. We're going to see how passionate and driven you are, and how much you want this thing.
Giacchino enrolled at SVA, majoring in film production and minoring in history. During his final year at SVA, his instructor in film publicity announced an unpaid internship was available at Universal Pictures . Giacchino, who was the only one interested, obtained the six-month position, which he filled at night while attending school during the day and working at Macy's to pay his rent. He graduated from SVA in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts , after which he took music classes at the Juilliard School .Burlingame, Jon (May 7, 2006). http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/movies/07burl.html "Michael Giacchino's Mission: Make the Old Music New". The New York Times . Accessed November 27, 2007. "The backyard for Mr. Giacchino, 38, was in Edgewater Park, N.J., where he grew up watching and listening to Hanna-Barbera cartoons, "The A-Team" and reruns of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, but, as music became his main interest, he took classes at Juilliard and, later, film-music extension courses at UCLA" http://www.mackie.com/artists/index.html? id=357& y=2005 "Michael Giacchino - Scoring for Primetime: ABC's Alias". Mackie.com. Retrieved on April 14, 2011.
Career
Video games
When Giacchino's internship ended, Universal hired him, giving him a job right out of college. He later moved to Disney, and when Disney relocated to Los Angeles, Giacchino moved with them, working in publicity, while taking night classes in instrumentation and orchestration at UCLA . His work for Disney had him interacting with the various personnel who worked in films, such as the producers who hired composers, so when a job at Disney Interactive Studios|Disney Interactive opened for a producer, Giacchino obtained the job, thinking he could hire himself to write music for the games he produced.
Giacchino's composition work for Disney Interactive during the 16-bit era included the Sega Genesis game Gargoyles (video game)|Gargoyles , the SNES game Donald in Maui Mallard|Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow and the various console versions of The Lion King (video game)|The Lion King . http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,47852/ "Michael Giacchino". MobyGames. Retrieved April 14, 2012. However his first major composition was for the DreamWorks video game adaptation of the 1997 movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (console game)|The Lost World: Jurassic Park . http://www.michaelgiacchino.com/bio.html Michael Giacchino.com -Biography The video game was the first PlayStation - (also on Sega Saturn) console title to be recorded with an original live orchestral score. Giacchino has since continued his relationship with DreamWorks, providing full orchestral scores for many of their popular videogames. He also worked with Pandemic studios to create the theme for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction . Giacchino's award-winning compositions covers the first three Medal of Honor (computer game)|Medal of Honor series, ( Medal of Honor: Underground|Underground , Medal of Honor: Allied Assault|Allied Assault and Medal of Honor: Frontline|Frontline , along with the original Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2|Heroes: 2 ), and also the scores for several other World War II-related video games like Secret Weapons Over Normandy , Call of Duty and Call of Duty: Finest Hour . http://www.michaelgiacchino.com/works.html Michael Giacchino.com Works Additionally, Giacchino composed themes for The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer , and co-wrote the theme of Black (video game)|Black with composer Chris Tilton . http://www.christilton.com/black.htm Chris Tilton.com Blackdead link|date=August 2011 He also composed the score for Alias (video game)|Alias , which was based on the television series of the same name. In 2008 Giacchino wrote music for Turning Point: Fall of Liberty . http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13807/Michael-Giacchino-to-Score-Turning-Point-Fall-of-Liberty/ Michael Giacchino to Score Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. News.teamxbox.com (June 26, 2007). Retrieved on August 21, 2011. Electronic Arts has announced that he has returned to the Medal of Honor franchise as he has composed the music for Medal of Honor: Airborne .cite web|url= http://www.scoringsessions.com/news/107/|title=Michael Giacchino scores Medal of Honor: Airborne|last=Goldwasser|first=Dan|date=July 10, 2007|accessdate=May 10, 2009
Film and television
Giacchino's work on various video games led to his entrance into television.
In 2001, J. J. Abrams , producer of the television series Alias (TV series)|Alias , discovered Giacchino through his video game work and asked him to provide the new show's soundtrack. The soundtrack featured a mix of full orchestral pieces frequently intermingled with upbeat electronic music , a departure from much of his previous work. Giacchino would go on to provide the score for J.J. Abrams's 2004 television series Lost (TV series)|Lost , http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EHSVDM Lost Soundtrack. Amazon. Retrieved on August 21, 2011. creating an acclaimed score which employed a unique process of using spare pieces of a fuselage|plane fuselage for percussion parts. The score for Lost is also notable for a signature thematic motif: a brass fall-off at the end of certain themes. http://www.thelogbook.com/music/lost-music-by-michael-giacchino/ The Log Book Lostdead link|date=August 2011 Just like his counterpart Stu Phillips (composer)|Stu Phillips , he worked with the television show creator Abrams on his shows with his music scores while Abrams supplied the show's main themes on his certain shows such as Alias .
In 2004, Giacchino received his first big feature film commission. Brad Bird , director of Pixar 's The Incredibles , asked Giacchino to provide the soundtrack for the film after having heard his work on Alias . http://www.cinemusic.net/reviews/2004/incredibles.html Cinemusic The Incredibles The upbeat jazz orchestral sound was a departure in style not only for Giacchino but for Pixar, which had previously relied on Randy Newman|Randy and Thomas Newman for all of its films. Director Brad Bird had originally sought out John Barry (composer)|John Barry perhaps best known for his work on the early James Bond filmsbut Barry was reportedly unwilling to repeat the styles of his earlier works. http://www.moviemusic.com/mb/Forum1/HTML/013243.html Message Boards: The Incredibles!. Moviemusic.com. Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
Giacchino was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2005 for The Incredibles : Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media and Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition . http://www.mlscmusic.com/Charts%20Awards/48%20grammy/48Grammy%20Nom%20List.pdf Grammy Nominations 2005 PDFdead link|date=August 2011
Like his other counterparts Joel McNeely , J. A. C. Redford and Frank DeVol , Giacchino mostly associated with Disney from early in his career up to most recently, ranging from video games such as Mickey Mania and Gargoyles (video game)|Gargoyles to films such as The Incredibles and eventually collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering in creating two new soundtracks for the updated versions of Space Mountain (Disneyland)|Space Mountain at Disneyland , Space Mountain: Mission 2 at Disneyland Paris , and Space Mountain (Hong Kong Disneyland)|Space Mountain at Hong Kong Disneyland . http://www.allearsnet.com/dlr/tp/dl/space.htm Space Mountain. Allearsnet.com (May 27, 1977). Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
Giacchino also composed scores for the 2005 films Sky High (2005 film)|Sky High and The Family Stone , and the television movie '' The Muppets' Wizard of Oz ''. Additionally, he wrote the music for Joseph Barbera 's final theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoon The Karate Guard , and scored the Abrams-directed 2006 film Mission: Impossible III . http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7068767/a/Mission+Impossible+III.htm M:I Iii. CDUniverse (May 9, 2006). Retrieved on August 21, 2011. Giacchino's next musical achievement was his Paris-inspired score for the Disney-Pixar film Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille , which includes the theme song "Le Festin", performed by French artist Camille (singer)|Camille . He received his first Academy Award 80th Academy Awards|nomination for this score. He also created the score for Abrams' 2009 Star Trek (film)|Star Trek film.
As of 2010, Giacchino's latest score was for the Pixar film Up (2009 film)|Up (and its accompanying animated short Partly Cloudy ) for which he collaborated with director Pete Docter . This marked the first time Giacchino worked with a Pixar director other than Brad Bird. This work gained Giacchino his first Academy Award, for Best Scorethe first-ever win for Pixar in that category. Giacchino notes that he won on the same night as his SVA classmate Joel Harlow won for Academy Award for Best Makeup|Best Makeup Oscar for Star Trek (film)|Star Trek .
Giacchino has continued his collaboration with J. J. Abrams. For the Abrams-produced monster film Cloverfield , Giacchino wrote an homage to Japanese monster scores in an overture entitled "ROAR!", which played over the credits (and which constituted the only original music for the film). He composed for the pilot of the new Abrams series Fringe (TV series)|Fringe , after which Giacchino gave scoring duties to his assistant Chad Seiter (who scored the first half of Fringe (season 1)|season one ), and then Chris Tilton (who scored the latter half of season one and everything after that).
Giacchino has frequently referenced previous work when naming his pieces. For example, the score for The Incredibles contains a piece named "100 Mile Dash", and the album with the score from Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille has a track entitled "100 Rat Dash". Another series of examples: "World's Worst Beach Party" from the first Lost (TV series)|Lost album, "World's Worst Last 4 Minutes To Live" from the Mission: Impossible III soundtrack, "Galaxy's Worst Sushi Bar" from Star Trek: Music from the Motion Picture|Star Trek (2010 deluxe release), "World's Worst Landscaping" from the second Lost album, "World's Worst Car Wash" from the soundtrack album Lost: The Final Season , and "World's Worst Field Trip" from the soundtrack of Super 8 (film)| Super 8 . The soundtrack for Mission:_Impossible__Ghost_Protocol| Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol also has a track titled "World's Worst Parking Valet". Inversely, the score for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction has a track entitled "World's Best Carpool Lane"; the Speed Racer (soundtrack)| Speed Racer score has tracks entitled "World's Best Autopia" and "World's Worst Road Rage."
Additional compositions
In addition to his long list of soundtracks, in 2005 Giacchino collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering in creating two new soundtracks for the updated versions of Space Mountain (Disneyland)|Space Mountain at Disneyland , Space Mountain: Mission 2 at Disneyland Paris , and Space Mountain (Hong Kong Disneyland)|Space Mountain at Hong Kong Disneyland . Giacchino was also contracted by Sarah Vowell , who played character Violet Parr|Violet in The Incredibles , to compose the score to the audio version of her book Assassination Vacation . Michael Giacchino's music can also be heard in " Star Tours: The Adventure Continues " during the "travel log videos" shown in the cue line for both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World versions of the attraction.
In 2009 he was asked to conduct the Academy Awards orchestra for the 81st Academy Awards . For this project he rearranged many famous movie themes in different styles, including a 1930's Big Band treatment of Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia and a bossa nova of Moon River .
Awards, nominations and recognition
Awards
2001 Interactive Achievement Awards for Original Music Composition Medal of Honor: Underground
2003 Game Developers Choice Awards for Excellence in Audio Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
2003 Interactive Achievement Awards for Original Music Composition Medal of Honor: Frontline
2004 IFMCA Award for Score of the Year The Incredibles
2004 IFMCA Award for Composer of the Year
2004 Game Developers Choice Awards for Excellence in Audio Call of Duty
2005 Emmy Award for Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) Lost (TV series)|Lost
2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Short Film Lifted (2006 film)|Lifted
2007 http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com/ StreamingSoundtracks.com Award for Composer of the Year
2008 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack Album Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille
2010 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Score http://www.vh1.com/shows/events/critics_choice/_2010/nominees/? _id=category_16 Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Highlights, Winners, Show Video and Photos. VH1.com. Retrieved on August 21, 2011. Up (2009 film)|Up
2010 Golden Globe Award for Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score Up (2009 film)|Up
2010 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack Album Up (2009 film)|Up
2010 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition "Married Life (from Up (2009 film)|Up ) "
2010 BAFTA Award for Best Music " Up (2009 film)|Up "
2010 82nd Academy Awards|Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score Up (soundtrack)|Up
Nominations
2005 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack Album The Incredibles (soundtrack)|The Incredibles
2005 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition "The Incredits" (from The Incredibles )
2008 80th Academy Awards|Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score Ratatouille (soundtrack)|Ratatouille
2008 60th Primetime Emmy Awards|Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series|Outstanding Music Composition for a Series Lost
2010 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack Album Star Trek (film)|Star Trek
2010 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement|Best Instrumental Arrangement "Up With End Credits (from Up (2009 film)|Up )"
2010 60th Primetime Emmy Awards|Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series|Outstanding Music Composition for a Series Lost
Recognition
The score for Season 1 of Lost was cited by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross as "some of the most compelling film music of the past year." http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/? 050627crmu_music NewYorker.com SOUND AND VISIONdead link|date=August 2011
Discography
listen| filename = Oceanic 815 Lost Michael Giacchino.ogg | title = "Oceanic 815" from Lost (2005) | description = Sample of brass fall-off from the Exodus (Lost)|first season finale of Lost | format = Ogg | filename2 = Mission_Impossible_Theme_Michael_Giacchino.ogg | title2 = " Mission: Impossible Theme" from Mission: Impossible III (2006) | description2 = Sample of Mission: Impossible theme in Mission: Impossible III (based on the original theme by Lalo Schifrin ) | format2 = Ogg | filename3 = Suspense_Music_Medal_of_Honor_Michael_Giacchino.ogg | title3 = "Suspense Music" from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002) | description3 = Sample of suspense music in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault | format3 = Ogg
Star Tours: The Adventures Continue at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios
The Ballad of Nessie
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
References
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External links
http://www.michaelgiacchinomusic.com/ Music By Michael Giacchino Website
IMDb name|315974
twitter|m_giacchino
http://www.archive.org/details/SecretWeaponsOverNormandy Michael Giacchino's score for 'Secret Weapons Over Normandy'
http://www.mounsey.co.uk/zzp/game_music_composers/michael_giacchino.html Composer profile, focusing on his Video Game Soundtracks work (Call Of Duty, etc.)
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/? 050627crmu_music Alex Ross column in The New Yorker
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2008/06/sepinwall_on_tv_michael_giacch.html Alan Sepinwall interview with Michael Giacchino on composing for LOST
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