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Alan Silvestri | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alan Anthony Silvestri |
| Born | March 26, 1950 New York City, New York |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1972–present |
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Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. His credits include the Back to the Future film series, Forrest Gump, and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Avengers films, and the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. He is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee, and a three-time Saturn Award and two-time Primetime Emmy Award recipient.
Early life and education[]
Silvestri's grandparents emigrated in 1909 from the Italian town of Castell'Alfero, and settled in Teaneck, New Jersey.[1] He grew up in Teaneck,[2] and graduated in 1968 from Teaneck High School.[3] He went to Berklee College of Music for two years. Silvestri was a drummer for a short time in 1966 with Teaneck-based rock band The Herd.
Career[]
Silvestri started his film/television composing career in 1972 at age 21 composing the score for the low-budget action film The Doberman Gang.
From 1977 to 1983, Silvestri served as the main composer for the television series CHiPs, writing music for 95 of the series' 139 episodes.
Silvestri met film director Robert Zemeckis when the two worked together on Zemeckis's film Romancing the Stone (1984). Since then, Silvestri has composed the music for all of Zemeckis' movies, including the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007), A Christmas Carol (2009), Flight (2012) and The Walk (2015).
In 1989, Silvestri composed the score for the James Cameron-directed film The Abyss. Since 2001, Silvestri has also collaborated regularly with director Stephen Sommers, scoring the films The Mummy Returns (2001), Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).
Silvestri has also composed music for television series, including T. J. Hooker (one episode), Starsky & Hutch (three episodes), Tales from the Crypt (seven episodes). In 2014, he composed the award-winning music for the science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
Personal life[]
Silvestri and his wife Sandra own a vineyard, Silvestri Vineyards, located in Carmel Valley, California.[4] He has a daughter Alexandra Silvestri and two sons Joey Silvestri and James Silvestri and has a license to fly his own jet plane.[5]
Awards[]
Silvestri has received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Original Score for Forrest Gump (1994) and one for Best Original Song for "Believe" on The Polar Express soundtrack. He also received two Golden Globe nominations: Best Score for Forrest Gump and Best Song for The Polar Express.
Silvestri was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music in 1995.[6]
He has also received nine Grammy Award nominations, winning two awards – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, for "Believe" from The Polar Express in 2004 and Best Instrumental Composition, for "Cast Away End Credits" from Cast Away in 2002. His other nominations were for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special and Best Instrumental Composition, for Back to the Future in 1985, Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television, for Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988, Best Instrumental Composition, for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit Suite" in 1989, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, for "I'm Forrest...Forrest Gump (The Feather Theme)" in 1994, Best Instrumental Composition, for Avengers: Infinity War in 2018 and Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media, for Avengers: Endgame in 2019.[7] During the 2005 Grammy Awards, Josh Groban performed "Believe".
He has won two Emmys, both for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey – Outstanding Main Title Theme Music and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the episode "Standing Up in the Milky Way".
He has won the Saturn Award for Best Music three times, for his scores for Predator (1987), Back to the Future Part III (1989/90) and Van Helsing (2004).
On September 23, 2011, he was awarded with the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award by the City of Vienna at the yearly film music gala concert Hollywood in Vienna.
Films[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1972 | The Doberman Gang | With Bradford Craig |
| 1975 | Las Vegas Lady | |
| 1976 | The Amazing Dobermans | |
| 1978 | The Fifth Floor | |
| 1983 | Tiger Man | Credited as Alan Sylvestri |
| 1984 | Romancing the Stone | First collaboration with Robert Zemeckis |
| Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir | ||
| 1985 | Fandango | |
| Cat's Eye | ||
| Back to the Future |
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| Summer Rental | ||
| 1986 | The Clan of the Cave Bear | |
| The Delta Force | ||
| American Anthem | ||
| Flight of the Navigator | ||
| No Mercy | ||
| 1987 | Critical Condition | |
| Outrageous Fortune | Won - BMI Film Music Award | |
| Predator |
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| Overboard | ||
| 1988 | Mac and Me | |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
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| My Stepmother Is an Alien | ||
| 1989 | She's Out of Control | |
| The Abyss | Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Music | |
| Back to the Future Part II | Won - BMI Film Music Award | |
| 1990 | Downtown | |
| Back to the Future Part III |
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| Young Guns II | Themes by Anthony Marinelli and Brian Banks | |
| Predator 2 | First collaboration with Stephen Hopkins Also conductor. | |
| 1991 | Shattered |
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| Back to the Future: The Ride | Film in simulator ride | |
| Soapdish | Also orchestrator | |
| Dutch | Also pianist | |
| Ricochet | Also conductor | |
| Father of the Bride | Won - BMI Film Music Award | |
| 1992 | Two-Fisted Tales | Segment: Yellow
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| Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | ||
| FernGully: The Last Rainforest | ||
| Death Becomes Her | Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Music | |
| Diner | Short film | |
| The Bodyguard | Won - BMI Film Music Award | |
| Sidekicks | ||
| 1993 | In Search of the Obelisk | IMAX film |
| Cop and a Half | ||
| Super Mario Bros. | Replaced Jerry Goldsmith | |
| Judgment Night | Second collaboration with Stephen Hopkins Also conductor | |
| Grumpy Old Men | Won - BMI Film Music Award | |
| 1994 | Clean Slate | |
| Forrest Gump |
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| Blown Away | Third collaboration with Stephen Hopkins Also conductor | |
| Richie Rich | ||
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | |
| The Perez Family | ||
| Judge Dredd |
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| Father of the Bride Part II | Won - BMI Film Music Award | |
| Grumpier Old Men | ||
| 1996 | Sgt. Bilko | Also conductor |
| Eraser |
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| The Long Kiss Goodnight | Also conductor | |
| 1997 | Fools Rush In | |
| Volcano | Also conductor | |
| Contact |
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| Mouse Hunt | Gore Verbinski | |
| 1998 | The Odd Couple II | Also conductor |
| The Parent Trap | ||
| Holy Man | ||
| Practical Magic |
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| 1999 | Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box | |
| Stuart Little |
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| 2000 | Reindeer Games | Also conductor |
| Cast Away |
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| What Lies Beneath |
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| What Women Want | Also conductor and orchestrator | |
| 2001 | The Mexican | Also conductor and orchestrator |
| The Mummy Returns | Won - ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films | |
| Serendipity | Also conductor | |
| 2002 | Showtime | Also conductor and orchestrator |
| Lilo & Stitch |
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| Stuart Little 2 | Also conductor | |
| Maid in Manhattan | ||
| 2003 | Identity |
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| Stitch! The Movie | Themes only. Score composed by Michael Tavera | |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life |
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| Two Soldiers |
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| 2004 | Van Helsing |
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| The Polar Express |
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| 2006 | The Wild | Also conductor |
| Night at the Museum | ||
| 2007 | Beowulf |
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| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Also conductor |
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Also conductor and orchestrator | |
| G.I. Joe: The Invasion of Cobra Island | ||
| A Christmas Carol | Also lyricist, conductor and orchestrator | |
| 2010 | The A-Team |
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| 2011 | Captain America: The First Avenger |
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| 2012 | The Avengers | Also conductor and orchestrator |
| Flight | ||
| 2013 | The Croods | Also conductor and orchestrator |
| RED 2 | Themes by Christophe Beck | |
| 2014 | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | |
| 2015 | The Walk | |
| 2016 | Allied | |
| 2018 | Ready Player One | |
| Avengers: Infinity War | Score composer only. Score orchestrated and conducted by Mark Graham | |
| Welcome to Marwen | Also conductor | |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame |
Score conducted with Mark Graham |
| 2021 | The Witches |
Television series[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1978–1979 | Starsky & Hutch |
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| 1978–1983 | CHiPs | 95 episodes |
| 1983 | Manimal | |
| T. J. Hooker | Episode: "A Child Is Missing" | |
| 1986 | Amazing Stories | Episode: "Go to the Head of Class" |
| 1989–1995 | Tales from the Crypt |
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| 2014 | Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey |
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| 2020 | Cosmos: Possible Worlds |
References[]
- ↑ Meredith May, "Alan Silvestri pairs music with wine", SFGate (June 7, 2013).
- ↑ Subscribe to Ali A ASCAP Henry Mancini Award, ASCAP. Accessed October 21, 2008. Manhattan-born and Teaneck, New Jersey-bred, Silvestri attended Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music before joining a Las Vegas band as a guitarist."
- ↑ Coutros, Evonne. "The Drummer Whom Gump Marches To", The Record (Bergen County), March 26, 1995. Accessed October 21, 2008. "Nearly three decades after Alan Silvestri drummed out beats for the Teaneck High School band, he's hoping to march to the podium Monday night to collect an Oscar."
- ↑ "Home". Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2009.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). Silvestrivineyards.com. Retrieved on May 2, 2012.
- ↑ "ALAN SILVESTRI COMPOSER OF MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES by D'Lynn Waldron, PhD". Dlwaldron.com. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ↑ "Clint Eastwood Honored by Berklee for Contributions to Jazz - Soundtrack.Net". Soundtrack.net.
- ↑ "Alan Silvestri". Grammy.com. November 19, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
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- Alan Silvestri at Soundtrackguide.net
- Castell'Alfero (Italy) country of Asti of which it is City Honorarium
- "Complete Alan Silvestri Discography". Retrieved January 2, 2017.[dead link]