Alan Silvestri
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Birth name | Alan Anthony Silvestri |
Born | New York City, U.S. |
March 26, 1950
Genres | Film score, contemporary classical, jazz, ambient |
Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
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. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for all of his feature films including the Back to the Future film series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Cast Away and The Polar Express. Silvestri also composed many other popular movies, including Predator, The Abyss, Father of the Bride, The Bodyguard, The Parent Trap, Stuart Little, The Mummy Returns, Lilo & Stitch, Night at the Museum, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Ready Player One and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Avengers films.
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.
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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 Wildcats".
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 1978 to 1983, Silvestri served as the main composer for the television series CHiPs, writing music for 95 of the show's 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's 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 composed the scores for four Marvel Cinematic Universe films: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Silvestri's themes and motifs from those films have been referenced and reprised by other composers in multiple other MCU films.
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. He will be writing new songs with Glen Ballard for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Disney's Pinocchio.[4]
Personal life
Silvestri and his wife Sandra own a vineyard, Silvestri Vineyards, located in Carmel Valley, California.[5] He also has wine tasting room for his vineyards on the ground floor of the Enchanted Oaks Building.[6] He has a daughter and two sons and has a license to fly his own jet plane.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9] 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.
Filmography
Film - 1970s and 1980s
Film - 1990s
Film - 2000s
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2000 | Reindeer Games | Also conductor |
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What Lies Beneath | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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What Women Want | Also conductor and orchestrator | |
2001 | The Mexican | Also conductor and orchestrator |
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Serendipity | Also conductor | |
2002 | Showtime | Also conductor and orchestrator |
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Stuart Little 2 | Also conductor | |
Maid in Manhattan | ||
2003 | Identity | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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Stitch! The Movie | Themes only. Score composed by Michael Tavera | |
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Two Soldiers | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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2006 | The Wild | Also conductor |
Night at the Museum | ||
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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 |
Film - 2010s
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2010 | The A-Team | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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2011 | Captain America: The First Avenger | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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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 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Themes only. Score composed by Brian Tyler and Danny Elfman |
The Walk | ||
Doc Brown Saves the World | Back To the Future series | |
2016 | Allied | |
2018 | Ready Player One | Replaced John Williams |
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 Nominated — Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media |
Film - 2020s
Year | Title | Notes |
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2020 | The Witches | Also conductor |
2022 | Pinocchio | Also lyricist, conductor and orchestrator |
Television series
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1978–1979 | Starsky & Hutch | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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1978–1983 | CHiPs | 95 episodes |
1983 | Manimal | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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T. J. Hooker | Episode: "A Child Is Missing" | |
1986 | Amazing Stories | Episode: "Go to the Head of Class" |
1989–1995 | Tales from the Crypt | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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2014 | Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music |
2020 | Cosmos: Possible Worlds |
See also
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."
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