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Disneyland. Giacchino was also contracted by Sarah Vowell, who played character Violet in The
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Incredibles, to compose the score to the audio version of her book Assassination Vacation. Michael
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Giacchino's music can also be heard in "Star Tours: The Adventure Continues" during the "travel log
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videos" shown in the queue for both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World versions of the
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attraction.
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In 2009, he was asked to conduct the Academy Awards orchestra for the 81st Academy Awards. For this
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project he rearranged many famous movie themes in different styles, including a 1930s Big Band
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treatment of Lawrence of Arabia and a bossa nova of Moon River. Giacchino also composed the fanfare
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for the 100th Anniversary logo of Paramount Pictures, which debuted with Mission: Impossible –
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Ghost Protocol on December 7, 2011 at the Dubai International Film Festival, which it carried onto
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the logos of Paramount Players, which debuted alongside the logo with Nobody's Fool on November 2,
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2018, Paramount Animation, which debuted alongside the logo with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the
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Run on August 14, 2020 in Canada and Paramount Television Studios, which debuted with an episode of
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Minority Report and was also used on the Paramount Network Original Productions logo with 68
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Whiskey, as well as the new fanfare for Marvel Studios, which debuted alongside its logo with
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Doctor Strange on October 13, 2016 in Hong Kong, in which he also composed the theme song of the
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1967 Spider-Man cartoon series, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, replacing his work on the fanfare of the
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Marvel Studios logo for that film. He also used the notes of the fanfare at the end of the opening
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theme of Marvel Studios: Legends.
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Giacchino has also composed the fanfare for the Paramount Pictures logo since 2011/12.
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Acting
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In 2015, Giacchino played an It's a Small World operator in the film Tomorrowland which he scored.
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Additionally, the same year, he played First Order Stormtrooper FN-3181 in J. J. Abrams' Star Wars:
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The Force Awakens. He reprised the role in the 2018 animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet. In
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2019, he cameoed as a Sith trooper in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, also directed by Abrams.
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Style
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Giacchino is noted for using humorous titles filled with puns on his soundtrack albums. Dawn of the
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Planet of the Apes and Jurassic World in particular had many ape- and dinosaur-related double
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entendres such as "Gorilla Warfare" and "Raptor Your Heart Out". Many of those have references to
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previous works of his, both in style and naming. Giacchino used themes from the track "U-Boat" from
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the Medal of Honor soundtrack in the tracks "Sawyer Jones and the Temple of Boom" and "Sub-Primed"
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from the 5th and 6th season Lost soundtracks as the submarine motif. In terms of naming, the score
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for The Incredibles contains a piece named "100 Mile Dash", and subsequently Ratatouille had "100
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Rat Dash", Up had "Three Dog Dash", and Coco had "Shrine and Dash". Another series of examples:
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"World's Worst Beach Party" from the first Lost album, "World's Worst Last 4 Minutes To Live" from
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the Mission: Impossible III soundtrack, "Galaxy's Worst Sushi Bar" from Star Trek (2010 deluxe
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release), "World's Worst Landscaping" from the second Lost album, "World's Worst Car Wash" from the
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soundtrack album Lost: The Final Season, and "World's Worst Field Trip" from the soundtrack of
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Super 8. The soundtrack for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol also has a track titled "World's
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Worst Parking Valet", and the score for Zootopia contains a track titled "World's Worst Animal
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Shelter" as well as the score for Incredibles 2 including a track called "World's Worst
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Babysitters". Inversely, the score for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction has a track titled
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"World's Best Carpool Lane"; the Speed Racer score has tracks titled "World's Best Autopia" and
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"World's Worst Road Rage"; the soundtrack for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has a track titled
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"World's Worst Bedtime Storyteller"; the Doctor Strange score has a track titled "Astral World's
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Worst Killer"; the Spider-Man: Far From Home score has a track titled "World's Worst Water
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Feature"; and the Spider-Man: No Way Home score has a track titled "World's Worst Friendly
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Neighbor".
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Awards, nominations and recognitions
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Major industry awards Note: "Year" denotes the year of the ceremony. Academy Awards
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Annie Awards BAFTA Awards Emmy Awards Golden Globe Awards Grammy Awards
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Other industry awards
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2001 Interactive Achievement Awards for Original Music Composition – Medal of Honor: Underground
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2003 Game Developers Choice Awards for Excellence in Audio – Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
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2003 Interactive Achievement Awards for Original Music Composition – Medal of Honor: Frontline
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2004 IFMCA Award for Score of the Year – The Incredibles 2004 IFMCA Award for Composer of the Year
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2004 Game Developers Choice Awards for Excellence in Audio – Call of Duty
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2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Short Film – Lifted
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2007 StreamingSoundtracks.com Award for Composer of the Year
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2010 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Score – Up
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2012 Saturn Award for Best Music - Super 8
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2015 World Soundtrack Academy Award for Composer of the Year - Tomorrowland
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Recognition
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The score for season 1 of Lost was cited by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross as "some of the most
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compelling film music of the past year".
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Discography Video games Films 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Short films and holiday specials
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TV series Theme park attractions As conductor 81st Academy Awards, 2009
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See also Music of Star Wars Music of Star Trek Music of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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References
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External links Michael Giacchino's score for 'Secret Weapons Over Normandy'
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SoundtrackNet Interview with Michael Giacchino
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Alan Sepinwall interview with Michael Giacchino on composing for LOST
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1967 births 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians
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20th-century jazz composers 21st-century American composers 21st-century American male musicians
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21st-century jazz composers American film score composers American jazz composers
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American male film score composers American male jazz composers American people of Italian descent
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American television composers Animation composers Annie Award winners
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Best Original Music BAFTA Award winners Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
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Disney people Golden Globe Award-winning musicians Grammy Award winners Hollywood Records artists
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Holy Cross Academy (New Jersey) alumni Jazz musicians from New Jersey Juilliard School alumni
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La-La Land Records artists Living people Male television composers Marvel Studios people
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Music based on Star Trek People from Edgewater Park, New Jersey
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People from Riverside Township, New Jersey Pixar people Primetime Emmy Award winners
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School of Visual Arts alumni UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumni
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Varèse Sarabande Records artists Video game composers Walt Disney Animation Studios people
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Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar (28 July 1907 – 12 August 1979), also known as A. V. Meiyappan, A. V.
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Meiyappa Chettiar or AVM, was an Indian film producer, director and philanthropist who established
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AVM Productions in Vadapalani, Chennai. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of Tamil
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cinema, and one of three movie moguls of the South Indian film industry along with S. S. Vasan and
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L. V. Prasad. His production company AVM Productions is the only production company in Kollywood
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(Tamil film industry) to run successfully for five decades and three generations.
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AVM was born in Karaikudi in a well-to-do Nagarathar family. He moved to Chennai (then known as
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Madras) at an early age and established Saraswathi Stores which sold gramophone records.
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Subsequently, he entered the film industry and started directing his own films. After some initial
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setbacks, AVM delivered a string of hits in the early 1940s. Following the immense success of his
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1947 film Nam Iruvar, AVM moved to film production and established AVM Productions in Chennai,
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first at Santhome and then at Kodambakkam. In 1951, AVM entered the Hindi film industry with the
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film Bahar starring Vyjayanthimala. By the time he died in 1979, he had produced 167 films.
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Notable films produced by AVM Productions are Vazhkai, Bahar, Parasakthi, Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke,
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Bhookailas, Kalathur Kannamma, Server Sundaram and Major Chandrakanth. AVM also directed a number