Jerry Goldsmith

Sound · Born 1929-02-10 · Pasadena, California, USA

Biography

Jerry Goldsmith was an American music composer and conductor for film and television productions, best known for his scores of movies like "Planet of the Apes", "Papillon", "Alien", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", and also three "Rambo" films and five "Star Trek" films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (he won only one, in 1976, for the feature film "The Omen").

Known for

• Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur (2023)
• Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins (2014)
• North and the Music of the South (2006)
• The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003)
• Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct' (2001)
• Imagining 'Total Recall' (2001)
• 666: The Omen Revealed (2000)
• Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner (1997)
• Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith (1995)
• The Hollywood Soundtrack Story (1995)
• King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast." (1992)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
• Gremlins (1984)
• In Harm's Way (1965)
• The Oscars (1953)