| Academy AwardŽ-winner JERRY GOLDSMITH (Composer) is one of Hollywood's most respected creators of dramatic music for motion pictures.
A native Angeleno who studied composition and film music at USC, Goldsmith began his professional career in radio and went on to create some of the most familiar television themes of the '50s and '60s, including The Waltons, Dr. Kildare and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. He composed his first score for a theatrical feature film in 1957, for Black Patch. Since then, Goldsmith has scored over 175 feature films and has received 18 Academy Award® nominations in the Best Original Score category, for: Freud, A Patch of Blue, The Sand Pebbles, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Wind and the Lion, The Omen (Best Score and Best Song), The Boys From Brazil, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Poltergeist, Under Fire, Hoosiers, Basic Instinct, L.A. Confidential and Mulan. Goldsmith won the Oscar in 1976 for his work on The Omen. His other feature credits include The List of Adrian Messenger, The Blue Max, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Islands in the Stream, Capricorn One, Alien, First Blood, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Gremlins, Total Recall, The Russia House, Sleeping with the Enemy, Rudy, The Shadow, The River Wild, First Knight, The Ghost and the Darkness, Air Force One and Star Trek: Insurrection. |