James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953–June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.

Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar (2009). Horner's other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner's other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including James Cameron, Don Bluth, Ron Howard, Joe Johnston, Edward Zwick, Walter Hill, Mel Gibson, Vadim Perelman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicholas Meyer, Wolfgang Petersen, Martin Campbell, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells; producers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Kirschner, Brian Grazer, Jon Landau, and Lawrence Gordon; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. Adding to his two Academy Awards wins, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards.

Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously.

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詹姆斯·罗伊·霍纳（James Roy Horner，1953 年 8 月 14 日 - 2015 年 6 月 22 日）是美国作曲家、指挥家和电影配乐编排家。他以在他的许多电影配乐中融入合唱和电子元素而闻名，并经常使用与凯尔特音乐相关的主题。霍纳是一位多才多艺的音乐厅作曲家，后来他开始创作电影配乐。他的第一部电影配乐是为 1979 年的电影《红衣女郎》配乐，但直到 1982 年的电影《星际迷航 II：可汗之怒》才确立了自己作为主流作曲家的地位。霍纳为《泰坦尼克号》配乐是有史以来最畅销的管弦乐电影配乐，而由詹姆斯·卡梅隆执导的《泰坦尼克号》和《阿凡达》是有史以来票房最高的两部电影。霍纳与唐·布鲁斯、詹姆斯·卡梅隆、沃尔特·希尔和罗恩·霍华德等导演合作了多个项目;制片人包括大卫·基什纳、乔恩·兰道、布莱恩·格雷泽和史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格;以及包括 Will Jennings、Barry Mann 和 Cynthia Weil 在内的词曲作者。霍纳为 100 多部电影创作音乐;他获得了两项奥斯卡金像奖、两项金球奖、三项卫星奖和三项土星奖，并获得了三项英国电影学院奖提名。霍纳在他的单引擎巨嘴鸟飞机在洛斯帕德雷斯国家森林坠毁时死亡。享年61岁。