Jerry Goldsmith

(1929 - 2004^[)

The wonderful film productions of the 20th century have presented all kinds of themes to audiences around the world, providing incredible moments of entertainment, pleasure, and reflection.

However, some of these highly successful creations are based on masterpieces composed by unique talents, such as those we share with you in this brief selection, with the main objective of remembering the importance of music as the cornerstone of a fundamental message.

We hope you enjoy them as much we have done by choosing one by one.

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Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. He was considered one of film music's most innovative and influential composers. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1977 for The Omen), six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and four British Academy Film Awards.

He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for films including Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Omen, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Medicine Man, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, Rudy and The Mummy. He also composed the current fanfare for the Universal Pictures logo, which debuted in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.