Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino
Background information
Born	October 10, 1967 (age 58) Riverside Township, New Jersey, USA
Nationality	American
Occupation	Composer Director
Years active	1995-present

Michael Giacchino is an American composer and director. He is best known for composing the musical scores for many Disney projects, including Alias and Lost for ABC, the Marvel Studios fanfare since 2016, The Incredibles, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Sky High, Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, John Carter, Tomorrowland, Inside Out, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Zootopia, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Coco, and Incredibles 2. He has also composed the musical scores for many Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Thor: Love and Thunder, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. He has received multiple Grammy awards, an Emmy, Golden Globe Award, and Academy Award. He is also known for collaborating with directors Brad Bird, J.J. Abrams, Pete Docter, Colin Trevorrow, Drew Goddard, Matt Reeves, and Taika Waititi. Additionally, he directed and composed the score for the 2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe special Werewolf by Night.

Outside Disney, Michael Giacchino is known for composing for the first Medal of Honor and Call of Duty video games, as well as the Paramount Pictures fanfare since 2011, the Jurassic World and the rebooted Star Trek trilogies, Mission: Impossible III, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Cloverfield (albeit one composition), Super 8, Speed Racer, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes (both of which were made by current Disney subsidiary Fox), Jupiter Ascending, The Book of Henry, Bad Times at the El Royale, Jojo Rabbit, An American Pickle, Extinct, Let Him Go, and The Batman. He also provided scores for Fringe.

Feature Film Filmography

Year	Film	Position	Subsidiary
2004	The Incredibles	Music	Pixar
2005	Sky High		Walt Disney Pictures
	The Muppets' Wizard of Oz		Touchstone Television
2007	Ratatouille		Pixar
2009	Up
2011	Cars 2	Original Score Composed
2012	John Carter	Music	Walt Disney Pictures
2015	Tomorrowland
	Inside Out		Pixar
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Actor	Lucasfilm
2016	Zootopia	Original Score Composed	Walt Disney Animation Studios
	Doctor Strange	Music	Marvel Studios
	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story		Lucasfilm
2017	Spider-Man: Homecoming		Marvel Studios
	Coco	Original Score Composed	Pixar
2018	Incredibles 2	Music
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Voice Actor	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2019	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Music	Marvel Studios
	Jojo Rabbit		Fox Searchlight Pictures
2021	Spider-Man: No Way Home		Marvel Studios
2022	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Music (Original Themes)
	Lightyear	Original Score Composed	Pixar
	Thor: Love and Thunder	Music	Marvel Studios
2023	Next Goal Wins		Searchlight Pictures
2024	Inside Out 2	Music (Original Themes)	Pixar
2025	The Fantastic Four: First Steps	Music	Marvel Studios
	Zootopia 2	Original Score Composed	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2026	Spider-Man: Brand New Day	Music	Marvel Studios

Animated Shorts Filmography

Year	Film	Position	Subsidiary
2005	Jack-Jack Attack	Music	Pixar
	One Man Band
2006	Lifted
2007	How to Hook Up Your Home Theater		Walt Disney Animation Studios
2009	Partly Cloudy		Pixar
	Dug's Special Mission
	Prep & Landing		Walt Disney Animation Studios
2010	Day & Night		Pixar
	Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa		Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011	La Luna		Pixar
	The Ballad of Nessie		Walt Disney Animation Studios
	Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice	Original Score
2012	Electric Holiday	Music	The Walt Disney Company
2013	Toy Story of Terror!		Pixar
2014	Toy Story That Time Forgot
2015	Riley's First Date?
2025	Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol	Music (Original Themes)	Disney Television Animation

TV Series Filmography

Year	Series	Position	Subsidiary
2001–2006	Alias	Music	Touchstone Television / ABC Studios
2004–2010	Lost
2006–2007	Six Degrees
2022	Zootopia+	Composer and songwriter for episode: "Duke: the Musical"	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2024–2025	Star Wars: Skeleton Crew	Score producer	Lucasfilm

TV Special Filmography

Year	Film	Position	Subsidiary
2022	Werewolf by Night	Director/Music	Marvel Studios

Compositions for Disney Parks

Theme Park(s)	Ride/Song
Disneyland Hong Kong Disneyland Magic Kingdom	Space Mountain
Disneyland Paris	Space Mountain: Mission 2
Disneyland Disneyland Paris Tokyo Disneyland Disney's Hollywood Studios	Star Tours: The Adventures Continue Fantasmic!
Walt Disney Studios Park Epcot	Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy
Disney California Adventure	Incredicoaster
Disney California Adventure Walt Disney Studios Park	WEB Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure
Shanghai Disneyland	Zootopia: Hot Pursuit

Trivia

• Michael Giacchino is the third out of six composers to work on a Pixar film.
• Michael Giacchino is the first person outside of the Newman family to compose for Pixar films.
• As of the release of Soul, Michael Giacchino is one of Pixar's five composers who has scored more than one than film, the others being Randy Newman, Thomas Newman, Jeff Danna and Mychael Danna.
  • Michael Giacchino has scored the second most Pixar films, only behind Randy Newman.
• Michael Giacchino is the second veteran Pixar composer to score an animated Disney film (Zootopia), after Newman, who scored The Princess and the Frog.
  • Due to his upcoming score for Zootopia 2, Michael Giacchino is the first composer to score more than one film for both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios.
• Michael Giacchino is the composer to have worked on most of Disney's subsidiaries (having scored Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released by Lucasfilm; Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Spider-Man: Far From Home, released by Marvel Studios; Zootopia and Ralph Breaks the Internet, released by Walt Disney Animation Studios; The Incredibles films, Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, Inside Out, and Coco, released by Pixar, Jojo Rabbit, released by 20th Century Fox; as well as Disney's live-action films Sky High, John Carter, and Tomorrowland, and the Muppets' TV film The Muppets' Wizard of Oz).
  • Additionally, Michael Giacchino has worked with more Pixar film directors than the company's other recurrent composers:
    • Michael Giacchino scored Cars 2, directed by John Lasseter.
    • Michael Giacchino scored Up and Inside Out both directed by Pete Docter.
    • Michael Giacchino scored The Incredibles, Incredibles 2, the live-action film Tomorrowland, and the short film Jack-Jack Attack (as well as the non-Disney related Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), all directed by Brad Bird.
    • Michael Giacchino scored the live-action film John Carter which was directed by Andrew Stanton.
    • Michael Giacchino scored Coco, directed by Lee Unkrich.
    • Michael Giacchino scored the short One Man Band, which was co-directed by Brave co-director Mark Andrews.
    • Michael Giacchino scored the short Partly Cloudy, which was directed by The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn.
    • Michael Giacchino scored Dug's Special Mission, which was directed by Inside Out co-director Ronnie del Carmen.
    • Michael Giacchino scored the Halloween TV special Toy Story of Terror!, which was directed by Finding Dory co-director Angus MacLane.
    • Michael Giacchino scored the Christmas TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot, directed by Brave co-director Steve Purcell.
    • Michael Giacchino scored the short film Riley's First Date?, while his score for Up was used in the short film George and A.J., both of whom were directed by Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley.
      • Michael Giacchino is the only composer to have worked with all four Toy Story directors (Lasseter, Unkrich, Cooley, and Stanton)
• Michael Giacchino is the only Pixar composer to make a cameo appearance in a Pixar film, being Coco which he himself composed.
• Michael Giacchino is the second composer to work on a Star Wars film after John Williams.
• Michael Giacchino also composed the music for the Incredicoaster (originally California Screamin') at Disney California Adventure.

Gallery

Michael Giacchino at the 82nd annual Academy Awards in March 2010.

Michael Giacchino at the premiere of John Carter in February 2012.

Michael Giacchino attending the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.

Michael Giacchino at the premiere of Zootopia in February 2016.

Michael Giacchino at the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in December 2016.

Michael Giacchino attending the 2017 D23 Expo.

Michael Giacchino speaks at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con.

External links

• Michael Giacchino on Wikipedia
• Michael Giacchino on IMDb
• Michael Giacchino on 𝕏
• Michael Giacchino on Instagram

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In The Past Glenn McQueen • Daniel Gerson • John Kahrs • Joe Ranft • Justin Wright • Dan Lee • Lee Unkrich • John Lasseter • Rob Gibbs Brain Trust Directors Andrew Stanton • Brad Bird Directors Angus MacLane • Peter Sohn • Dan Scanlon • Ronnie del Carmen • Mark Andrews • Brenda Chapman • Steve Purcell • Brian Fee • Enrico Casarosa • Domee Shi Producers Jonas Rivera • Kori Rae • Katherine Sarafian Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter Associated Figures Bob Iger • Ed Catmull • Steve Jobs • George Lucas • Bob Chapek Signature Voice Actors John Ratzenberger • Bob Peterson • Bonnie Hunt • Josh Cooley • Jerome Ranft • Frank Welker • Bill Farmer • Jeff Pidgeon Signature Musicians Randy Newman • Michael Giacchino • Thomas Newman • Mychael Danna • Jeff Danna • Chris Stapleton • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross