Outside Disney, Michael Giacchino is known for composing for the first Medal of Honor and Call of Duty video games, as well as 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.
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.
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.
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