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Aug 5, 2023 · Explore the legendary career of Alan Silvestri, acclaimed composer behind iconic film scores. Uncover his unique style and impact on the industry.
May 9, 2019 · Alan Silvestri has composed the music for 17 of Robert Zemeckis’ movies, which sounds like a perpetual golden ticket to Oscar glory. Instead, Silvestri has only been nominated once for Best...
- The Mummy Returns
- Flight of The Navigator
- Contact
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Forrest Gump
- Captain America: The First Avenger
Jerry Goldsmith so disliked scoring Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy that he refused to do the sequel. Step forward Silvestri who delivered one of his most gargantuan and enjoyable epics. There’s little time for subtlety in this rich blend of Egyptian instrumentation, massive choir and orchestra-shredding battle sequences, but Silvestri has always been o...
This ’80s family classic is scorched into the minds of an entire generation, no doubt due to repeat bank holiday viewings. Silvestri created one of his most memorable electronic compositions for the movie: composed entirely on the Synclavier, it moves from era-appropriate pop instrumental to a yearning sense of longing. That Silvestri is able to ca...
Criticised at the time of release for sounding too similar to Forrest Gump, Silvestri’s Contactscore, much like the movie itself, has increased in stature over the years. As befits the lofty themes of the movie (adapted from Carl Sagan’s book), this is a more melancholy, pensive and expansive score, albeit very much in the Silvestri orchestral moul...
Robert Zemeckis’ technically audacious live-action/cartoon hybrid remains a miracle to this day, mashing up our favourite animated characters with a sly Bob Hoskins murder mystery. It’s a complex movie that demands a multi-faceted score, with Silvestri having to make numerous tonal changes and keep multiple themes in check. From the frenetic toon m...
Silvestri’s first (and, to date, only) Oscar nomination for Best Score came for Robert Zemeckis’ smash-hit comedy-drama, one of the movie sensations of 1994. It’s a sprawling, picaresque tale as seen through the eyes of Tom Hanks’ naive central character, and Silvestri makes the sensible decison to ground the music in his emotional awakening, rathe...
Superhero scores were in a rough way in the early noughties, with the melodic impetus of John Williams’ Superman and Danny Elfman’s Batman seemingly not in vogue. Kudos then to director Joe Johnston who realised his nostalgically tinged origin story required a composer whose sound owed more to Hollywood’s Golden Age. By anchoring his Captain Americ...
- Forrest Gump. Both rousing and incredibly sad, Silvestri’s musical accompaniment to the award-winning 1994 movie was crucial to its success. After the album was released, it crept up to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and stayed there for seven weeks.
- Captain America. If Silvestri’s score were accompanying anything but a Marvel movie, its old-school symphonic sound might risk feeling outdated. But it’s the combination of the triumphantly original brass melody, steady marching beat and final unexpected drum roll that makes Silvestri’s Captain America soundtrack heroic, with a perfectly-judged slice of cheese.
- The Avengers. Silvestri’s score to the first Avengers film is epically nostalgic and varied in its orchestration, beginning with a staccato bass in the cellos and double basses and moving into a glorious melody in the horns.
- Avengers: Infinity War. Silvestri described scoring Infinity War as “a really different experience than anything I’d done before, especially in regard to the approach and balancing quick shifts in tone”.
Nov 28, 2023 · Silvestri earned the first Oscar nod of his career for his incredibly moving musical score to Forrest Gump, a landmark drama that won 6 Oscars and currently ranks #11 on IMDb's Top 250. Directed...
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Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films including the Back to the Future film series , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Death Becomes Her , Forrest Gump , Cast ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Reflecting on that remarkable moment, Silvestri shared with GamesRadar+ why he thinks the Portals scene has had such a lasting impact.
