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Jerry Goldsmith
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Biography
Jerry Goldsmith was an American music composer and conductor for film and television productions, best known for his scores of movies like "Planet of the Apes", "Papillon", "Alien", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", and also three "Rambo" films and five "Star Trek" films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (he won only one, in 1976, for the feature film "The Omen").
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Alien
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Legend
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Chinatown
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Supergirl
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The River Wild
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The Swarm
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The Mummy
Original Music Composer
Mulan
Original Music Composer
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
From Transylvania to Treasure Island
Trace Tim Curry's wild ride from cult icon to family favourite, one unforgettable role at a time.
8 films
When Nature Turns
Exploring the deep to the desert, and the skies to the suburbs, animals have long been cinema's most primal villains. This chain traces the evolution of the cre...
8 films
When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos
From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...
8 films
Small Craft Warnings
From the open sea to a leaky skiff, these eight films use small boats as vessels for self-discovery, each one a different kind of voyage.
8 films
The Weight of the Cape: Inheriting a Legacy You Never Asked For
Before the multiverse had a use for her, Kara Zor-El's first outing wasn't framed as destiny, it was framed as a mistake to fix. She loses the Omegahedron, the...
8 films
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority
From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...
8 films
From External Beast to Internal Trauma
Here is a five-film narrative chain that traces how the monster evolved from an exotic physical threat into a psychological mirror of society.
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The Sum of All Fears
2002
The Last Castle
2001
Along Came a Spider
2001
Hollow Man
2000
The Haunting
1999
The Mummy
1999
Mulan
1998
Deep Rising
1998
L.A. Confidential
1997
The Edge
1997
Air Force One
1997
Fierce Creatures
1997
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Chain Reaction
1996
City Hall
1996
Congo
1995
I.Q.
1994
The River Wild
1994
The Shadow
1994
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
Dennis the Menace
1993
The Vanishing
1993
Matinee
1993
Mom and Dad Save the World
1992
Basic Instinct
1992
Sleeping with the Enemy
1991
Not Without My Daughter
1991
The Russia House
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
Total Recall
1990
The 'Burbs
1989
Innerspace
1987
Hoosiers
1986
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
1986
King Solomon's Mines
1985
Legend
1985
Explorers
1985
Supergirl
1984
Gremlins
1984
The Lonely Guy
1984
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
Psycho II
1983
First Blood
1982
The Secret of NIMH
1982
Poltergeist
1982
Outland
1981
The Final Conflict
1981
Players
1979
Alien
1979
Magic
1978
The Boys from Brazil
1978
The Swarm
1978
Damien - Omen II
1978
Capricorn One
1977
Damnation Alley
1977
The Omen
1976
Breakheart Pass
1975
Breakout
1975
Chinatown
1974
Planet of the Apes
1968
The Trouble with Angels
1966
Morituri
1965