Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino is an Italian-American composer best known for his compositions for Pixar feature films including The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), Up (2009), Cars 2 (2011), and Inside Out (2015). He has received multiple Grammy awards, an Emmy, Golden Globe Award, and Academy Award.

Outside Disney, he is known for composing the musical scores for the first Medal of Honor video games.

Trivia

 * Giacchino is the third out of six composers to work on a Pixar film.
 * He is also the first person outside of the Newman family to compose for Pixar films.
 * He is one of Pixar's three composers who have scored more than one than film. Ranking second place by the most only behind Randy Newman.
 * He is the second veteran Pixar composer to appear in an animated Disney film, also behind Newman.
 * Giacchino is the first composer to have scored films for all of Disney's subsidiaries (having scored Rogue One, released by Lucasfilm; Doctor Strange and Spider-Man: Homecoming, released by Marvel Studios; Zootopia, released by Walt Disney Animation Studios; The Incredibles films, Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, Inside Out, and Coco, released by Pixar; as well as Disney's live-acion films Sky High, John Carter and Tomorrowland, and the Muppets' TV film The Muppets' Wizard of Oz).
 * He is also the only composer to have worked with all of Pixar's recurrent directors (througth only worked with 3 in Pixar's films).
 * He scored Cars 2, directed by John Lasseter.
 * He scored Up and Inside Out both directed by Pete Docter.
 * He scored The Incredibles, Incredibles 2 and the live-action film Tomorrowland, all directed by Brad Bird.
 * He scored the live-action film John Carter, directed by Andrew Stanton.
 * He scored Coco, directed by Lee Unkrich.
 * He is the only Pixar composer to make a cameo appearance in a Pixar film, being Coco which he himself composed.