Michael Giacchino is an American composer with Italian decent 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. He is set to compose the upcomign Disney/Fox film Jojo Rabbit.
Outside Disney, he is known for composing the musical scores for the first Medal of Honor video games.
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 | 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 |
Animated Shorts Filmography
Compositions for Disneyland
| Theme Park(s) | Song |
| Disneyland Hong Kong Disneyland | Space Mountain |
| Disneyland Paris | Space Mountain: Mission 2 |
| Disney's Hollywood Studios | Star Tours: The Adventures Continue |
Gallery
Michael Giacchino attending the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.
Michael Giacchino attending the 2017 D23 Expo.
Trivia
- Giacchino is the third out of six composers to work on a Pixar film.
- He is the first person outside of the Newman family to compose for Pixar films.
- He is one of Pixar's three composers who has 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 composer to have worked on most 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).
- Additionally, Giacchino is the Pixar composer to have worked with most film directors
- 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, 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.
- He scored the live-action film John Carter, directed by Andrew Stanton.
- He scored Coco, directed by Lee Unkrich.
- He scored the short One Man Band, which was co-directed by Brave co-director Mark Andrews.
- He scored the short Partly Cloudy, which was directed by The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn.
- He scored Dug's Special Mission, which was directed by Inside Out co-director Ronnie del Carmen.
- He scored the TV special Toy Story of Terror!, which was directed by Finding Dory co-director Angus MacLane.
- He scored the TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot, directed by Brave co-director Steve Purcell.
- He 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.
- He is the only composer to have worked with all 3 Toy Story directors (Lasseter, Unkrich, and Cooley)
- Additionally, Giacchino is the Pixar composer to have worked with most film directors
- He is the only Pixar composer to make a cameo appearance in a Pixar film, being Coco which he himself composed.
- He also composed the music for the Incredicoaster (formerly called California Screamin') at Disney California Adventure.
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