Outside Disney, Giacchino is known for composing for the first Medal of Honor 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 and War for the Planet of the Apes, 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 the TV shows: Alias, Lost and The Fringe (all created by J.J. Abrams).
Michael Giacchino at the 82nd annual Academy Awards in March 2010.
Michael Giacchino at the premiere of John Carter in February 2012.
Michael Giacchino attending the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.
Michael Giacchino at the premiere of Zootopia in February 2016.
Michael Giacchino at the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in December 2016.
Michael Giacchino attending the 2017 D23 Expo.
Michael Giacchino speaks at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con.
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.
As of the release of Soul, 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.
He has scored the second most Pixar films, only behind Randy Newman.
He is the second veteran Pixar composer to score an animated Disney film, Zootopia, after Newman who scored The Princess and the Frog.
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 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)
He is the only Pixar composer to make a cameo appearance in a Pixar film, being Coco which he himself composed.
