Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino is an 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.

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
	Jojo Rabbit	Music	20th Century Fox
2021	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Music	Marvel Studios

Animated Shorts Filmography

Year	Film	Position	Subsidiary
2005	Jack-Jack Attack	Music	Pixar
	One Man Band
2006	Lifted
2007	How to Hook Up Your Home Theater		Walt Disney Animation Studios
2009	Partly Cloudy		Pixar
	Dug's Special Mission
	Prep & Landing		Walt Disney Animation Studios
2010	Day & Night		Pixar
	Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa		Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011	La Luna		Pixar
	The Ballad of Nessie		Walt Disney Animation Studios
	Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice	Original Score
2012	Electric Holiday	Music	The Walt Disney Company
2013	Toy Story of Terror!		Pixar
2014	Toy Story That Time Forgot
2015	Riley's First Date?

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

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, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, released by Marvel Studios; Zootopia and Ralph Breaks the Internet, released by Walt Disney Animation Studios; The Incredibles films, Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, Inside Out and Coco, released by Pixar, Jojo Rabbit, released by 20th Century Fox; as well as Disney's live-action films Sky High, John Carter and Tomorrowland, and the Muppets' TV film The Muppets' Wizard of Oz).
  • Additionally, Giacchino has worked with more Pixar film directors than the company's other recurrent composers:
    • 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)
• 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.

Gallery

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In The Past Glenn McQueen • Daniel Gerson • John Kahrs • Joe Ranft • Justin Wright • Dan Lee • Lee Unkrich Brain Trust Directors Andrew Stanton • Brad Bird Directors Angus MacLane • Peter Sohn • Sanjay Patel • Dan Scanlon • Ronnie del Carmen • Mark Andrews • Brenda Chapman • Steve Purcell • Brian Fee Producers Jonas Rivera • Darla K. Anderson • Kori Rae • Katherine Sarafian Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter Associated Figures Bob Iger • John Lasseter • Ed Catmull • Steve Jobs • George Lucas Signature Voice Actors John Ratzenberger • Bob Peterson • Josh Cooley • Jerome Ranft • Frank Welker • Bill Farmer • Jeff Pidgeon Signature Musicians Randy Newman • Michael Giacchino • Thomas Newman • Chris Stapleton • Trent Reznor • Atticus Ross