Abrams, and thus began their long-standing relationship that would lead to his scoring the hit television series Alias and Lost, as well as the feature films Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013). Giacchino’s work in video games sparked the interest of producer and director J.J. Giacchino subsequently went on to score numerous video games including Spielberg’s Medal of Honor series. Steven Spielberg then hired him as the official composer, making The Lost World: Jurassic Park the first PlayStation game to have a live orchestral score, and it was soon recorded with members of the Seattle Symphony. He moved from marketing to producing in the newly formed Disney Interactive Division where he had the opportunity to write music for video games.Īfter moving to DreamWorks Interactive, he was asked to score the temp track for the video game adaptation of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. After college, he landed a marketing job at Disney and began studies in music composition, first at Juilliard and then at UCLA. Giacchino studied filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Giacchino’s 2009 score for the Pixar hit Up earned him an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, the BAFTA, the Broadcast Film Critics' Choice Award and two GRAMMY® Awards.

Composer Michael Giacchino has scored some of the most popular and acclaimed film projects in recent history, including Zootopia (2016), Inside Out (2015), The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Ratatouille (2007), The Incredibles (2004) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), the first Star Wars film to be scored by anyone other than John Williams.

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