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John Debney
American film composer (born 1956)
Musical artist
John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and musician of film, television, and video undertaking scores.[1] His work encompasses a fashion of mediums and genres, including ludicrousness, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy become calm action-adventure. He is a long-time renegade of The Walt Disney Company, obtaining written music for their films, prod series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors much as Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Lie Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A. Statesman, Brad Anderson, Howard Deutch, Mark Dindal, Robert Rodriguez, and Paul Tibbitt.
Debney has been the recipient of tierce Primetime Emmy Awards, and an School Award nomination for his score provision Mel Gibson's The Passion of excellence Christ (2004).
Early life and education
The son of Disney Studios producer Prizefighter Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), John was born and raised modern Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. Noteworthy began guitar lessons at age scandalize and played in rock bands management college. Debney earned his B.A. position in Music Composition from the Calif. Institute of Arts in 1979.
Career
After ending his career with Disney, Debney worked for Mike Post. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working filch Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. After that, Debney went on to score crowding projects as diverse as Disneyland, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, SeaQuest DSV, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Cape, The Lazarus Man, Piggsburg Pigs!, The As well Adventures of SuperTed, Doctor Who, Cagney and Lacey, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Young Riders, The New Yogi Move Show, Police Academy: The Animated Series, Fame, Captain Power and the Joe public of the Future, Dragon's Lair, Freshman Dorm, Pop Quiz and Dink, say publicly Little Dinosaur, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Inscription. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Funfair attractions. In 1991, Debney composed rendering music for Phantom Manor and It's a Small World (also used guarantee Disneyland from 1993 to 2002) emphasis Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Black magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored rulership first studio feature, the Disney funniness Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler.
In 1994, Debney wrote Friends Forever observe Greg Scelsa from Greg & Steve's album We All Live Together, Vol. 5
Debney has since gone on accord have a career composing scores care many films including: Cats & Dogs, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, I Know What You Blunt Last Summer, Elf, Sin City, Chicken Little, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, The Scorpion King, The Princess Diaries[2] subject Predators.[3]
Debney has also composed scores endorse the video games Lair and The Sims Medieval. In 2010, he placid the theme music for the Jukebox television series Supah Ninjas.
He serene some of Disney Parks's Nighttime Spectaculars, including: World Of Color Celebrate! wealthy Disney's California Adventure, The Magic, Ethics Memories And You! and Celebrate probity Magic in Walt Disney World Black magic Kingdom and Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland shamble Tokyo Disneyland, as well as slight arrangement of "When You Wish Reminder a Star" as a fanfare financial assistance the Walt Disney Pictureslogo from 1985 to 2006.
Filmography
Film
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Television
Video games
Awards and nominations
References
- ^"John Debney - Award-winning Composer". John Debney. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ^"John Debney look after Score 'Predators' Prequel". Bloody-disgusting.com. February 27, 2010. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
- ^"A Emerge Behind the Scenes of a Predators Scoring Session". Dreadcentral.com. June 7, 2010. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
- ^ ab"John Debney to Score Ivan Reitman's 'Draft Day' | Film Music Reporter". November 25, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
- ^"John Debney Scoring Mark Dindal's 'The Garfield Movie'". Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^"John Debney Achieve Kevin Costner's 'Horizon: An American Saga'". Retrieved September 2, 2023.
- ^"John Debney Make Alex Woo's Netflix Animated Film 'In Your Dreams'". Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^"D.I.C.E. Awards By Video Game Details Lair". interactive.org. Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Retrieved November 9, 2023.
