Bruce Broughton

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Bruce Harold Broughton
Born (1945-03-08) March 8, 1945 (age 79)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Composer, arranger
Years active1970–present

Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945 [1] ) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many pieces to music archives, including the 1994 version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare with short versions for 20th Century Fox Television and Foxstar Productions and conducting the Cinergi Pictures logo composed by Jerry Goldsmith. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated once for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at UCLA.

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Career

Broughton has composed the score for many notable films including Disney films such as The Rescuers Down Under (1990), All I Want for Christmas (1991), Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) and its sequel, Lost in San Francisco (1996), as well as popular westerns such as Silverado (1985) and Tombstone (1993). Other films scored by Broughton include Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Baby's Day Out (1994), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and The Boy Who Could Fly (1986). Additionally, he composed music for the video game Heart of Darkness and the animated TV series Tiny Toon Adventures . In 1994, Broughton also conducted the fanfare for the 20th Century Fox logo that was composed by Alfred Newman. Furthermore, he also conducted the fanfare for Cinergi Pictures that was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

Broughton composed music for Disney theme park attractions including Soarin', Spaceship Earth, and Ellen's Energy Adventure. [2]

Silverado earned him an Academy Award nomination, though he lost the Oscar to Out of Africa . He has won nearly a dozen Emmy awards. [3] [4] [5]

Broughton is a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP, a former Governor of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, a Past President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and a lecturer at UCLA and USC.

Academy Awards controversy

Broughton's song "Alone yet Not Alone", from the film with the same name, was originally nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards. But on January 29, 2014, the nomination was revoked after the academy discovered that Broughton, a former Academy governor who, at the time, was an executive committee member of the academy's music branch, had improperly contacted other branch members. [6] [7]

"No matter how well-intentioned the communication, using one's position as a former governor and current executive committee member to personally promote one's own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage," Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the academy's president, said in a statement. [8] Not everyone agreed with the academy's actions. [9] [10]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleNotes
1973-1975 Gunsmoke 5 episodes
1973-1979 Hawaii Five-O 18 episodes

Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Best Music Composition - For a Series, a Single Program of a Series

1977 The Oregon Trail 4 episodes
1977-1983 Quincy, M.E. 64 episodes
1978-1979 Barnaby Jones 2 episodes
How the West Was Won 11 episodes
1979The Paradise ConnectionTelevision film
1979-1985 Dallas 52 episodes

Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)

1980The Return of Frank CannonTelevision film
Desperate Voyage
1981 The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 5 episodes
Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
KilljoyTelevision film
Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
1982 Desperate Lives Television film
The Blue and the Gray Miniseries
Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
One Shoe Makes It MurderTelevision film
1983M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
Cowboy
This Girl for Hire
1984 The Master of Ballantrae
Passions
The Cowboy and the Ballerina
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 Miniseries

Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)

1985Stormin' Home
1986 George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
1985-1986 Amazing Stories 4 episodes
1989Sorry, Wrong NumberTelevision film
1990 The Old Man and the Sea Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
1990-1992 Tiny Toon Adventures 11 episodes

Won - Daytime Emmy Award for Best Original Song

1991 Dinosaurs 5 episodes
1992 O Pioneers! Television film

Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)

1995 JAG 2 episodes
Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
1997 True Women Miniseries
1998 Glory & Honor

Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore)

Television film
Jeremiah Television film
1999Night Ride HomeTelevision film
2001The Ballad of Lucy WhippleTelevision film
2002Roughing ItTelevision film
Damaged CareTelevision film
First Monday 2 episodes
Bobbie's Girl Television film
The Locket Television film
2003 Eloise at the Plaza Television film

Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)

The Wonderful World of Disney 2 episodes
Lucy Television film
Eloise at Christmastime Television film

Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)

2005 Warm Springs Television film

Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)

The Dive from Clausen's Pier Television film
2009 Safe Harbor Television film
2015 Texas Rising Miniseries; with John Debney

Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music

2017 The Orville Main title theme and "Old Wounds" score

with Joel McNeely, John Debney, and Andrew Cottee

Film

YearTitleDirectorStudioNotes
1983The ProdigalJames F. CollierWorldwide Entertainment
1984 The Ice Pirates Stewart Raffill Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
United Artists
1985 Silverado Lawrence Kasdan Columbia Pictures Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score
Young Sherlock Holmes Barry Levinson Amblin Entertainment
Paramount Pictures
Won - Saturn Award for Best Music
1986 Sweet Liberty Alan Alda Universal Pictures
The Boy Who Could Fly Nick Castle Lorimar Motion Pictures
20th Century Fox
1987 Square Dance Daniel Petrie
Michael Nesmith
Island Pictures
NBC Productions
Harry and the Hendersons William Dear Amblin Entertainment
Universal Pictures
The Monster Squad Fred Dekker HBO Pictures
TriStar Pictures
Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Music
Big Shots Robert Mandel Lorimar Motion Pictures
20th Century Fox
Cross My Heart Armyan Bernstein Universal Pictures
1988 The Presidio Peter Hyams Paramount Pictures
The Rescue Ferdinand Fairfax Touchstone Pictures
Moonwalker Jerry Kramer
Will Vinton
Jim Blashfield

Colin Chilvers

MJJ Productions
Lorimar Motion Pictures
Warner Bros.
Underscore for the "Speed Demon" and "Smooth Criminal" segments
Last Rites Donald P. Bellisario Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1989 Jacknife David Jones Kings Road Entertainment
Cineplex Odeon Films
1990 Betsy's Wedding Alan Alda Touchstone Pictures
Narrow Margin Peter Hyams Carolco Pictures
TriStar Pictures (US)
Universal Pictures (International)
The Rescuers Down Under Hendel Butoy
Mike Gabriel
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Feature Animation
Broughton's first score for animated film
1991 All I Want for Christmas Robert Lieberman Paramount Pictures
1992 Honey, I Blew Up the Kid Randal Kleiser Walt Disney Pictures
Stay Tuned Peter Hyams Morgan Creek Productions
Warner Bros.
1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Duwayne Dunham Walt Disney Pictures
So I Married an Axe Murderer Thomas Schlamme TriStar Pictures
For Love or Money Barry Sonnenfeld Imagine Entertainment
Universal Pictures
Tombstone George P. Cosmatos Cinergi Pictures
Hollywood Pictures (US)
Entertainment Film Distributors (UK)
1994 Holy Matrimony Leonard Nimoy Interscope Communications
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Hollywood Pictures
Baby's Day Out Patrick Read Johnson 20th Century Fox
Miracle on 34th Street Les Mayfield
1996 Carried Away Bruno Barreto CineTel Films
Fine Line Features
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco David R. Ellis Walt Disney Pictures
House Arrest Harry Winer Rysher Entertainment
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Infinity Matthew Broderick First Look Pictures
1997 Shadow Conspiracy George P. Cosmatos Cinergi Pictures
Hollywood Pictures
A Simple Wish Michael Ritchie The Bubble Factory
Universal Pictures
1998 Krippendorf's Tribe Todd Holland Touchstone Pictures
Lost in Space Stephen Hopkins Jim Henson's Creature Shop
New Line Cinema
One Tough Cop Bruno Barreto Stratosphere Entertainment
2004Last Flight OutJerry JamesonWorldwide Entertainment

River Stone Productions

Direct-to-video
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers Donovan Cook DisneyToon Studios
Walt Disney Pictures
2006 Bambi II Brian Pimental DisneyToon Studios
Walt Disney Pictures
2011The PledgeJ.W. Myers Phase 4 Films
2013A Christmas Tree MiracleRoute 40 Films

Flyover Films

2017 Shot Jeremy Kagan Paladin

Concert work

Orchestral

YearTitlePublisher
A Tiny Symphony for StringsBlack Squirrel Music
American Hero for OrchestraBlack Squirrel Music
Concerto for Piccolo and Chamber OrchestraMeridian Publishing LLC
Concerto for Tuba and OrchestraEdwin F. Kalmus & Co.
English Music for Horn and StringsChester Music and Novello & Co.
Fanfares: Mosaic for OrchestraBrubel Music
Four Kinds of Walking: Suite for StringsBrubel Music
Mixed Elements for OrchestraBrubel Music
Saloon Music for B♭ Cornet and Pit OrchestraBrubel Music
Silverado for OrchestraEMI Golden Torch Music Corp.
The Magic Horn For Orchestra and NarratorShardice
Triptych for Violin and Chamber OrchestraShardice

Chamber music

YearTitlePublisher
Blowhard for Horn and PianoBrubel Music
Sonata for Horn and PianoBallad for Trombone and Piano
Sonata (Concerto) for Tuba and PianoEdwin F. Kalmus & Co.
Chambers for Solo TrumpetCurnow Music
In Memoriam for Solo TrumpetBrubel Music
Turbulance for Tuba and PianoBrubel Music
Oliver's Birthday for Trumpet and PianoBlack Squirrel Music
Tent Meeting Revival with Hallelujah Wind-up for Euphonium and PianoBrubel Music
Remembrance for alto Saxophone and PianoBlack Squirrel Music
Medium, Big, and Small Duos for Alto flute, Piccolo, and PianoBrubel Music
Bounce for Bassoon, Double String Quartet and BassBrubel Music
Variations for Flute and PianoBlack Squirrel Music
Gold Rush SongsBrubel Music
Concerto for Violoncello and 10 InstrumentsBrubel Music
Short Stories for Marimba and PianoC. Alan Publications
Five Pieces for PianoBrubel Music
ThreeEighth Note Publications
BipartitionShardice
There is Always Something to Do (For Morelle)Fatrock Ink
Timeline (1945 - )Brubel Music
Tyvek WoodFatrock Ink
The Fingerprints of ChildhoodBrubel Music
BiBrubel Music
NeBRASSkaBrubel Music
ConversationsBrubel Music
Three American PorraitsBlack Squirrel Music
when a body meets a bodyBrubel Music
Hornworks for Five Horns and TubaBrubel Music
Concert Piece for Eight TrumpetsBlack Squirrel Music
EuphoniesBlack Squirrel Music
Hudson River ValleyBrubel Music
Fanfare for 16 HornsBrubel Music

Symphonic Band / Wind Ensemble

YearTitlePublisher
A Frontier Overture for Brass BandWinwood Music
American Hero for Symphonic BandBlack Squirrel Music
California Legend for Brass BandWinwood Music
Celebration for Symphonic WindsBrubel Music
Concerto for Piccolo and Wind EnsembleRandol Music
Concerto (Sonata) for Tuba and WindsEdwin F. Kalmus & Co.
Excursions for Trumpet and BandBlack Squirrel Music
Fanfares, Marches, Hymns & FinaleMasters Music
HarlequinWinwood Music
In the World of SpiritsBrubel Music
Masters of Space and TimeChester Music and Novello & Co.
New EraLudwig Music Publishing Co.
2018Quaternity for Trombone and Symphonic WindsBrubel Music

Awards

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