Bruce Broughton
Bruce Broughton (born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is a film, video game, and television soundtrack composer who has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career, including American music classics such as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Silverado, Tombstone, and wonderfully lyric music for Miracle on 34th Street, The Boy Who Could Fly, some of the most interesting animation music of our time for the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures and the feature film The Rescuers Down Under and as well as the video game Heart of Darkness. Silverado earned him an Academy Award nomination, though he lost the Oscar to Out of Africa. He has won nearly a dozen Emmy awards.[1]
Broughton is a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP, a Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences(AMPAS), a Past President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, a former Governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and is a lecturer at UCLA and USC.
[edit] Awards
Emmy Awards: Warm Springs, Eloise at Christmastime, Eloise at the Plaza, Glory and Honor, O Pioneers!, Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song, The First Olympics, Athens 1896, Part I, Dallas: Ewing Blues, Dallas: The Letter, Buck Rogers: The Satyr
Emmy Nominations: The Dive from Clausen's Pier, First Monday Main Title Theme, True Women, Jag Main Title Theme, Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song [2], The Old Man and the Sea, Dallas: The Lost Child, Dallas: The Search, Two Marriages, The Blue and the Gray, Part Two, Quincy: Quincy's Wedding Part Two, Killjoy, Hawaii Five-0
Academy Award® Nomination: Silverado
Grammy Nomination: Young Sherlock Holmes
Saturn Award: Young Sherlock Holmes
[edit] References and External links
Sound and Vision by Jon Burlingame, Billboard Books, 2000, p. 49
