Bruce Broughton

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1945 age 0

   Born

2. 1985 age 40

   CreditSilveradocomposer

3. 1988 age 43

   CreditMoonwalkercomposer

4. 1990 age 45

   CreditThe Rescuers Down Undercomposer

5. 1992 age 47

   CreditHoney, I Blew Up the Kidcomposer

6. 1993 age 48

   CreditTombstonecomposer

7. 1994 age 49

   CreditBaby's Day Outcomposer

8. 1998 age 53

   CreditLost in Spacecomposer

9. 2004 age 59

   CreditMickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeerscomposer

10. 2005 age 60

    CreditBambi IIcomposer

• TOTerry O'Quinn2 titles
• MRMichael Rooker2 titles
• SASam Anderson1 title
• KRKurt Russell1 title
• GBGrand L. Bush1 title
• BZBilly Zane1 title
• BPBill Paxton1 title
• MCMark Lindsay Chapman1 title
• TOTricia O'Neil1 title
• TSThomas Schumacher1 title

• Influenced by

  • NRNino Rota
  • JWJohn Williams
  • EMEnnio Morricone
  • MJMaurice Jarre
  • JGJerry Goldsmith
  • BHBernard Herrmann
  • JBJohn Barry
  • HMHenry Mancini
  • ANAlfred Newman
  • EBElmer Bernstein
  • DGDave Grusin

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:RealTVfilmsCC BY-SA 3.0

• Film music is always and only accompaniment. Whether it’s loud or occasionally important in itself, it’s what it is because of where it is — how it’s placed in the film. In a film score, the composer literally measures every note, because it has to be synchronized with the picture. The film strictly determines every element of a film score. The only reason music exists in film is to help tell a story. No one hires a composer for a film to write pretty flute lines. I generally don’t get concerned about this, but I’ll admit to getting irritated or disappointed at times on how the music is used after I’ve composed it. In the United States, all film composers work under a condition called ‘Work for Hire’. Aesthetically, it can be soul-sucking.

  Bruce Broughton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Being a composer, although I think it’s an incredible job, it’s not special. There are a lot of people who are composers. There are a lot of people who think they’re composers. There are a lot of people who are songwriters. There are a lot of people who have a musical idea. There are more now probably than there were when I began. There’s more opportunity, I think, for composers than there was back then, but there are many more composers now. So, you’re not special. You’ve got to find some way of getting hired. And I think the more you can refine your objectives, the better you are. The best advice I got about this when I was just starting was, “Ignore all of my advice and do anything you can think of”. And as I said, just get started. Just start.

  Bruce Broughton, CC BY-SA 4.0