![]() ![]() Recently, his style has changed a little bit. He even has some horror on his resume with six Tales from the Crypt episodes. Two Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations (Best Original Score for Forrest Gump and Best Original Song, “Believe,” for The Polar Express), two Grammy wins (“Believe” and “Cast Away End Credits”) with two more nominations ( Back to the Future and Chicken Run), the man knows his way around just about every genre. ![]() Silvestri is also the man behind one of my all-time favorite scores ( Death Becomes Her), and seems to be back in business with his score for DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods. Leave it to someone of Zemeckis’s stature to find someone as brilliant as Silvestri to unleash some of the most memorable scores of the ’80s-even if you didn’t know his name. What’s funny is that the five films he scored during the ’70s I’ve never even heard of. Silvestri has composed music for every Robert Zemeckis film since the two first collaborated on Romancing the Stone and he is single-handedly responsible for my phone’s email notification (from Back to the Future). Alan Silvestri may not be a household name (we’ll leave that to John Williams), but I’ll bet you have a lot of the films he’s scored in your collection. ![]()
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