Song:Dinner Rush
Album:Ratatouille: Original Soundtrack
Michael Giacchino is an award winning film composer. He established himself scoring Pixar films like The Imcredibles and Ratatouille for director Brad Bird. Now he works on all kinds of things. He was born Oct. 10, 1978 in Riverside Township, NJ. His parents were Italian immigrants. Giacchino made his own stop motion animation films with music in his basement when he was ten years old. One of his high school teachers suggested to his parents that he study at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. Giacchino majored in film production. One of his teachers offered him an unpaid internship at Universal Pictures. He did that at night, attended school during the day and worked a Macy's to pay the rent. He graduated from SVA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and then took music classes at Juilliard. When his internship ended, Giacchino worked for Universal and then Disney in publicity. And then when Disney moved the publicity department to Los Angeles, he moved with it. While working during the day, Giacchino takes music classes at night at UCLA. When a producer job opened up at Disney Interactive, he took it thinking he could hire himself to compose the music for the video games. And that got him into TV composing the music for JJ Abrams' show Alias and then Lost. When director Brad Bird heard Giacchino's music for Alias, he hired him to score the 2004 film The Incredibles. This was the first Pixar film scored by someone other than Thomas or Randy Newman. Giacchino was nominated for two Grammys for The Incredibles. Giacchino continued to work on Disney projects like Space Mountain rides. And he also did JJ Abrams 2006 film Mission Impossible III. And then he did Ratatouille again for Bird. That got him his first Grammy and an Oscar nomination. This was followed by the Pixar film Up and Abrams' 2009 film Star Trek. Giacchino won his first Oscar for Up. Giacchino also composed the score for the 2008 film Cloverfield directed by Matt Reeves. He continues to work for Disney and especially Pixar for Bird and Pete Docter. And he also continues to work for Abrams and Reeves. He is currently scoring the 2021 film The Batman for Reeves. He works for other directors like Taika Watiti for the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit. But Giacchino's whole career has been built on long term relationships with Abrams and Bird. Reeves started out with Abrams. Here's Michael Giacchino performing Dinner Rush as it appeared in the 2007 film Ratatouille.
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