Biography

Bruce Broughton is one of the most versatile composers working in films today who has written in every medium, from theatrical motion pictures, television and computer games to the concert stage, in styles ranging from large symphonic settings to contemporary electronic scores. His first major film score, for the Lawrence Kasdan western Silverado, brought him an Oscar nomination. His very next project, a classically styled score for Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes, earned a Grammy nomination for the soundtrack album.

With 22 nominations, he has received the Emmy award a record 10 times, most recently for his score for Warm Springs. His television credits include the main title themes for Jag, Tiny Toon Adventures and Dinosaurs and scores for Amazing Stories, Quincy and How The West Was Won, movies for television such as Lucy, Bobby's Girl, and O Pioneers!, as well as the miniseries Roughing It, The Blue And The Grey and the Emmy Award-winning True Women. Major motion picture credits include Lost in Space, Tombstone, Miracle on 34th Street, Carried Away, Baby's Day Out, The Presidio, Narrow Margin, Harry and The Hendersons, Krippendorf's Tribe, Honey, I Blew Up The Kid, The Boy Who Could Fly, the Disney animated features, The Rescuers Down Under and Bambi II, and the two Homeward Bound adventures. He conducted and supervised the recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" for Fantasia 2000.

Most Notable Awards

16 Award Wins, 15 Nominations

Academy Award	1 Nomination
Emmy Award	10 Wins

Broughton is a board member of ASCAP, a former governor of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and a past president of The Society of Composers and Lyricists. He is a lecturer in music composition at UCLA, and teaches in the Advanced Film Music Studies program at USC.