Bruce Broughton


Bruce Harold Broughton is an American composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He composed the 1994 version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated once for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at University of California, Los Angeles.

Career

Broughton has composed the score for many notable films including Disney films such as The Rescuers Down Under, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and its sequel, Lost in San Francisco, as well as popular westerns such as Silverado and Tombstone. Other films scored by Broughton include Young Sherlock Holmes, Baby's Day Out, Harry and the Hendersons, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Boy Who Could Fly. Additionally, he composed music for the video game Heart of Darkness and the animated TV series Tiny Toon Adventures.
Broughton composed music for Disney theme park attractions including Soarin', Spaceship Earth, and Ellen's Energy Adventure.
Silverado earned him an Academy Award nomination, losing to Out of Africa. He has won nearly a dozen Emmy awards.
Broughton is a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP, a former Governor of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, a Past President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and a lecturer at UCLA and USC.
In 2019, he donated his collection of 614 orchestral scores and parts to the library of the University of North Texas College of Music.

Academy Awards controversy

Broughton's song "Alone yet Not Alone", from the film with the same name, was originally nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards. But on January 29, 2014, the nomination was revoked after the Motion Picture Academy discovered that Broughton, a former Academy governor who, at the time, was an executive committee member of the Academy's music branch, had improperly contacted other branch members.
"No matter how well-intentioned the communication, using one's position as a former governor and current executive committee member to personally promote one's own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage," Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy's president, said in a statement. Not everyone agreed with the Academy's actions.

Filmography

Television

Film

Concert work

Orchestral

Chamber music

Symphonic Band / Wind Ensemble

Awards

  • Emmy Award wins:
  • * Warm Springs: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, 2005
  • * Eloise at Christmastime: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, 2004
  • * Eloise at the Plaza: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, 2003
  • * Glory & Honor: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, 1998
  • * O Pioneers!: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, 1992
  • * Tiny Toon Adventures: Outstanding Original Song for main title theme, 1991
  • * The First Olympics: Athens 1896: Part 1, Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special, 1984
  • * Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for episode "The Letter", 1984
  • * Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for episode "The Ewing Blues", 1983
  • * Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for episode "The Satyr", 1981
  • Emmy Award nominations:
  • * The Dive from Clausen's Pier: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, 2006
  • * First Monday: Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, 2002
  • * True Women: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special, 1997
  • * JAG: Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, 1995
  • * The Old Man and the Sea: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special, 1990
  • * Two Marriages: Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the song "Home Here", 1984
  • * The Blue and the Gray: Part 2: Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special, 1983
  • * Quincy, M.E.: Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the song "Quincy's Wedding Song" from the episode "Quincy's Wedding", part 2, 1983
  • * Killjoy: Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special, 1982
  • * Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the episode "The Search," 1982
  • * Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the episode "The Lost Child," 1980
  • * Hawaii Five-O, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the episode "The $100,000 Nickel," 1974
  • Academy Award nominations
  • * Silverado, Best Original Score
  • Grammy Award nomination
  • * Young Sherlock Holmes, Best Instrumental Composition
  • Saturn Award
  • * Young Sherlock Holmes: Best Music, 1985