Alan Silvestri

After studying at Berklee and working as a guitarist, Alan Silvestri composed music for CHiPs from 1978 to 1983. Then came Romancing the Stone in 1984, and with it the partnership with Robert Zemeckis: the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Contact, Cast Away, The Polar Express. He wrote the main theme for The Avengers in 2012. Cast Away withholds music almost entirely until its final stretch. He was born in New York in 1950 and trained in Boston. His scores also include Death Becomes Her in 1992, The Mummy Returns in 2001, written for large orchestra and chorus, Beowulf in 2007, A Christmas Carol in 2009 and Captain America: The First Avenger in 2011. Forrest Gump and The Polar Express each brought him an Academy Award nomination, and he won Grammy awards for the Cast Away end credits in 2002 and Believe from The Polar Express in 2006. He was born on 26 March 1950.