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Alan Silvestri

1950 - Today

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Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer of film scores. He has received two Grammy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films including the Back to the Future film series (1985–1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007), Flight (2012) and The Walk (2015). Silvestri also scored many other popular movies, including Predator (1987), The Abyss (1989), Father of the Bride (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), Eraser (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Stuart Little (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001), Van Helsing (2004), Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Silvestri has received more than 2,949,823 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Alan Silvestri is the 272nd most popular composer (up from 290th in 2019), the 1,279th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,380th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Composer.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.01

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  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alan Silvestri ranks 272 out of 1,451. Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Hanns Eisler, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ernst von Dohnányi, Georges Auric, and Gioseffo Zarlino. After him are Carl Reinecke, Carl Stamitz, Max Steiner, Riccardo Broschi, Anton Arensky, and Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Alan Silvestri ranks 57. Before him are Laura Gemser, Tsugumi Ohba, Vesna Vulović, Janez Drnovšek, Christina Onassis, and Lakshmi Mittal. After him are Mark Spitz, Cybill Shepherd, Bjarne Stroustrup, Marianne Bachmeier, Amos Gitai, and Sahle-Work Zewde.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Silvestri ranks 1,279 out of 20,380. Before him are George Akerlof (1940), Francis Gary Powers (1929), Thelonious Monk (1917), Paul Ryan (1970), Christina Onassis (1950), and Carla Bley (1936). After him are Robin Cook (1940), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), John Dickinson (1732), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Timothy Leary (1920), and Susan Hayward (1917).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Alan Silvestri ranks 13. Before him are Samuel Barber (1910), Scott Joplin (1868), Steve Reich (1936), Angelo Badalamenti (1937), James Horner (1953), and Jerry Goldsmith (1929). After him are Bernard Herrmann (1911), Charles Ives (1874), Elmer Bernstein (1922), Aaron Copland (1900), Cole Porter (1891), and Richard Rodgers (1902).

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