Bruce Broughton (born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is a film, video game, and television soundtrack composer who has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career, including Homeward Bound and Silverado, as well as the video game Heart of Darkness (game). Silverado earned him an Academy Award nomination, though he lost the Oscar to Out of Africa. March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a cultural phenomenon. ... Soundtrack refers to the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into The Incredible Journey. ... Silverado is an American Western feature film, first released on July 10, 1985. ... This article or section needs to be wikified. ... Out of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke), first published in 1937. ...

His music is characterised by frequent use of ethnic instruments and heavy use of leitmotif, often repeating a particular set of notes at different tempos and with different instruments. A leitmotif (also spelled leitmotiv) is a recurring musical theme, associated within a particular piece of music with a particular person, place or idea. ...

He has long been a client of Walt Disney Pictures and has scored several of their animated features. Many consider his score for The Rescuers Down Under (1990), which was modeled heavily on John Williams' music for the Indiana Jones trilogy, to be one of the best animated film scores of all time. The animated film scores produced by Hans Zimmer in the 1990s, most notably The Lion King, bear heavy resemblance to Broughton's earlier work. Walt Disney Pictures is an American movie studio, with off-shoot studios in Japan and other sites in the United States. ... The Rescuers Down Under is the twenty-ninth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990. ... This article is about the year. ... John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is one of the most widely recognized composers of film scores. ... Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Dr. Henry Indiana Jones, Jr. ... Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German Academy Award-winning composer, best known for composing film scores. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ... The Lion King is the 32nd animated feature in the Disney animated feature canon, and the third highest-grossing animated feature film ever released in the United States. ...

External links

• Bruce Broughton's official website
• Bruce Broughton at The Internet Movie Database