Bruce Broughton

Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at University of California, Los Angeles.

Bruce Broughton studied at USC Thornton School of Music. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is film score and music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Jerry Goldsmith, Maurice Jarre and Henry Mancini are recorded as an influence.

• Birth Name — Bruce Harold Broughton • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — Composer, arranger • Years Active — 1970–present

Broughton has composed the score for many notable films including Disney films such as The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) and its sequel, Lost in San Francisco (1996), as well as popular westerns such as Silverado (1985) and Tombstone (1993). Other films scored by Broughton include Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Baby's Day Out (1994), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and The Boy Who Could Fly (1986). 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 (AMPAS) 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 sets of parts to the library of the University of North Texas College of Music.

• Year — Title — Notes • 1973-1975 — Gunsmoke — 5 episodes • 1973-1979 — Hawaii Five-O — 18 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Best Music Composition - For a Series, a Single Program of a Series • 1977 — The Oregon Trail — 4 episodes • 1977-1983 — Quincy, M.E. — 64 episodes • 1978-1979 — Barnaby Jones — 2 episodes • How the West Was Won — 11 episodes • 1979 — The Paradise Connection — Television film • 1979-1985 — Dallas — 52 episodes Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) • 1980 — The Return of Frank Cannon — Television film • Desperate Voyage • 1981 — The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — 5 episodes Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) • Killjoy — Television film Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • 1982 — Desperate Lives — Television film • The Blue and the Gray — Miniseries Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • One Shoe Makes It Murder — Television film • 1983 — M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers • Cowboy • This Girl for Hire • 1984 — The Master of Ballantrae • Passions • The Cowboy and the Ballerina • The First Olympics: Athens 1896 — Miniseries Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • 1985 — Stormin' Home • 1986 — George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation • 1985-1986 — Amazing Stories — 4 episodes • 1989 — Sorry, Wrong Number — Television film • 1990 — The Old Man and the Sea — Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • 1990-1992 — Tiny Toon Adventures — 11 episodes Won - Daytime Emmy Award for Best Original Song • 1991 — Dinosaurs — 5 episodes • 1992 — O Pioneers! — Television film Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • 1992 — ‘’Capitol Critters‘’ • 1995 — JAG — 2 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music • 1997 — True Women — Miniseries • 1998 — Glory & Honor Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore) — Television film • Jeremiah — Television film • 1999 — Night Ride Home — Television film • 2001 — The Ballad of Lucy Whipple — Television film • 2002 — Roughing It — Television film • Damaged Care — Television film • First Monday — 2 episodes • Bobbie's Girl — Television film • The Locket — Television film • 2003 — Eloise at the Plaza — Television film Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • The Wonderful World of Disney — 2 episodes • Lucy — Television film • Eloise at Christmastime — Television film Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • 2005 — Warm Springs — Television film Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore) • The Dive from Clausen's Pier — Television film • 2009 — Safe Harbor — Television film • 2015 — Texas Rising — Miniseries; with John Debney Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music • 2017 — The Orville — Main title theme and "Old Wounds" score with Joel McNeely, John Debney, and Andrew Cottee • 2026 — The Gray House — Miniseries; with John Debney

• Year — Title — Publisher • A Tiny Symphony for Strings — Black Squirrel Music • American Hero for Orchestra — Black Squirrel Music • Concerto for Piccolo and Chamber Orchestra — Meridian Publishing LLC • Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra — Edwin F. Kalmus & Co. • English Music for Horn and Strings — Chester Music and Novello & Co. • Fanfares: Mosaic for Orchestra — Brubel Music • Four Kinds of Walking: Suite for Strings — Brubel Music • Mixed Elements for Orchestra — Brubel Music • Saloon Music for B♭ Cornet and Pit Orchestra — Brubel Music • Silverado for Orchestra — EMI Golden Torch Music Corp. • The Magic Horn For Orchestra and Narrator — Shardice • Triptych for Violin and Chamber Orchestra — Shardice

• Year — Title — Publisher • Blowhard for Horn and Piano — Brubel Music • Sonata for Horn and Piano — Ballad for Trombone and Piano • Sonata (Concerto) for Tuba and Piano — Edwin F. Kalmus & Co. • Chambers for Solo Trumpet — Curnow Music • In Memoriam for Solo Trumpet — Brubel Music • Turbulance for Tuba and Piano — Brubel Music • Oliver's Birthday for Trumpet and Piano — Black Squirrel Music • Tent Meeting Revival with Hallelujah Wind-up for Euphonium and Piano — Brubel Music • Remembrance for alto Saxophone and Piano — Black Squirrel Music • Medium, Big, and Small Duos for Alto flute, Piccolo, and Piano — Brubel Music • Bounce for Bassoon, Double String Quartet and Bass — Brubel Music • Variations for Flute and Piano — Black Squirrel Music • Gold Rush Songs — Brubel Music • Concerto for Violoncello and 10 Instruments — Brubel Music • Short Stories for Marimba and Piano — C. Alan Publications • Five Pieces for Piano — Brubel Music • Three — Eighth Note Publications • Bipartition — Shardice • There is Always Something to Do (For Morelle) — Fatrock Ink • Timeline (1945 -) — Brubel Music • Tyvek Wood — Fatrock Ink • The Fingerprints of Childhood — Brubel Music • Bi — Brubel Music • NeBRASSka — Brubel Music • Conversations — Brubel Music • Three American Porraits — Black Squirrel Music • when a body meets a body — Brubel Music • Hornworks for Five Horns and Tuba — Brubel Music • Concert Piece for Eight Trumpets — Black Squirrel Music • Euphonies — Black Squirrel Music • Hudson River Valley — Brubel Music • Fanfare for 16 Horns — Brubel Music

• Year — Title — Publisher • A Frontier Overture for Brass Band — Winwood Music • American Hero for Symphonic Band — Black Squirrel Music • California Legend for Brass Band — Winwood Music • Celebration for Symphonic Winds — Brubel Music • Concerto for Piccolo and Wind Ensemble — Randol Music • Concerto (Sonata) for Tuba and Winds — Edwin F. Kalmus & Co. • Excursions for Trumpet and Band — Black Squirrel Music • Fanfares, Marches, Hymns & Finale — Masters Music • Harlequin — Winwood Music • In the World of Spirits — Brubel Music • Masters of Space and Time — Chester Music and Novello & Co. • New Era — Ludwig Music Publishing Co. • 2018 — Quaternity for Trombone and Symphonic Winds — Brubel Music

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count.

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, pointing out that it is a normal part of the period before nominations that people involved in all aspects of a film will promote their work with a "for your consideration" letter to the extensive list of voting members of the Academy.

• Emmy Award wins: • Warm Springs: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 2005 • Eloise at Christmastime: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 2004 • Eloise at the Plaza: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 2003 • Glory & Honor: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 1998 • O Pioneers!: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 1992 • Tiny Toon Adventures: Outstanding Original Song for main title theme (shared with lyricists Wayne Kaatz and Tom Ruegger), 1991 • The First Olympics: Athens 1896: Part 1, Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 1984 • Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for episode "The Letter", 1984 • Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for episode "The Ewing Blues", 1983 • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for episode "The Satyr", 1981 • Emmy Award nominations: • The Dive from Clausen's Pier: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 2006 • First Monday: Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, 2002 • True Women: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 1997 • JAG: Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, 1995 • The Old Man and the Sea: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 1990 • Two Marriages: Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the song "Home Here" (shared with lyricist Dory Previn), 1984 • The Blue and the Gray: Part 2: Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 1983 • Quincy, M.E.: Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the song "Quincy's Wedding Song" from the episode "Quincy's Wedding", part 2 (shared with lyricist Mark Mueller), 1983 • Killjoy: Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore), 1982 • Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for the episode "The Search," 1982 • Dallas: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for the episode "The Lost Child," 1980 • Hawaii Five-O, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) for the episode "The $100,000 Nickel," 1974 • Academy Award nominations • Silverado, Best Original Score (1986) • Grammy Award nomination • Young Sherlock Holmes, Best Instrumental Composition • Saturn Award • Young Sherlock Holmes: Best Music, 1985