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He started playing piano at age six, but only "got serious" by the time he was eleven. His parents were Tessa ( née Rappaport), a school teacher, and Morris Goldsmith, a structural engineer. Goldsmith was born Februin Los Angeles, California.
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Goldsmith was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1976 for The Omen). His work for Donner and Scott also involved a rejected score for Timeline and a controversially edited score for Alien, where music by Howard Hanson replaced Goldsmith's end titles and Goldsmith's own work on Freud: The Secret Passion was used without his approval in several scenes. He collaborated with some of the best known directors including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. He also composed the music for the Disney attraction Soarin'. He also composed the 1976 fanfare for Paramount Pictures, which was used mainly for their home video label. His work on the fanfare would later be re-arranged by Brian Tyler for the studio's 100th anniversary. With the release of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, his 1997 opening fanfare for Universal Pictures debuted. He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Chinatown, Alien, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Air Force One, L.A. Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring.