Michael Giacchino Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

GGCAP celebrates the birthday (AND the release of his directorial debut, Marvel's "Werewolf by Night") of Oscar, Emmy and Grammy-winning film & TV composer Michael Giacchino with this ENCORE presentation of a fascinating interview from 2018. In this episode, Michael talks about the birth of film scores, the golden age of "contract musicians” and the influence of Dave Grusin, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin and Max Steiner. Also, Don Knotts gets tough, Martin Scorsese picks out pop songs, Jerry Goldsmith conducts in an ape mask and Michael teams with the legendary John Williams! PLUS: Ray Harryhausen! Appreciating Randy Newman! The genius of Hoyt Curtin! Paul McCartney grooves to Dr. Strange! And Michael pays tribute to Japanese monster movies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Andrea Martin and you are listening to Gilbert Godfrey's amazing
0:07.0	colossal podcast.
0:11.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey, this is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast with my co-hosts Frank Santopodre,
0:39.0	where once again, recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frank Ferdorosa.
0:45.0	Our guest this week is a Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, and Oscar-winning composer of Blockbuster Films,
0:57.0	hit television series and popular video games.
1:03.0	You've heard his celebrated compositions and scores in TV shows like The Wonderful World of Disney,
1:15.0	Aliens, Aliens, Fringe and Lost in movies such as The Incredibles, Star Trek,
1:27.0	Beyond War for the Planet of the Apes, Inside Out, Dr. Strange, Star Wars,
1:37.0	Row 1.
1:39.0	That's one title.
1:43.0	Jurassic World, Spider-Man Homecoming, Rat2Due, Coco, and Up for which he was presented,
1:55.0	an Academy Award for the Best Original Score, and as timing would have it, he has two movies opening this month,
2:09.0	The Incredibles 2 and Jurassic World Fall in Kingdom, but that's not all.
2:19.0	He's also written, arranged, and conducted music for dozens of video games, short films, and TV movies.
2:31.0	And in 2005, he collaborated with Disney, Imagineering to create new soundtracks for Space Mountain at Disneyland,
2:49.0	Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland.
2:53.0	He's also asked to- He was also- He was also asked to conduct the Academy Awards of Orchestra for the 80th First Academy Awards.
3:09.0	He was- And in 2017 was honored with a 50th birthday celebration at London's Royal Albert Hall.
3:25.0	He's busy and very prolific career. He's worked with everyone from Steven Spielberg to JJ Abrams, to John Williams, to Paul McCartney,
3:43.0	to the former guests, Richard Kind and Pat Noswald. Please welcome to the show, our very first film composer, and a man known to his closest friends,
4:01.0	Star Wars, Stormtrooper, FN3181, Harpal Michael Giaquido.
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