to a Pixar film . That credit goes to Michael Giacchino , who is outdone only by Randy when it comes to Pixar soundtrack credits . Giacchino also lent his talents to the music of Ratatouille , UP , Cars 2 , Inside Out , Coco , and The Incredibles 2 .
All told , Giacchino and the Newmans are responsible for 19 of 25 Pixar film soundtracks . Of those remaining six , two had soundtracks written by composition duo and brothers Jeff and Mychael Danna ( The Good Dinosaur and Onward ). Patrick Doyle , better known for his work on the Harry Potter series of films and 2011 ’ s Thor , composed the soundtrack for Brave . Dan Romer brought life to Luca , but most recently , it was Ludwig Göransson who scored Turning Red .
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails , his longtime co-composer Atticus Ross , and legendary jazz musician Jon Batiste , Pixar was able to pull it off . Soul ’ s soundtrack fit the film perfectly , and the original jazz compositions by Batiste were equally impeccable — so good that the trio netted a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for their efforts , marking Soul as the first Pixar film since UP in 2009 to receive such an honor .
MUSIC FOR THE SOUL Soul was the first Pixar film to have three different people credited for its soundtrack — and for good reason . Soul is about music . Soul is about jazz . Soul is about that sensation that music gives you , that transcendent feeling that surpasses time and space , that truly puts one into “ the zone .”
In a way , Soul is a Pixar movie about Pixar music and how it has the incredible power to move people . And asking any one composer to take on the monumental task of scoring that notion is a bit of a tall order . Through an unlikely collaboration between
The Fab 50 statue of Joe Gardner in Disney ’ s Hollywood Studios . PHOTO BY LAURIE SAPP
TURNING RED
Speaking of music , Turning Red takes viewers back in time to the peak of the boy band craze of the late ’ 90s and early 2000s . And while Robaire , Jesse , Aaron A ., Aaron T ., and Tae Young ( the crooning members of 4 * Town ) weren ’ t at the special Toronto premiere of the film on March 8 , WDW Magazine ’ s own Aly Sferlazza was .
During the red carpet event , Aly got to wave hello to director Domee Shi — the first woman to solo-direct a Pixar film . Shi was accompanied by actresses Rosalie Chiang ( Meilin ), Sandra Oh ( Ming ), and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ( Priya ), with whom Aly got to bond over their shared home town of Mississauga , Canada .
If you haven ’ t yet watched , Turning Red is streaming exclusively on Disney +. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALY SFERLAZZA