Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey on 10 October 1967, Michael Giacchino was
obsessed with the cinema as a child, recording movies on an audio cassette tape
and listening back to them late at night. He also spent his childhood making
animated films with their own accompanying soundtracks, before combining his two
loves by studying film production at New York's School of Visual Arts and music
at the Julliard School. Gradually working his way through the ranks at Universal
and then Disney, he started making music for video games and got his big break
when Steven Spielberg allow...