Germaine Franco

Germaine Franco is an American film composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger, record producer, and percussionist.[1] Franco is the first woman to score a Disney animated feature film with Encanto (2021),[2] for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe,[3] an SCL Award,[4] an Annie Award,[5] and an Academy Award for Best Original Score.[6] She is also the first Latina to be nominated for the latter award, as well as the first to join the music branch of the Academy.[7]

Germaine Franco
Franco at the 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Franco at the 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Background information
GenresFilm score, ambient, classical, tango
Occupation(s)Composer, songwriter
InstrumentsPiano, keyboards, percussion, accordion, guitar
Years active2007–present
Website

In 2018, Univision named Franco one of the Top 15 Latinas who are changing the world.[8] Other film and television scores Franco has contributed to include Coco (2017), Tag (2018), Dope (2015), Vida (2018), Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019), and Little (2019).[9][10] Her work has been performed at concert halls such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall with The Los Angeles Master Chorale,[11] The Puerto Rico Symphony, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra, and The Chicago Philharmonic, among others.

Early life

Franco began composing as a student at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where she graduated in 1984.[12][13] She is of Mexican American descent.[14]

Filmography
Year Title Director Notes
2007 3 Américas Cristina Kotz Cornejo —
2009 Entre Nos Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte
A Crushing Love Sylvia Morales
2010 Visions of Aztlan Jesus Salvador Treviño
2012 Margarita Dominique Cardona
Laurie Colbert		 —
2013 Living on One Dollar Zach Ingrasci, Sean Leonard, and Chris Temple
2014 The Book of Life Jorge Gutierrez
East LA Interchange Betsy Kalin composer: additional music
2015 Dope Rick Famuyiwa Nominated — Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Score
2016 Shovel Buddies Adam Townley
Simon Atkinson		 —
2017 Coco Lee Unkrich Score composed by Michael Giacchino
Additional music and Songwriter with Adrian Molina and Giacchino
Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production (Shared with Giacchino, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, and Molina)
Walk with Me: On The Road With Thich Nhat Hanh Marc Francis, Max Pugh
Coco VR Experience
Motiongate Steve Hickner & Gary Trousdale
2018 Tag Jeff Tomsic —
Public Disturbance Danny Lee —
Kung Fu Panda: The Emperor's Quest Steve Hickner & Gary Trousdale
Chiefs Zenta Fuentes Composed with John Debney
Life-Size 2 Steven K. Tsuchida
Vida Various
2019 Epcot Center: The Music of Coco Music Producer, Arranger and Curator
Little Tina Gordon —
Someone Great Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Dora and the Lost City of Gold James Bobin Composed with John Debney
Curious George: Royal Monkey Doug Murphy —
The Casagrandes Miguel Puga
Mike Nordstrom		 Main Titles Theme Composer/Songwriter;
Score Composed by Jonathan Hylander
The Loud House Michael Rubiner Songwriter/Composer – "Greatest One Of All Time"
2020 Work It Laura Terruso —
The Sleepover Trish Sie —
Curious George: Go West, Go Wild Michael LaBash —
2021 Encanto[15] Byron Howard
Jared Bush		 Composer
Songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production
Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Original Score
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
2023 The Mother[16] Niki Caro —

References
  1. "Spotlight on Germaine Franco (Film Score Composer) | Heavyocity". Heavyocity Media. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. "Encanto Composer Germaine Franco on the New Disney Classic". 25 January 2022.
  3. https://www.ascap.com/news-events/articles/2021/12/golden-globe-noms-2022
  4. "Diane Warren, Nicholas Britell and Jonny Greenwood Lead Society of Composers & Lyricists Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. 4 January 2022.
  5. "Disney's 'Raya and the Last Dragon' Leads 49th Annie Awards with 10 Nominations". 21 December 2021.
  6. Giardina, Carolyn (8 February 2022). "Why Encanto Earned 3 Oscar Nods But None for "Bruno"". The Hollywood Reporter. PMRC.
  7. "Germaine Franco Talks Scoring 'Tag' & The Lack of Female Composers in Hollywood: 'It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's Made of Cement'". Billboard. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  8. "Germaine Franco: For bringing Mexican music to the big screen".
  9. "Interview with Germaine Franco :: Film Music Magazine". Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  10. "Dora and the Lost City of Gold". People en Español. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  11. "Composer".
  12. ago, Lynell George • 1 month (14 October 2020). "High Scores". Rice Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  13. Schweiger, Daniel (13 June 2018). "Interview with Germaine Franco". Film Music Magazine: A Global Media Online Publication. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  14. "We should talk about history-making, Oscar-nominated 'Encanto' composer Germaine Franco". Los Angeles Times. 22 March 2022.
  15. "Germaine Franco Scoring Disney's 'Encanto'". filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  16. "Germaine Franco Scoring Niki Caro's 'The Mother'". Film Music Reporter. 1 May 2023.

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