Bill Conti

Sound

1942-04-13 · Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

Bill Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American composer and conductor. He is best known for his film scores, including Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), The Next Karate Kid (1994), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Dynasty (and its sequel The Colbys), and The Right Stuff (1983), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky and for the title song of For Your Eyes Only. He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times.

Filmography

Philadelphia by the Delaware

2025 · Movie

Stallone: Frank, That Is

2021 · Movie

40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic

2020 · Movie

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

2017 · Movie

The Real Love

2012 · Movie

The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance

2011 · Movie

The Perfect Game

2009 · Movie

Role Model: Gene Wilder

2008 · Movie

Rocky Balboa

2006 · Movie

Staccato: A Composer's Notebook with Bill Conti

2006 · Movie

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

2004 · Movie

Coast to Coast

2004 · Movie

Judas

2004 · Movie

Boys on the Run

2003 · Movie

Avenging Angelo

2002 · Movie

Tortilla Soup

2001 · Movie

American Tragedy

2000 · Movie

The Bond Sound: The Music of 007

2000 · Movie

Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles

2000 · Movie

Inferno

1999 · Movie

The Thomas Crown Affair

1999 · Movie

Winchell

1998 · Movie

The Real Macaw

1998 · Movie

Wrongfully Accused

1998 · Movie

Inside the Golden Statue

1998 · Movie

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996 · Movie

Spy Hard

1996 · Movie

Bushwhacked

1995 · Movie

Napoleon

1995 · Movie

The Scout

1994 · Movie

Yellowstone

1994 · Movie

The Next Karate Kid

1994 · Movie

8 Seconds

1994 · Movie

Rookie of the Year

1993 · Movie

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993 · Movie

Bound by Honor

1993 · Movie

Nails

1992 · Movie

By the Sword

1991 · Movie

Necessary Roughness

1991 · Movie

Year of the Gun

1991 · Movie

Under Cover

1991 · Movie

Rocky V

1990 · Movie

Backstreet Dreams

1990 · Movie

The Operation

1990 · Movie

The Fourth War

1990 · Movie

A Captive in the Land

1990 · Movie

Lock Up

1989 · Movie

The Karate Kid Part III

1989 · Movie

Tales from the Crypt

1989 · Series

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

1989 · Movie

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989 · Movie

Lean On Me

1989 · Movie

Cohen and Tate

1989 · Movie

Dolphin Cove

1989 · Series

Betrayed

1988 · Movie

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

1988 · Movie

For Keeps

1988 · Movie

Broadcast News

1987 · Movie

Baby Boom

1987 · Movie

A Prayer for the Dying

1987 · Movie

Masters of the Universe

1987 · Movie

Happy New Year

1987 · Movie

I Love N.Y.

1987 · Movie

The Karate Kid Part II

1986 · Movie

Big Trouble

1986 · Movie

Nomads

1986 · Movie

F/X

1986 · Movie

The Boss' Wife

1986 · Movie

The Colbys

1985 · Series

North and South

1985 · Series

Beer

1985 · Movie

Gotcha!

1985 · Movie

The Master Ninja 5

1985 · Movie

Mass Appeal

1984 · Movie

The Coolangatta Gold

1984 · Movie

The Bear

1984 · Movie

The Karate Kid

1984 · Movie

Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets

1984 · Movie

Unfaithfully Yours

1984 · Movie

The Master

1984 · Series

Master Ninja

1984 · Movie

Master Ninja II

1984 · Movie

The Right Stuff

1983 · Movie

The Big Chill

1983 · Movie

Emerald Point N.A.S.

1983 · Series

The Terry Fox Story

1983 · Movie

Bad Boys

1983 · Movie

That Championship Season

1982 · Movie

Farrell: For the People

1982 · Movie

Split Image

1982 · Movie

And They're Off

1982 · Movie

Rocky III

1982 · Movie

I, the Jury

1982 · Movie

Cagney & Lacey

1982 · Series

Traveling Hopefully

1982 · Movie

Neighbors

1981 · Movie

Falcon Crest

1981 · Series

Carbon Copy

1981 · Movie

For Your Eyes Only

1981 · Movie

Escape to Victory

1981 · Movie

Dynasty

1981 · Series

The Formula

1980 · Movie

Private Benjamin

1980 · Movie

Gloria

1980 · Movie

The Swap

1979 · Movie

Goldengirl

1979 · Movie

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

1979 · Movie

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979 · Movie

Rocky II

1979 · Movie

The Fantastic Seven

1979 · Movie

Dreamer

1979 · Movie

Slow Dancing In The Big City

1978 · Movie

The Big Fix

1978 · Movie

Paradise Alley

1978 · Movie

Five Days from Home

1978 · Movie

An Unmarried Woman

1978 · Movie

F.I.S.T.

1978 · Movie

Cher... Special

1978 · Movie

Ring of Passion

1978 · Movie

Uncle Joe Shannon

1978 · Movie

The Pirate

1977 · Series

Kill Me If You Can

1977 · Movie

A Sensitive, Passionate Man

1977 · Movie

Citizens Band

1977 · Movie

The Displaced Person

1977 · Movie

Rocky

1976 · Movie

Love in the Hamptons

1976 · Movie

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1976 · Movie

Smash-Up on Interstate 5

1976 · Movie

Pacific Challenge

1975 · Movie

Harry and Tonto

1974 · Movie

Blume in Love

1973 · Movie

Orfeo 9

1973 · Movie

Juliette de Sade

1969 · Movie

The Oscars

1953 · Series

Roselli’s Way

Movie