What is Alan Silvestri’s Net Worth?

Alan Silvestri is a composer, conductor, and music producer who has a net worth of $40 million. Alan Silvestri is known for his film scores. In addition to composing the music for almost every feature film by director Robert Zemeckis, notably, “Back to the Future,” Alan has scored such films as “Predator,” “The Abyss,” “The Parent Trap,” “Van Helsing,” and most of the Marvel “Avengers” movies. Silvestri has earned Academy Award nominations as well as Grammy and Emmy Award wins for his work.

Early Life and Education

Alan Silvestri was born on March 26, 1950 in New York City and was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey. He is of Italian descent. After graduating from Teaneck High School in 1968, Silvestri attended Berklee College of Music for two years.

Film Scoring

In 1970, Silvestri moved to Los Angeles with no money and no plans. Two years later, while working on-and-off as a session guitarist, he was asked to score the low-budget action film “The Doberman Gang.” Despite his lack of experience as a composer, Silvestri took on the project, making it his first official film score. Over the remainder of the decade, he scored such films as “Las Vegas Lady” and “The Fifth Floor.” Silvestri got his big break in 1984 when he composed the score for Robert Zemeckis’s hit romantic adventure film “Romancing the Stone.” He would go on to compose the music for all of Zemeckis’s subsequent films, such as “Back to the Future,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “Forrest Gump,” “Contact,” “Cast Away,” “The Polar Express,” and “Allied.” Silvestri earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for “Forrest Gump,” and received a Best Original Song nomination for the song “Believe” from “The Polar Express.” For “Believe,” he won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Beyond his work with Zemeckis in the 1980s, Silvestri scored such diverse films as “Summer Rental,” “American Anthem,” “Predator,” “Overboard,” “Mac and Me,” and “The Abyss.” In the early 1990s, he had credits on “Downtown,” “Young Guns II,” “Shattered,” “Soapdish,” “Father of the Bride,” “The Bodyguard,” “Cop and a Half,” and “Grumpy Old Men,” among many other films. During the latter half of the decade, Silvestri did the scores for such titles as “The Quick and the Dead,” “Sgt. Bilko,” “Eraser,” “Volcano,” “Mouse Hunt,” “The Parent Trap,” “Practical Magic,” and “Stuart Little.” He continued to be prolific in the ’00s, with credits including “Reindeer Games,” “The Mexican,” “Lilo & Stitch,” “Van Helsing,” “Night at the Museum,” and “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.”

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In the early 2010s, Silvestri scored his first Marvel Comics superhero movie, “Captain America: The First Avenger.” The film was a huge success. He went on to score the Marvel movies “The Avengers” (2012), “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018), and “Avengers: Endgame” (2019). For the latter two, Silvestri earned Grammy Award nominations for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, respectively. His other credits during the decade included “The A-Team,” “The Croods,” “Red 2,” and “Ready Player One.” In the 2020s, Silvestri composed his 20th score for Robert Zemeckis, for the 2024 film “Here.” He later returned to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to score “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars.” Meanwhile, Silvestri composed the music for Anthony and Joe Russo’s “The Electric State” and Shane Black’s “Play Dirty,” both released in 2025.

Television Scoring

Silvestri’s first major television project was the NBC crime drama series “CHiPs,” which he scored from 1978 to 1983 as the show’s main composer. In the latter year, he did the music for the short-lived NBC superhero series “Manimal.” Later in the decade, Silvestri contributed scores to some episodes of the anthology series “Amazing Stories” and “Tales from the Crypt.”

In 2014, Silvestri composed the score to the science documentary series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” a followup to Carl Sagan’s famous 1980 series. For his work, he earned two Emmy Awards: Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series. Silvestri returned to score the followup series “Cosmos: Possible Worlds,” which aired in 2020.

Personal Life

With his wife Sandra, whom he married in 1978, Silvestri has a daughter and two sons. He and his wife own Silvestri Vineyards in Carmel Valley, California. Silvestri is also a licensed pilot, and flies his own jets.

Carmel Estate

In February 1989, Alan and Sandra paid $1.7 million for a 15-acre property in Carmel, California that features a 12,000-square-foot mansion from 1921. In January 2025, they listed the estate for $16.8 million. Here is a video tour: