Marco Beltrami
Marco Beltrami | |
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Beltrami at ComicCon 2013 | |
Background information | |
Born | Long Island, New York, U.S. | October 7, 1966
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
Years active | 1994–present |
Associated acts | Buck Sanders Marcus Trumpp Miles Hankins Brandon Roberts |
Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, A Quiet Place), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science-fiction (I, Robot, Snowpiercer), Western (3:10 to Yuma, Jonah Hex, The Homesman), and superhero (Hellboy, The Wolverine, Logan).
A long-time friend and collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami scored seven of the director's films including all four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He has also worked closely with directors such as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, John Moore, Jonathan Levine, and John Krasinski.
Beltrami has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and The Hurt Locker (2008), and a Golden Globe Award for A Quiet Place (2018). He won a Satellite Award for Soul Surfer (2011).
Early life[]
Beltrami was born on Long Island, New York, of Italian and Greek descent.[1] He attended Ward Melville High School, and afterwards, graduated from Brown University and studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under composer Jerry Goldsmith.[2]
Career[]
A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first feature in 1994, the thriller Death Match for director Joe Coppolletta, and reached a higher level of public acclaim in 1996 when he wrote the score for Wes Craven's smash hit shocker Scream. Since then, Beltrami has become firmly entrenched as a composer of choice for the horror/thriller and action genre, with the Scream sequels and hit films such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Angel Eyes (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Resident Evil (2002), which he co-composed with Marilyn Manson, Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), I, Robot (2004) and Red Eye (2005) featuring prominently in his resume. Apart from horror/thriller and action, he also scores certain independent films such as The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for the film David and Lisa in 1998, indicating a desire to spread his musical wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing.
He has composed the recent entries in the Die Hard saga, Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard, taking over from Michael Kamen from whom Beltrami used some of the original themes from the previous three films due to Kamen's death in 2003. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma. Despite having met a mixed critical response, he was also nominated, alongside Buck Sanders, for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Score for his score to The Hurt Locker.[3] In 2011, he was met with critical praise and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for his score to the drama film Soul Surfer.[4] Beltrami composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film November Man.[5] He co-composed the score for the 2015 Fantastic Four film with Philip Glass.[6]
Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments such as bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.
Collaborations[]
Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, John Moore, Jonathan Levine, and John Krasinski.[7] He has also worked with other musicians, including Marilyn Manson (for Resident Evil).
It was reported in October 2002 on Beltrami's official website that he had worked on orchestral arrangements for "Thyme", "The General" and "Elvis Presley and the Monster of Soul" (also known as "Leave Me Alone") from the then-unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy.[8] While none of those tracks appear on the final track listing of the album, they were confirmed as being recorded during the sessions with a chance of release in the future. However, he was credited officially for providing arrangements on "Street of Dreams", "Madagascar", "There Was a Time", "This I Love" and "Prostitute". "Chinese Democracy" is also the name of a track on Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma.
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1994 | Death Match | Joe Coppoletta | |
1995 | The Whispering | Gregory Gieras | |
The Bicyclist | Robert Stark Hickey | Short film | |
1996 | Scream | Wes Craven | 1st of 7 collaborations with Wes Craven |
1997 | Mimic | Guillermo del Toro | 1st of 3 collaborations with Guillermo Del Toro |
Scream 2 | Wes Craven | 2nd of 7 collaborations with Wes Craven | |
1998 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Steve Miner | Composed with John Ottman Halloween themes by John Carpenter |
54 | Mark Christopher | ||
The Faculty | Robert Rodriguez | ||
1999 | The Minus Man | Hampton Fancher | |
The Florentine | Nick Stagliano | ||
The Crow: Salvation | Bharat Nalluri | ||
2000 | Scream 3 | Wes Craven | 3rd of 7 collaborations with Wes Craven |
The Incorporated | Kenneth Guertin | ||
Dracula 2000 | Patrick Lussier | ||
The Watcher | Joe Charbanic | ||
Highway 395 | Fred Dryer | ||
2001 | Angel Eyes | Luis Mandoki | Composed with Michael Sherwood |
Joy Ride | John Dahl | ||
2002 | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | Peter Care | |
I Am Dina | Ole Bornedal | ||
Resident Evil | Paul W. S. Anderson | Composed with Marilyn Manson | |
Blade II | Guillermo del Toro | 2nd of 3 collaborations with Guillermo Del Toro | |
2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Jonathan Mostow | Terminator themes by Brad Fiedel |
2004 | I, Robot | Alex Proyas | Replaced Trevor Jones 1st of 3 collaborations with Alex Proyas |
Hellboy | Guillermo del Toro | 3rd of 3 collaborations with Guillermo Del Toro | |
Flight of the Phoenix | John Moore | 1st of 4 collaborations with John Moore | |
2005 | Cursed | Wes Craven | 4th of 7 collaborations with Wes Craven |
XXX: State of the Union | Lee Tamahori | ||
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Tommy Lee Jones | ||
Red Eye | Wes Craven | 5th of 7 collaborations with Wes Craven | |
2006 | Underworld: Evolution | Len Wiseman | Underworld themes by Paul Haslinger |
The Omen | John Moore | Omen themes by Jerry Goldsmith 2nd of 4 collaborations with John Moore | |
2007 | The Substitute | Ole Bornedal | |
TMNT | Kevin Munroe | Rejected score Replaced by Klaus Badelt | |
Captivity | Roland Joffé | ||
The Invisible | David S. Goyer | ||
3:10 to Yuma | James Mangold | 1st of 4 collaborations with James Mangold | |
Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | Die Hard themes by Michael Kamen | |
2008 | The Eye | David Moreau Xavier Palud |
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Max Payne | John Moore | Composed with Buck Sanders 3rd of 4 collaborations with John Moore | |
Amusement | John Simpson | ||
Mesrine | Jean-François Richet | Composed with Marcus Trumpp | |
2009 | In the Electric Mist | Bertrand Tavernier | |
The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | Composed with Buck Sanders | |
Knowing | Alex Proyas | 2nd of 3 collaborations with Alex Proyas | |
2010 | Repo Men | Miguel Sapochnik | |
Jonah Hex | Jimmy Hayward | Composed with Mastodon | |
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | Troy Nixey | Composed with Buck Sanders | |
My Soul to Take | Wes Craven | 6th of 7 collaborations with Wes Craven | |
2011 | Soul Surfer | Sean McNamara | |
The Thing | Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | The Thing themes by Ennio Morricone | |
Scream 4 | Wes Craven | 7th of 7 collaborations with Wes Craven | |
2012 | Trouble with the Curve | Robert Lorenz | |
The Woman in Black | James Watkins | ||
The Sessions | Ben Lewin | ||
2013 | Warm Bodies | Jonathan Levine | Composed with Buck Sanders |
A Good Day to Die Hard | John Moore | Die Hard themes by Michael Kamen 4th of 4 collaborations with John Moore | |
Snowpiercer | Bong Joon-ho | ||
The Wolverine | James Mangold | 2nd of 4 collaborations with James Mangold | |
World War Z | Marc Forster | Composed with Muse | |
Carrie | Kimberly Peirce | Replaced John Debney | |
2014 | The Homesman | Tommy Lee Jones | |
The Giver | Phillip Noyce | ||
The November Man | Roger Donaldson | ||
The Drop | Michaël R. Roskam | ||
Seventh Son | Sergei Bodrov | ||
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death | Tom Harper | Composed with Brandon Roberts & Marcus Trumpp | |
2015 | The Gunman | Pierre Morel | |
Hitman: Agent 47 | Aleksander Bach | ||
Fantastic Four | Josh Trank | Composed with Philip Glass | |
True Story | Rupert Goold | ||
No Escape | John Erick Dowdle | Composed with Buck Sanders | |
The Night Before | Jonathan Levine | Composed with Miles Hankins | |
2016 | Gods of Egypt | Alex Proyas | 3rd of 3 collaborations with Alex Proyas |
The Shallows | Jaume Collet-Serra | ||
Ben-Hur | Timur Bekmambetov | ||
2017 | First They Killed My Father | Angelina Jolie | |
Matilda | Alexei Uchitel | ||
Logan | James Mangold | Replaced Cliff Martinez 3rd of 4 collaborations with James Mangold | |
Little Evil | Eli Craig | Composed with Brandon Roberts & Marcus Trumpp | |
The Snowman | Tomas Alfredson | Replaced Jonny Greenwood | |
2018 | A Quiet Place | John Krasinski | |
Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Jimmy Chin |
Composed with Brandon Roberts | |
The Emperor of Paris | Jean-François Richet | Composed with Marcus Trumpp | |
2019 | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Joe Berlinger | Composed with Dennis Smith |
Velvet Buzzsaw | Dan Gilroy | Composed with Buck Sanders | |
Long Shot | Jonathan Levine | Composed with Miles Hankins | |
Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold | Composed with Buck Sanders 4th to 4 collaborations with James Mangold | |
Gemini Man | Ang Lee | Rejected score Replaced by Lorne Balfe | |
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | André Øvredal | Composed with Anna Drubich | |
2020 | Underwater | William Eubank | Composed with Brandon Roberts |
A Quiet Place Part II | John Krasinski | ||
Love and Monsters | Michael Matthews | Composed with Marcus Trumpp | |
The Way I See It | Dawn Porter | Composed With Buck Sanders & Brandon Roberts | |
2021 | Chaos Walking | Doug Liman | Composed with Brandon Roberts |
Fear Street Part One: 1994 | Leigh Janiak | Composed with Marcus Trumpp | |
Fear Street Part Two: 1978 | Composed with Brandon Roberts | ||
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 | Composed with Anna Drubich & Marcus Trumpp | ||
Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Andy Serkis | Post-production |
Television[]
Year | Title | Notes |
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1995 | Land's End | 13 episodes |
1996 | Inhumanoid | Television film |
1997 | Stranger in My Home | |
Dellaventura | 1 episode | |
1998 | David and Lisa | Television film |
1999 | Deep Water | |
Tuesdays with Morrie | ||
2000 | Goodbye Casanova | |
2002 | Glory Days | 9 episodes |
2000–04 | The Practice | 85 episodes |
2009–11 | V | 22 episodes |
2011 | The Sunset Limited | Television film |
2014 | 1864 | Miniseries |
2014–17 | Turn: Washington's Spies | 40 episodes |
2015–16 | Lucifer | Theme music and 13 episodes |
2017–18 | Six | 18 episodes |
2019 | The Twilight Zone | 10 episodes |
Video games[]
Year | Title | Notes |
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2017 | Fortnite | Theme music and Additional music |
Awards and nominations[]
Award
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Wins
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Nominations |
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N/A | 2 |
N/A | 1 | |
N/A | 1 | |
1 | 1 |
Industry awards[]
Academy Awards[]
Year | Category | Work | Result |
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2008 | Best Original Score | 3:10 to Yuma | Nominated |
2010 | Best Original Score | The Hurt Locker | Nominated |
Golden Globes[]
Year | Category | Work | Result |
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2019 | Best Original Score | A Quiet Place | Nominated |
Primetime Emmy Awards[]
Year | Category | Work | Result |
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1999 | Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special | David and Lisa | Nominated |
2019 | Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special | Free Solo | Won |
AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score
- 2016: Gods of Egypt (nominated)
César Award for Best Original Music
- 2009: Mesrine (nominated)Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
- 2019: Free Solo (nominated)
Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Score
- 1998: Mimic (nominated)
- 2002: Joy Ride (nominated)
- 2005: Hellboy (nominated)
- 2013: The Woman in Black (nominated)
Fright Meter Award for Best Score
- 2012: The Woman in Black (nominated)
- 2018: A Quiet Place (nominated)
Grand Bell Award for Best Music
- 2013: Snowpiercer (nominated)
Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score
- 2018: Free Solo (nominated)
- 2019: Ford v. Ferrari (won)
Satellite Award for Best Original Score
- 2011: Soul Surfer (won)
- 2019: Ford v. Ferrari (nominated)
Critics awards[]
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score
- 2008: 3:10 to Yuma (nominated)
Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score
- 2019: A Quiet Place (nominated)
Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Music
- 2017: Gods of Egypt (nominated)
Hawaii Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score
- 2019: A Quiet Place (nominated)
Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score
- 2008: 3:10 to Yuma (nominated)
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 6, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ I, Robot "Two-disc Collector's Edition" DVD / Blu-ray isolated score with composer's commentary (transcription unavailable)
- ^ Clemmensen, Christian (February 19, 2010). "The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami)". Filmtracks.com. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ^ Clemmensen, Christian (July 7, 2011). "Soul Surfer (Marco Beltrami)". Filmtracks.com. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ^ "Marco Beltrami Scoring 'November Man'". Film Music Reporter. December 3, 2013.
- ^ "Marco Beltrami to Score 'The Fantastic Four' Reboot". Film Music Reporter. January 6, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
- ^ Clemmensen, Christian. "Marco Beltrami (1966–)". Filmtracks.com. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ^ "2002: Chinese Whispers / 2002 / GNR Evolution - Guns N Roses Forum". www.gnrevolution.com.
External links[]
- Personal website
- Marco Beltrami discography at MusicBrainz
- Marco Beltrami at IMDb
- Biography at Movie Music UK
- Marco Beltrami interview at UnderScores : Musique de Film
- 1966 births
- American film score composers
- American people of Greek descent
- American people of Italian descent
- Brown University alumni
- La-La Land Records artists
- Living people
- American male film score composers
- Thornton School of Music alumni
- Varèse Sarabande Records artists
- Ward Melville High School alumni
- Yale School of Music alumni