Mark Mancina

Mark Mancina
Mark Mancina
Background information
Birth name	Mark Alan Mancina
Genres	Film score, television score, rock, pop, progressive rock
Occupation(s)	Composer, producer, arranger, musician
Instruments	Guitar, piano
Years active	1987–present
Associated acts	Trevor Rabin, Hans Zimmer, Phil Collins
Website	mark-mancina.com

Mark Mancina is an American film score composer, musician, arranger, and producer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures,^[1] Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including Speed, Bad Boys, Twister, Tarzan, Training Day, Brother Bear, Criminal Minds, Blood+, and Moana.^[2]

He has made several collaborations with The Walt Disney Company, and has won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Annie Award for Brother Bear. For his work on the Disney Theatrical Productions adaptation of The Lion King, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score in a Musical.^[3]

Career[]

Mancina has worked primarily as a composer for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Nick Glennie-Smith and Lebo M. for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He composed the score for the thriller Twister (1996) and the action films Speed (1994) and Bad Boys (1995). Mancina co-wrote several songs for Hanna-Barbera's 1990 animated film Jetsons: The Movie.

Mancina collaborated with John Van Tongeren to write the theme to the 1995 revival of The Outer Limits. They both scored ten episodes for the first season of the show. He collaborated with Phil Collins on two Disney animated feature films, Tarzan (for which soundtrack he and Collins received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album) and Brother Bear. Mancina wrote the arrangement of "When You Wish Upon A Star" in 2006 for the current Walt Disney Pictures logo.

Mancina composed the music for the 2005–06 anime television series Blood+, which had music produced by Hans Zimmer.^[4] Additionally in television, he composed score for Criminal Minds and Soldier Of Fortune, Inc.

Mancina has contributed to a number of progressive rock projects. He toured with Rabin in support of Can't Look Away and went on to produce tracks on the Yes album Union. He has also worked with Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

With playwright Glen Berger, Mancina has written a musical based on the film August Rush, for which he had written the score. Mancina and Berger cowrote the lyrics for the musical, with Mancina writing the music and Berger writing the book. Under the direction of John Doyle, it received its world premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois in May 2019.^[5]

Although he did not participate in the 2020 film Bad Boys for Life, his original theme for Bad Boys is used heavily throughout the film as well as the end credits.

Personal life[]

He resides in Carmel, California, with his wife and daughter. Trained as a classical guitarist, he is an avid guitar player and rare instrument collector.^[6]

Discography[]

Film[]

1980s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Notes
1987	Mankillers	David A. Prior	Composed with Tim James and Steven McClintock
1987	Code Name Vengeance	David Winters
1988	Death Chase	David A. Prior
	Night Wars	David A. Prior
	Space Mutiny	David Winters Neal Sundstrom
1989	Hell on the Battleground	David A. Prior
1989	Future Force	David A. Prior	Composed with Steven McClintock

1990s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Notes
1990	The Lost Platoon	David A. Prior	Composed with Tim James and Steven McClintock
	Crossing the Line	Gary Graver
	Days of Thunder	Tony Scott	As composer of additional music Score composed by Hans Zimmer
1991	Where Sleeping Dogs Lie	Charles Finch	Composed with Hans Zimmer
1993	Sniper	Luis Llosa	As composer of additional music Score composed by Gary Chang & Hans Zimmer
1993	True Romance	Tony Scott	As composer of additional music Score composed by Hans Zimmer
1994	Monkey Trouble	Franco Amurri
	The Lion King	Roger Allers Rob Minkoff	As composer of additional music & choral arranger Score composed by Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice & Elton John Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children
	Speed	Jan de Bont
1995	Man of the House	James Orr
	Bad Boys	Michael Bay
	Assassins	Richard Donner
	Fair Game	Andrew Sipes
	Money Train	Joseph Ruben
1996	Twister	Jan de Bont
1996	Moll Flanders	Pen Densham
1997	Con Air	Simon West	Composed with Trevor Rabin
1997	Speed 2: Cruise Control	Jan de Bont
1998	Return to Paradise	Joseph Ruben
1999	Tarzan	Chris Buck Kevin Lima	Composed with Phil Collins Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

2000s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Notes
2000	Auggie Rose	Matthew Tabak	Composed with Don L. Harper
2000	Bait	Antoine Fuqua
2001	Training Day	Antoine Fuqua
2001	Domestic Disturbance	Harold Becker
2003	The Reckoning	Paul McGuigan	Composed with Adrian Lee
	Brother Bear	Aaron Blaise Robert Walker	Composed with Phil Collins Nominated- Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature Production
	The Haunted Mansion	Rob Minkoff
2005	Asylum	David Mackenzie
2005	Tarzan II	Brian Smith	Composed with Phil Collins & David Metzger
2006	Scary Movie 4	David Zucker	Rejected score. Replaced by James L. Venable
2007	Shooter	Antoine Fuqua
2007	August Rush	Kirsten Sheridan	Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Music
2008	Camille	Gregory Mackenzie
2009	Imagine That	Karey Kirkpatrick
2009	Hurricane Season	Tim Story

2010s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Notes
2013	Penthouse North	Joseph Ruben
2013	Planes	Klay Hall	Nominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film
2014	Planes: Fire & Rescue	Bobs Gannaway
2016	Moana	Ron Clements John Musker	Composed with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i of the group Te Vaka Nominated- Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated- Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film Nominated- Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in an Animated Film Nominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film

2020s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Notes
2020	Bad Boys for Life	Adil El Arbi Bilall Fallah	Credited as composer of original Bad Boys theme
2021	Cry Macho	Clint Eastwood

Television[]

Year	Title	Notes
1992	Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World	Documentary series; 11 episodes
1993	Taking Liberty	Television film
1993	Lifepod	Television film
1993–94	Space Rangers	6 episodes
1995–2000	The Outer Limits	18 episodes & theme music Nominated- CableACE Award for Best Score in a Series
1997	Poltergeist: The Legacy	Episode: "The Choice"
1997–98	Soldier of Fortune, Inc.	20 episodes & theme music
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Miniseries; 1 episode
1998	Houdini	Television film
1999	The Strip	10 episodes & theme music
2005–06	Blood+	Anime; 50 episodes
2005–09	Criminal Minds	88 episodes & theme music
2006	A House Divided	Television film

Theatre[]

Year	Title	Notes
1997–present	The Lion King	Composed with Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice, Elton John, Lebo M., Jay Rifkin & Julie Taymor Nominated- Tony Award for Best Original Score

Video games[]

Year	Title	Notes
2009	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	Composed with Lorne Balfe & Hans Zimmer Additional music Nominated- BAFTA Games Awards for Best Original Score Nominated- BAFTA Games Awards for Best Audio Nominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score for Interactive Media
2012	Sorcery

References[]

^ "Hans-Zimmer.com – Mark Mancina". www.hans-zimmer.com. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
^ "TTSP #55: Composer Mark Mancina on the Music of Moana, Tarzan, and The Lion King". Tomorrow Society. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
^ "The Music of The Lion King: A 20th Anniversary Conversation with Rob Minkoff and Mark Mancina – Part III". projector & orchestra. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
^ "Hans Zimmer And Mark Mancina Do Blood+ Music". Anime News Network. 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
^ Hetrick, Adam (March 21, 2019). "John Doyle Assembles Creative Team for World Premiere of August Rush Musical". Playbill.
^ May, Meredith (2013-06-07). "Vintage guitars of Rumble Seat Music". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-08-03.

External links[]

The Music of Mark Mancina (official website)
Mark Mancina at IMDb
BroadwayWorld.com interview with Mark Mancina, November 26, 2007

[1] "Hans-Zimmer.com – Mark Mancina". www.hans-zimmer.com. Retrieved 2019-07-30.

[2] "TTSP #55: Composer Mark Mancina on the Music of Moana, Tarzan, and The Lion King". Tomorrow Society. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2019-07-30.

[3] "The Music of The Lion King: A 20th Anniversary Conversation with Rob Minkoff and Mark Mancina – Part III". projector & orchestra. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2019-07-30.

[4] "Hans Zimmer And Mark Mancina Do Blood+ Music". Anime News Network. 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2007-12-18.

[5] Hetrick, Adam (March 21, 2019). "John Doyle Assembles Creative Team for World Premiere of August Rush Musical". Playbill.

[6] May, Meredith (2013-06-07). "Vintage guitars of Rumble Seat Music". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-08-03.

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show v t Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children
1994–2002	Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Alan Menken, Tim Rice (producers) and Various Artists (1994) The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Chris Thomas, Hans Zimmer (producers) and Various Artists (1995) Sleepy Time Lullabys – Barbara Bailey Hutchison (1996) Dedicated to the One I Love – Linda Ronstadt (1997) All Aboard! – John Denver (1998) Elmopalooza! – Various Artists (1999) The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland – Various Artists (2000) Woody's Roundup: A Rootin' Tootin' Collection of Woody's Favorite Songs – Riders in the Sky (2001) Elmo & the Orchestra – Various Artists (2002)
2003–2011	Monsters, Inc. Scream Factory Favorites – Riders in the Sky (2003) Bon Appétit! – Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer (2004) cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins – Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer (2005) Songs from the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers – Various Artists (2006) – Dan Zanes and Friends (2007) The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas – The Muppets (2008) Here Come the 123s – They Might Be Giants (2009) Family Time – Ziggy Marley (2010) Tomorrow's Children – Pete Seeger (2011)
In 2012, the category was merged back into Best Children's Album.

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