Marco Beltrami
| Marco Beltrami | |
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 Beltrami at ComicCon 2013 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Marco Edward Beltrami |
| Born |
7 October 1966 Long Island, New York |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer best known for his work scoring horror films such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Resident Evil (2002), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011), The Woman in Black (2012). A long-time friend and collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami has scored seven of the director's films including all four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). Beltrami has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma and The Hurt Locker, and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for Soul Surfer (2011).
Life and career
Beltrami was born in 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 legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith.
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.[2] 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.[3] Beltrami composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film November Man.[4]
Beltrami composed the score for the 2015 Fantastic Four film.[5]
Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments like bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.
Collaborations
Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, John Moore, Wes Craven, and Guillermo del Toro.[6] 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 "Leave Me Alone" from the then-unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. 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 possible 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". As a sidenote, "Chinese Democracy" is also the name of a track on Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma.
Discography
Films
1990s
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Death Match | |
| 1995 | The Whispering | |
| The Bicyclist | Short film | |
| 1996 | Inhumanoid | Television film |
| Scream | ||
| 1997 | Stranger in My Home | Television film |
| Mimic | ||
| Scream 2 | ||
| 1998 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Uncredited |
| 54 | ||
| David and Lisa | Television film | |
| The Faculty | ||
| 1999 | The Minus Man | |
| Dybt vand | Television film | |
| The Florentine | Television film | |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Television film | |
| Walking Across Egypt |
2000s
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Goodbye Casanova | |
| The Crow: Salvation | ||
| Scream 3 | ||
| The Incorporated | ||
| The Watcher | ||
| Highway 395 | ||
| Dracula 2000 | ||
| 2001 | Angel Eyes | |
| Joy Ride | ||
| 2002 | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | |
| I Am Dina | ||
| Resident Evil | Shared with Marilyn Manson | |
| Blade II | ||
| 2003 | Dracula II: Ascension | Direct-to-video |
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | ||
| 2004 | Hellboy | |
| I, Robot | ||
| Flight of the Phoenix | ||
| 2005 | Cursed | |
| xXx: State of the Union | ||
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | ||
| Red Eye | ||
| 2006 | Underworld: Evolution | |
| The Omen | ||
| 2007 | Captivity | |
| The Substitute | ||
| The Invisible | ||
| 3:10 to Yuma | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated – World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year | |
| Live Free or Die Hard | ||
| 2008 | The Eye | |
| Amusement | ||
| Max Payne | ||
| Mesrine | Only Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One | |
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | |
| The Hurt Locker | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer | |
| Knowing |
2010s
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Repo Men | |
| Jonah Hex | Shared with Mastodon | |
| My Soul to Take | ||
| 2011 | The Sunset Limited | Television film |
| Soul Surfer | Satellite Award for Best Original Score | |
| Scream 4 | ||
| Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | ||
| The Thing | ||
| 2012 | The Woman in Black | |
| Trouble with the Curve | ||
| The Sessions | ||
| 2013 | Warm Bodies | |
| A Good Day to Die Hard | ||
| Snowpiercer | ||
| World War Z | ||
| The Wolverine | ||
| Carrie | replacing John Powell | |
| The Homesman | ||
| 2014 | The Giver | |
| The November Man | ||
| The Drop | ||
| Seventh Son | Replaced A. R. Rahman and Tuomas Kantelinen | |
| 2015 | The Woman in Black: Angel of Death | With Brandon Roberts and Marcus Trumpp |
| The Gunman | ||
| True Story | ||
| Fantastic Four | With Philip Glass | |
| Hitman: Agent 47 | ||
| No Escape | ||
| The Night Before | With Miles Hawkins | |
| 2016 | Gods of Egypt | |
| The Shallows | ||
| Ben-Hur |
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2009–2011 | V | 22 episodes |
| 2014–present | Turn: Washington's Spies | 10 episodes |
| 2014–present | 1864 (TV series) | 8 episodes |
References
- ↑ http://www.scoretrack.net/beltrami.html
- ↑ Clemmensen, Christian (19 February 2010). "The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami)". Filmtracks.com. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ↑ Clemmensen, Christian (7 July 2011). "Soul Surfer (Marco Beltrami)". Filmtracks.com. Retrieved 11 May 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 11 May 2012.
External links
- Personal website
- Marco Beltrami discography at MusicBrainz
- Marco Beltrami at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography at Movie Music UK
- Marco Beltrami interview at UnderScores : Musique de Film
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