# Klaus Badelt

Klaus Badelt (born 12 June 1967) is a German composer, producer, and arranger of film scores. He is known for his collaborations with Hans Zimmer, helping to write scores for dozens of critically acclaimed films including The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt, and Gladiator. Independently, he is known for his work on Hollywood blockbuster films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Equilibrium, Catwoman, K-19: The Widowmaker, Basic, and TMNT, and for his work in French and Chinese cinema as well as a number of films by Werner Herzog.

## Life and career

Badelt was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. He started his musical career composing for movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer invited Badelt to work at Media Ventures in Santa Monica, California, his studio co-owned by Jay Rifkin. Since then, Badelt has been working on a number of his own film and television projects such as The Time Machine and K-19: The Widowmaker. He also collaborated with other Media Ventures composers, such as Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, and Zimmer; and mentored several others like Ramin Djawadi and Daniel Rojas.
While collaborating with Zimmer, Badelt contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, and wrote music for many well known directors and producers including Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Terrence Malick, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Werner Herzog, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg.
Badelt co-wrote and co-produced the score to Hollywood box office hit Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, along with Zimmer and singer/composer Lisa Gerrard. Having contributed music to Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2 and Michael Kamen's score for X-Men, Badelt was involved in the three most successful movies in 2000. Badelt also collaborated with Zimmer on other successful films, such as The Pledge, and 2001 blockbusters Hannibal and Pearl Harbor. One of his more famous and popular scores was for the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
In 2004, Badelt founded his own film music company, Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica. Since then, he has scored films such as Constantine, Poseidon, Rescue Dawn, Premonition, and TMNT.
Among Badelt's most critically celebrated scores are the Chinese fantasy film The Promise and DreamWorks' remake of The Time Machine, the latter of which earned him the Discovery of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards 2003. He also wrote the music for the closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and was commissioned to write an opera about China's First Emperor, to be premiered in 2015.
Badelt worked on the soundtrack for The Promise for almost 6 months. The song which can be heard in the movie's end credits is an ancient folk song in China, and very few people can still sing it. For that, Badelt traveled almost two weeks in China to find someone who was able to sing the whole folk song in order to rearrange it for the score.
Badelt founded the digital film distribution startup Filmhub to create a platform for content creators to list their titles and get deals with global streaming services. Under the leadership of Badelt and CEO Alan d'Escragnolle, Filmhub now enables thousands of filmmakers to directly distribute to more than 100 streaming channels such as IMDb TV, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, and Plex. In 2021, Filmhub was recognized by Variety as "a dynamic disruptor in the distribution space."

## Filmography
### Film
#### As score composer

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1998 | The Polar Bear | Til Schweiger Granz Henman | Composed with Henning Lohner |
| 2001 | Invincible | Werner Herzog | Composed with Hans Zimmer |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Sean Penn | Composed with Hans Zimmer |
| 2001 | Extreme Days | Eric Hannah | Composed with TobyMac |
| 2002 | The Time Machine | Simon Wells | World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Kathryn Bigelow | |
| 2002 | Teknolust | Lynn Hershman Leeson | Composed with Ramin Djawadi |
| 2002 | Equilibrium | Kurt Wimmer | |
| 2003 | The Recruit | Roger Donaldson | |
| 2003 | Ned Kelly | Gregor Jordan | Composed with Bernard Fanning |
| 2003 | Basic | John McTiernan | |
| 2003 | The In-Laws | Andrew Fleming | Composed with James S. Levine |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Gore Verbinski | Replaced Alan Silvestri ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Music Nominated- Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score Nominated- World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year |
| 2003 | Beat the Drum | David Hickson | Composed with Ramin Djawadi |
| 2004 | Catwoman | Pitof | Replaced Graeme Revell Nominated- Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Most Intrusive Musical Score |
| 2005 | Constantine | Francis Lawrence | Composed with Brian Tyler ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film Nominated- IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film |
| 2005 | The Promise | Chen Kaige | |
| 2006 | 16 Blocks | Richard Donner | |
| 2006 | Ultraviolet | Kurt Wimmer | |
| 2006 | Poseidon | Wolfgang Petersen | |
| 2006 | Rescue Dawn | Werner Herzog | Composed with Ernst Reijseger |
| 2007 | Premonition | Mennan Yapo | |
| 2007 | Redline | Andy Cheng | Composed with Ian Honeyman & Andrew Raiher |
| 2007 | TMNT | Kevin Munroe | Replaced Marco Beltrami |
| 2007 | Skid Row | Ross Clarke Niva Dorell Marshall Tyler | Documentary film Composed with Craig Eastman |
| 2008 | Dragon Hunters | Guillaume Ivernel Arthur Qwak | |
| 2008 | Starship Troopers 3: Marauder | Edward Neumeier | Themes by Basil Poledouris |
| 2008 | The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior | Russell Mulcahy | |
| 2008 | Anything for Her | Fred Cavayé | |
| 2008 | Killshot | John Madden | |
| 2009 | Solomon Kane | M.J. Bassett | |
| 2009 | Little Nicholas | Laurent Tirard | |
| 2010 | Heartbreaker | Pascal Chaumeil | |
| 2010 | The Extra Man | Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini | |
| 2010 | 22 Bullets | Richard Berry | |
| 2010 | Among Wolves | Gerardo Olivares | Composed with Andrew Raiher |
| 2010 | Shanghai | Mikael Håfström | |
| 2010 | Point Blank | Fred Cavayé | |
| 2010 | Small World | Bruno Chiche | Composed with Jean-Michel Bernard |
| 2010 | Waking Madison | Katherine Brooks | |
| 2010 | Dylan Dog: Dead of Night | Kevin Munroe | |
| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Dmitry Vasyukov Werner Herzog | Documentary film |
| 2011 | The Prodigies | Antoine Charreyron | |
| 2011 | The Floating Shadow | Jia Dongshuo | |
| 2011 | Jock the Hero Dog | Duncan MacNeillie | Composed with Ian Honeyman |
| 2011 | Seven Days in Utopia | Matt Russell | Composed with Christopher Carmichael |
| 2011 | Rebellion | Mathieu Kassovitz | |
| 2011 | The Oranges | Julian Farino | Composed with Andrew Raiher |
| 2011 | War of the Buttons | Yann Samuell | |
| 2012 | 30° couleur | Lucien Jean-Baptiste Philippe Larue | |
| 2012 | Shanghai Calling | Daniel Hsia | Composed with Christopher Carmichael |
| 2012 | Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia | Laurent Tirard | |
| 2012 | A Perfect Plan | Pascal Chaumeil | |
| 2014 | Supercondriaque | Dany Boon | |
| 2014 | The Identical | Dustin Marcellino | Composed with Christopher Carmichael |
| 2014 | Le Père Noël | Alexandre Coffre | |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | Werner Herzog | |
| 2016 | Radin! | Fred Cavayé | |
| 2016 | The Warriors Gate | Matthias Hoene | |
| 2017 | Leap! | Éric Summer Éric Warin | |
| 2017 | Legend of the Demon Cat | Chen Kaige | Composed with Misha Segal |

#### As composer of additional music

| Year | Title | Director | Composer |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Brenda Chapman Steve Hickner Simon Wells | Hans Zimmer Stephen Schwartz |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | Hans Zimmer |
| 1999 | Chill Factor | Hugh Johnson | Hans Zimmer John Powell |
| 1999 | The Devil and Ms. D | Bernd Eichinger | Henning Lohner |
| 2000 | The Tigger Movie | Jun Falkenstein | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | Bibo Bergeron Don Paul | Hans Zimmer John Powell |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Ridley Scott | Hans Zimmer Lisa Gerrard |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | John Woo | Hans Zimmer |
| 2000 | X-Men | Bryan Singer | Michael Kamen |
| 2000 | King of the Jungle | Seth Zvi Rosenfeld | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Ridley Scott | Hans Zimmer |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | Hans Zimmer |
| 2004 | Wimbledon | Richard Loncraine | Edward Shearmur |
| 2006 | Miami Vice | Michael Mann | John Murphy |
| 2009 | Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Ian Honeyman |
| 2015 | Help, I Shrunk My Teacher | Sven Unterwaldt, Jr. | Leland Cox Karim Sebastian Elias |
| 2017 | Lilly's Bewitched Christmas | Wolfgang Groos | Anne-Kathrin Dern |

### Television

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1994-95 | Peter Strohm | 10 episodes |
| 1997-98 | Tatort | 16 episodes |
| 2000 | The Others | Theme music; 13 episodes |
| 2004 | Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King | Television film |
| 2007 | Random! Cartoons | Episode: "Kyle + Rosemary" |
| 2008 | The Charlemagne Code [de] | Television film |
| 2010 | Spear of Destiny [de] | Television film |
| 2010 | Ein Haus voller Töchter | 35 episodes |
| 2010 | Tatort Internet | 10 episodes |
| 2011 | Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis | Television film |
| 2013-14 | Lanfeust Quest | 26 episodes |
| 2014 | Halo: Nightfall | Miniseries |
| 2018 | BaseBoys | 2 episodes |

### Other

* Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony

### Video Games

* MotorStorm: Apocalypse (video game)
* Lords Mobile (video game)

## Awards

| Year | Category | Project | Result |
| 2001 | Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score | Gladiator | Nominated |
| 2002 | World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year | The Time Machine | Won |
| 2004 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Won |
| 2004 | Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Best Music | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Nominated |
| 2004 | Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Nominated |
| 2004 | World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Nominated |
| 2005 | International Film Music Critics Association: Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film | Constantine | Nominated |
| 2006 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films | Constantine | Won |
| 2008 | German Television Awards Best Music | Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen | Nominated |
| 2009 | Rhode Island International Film Festival Crystal Image Award | N/A | Won |