# Mark Mancina

Mark Mancina (born 1957) is an American film composer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures, Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including Speed, Bad Boys, Twister, Tarzan, Training Day, Brother Bear, Criminal Minds, Blood+, Planes, and Moana.
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.

## 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 and composed the arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 2006 to 2022 for the previous Walt Disney Pictures logo and was co-arranged with and orchestrated by David Metzger. Furthermore, he composed the music of the Disneynature logo, as well as co-composing the music of the 2013 DisneyToon Studios logo with Metzger.
Mancina composed the music for the 2005–06 anime television series Blood+, which had music produced by Hans Zimmer. 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 Trevor Rabin in support of Can't Look Away and went on to produce tracks on the Yes album Union in 1991. He worked with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, as he coproduced their 1992 album, Black Moon, and he also wrote one song Burning Bridges on this record.
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.
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.

## Discography
### Film
#### 1980s

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

#### 1990s

| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
| 1990 | The Lost Platoon | David A. Prior | Action International Pictures | Composed with Tim James and Steven McClintock |
| 1990 | Crossing the Line | Gary Graver | Epic Productions RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video VCL Communications | |
| 1990 | Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Paramount Pictures | As composer of additional music Score composed by Hans Zimmer |
| 1991 | Where Sleeping Dogs Lie | Charles Finch | Sotela Pictures August Entertainment | Composed with Hans Zimmer |
| 1993 | Sniper | Luis Llosa | Baltimore Pictures Iguana Producciones Sniper Productions TriStar Pictures (North America) Odyssey Entertainment (International) | As composer of additional music Score composed by Gary Chang & Hans Zimmer |
| 1993 | True Romance | Tony Scott | Morgan Creek Productions Davis Films A Band Apart Warner Bros. | As composer of additional music Score composed by Hans Zimmer |
| 1994 | Monkey Trouble | Franco Amurri | Percy Main Effe Productions Victor Company of Japan Ridley Scott Productions New Line Cinema | |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Roger Allers Rob Minkoff | Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Feature Animation | As composer of additional music & choral arranger Score composed by Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice & Elton John Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children |
| 1994 | Speed | Jan de Bont | The Mark Gordon Company 20th Century Fox | |
| 1995 | Man of the House | James Orr | Walt Disney Pictures All Girl Productions Orr & Cruickshank Productions | |
| 1995 | Bad Boys | Michael Bay | Columbia Pictures Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films | |
| 1995 | Assassins | Richard Donner | Silver Pictures Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions Warner Bros. | |
| 1995 | Fair Game | Andrew Sipes | Silver Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| 1995 | Money Train | Joseph Ruben | Columbia Pictures Peters Entertainment | |
| 1996 | Twister | Jan de Bont | Warner Bros. (North America) Universal Pictures (International) Amblin Entertainment | |
| 1996 | Moll Flanders | Pen Densham | Trilogy Entertainment Group Spelling Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| 1997 | Con Air | Simon West | Touchstone Pictures Jerry Bruckheimer Films | Composed with Trevor Rabin |
| 1997 | Speed 2: Cruise Control | Jan de Bont | Blue Tulip Productions 20th Century Fox | |
| 1998 | Return to Paradise | Joseph Ruben | Propaganda Films PolyGram Filmed Entertainment | |
| 1999 | Tarzan | Kevin Lima Chris Buck | Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Feature Animation | Composed with Phil Collins Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media |

#### 2000s

| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
| 2000 | Auggie Rose | Matthew Tabak | Franchise Pictures Roxie Releasing 20th Century Fox Home Video | Composed with Don L. Harper |
| 2000 | Bait | Antoine Fuqua | Warner Bros. Pictures Castle Rock Entertainment | |
| 2001 | Training Day | Antoine Fuqua | Warner Bros. Pictures Village Roadshow Pictures Outlaw Productions | |
| 2001 | Domestic Disturbance | Harold Becker | Paramount Pictures | |
| 2003 | Brother Bear | Aaron Blaise Robert Walker | Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Feature Animation | Composed with Phil Collins Nominated- Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature Production |
| 2003 | The Haunted Mansion | Rob Minkoff | Walt Disney Pictures | |
| 2004 | The Reckoning | Paul McGuigan | Kanzaman M.D.A. Films S.L. Renaissance Films Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (Spain) Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom) | Composed with Adrian Lee |
| 2005 | Asylum | David Mackenzie | Momentum Pictures | |
| 2005 | Tarzan II | Brian Smith | Walt Disney Home Entertainment | Composed with Phil Collins & David Metzger; Direct-to-video |
| 2007 | Shooter | Antoine Fuqua | Paramount Pictures di Bonaventura Pictures | |
| 2007 | August Rush | Kirsten Sheridan | Southpaw Entertainment CJ Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures (North America) Odyssey Entertainment (International) | Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Music |
| 2008 | Camille | Gregory Mackenzie | A-Mark Entertainment Ruddy Morgan Productions National Entertainment Media | |
| 2009 | Imagine That | Karey Kirkpatrick | Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies Di Bonaventura Pictures Goldcrest Pictures Internationale Filmproduktion Stella-del-Sud III GmbH Ko. | |
| 2009 | Hurricane Season | Tim Story | Dimension Films The Weinstein Company | |

#### 2010s

| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
| 2013 | Penthouse North | Joseph Ruben | Dimension Films (United States) Lionsgate (International) Demarest Films TAJJ Media Bunk 11 Pictures Kilburn Media | |
| 2013 | Planes | Klay Hall | Walt Disney Pictures Disneytoon Studios | Nominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film |
| 2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue | Bobs Gannaway | Walt Disney Pictures Disneytoon Studios | |
| 2016 | Moana | John Musker Ron Clements | Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Animation Studios | Composed with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i of 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) | Studio(s) | Notes |
| 2020 | Bad Boys for Life | Adil El ArbiBilall Fallah | Columbia Pictures 2.0 Entertainment Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Overbrook Entertainment | Credited as composer of original Bad Boys theme |
| 2021 | Cry Macho | Clint Eastwood | Malpaso Productions Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| 2022 | The Sea Beast | Chris Williams | Netflix Netflix Animation | |
| 2024 | Juror No. 2 | Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros. Pictures Dichotomy Films Gotham Group Malpaso Productions | |
| 2024 | Moana 2 | Jason Hand Dana Ledoux Miller David Derrick Jr. | Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Animation Studios | Composed score & songs with Opetaia Foa'i, Abigail Barlow & Emily Bear |

### 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 | |