# Deborah Lurie

Deborah Ruth Lurie (born March 9, 1974) is an American composer, arranger, and music producer. She has scored several films such as Sleepover (2004), An Unfinished Life, Mozart and the Whale, (both 2005), Sydney White (2007), Dear John (2010), One for the Money (2012), Safe Haven (2013), and Poms (2019). She has been a string arranger for musicians such as Brandi Carlile, Kelly Clarkson, Allison Iraheta, Adam Lambert, and Katy Perry. Lurie has also been a string arranger for several rock bands such as 3 Doors Down, Bon Jovi, Creed, Halestorm, Papa Roach, Simple Plan, The All-American Rejects, and Three Days Grace, though her best known collaborations have been with Hoobastank and Theory of a Deadman.
In 2015, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded Lurie the Shirley Walker Award for her contributions to the diversity of film and television music. She was one of the composers interviewed in Score: A Film Music Documentary. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences extended membership to Lurie in 2016 for her contributions to motion pictures.

## Filmography
### Composer

| Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) | Notes |
| 1997 | The Promise | Matthew Barry | — | Short film |
| 1998 | Hercules: The Animated Series | Phil Weinstein | Walt Disney Television Animation Buena Vista Television | Additional music |
| 1999 | Evil Hill | Ryan Schifrin | — | Short film |
| 1999 | George Lucas in Love | Joe Nussbaum | MediaTrip.com | Short film |
| 1999 | Best Man in Grass Creek | John Newcombe | — | — |
| 2001 | Bubble Boy | Blair Hayes | Buena Vista Pictures Touchstone Pictures | Additional music |
| 2003 | View from the Top | Bruno Barreto | Brad Grey Pictures Miramax Films | Additional music Uncredited |
| 2004 | My Baby's Daddy | Cheryl Dunye | Miramax Brillstein-Grey Entertainment Immortal Entertainment | Additional music |
| 2004 | My Name Is Modesty | Scott Spiegel | Miramax Films | — |
| 2004 | Sleepover | Joe Nussbaum | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | — |
| 2004 | Imaginary Heroes | Dan Harris | Sony Pictures Classics | — |
| 2005 | Drop Dead Sexy | Michael Philip | Lionsgate | — |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Tim Burton | Warner Bros. Pictures The Zanuck Company Plan B Entertainment Village Roadshow Pictures | Additional music |
| 2005 | An Unfinished Life | Lasse Hallström | Miramax Films Revolution Studios | — |
| 2005 | Mozart and the Whale | Petter Næss | Millennium Films Nu Image | — |
| 2006 | Deep Sea 3D | Howard Hall | Warner Bros. Pictures IMAX Corporation | Composed with Danny Elfman IMAX film |
| 2006 | Whirlygirl | Jim Wilson | All the Way Round Inc. | — |
| 2006 | The Year Without a Santa Claus | Ron Underwood | — | Television film |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Gary Winick | Paramount Pictures Kerner Entertainment Company Walden Media Nickelodeon Movies | Additional music |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Bill Condon | Laurence Mark Productions DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures | Additional music |
| 2007 | Sydney White | Joe Nussbaum | Universal Pictures Morgan Creek Productions | — |
| 2007 | The Little Traitor | Lynn Roth | Westchester Films Inc. | — |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | Sam Raimi | Columbia Pictures Marvel Entertainment Laura Ziskin Productions | Additional music |
| 2008 | Wanted | Timur Bekmambetov | Universal Pictures Spyglass Entertainment Relativity Media Marc Platt Productions Kickstart Productions Top Cow Productions | Additional music |
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Guillermo del Toro | Universal Studios Relativity Media Lawrence Gordon Productions Dark Horse Entertainment | Additional music |
| 2008 | The Betrayed | Amanda Gusack | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | — |
| 2009 | Dance Flick | Damien Dante Wayans | Paramount Pictures MTV Films Wayans Brothers | Additional music |
| 2009 | Spring Breakdown | Ryan Shiraki | Warner Premiere | — |
| 2009 | 9 | Shane Acker Prod: Tim Burton | Focus Features Relativity Media Starz Animation Tim Burton Productions | Themes by Danny Elfman |
| 2009 | More Than a Game | Kristopher Belman | Lionsgate | Additional music |
| 2010 | Dear John | Lasse Hallström | Screen Gems Relativity Media | — |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Tim Burton | Walt Disney Pictures Roth Films The Zanuck Company Team Todd | Additional music |
| 2011 | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | Jon M. Chu | Paramount Pictures MTV Films Scooter Braun Films L.A. Reid Media AEG Live Island Def Jam Music Group | — |
| 2011 | Prom | Joe Nussbaum | Walt Disney Pictures Rickshaw Productions | — |
| 2011 | Footloose | Craig Brewer | Paramount Pictures Spyglass Entertainment MTV Films | — |
| 2012 | One for the Money | Julie Anne Robinson | Lionsgate Lakeshore Entertainment Sidney Kimmel Entertainment | — |
| 2012 | The Dictator | Larry Charles | Paramount Pictures Four By Two Films | Additional music |
| 2012 | Katy Perry: Part of Me | Dan Cutforth Jane Lipsitz | Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies Perry Productions AEG Live EMI Music Columbia Pictures Imagine Entertainment | — |
| 2012 | Fun Size | Josh Schwartz | Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies Anonymous Content Fake Empire | — |
| 2013 | Safe Haven | Lasse Hallström | Relativity Media Temple Hill Entertainment | — |
| 2014 | Murder of a Cat | Gillian Greene Prod: Sam Raimi | Seine Pictures | — |
| 2015 | Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List | Kristin Hanggi | Quiver | — |
| 2015 | The Astronaut Wives Club | Prod: Stephanie Savage | ABC Studios Fake Empire Groundswell Productions | 10 episodes |
| 2015 | Invisible Sister | Paul Hoen | Disney Channel | Television film |
| 2016 | Urban Cowboy | Craig Brewer | 20th Century Fox Television | — |
| 2016 | The Deal | Daniel S. Kaminsky Prod: Joss Whedon | Circadian Pictures | Short film |
| 2016 | Just Add Magic | Joe Nussbaum | Amazon Studios Pictures in a Row Grasshopper Lane Entertainment | Season 1: 13 episodes, with Zack Ryan Season 2: 26 episodes, with Zack Ryan |
| 2016 | Newtown | Kim A. Snyder | — | Additional music |
| 2017 | Speech & Debate | Dan Harris | Sycamore Pictures | — |
| 2019 | Poms | Zara Hayes | Entertainment One STX Entertainment | — |

### Arranger/Producer

* The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (song arranger)
* Annie (additional arranger)
* Mystic Manor (arranger, music by Danny Elfman)
* Much Ado About Nothing (arranger/producer, score by Joss Whedon)
* Fame (song arranger)
* Bad Santa (song arranger)
* Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (song arranger)

### Orchestrations

* Men in Black 3 (score by Danny Elfman)
* The X-Files: I Want to Believe (score by Mark Snow)
* The Curse of El Charro (score by Rich Ragsdale)
* X2 (score by John Ottman)
* Urban Legends: Final Cut (score by John Ottman)
* Crazy in Alabama (score by Mark Snow)
* Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (score by John Ottman)
* The X-Files (score by Mark Snow)
* Dexter's Laboratory (add. orch., score by Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker)
* The Day Lincoln Was Shot (score by Mark Snow)
* Barney's Great Adventure (add. orch., score by Van Dyke Parks)

## String Arranger

2002
* Gabriel Mann, Tug of War
* The Buzzhorn, Disconnected
2003
* Hoobastank, The Reason
* Adema, Unstable
* Cold, Year of the Spider
2005
* The All-American Rejects, Move Along
* Vendetta Red, Sisters of the Red Death
2006
* Daughtry, Daughtry
* Hoobastank, Every Man for Himself
* Hoobastank, DVD - Live at La Cigale
* Papa Roach, The Paramour Sessions
* Caleb Kane, Go Mad
* Three Days Grace, One-X
* Peter Bradley Adams, Gather Up
2008
* Paul Freeman, You and I
* The All-American Rejects, When the World Comes Down
* Third Day, Revelation
* Theory of a Deadman, Scars & Souvenirs
2009
* Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment
* All American Rejects, Soundtrack 90210
* Allison Iraheta, Just Like You
* Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted
* Daughtry, Leave This Town
* Creed, Full Circle
* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Lonely Road
* Katy Perry,Thinking of You live on Ellen and MTV Unplugged
* Halestorm, Halestorm
2010
* Bon Jovi, "What Do You Got?"
* Hawthorne Heights, Skeletons
2011
* 3 Doors Down, Time of My Life
* Theory of a Deadman, The Truth Is...
* Kelly Clarkson, Stronger
* Christina Perri, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Soundtrack
2013
* Brandi Carlile, Safe Haven Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2014
* Theory of a Deadman, Savages
2015
* Theory of a Deadman
2016
* Simple Plan, Taking One for the Team