# Dan Romer

Dan Romer is an American film composer, music producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles.

## Career

As a film composer, Romer's scores include four-time Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beasts of No Nation, Chasing Coral, Gleason, The Good Doctor and the Emmy-winning Jim: The James Foley Story. His score for the HBO miniseries Station Eleven was also nominated for an Emmy in 2022. Romer scored the Ubisoft video game Far Cry 5 released on March 27, 2018.
He has produced music for numerous artists including A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera, whose single "Say Something", topped charts around the world, hit 6× Platinum, sold over seven million copies, and won a 2015 Grammy. Dan co-produced "Treat You Better" by Shawn Mendes which reached No. 1 on the iTunes chart and No. 3 on the US Top 40 pop radio charts in September 2016. Romer composed the score to the Pixar animated feature film, Luca, which was the most-watched streaming film of 2021, with over 10.6 billion minutes watched. He worked with Justin Paul on the incidental underscore for Stephen Chbosky's 2021 film adaptation of Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen. He scored the superhero drama television series Superman & Lois (2021–24).

## Discography
### As composer
#### Film

| Year | Title | Director | Awards | Notes |
| 2007 | Death to the Tinman | Ray Tintori | Winner of 2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Filmmaking Award | Short film |
| 2008 | Glory at Sea | Benh Zeitlin | Winner of 2008 Boston Independent Film Festival; Winner of 2008 CineVegas International Film Festival; Winner of 2008 SXSW Film Festival; Winner of 2008 Woodstock Film Festival | Short film |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin | Nominated for 4 Academy Awards at the 85th Academy Awards | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin |
| 2012 | Sleepwalking in the Rift | Cary Fukunaga | | Short film |
| 2014 | The Last Season | Sara Dosa | Winner of San Francisco International Film Festival | Documentary |
| 2014 | The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger | Michael Lukk Litwak | Winner of 2014 First Run Festival; Winner of 2014 The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival | Short film |
| 2014 | The Organization | Michael Lukk Litwak | | Short film |
| 2014 | Tomorrow We Disappear | Jim Goldblum, Adam M. Weber | Winner of 2014 EBS International Documentary Festival; Winner of 2014 Philadelphia Film Festival; Winner of 2015 Florida Film Festival | Documentary |
| 2015 | Beasts of No Nation | Cary Joji Fukunaga | | |
| 2015 | Digging for Fire | Joe Swanberg | | |
| 2015 | Finders Keepers | Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel | Winner of Traverse City Film Festival; Winner of 2015 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards; Winner of 2016 Cinema Eye Honors Awards | Documentary |
| 2015 | Mediterranea | Jonas Carpignano | Winner of 2015 Gotham Awards; Winner of Istanbul International Film Festival; Winner of Munich Film Festival | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin |
| 2015 | Napoleon in Exile | Michael Lukk Litwak | | Short film |
| 2015 | Stryka | Emily Carmichael | | Short film |
| 2015 | Walter | Anna Mastro | | |
| 2016 | Gleason | Clay Tweel | Winner of 2016 SXSW Film Festival; Winner of 2016 Montclair Film Festival; Winner of 2016 Seattle International Film Festival | Documentary |
| 2016 | Jim: The James Foley Story | Brian Oakes | Winner of 2016 Emmy for Exceptional Documentary | Documentary |
| 2016 | Katie Says Goodbye | Wayne Roberts | Winner of 2016 Stockholm Film Festival; Winner of 2017 Manchester International Film Festival | |
| 2017 | A Ciambra | Jonas Carpignano | Winner of Europa Cinemas Label Award | |
| 2017 | Brimstone & Glory | Viktor Jakovleski | Winner of Golden Gate Award | Documentary |
| 2017 | Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski | Winner of 2017 Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Documentary | Documentary |
| 2017 | Freak Show | Trudie Styler | | |
| 2017 | Shot in the Dark | Dustin Nakao-Haider | | Documentary |
| 2017 | The Little Hours | Jeff Baena | | |
| 2017 | Win It All | Joe Swanberg | | |
| 2018 | Krystal | William H. Macy | | |
| 2018 | Zoe | Drake Doremus | | |
| 2019 | Skin | Guy Nattiv | | |
| 2020 | Wendy | Benh Zeitlin | | |
| 2021 | A Chiara | Jonas Carpignano | | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin |
| 2021 | Ciao Alberto | McKenna Jean Harris | | |
| 2021 | Dear Evan Hansen | Stephen Chbosky | Nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards | Incidental score; co-composed with Justin Paul |
| 2021 | Luca | Enrico Casarosa | Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 94th Academy Awards; Winner of People's Choice Award for The Family Movie of 2021 | |
| 2023 | Crater | Kyle Patrick Alvarez | | Co-composed with Osei Essed |
| 2023 | Genie | Sam Boyd | | |
| 2023 | Mustache | Imran J. Khan | | |
| 2023 | Woman of the Hour | Anna Kendrick | | |
| 2025 | Death of a Unicorn | Alex Scharfman | | Replaced John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies; co-composed with Giosuè Greco |
| 2025 | Lilo & Stitch | Dean Fleischer Camp | | |

#### Television

| Year | Title | Creator(s) | Developer(s) | Awards | Notes |
| 2016–2019 | Easy | Joe Swanberg | — | — | Episodes "Controlada" and "Chemistry Read" |
| 2017–2021 | Atypical | Robia Rashid | — | — | — |
| 2017–2024 | The Good Doctor | — | David Shore | Winner of an ASCAP Screen Music Award | — |
| 2018 | Maniac | Patrick Somerville | Cary Joji Fukunaga Patrick Somerville | — | — |
| 2019–present | Ramy | Ramy Youssef Ari Katcher Ryan Welch | — | — | Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo |
| 2020–2021 | Love Life | Sam Boyd | — | — | Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo |
| 2021–2024 | Superman & Lois | — | Greg Berlanti Todd Helbing | — | — |
| 2021–2022 | Station Eleven | Patrick Somerville | — | Emmy Nominee (Original Score in a Limited Series) | — |
| 2022 | Little Demon | Darcy Fowler Seth Kirschner Kieran Valla | — | — | Composed with John Zarcone |

#### Video games

| Year | Title | Publisher | Awards | Notes |
| 2018 | Far Cry 5 | Ubisoft | | |

### Music producer

| Year | Song | Artist | Certifications |
| 2004 | Coalmine | The Woes |
| 2005 | Batten the Hatches | Jenny Owen Youngs |
| 2009 | Transmitter Failure | Jenny Owen Youngs |
| 2009 | Everybody | Ingrid Michaelson |
| 2010 | Songs for a Sinking Ship | April Smith and the Great Picture Show |
| 2012 | Safe Travels | Jukebox the Ghost |
| 2013 | "Say Something" | A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera | RIAA: 6× Platinum, ARIA: 4× Platinum, MC: 6× Platinum, RMNZ: 2× Platinum, GLF: 2× Platinum, BPI: 1× Platinum, IFPI: 1× Platinum |
| 2014 | Is There Anybody Out There? | A Great Big World | The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 3. |
| 2014 | Jukebox the Ghost | Jukebox the Ghost |
| 2015 | When the Morning Comes | A Great Big World | US Billboard No. 75 |
| 2016 | "Treat You Better" | Shawn Mendes | RIAA: 3× Platinum, MC: Platinum, ARIA: 3× Platinum, BPI: Platinum, FIMI: 3× Platinum |
| 2018 | "We Can Do Better" | Matt Simons |
| 2021 | Dear Evan Hansen | Various artists | Nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards |