Elliot Goldenthal

**Elliot Goldenthal** (born May 2, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American composer of modern classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano. Goldenthal is best known for his ability to blend different musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways.

## Movie works

- 1979 - _Cocaine Cowboys_
- 1980 - _Blank Generation_
- 1989 - _Drugstore Cowboy score_
- 1989 - _Pet Sematary score_
- 1991 - _Grand Isle_
- 1992 - _Fools Fire_ _(TV)_ - _directed by Julie Taymor_
- 1992 - _Alien³ score_
- 1993 - _Demolition Man score_
- 1993 - _Golden Gate score_
- 1994 - _Interview with the Vampire score_
- 1994 - _Roswell_ _(TV)_
- 1994 - _Cobb score_
- 1995 - _Batman Forever score_
- 1995 - _Heat score_
- 1996 - _Michael Collins score_
- 1996 - _A Time to Kill score_
- 1997 - _The Butcher Boy score_
- 1997 - _Batman & Robin_ _(score not commercially released)_
- 1998 - _In Dreams score_
- 1998 - _Sphere score_
- 1999 - _Titus score_ - _movie directed by Julie Taymor_
- 2001 - _Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within score_
- 2002 - _Frida score_ - _movie directed by Julie Taymor_
- 2002 - _The Good Thief score_
- 2003 - _S.W.A.T. score_
- 2007 - _Across the Universe soundtracks_ - _movie directed by Julie Taymor_

## Concert Music Works

- 1980 - Brass Quintet No. 1, Brass Quintet No. 2 (No. 2 has been recorded recently by Extension Ensemble, New York)
- 1988 - Pastime Variations
- 1990 - Shadow Play Scherzo
- 1996 - Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio (recorded in 1995, featuring Yo Yo Ma)

## Theatre Works

- Play _"The King Stag"_ (1984 production of Carlo Gozzi's play by Andrei Serban)
- Musical _"Liberty's Taken"_ (an original 1985 musical co-created with David Suehsdorf and Julie Taymor)
- Musical _"The Transposed Heads"_ (adapted in 1986 by Sidney Goldfarb and Julie Taymor from the novel by Thomas Mann)
- Play (Commedia) _"The Serpent Woman"_ (1988 production of Carlo Gozzi's Commedia)
- Musical _"Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass"_ (1988 off-Broadway, reworked and recorded for Broadway in 1996)
Co-Bookwriter, lyricist, arranger of the Latin text.
- Ballet _"Othello"_ (a 1998 ballet with choreography by Lar Lubovitch)
- Musical _"The Green Bird"_ (1999 on Broadway production of production of Carlo Gozzi's work)
Stage director: Julie Taymor
- Opera _"Grendel"_ (opened 2006 June at Los Angeles Opera; not released on CD yet as of August 2007)
Libretto: Julie Taymor and J D. McClatchy, after the novel _Grendel_ by John Gardner, and the poem _Beowulf_
Stage director: Julie Taymor

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Award||Subject|category|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1996|Academy Awards||_Michael Collins_|Best Original Score|
|Golden Globe||_Michael Collins_|Best Original Score||
|ASCAP awards||_Batman Forever_|Top Box Office Film Score||
|1997|Tony Awards||_Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass_ (Broadway Production)|Best Original Musical Score|
|ASCAP awards||_A Time to Kill_|Top Box Office Film Score||
|Grammy Awards||"Defile and Lament" (<small> from _A Time to Kill_</small>)|||
|1998|ASCAP awards||_Batman & Robin_|Top Box Office Film Score|
|Chicago Film Critics Awards||_The Butcher Boy_|Best Original Score||
|LA Film Critics||_The Butcher Boy_|Best Original Score||
|1999|CFCA awards||_The Butcher Boy_|Best Original Score|
|2002|Academy Awards||_Frida_|Best Original Score|
|Academy Awards||"Burn It Blue" <small>(from _Frida_)</small>|Best Original Song||
|Golden Globes||_Frida_|Best Original Score||
|rowspan=4|World Soundtrack Awards||||"The Dream Within"<small> (from _Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within_)</small>||Best Original Song Written for a Film||||
|2003||_Frida_|Best Original Soundtrack of the Year||
||_Frida_|Soundtrack Composer of the Year|||
||"Burn It Blue" <small> (from "_Frida_)</small>|Best Original Song Written for a Film|||
|2004|Emmy Awards||_Great Performances: Dance in America_|Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special|
|ASCAP Awards||_S.W.A.T._|Top Box Office Film Score||
|2007|Pulitzer Prize for Music||_Grendel_ (opera)||

## Other websites

- Elliot Goldenthal at Variety.com
- Elliot Goldenthal at the Internet Broadway Dabatase
- "A Website for the Composer"
- Elliot Goldenthal at SoundtrackNet
- Elliot Goldenthal at Moviemusicuk.us
- Elliot Goldenthal at Theoscarsite.com
- Elliot Goldenthal at the All Music Guide
- An Interview with both Taymor and Goldenthal at their apartment in New York with the New York Times
- An interview with Goldenthal about his 'Titus' and 'Heat' scores et al.
- An interview with him on his score for Frida and other scores.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Elliot Goldenthal
- **background**: non_vocal_instrumentalist
- **birth name**: Elliot Goldenthal
- **image**: Film music goldenthal.jpg
- **caption**: Elliott Goldenthal in 2014
- **birth place**: Brooklyn, New York City, United States, U.S.
- **genre**: Classical (music), Classical, Avante Garde, movie score, Opera, Oratorio, Musical theatre, Musical, Experimental Music, Experimental
- **occupation**: Composer ,Book (musical theater), Bookwriter, lyrics, Lyricist, Musician, Music producer, Theatrical producer
- **years active**: 1979 - present
- **label**: Sony Classical
Varese Sarabande
Atlantic Records
- **website**: [http://goldenthal.filmmusic.com/ "Goldenthal.filmmusic.com"]