page_title: Alex Ebert
section_title: Movie soundtracking
hierarchical_section_title: Alex Ebert / Career / Movie soundtracking
caption_attribution_description: English: Alex Ebert performing with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros in San Diego
context_page_description: Alexander Michael Tahquitz Ebert is an American singer-songwriter and composer. He is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American bands Ima Robot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. On January 12, 2014, Ebert won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for his musical score to the film All Is Lost.
context_section_description: His song "Bad Bad Love" was the opening song for the 2011 remake of Fright Night, starring Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin.
  Ebert also scored J. C. Chandor's film, All Is Lost starring Robert Redford for which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
  Ebert's song "Truth" is featured in the credits of the Oscar-winner short live-action film Curfew.
  Ebert also contributed the score to the Oscar-winning Disney animated short film "Feast," which screened in theatres before Big Hero 6.
  He reunited with Chandor to score the latter's 2014 film A Most Violent Year.
  Ebert's song "Home" with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is featured in the film Stuck in Love.
  Ebert's song "STD Dance" with Ima Robot is included in the soundtrack for the (2006) film Grandmas Boy.
  Ebert's song "Glimpses" is featured in the 2019 film Honey Boy.
caption: Alex Ebert performing with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, California on November 3, 2009.
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