Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, A Quiet Place), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science-fiction (I, Robot, Snowpiercer), animation (Cosmolina, Grimage 2, Grimage 3, Poison: Let There Be Blood) Western (3:10 to Yuma, Jonah Hex, The Homesman), and superhero (Cosmolina, Hellboy, The Wolverine, Logan).
A long-time collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami scored seven of the director's films including the original four Craven-directed films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He has also worked with such directors as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Ole Bornedal, Mamoru Hosoda, Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon-ho, Dan Gilroy, and John Krasinski. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and The Hurt Locker (2008), and a Golden Globe Award for A Quiet Place (2018). He won a Satellite Award for Soul Surfer (2011) and an Emmy Award for Free Solo (2018).
== Early life ==
Beltrami was born on Long Island, New York, of Italian and Greek descent. He attended Ward Melville High School, and afterwards, graduated from Brown University and studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under composer Jerry Goldsmith.
== Career ==
A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first feature in 1994, the thriller Death Match for director Joe Coppolletta, and reached a higher level of public acclaim in 1996 when he wrote the score for Wes Craven's smash hit shocker Scream. Since then, Beltrami has become firmly entrenched as a composer of choice for the horror/thriller and action genre, with the Scream sequels and hit films such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Angel Eyes (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Resident Evil (2002), which he co-composed with Marilyn Manson, Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), I, Robot (2004) and Red Eye (2005) featuring prominently in his resume. Apart from horror/thriller and action, he also scores certain independent films such as The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for the film David and Lisa in 1998, indicating a desire to spread his musical wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing.
He has composed the recent entries in the Die Hard saga, Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard, taking over from Michael Kamen from whom Beltrami used some of the original themes from the previous three films due to Kamen's death in 2003. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma. Despite having met a mixed critical response, he was also nominated, alongside Buck Sanders, for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Score for his score to The Hurt Locker. In 2011, he was met with critical praise and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for his score to the drama film Soul Surfer. Beltrami composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film November Man. He co-composed the score for the 2015 Fantastic Four film with Philip Glass.
Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments such as bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.
== Collaborations ==
Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as Wes Craven, James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, Mamoru Hosoda, John Moore, Jonathan Levine, and John Krasinski. He has also worked with other musicians, including Marilyn Manson (for Resident Evil).
It was reported in October 2002 on Beltrami's official website that he had worked on orchestral arrangements for "Thyme", "The General" and "Elvis Presley and the Monster of Soul" (also known as "Leave Me Alone") from the then-unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. While none of those tracks appear on the final track listing of the album, they were confirmed as being recorded during the sessions with a chance of release in the future. However, he was credited officially for providing arrangements on "Street of Dreams", "Madagascar", "There Was a Time", "This I Love" and "Prostitute". "Chinese Democracy" is also the name of a track on Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma.
== Credits ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Director 	Notes
1994	Death Match 	Joe Coppoletta 	
1995	The Bicyclist 	Robert Stark Hickey 	Short film
1995	The Whispering 	Gregory Gieras 	
1996	Scream 	Wes Craven 	1st of 7 collaborations with Craven
1997	Mimic 	Guillermo del Toro 	1st of 3 collaborations with del Toro
1997	Nightwatch 	Ole Bornedal 	1st of 4 collaborations with Bornedal
Additional scoring; main score by Joachim Holbek
1997	Scream 2 	Wes Craven 	
1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later 	Steve Miner 	Composed with John Ottman
Halloween themes by John Carpenter
1998	54 	Mark Christopher 	
1998	The Faculty 	Robert Rodriguez 	
1999	The Minus Man 	Hampton Fancher 	
1999	The Florentine 	Nick Stagliano 	
1999	The Crow: Salvation 	Bharat Narulli 	
2000	Scream 3 	Wes Craven 	
2000	The Incorprated 	Kenneth Guertin 	
2000	Dracula 2000 	Patrick Lussier 	
2000	The Watcher 	Joe Charbanic 	
2000	Cosmolina 	Mamoru Hosoda 	1st of 3 collaborations with Hosoda
2000	Highway 395 	Fred Dryer 	
2001	Angel Eyes 	Luis Mandoki 	Composed with Michael Sherwood
2001	Joy Ride 	John Dahl 	
2002	The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 	Peter Care 	
2002	I Am Dina 	Ole Bornedal 	
2002	Resident Evil 	Paul W.S. Anderson 	Composed with Marilyn Manson
2002	Blade II 	Guillermo del Toro 	
2003	Cosmolina 2 	Mamoru Hosoda 	
2003	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 	Jonathan Mostow 	
2004	I, Robot 	Alex Proyas 	Replaced Trevor Jones
1st of 3 collaborations with Proyas
2004	Hellboy 	Guillermo del Toro 	
2004	Flight of the Phoenix 	John Moore 	1st of 4 collaborations with Moore
2004	Alien Vs. Predator 	Paul W.S. Anderson 	Rejected score; replaced by Harald Kloser
2005	Cursed 	Wes Craven 	
2005	XXX: State of the Union 	Lee Tamahori 	
2005	The Three Burials of Melquides Estrada 	Tommy Lee Jones 	
2005	Red Eye 	Wes Craven 	
2006	Underworld: Evolution 	Len Wiseman 	Underworld themes by Paul Haslinger
2006	Cosmolina: Payback 	Mamoru Hosoda 	
2006	The Omen 	John Moore 	Omen themes by Jerry Goldsmith
2007	The Substitute 	Ole Bornedal 	
2007	TMNT 	Kevin Munroe 	Rejected score; replaced by Klaus Badelt
2007	Captivity 	Roland Joffé 	
2007	The Invisible 	David S. Goyer 	
2007	3:10 to Yuma 	James Mangold 	1st of 4 collaborations
2007	Live Free or Die Hard 	Len Wiseman 	Die Hard themes by Michael Kamen
2007	The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez 	Kiren Fitzgerald 	Composed with Bobby Flores
2008	The Eye 	David Moreau
Xavier Palud 	
2008	Max Payne 	John Moore 	Composed with Buck Sanders
2008	Amusement 	John Simpson 	
2008	Mesrine 	Jean-François Richet 	Composed with Marcus Trumpp
2009	In the Electric Mist 	Betrand Tevernier 	
2009	The Hurt Locker 	Kathryn Bigelow 	Composed with Buck Sanders
2009	Knowing 	Alex Proyas 	
2010	Repo Men 	Miguel Sapochnik 	
2010	Jonah Hex 	Jimmy Hayward 	Composed with Mastadon
2010	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark 	Troy Nixey 	
2010	My Soul to Take 	Wes Craven 	
2011	Soul Surfer 	Sean McNamara 	
2011	The Thing 	Matthis van Heijningen Jr.	The Thing themes by Ennio Morricone
2011	Scream 4 	Wes Craven 	
2012	Trouble with the Curve 	Robert Lorenz 	
2012	The Woman in Black 	James Watkins 	
2012	The Sessions 	Ben Lewin 	
2013	Warm Bodies 	Jonathan Levine 	Composed with Buck Sanders
1st of 3 collaborations with Levine
2013	A Good Day to Die Hard 	John Moore 	Die Hard themes by Michael Kamen
2013	Snowpiercer 	Bong Joon-ho 	
2013	The Wolverine 	James Mangold 	
2013	World War Z 	Marc Forster 	Composed with Muse
2013	Carrie 	Kimberley Pierce 	Replaced John Debney and John Powell
2014	The Homesman 	Tommy Lee Jones 	
2014	The Giver 	Phillip Noyce 	
2014	The November Man 	Roger Donaldson 	
2014	The Drop 	Michaël R. Roskam 	
2014	Seventh Son 	Sergei Bodrov 	
2014	The Woman in Black: Angel of Death 	Tom Harper 	Composed with Brandon Roberts & Marcus Trumpp
2015	The Gunman 	Pierre Morel 	
2015	Hitman: Agent 47 	Aleksander Bach 	
2015	Fantastic Four 	Josh Trank 	Composed with Philip Glass
2015	True Story 	Rupert Goold 	
2015	No Escape 	John Erick Dowdle 	Composed with Buck Sanders
2015	The Night Before 	Jonathan Levine 	Composed with Miles Hankins
2016	Gods of Egypt 	Alex Proyas 	
2016	The Shallows 	Jaume Collett-Serra 	
2016	Ben-Hur 	Timur Bekmambetov 	
2017	First They Killed My Father 	Angelina Jolie 	
2017	Matilda 	Alekei Uchitel 	
2017	Logan 	James Mangold 	
2017	Little Evil 	Eli Craig 	Composed with Brandon Roberts & Marcus Trumpp
2017	The Snowman 	Tomas Alfredson 	Replaced Jonny Greenwood
2018	A Quiet Place 	John Krasinski 	
2018	Free Solo 	Elizabeth Chai Versahelyi
Jimmy Chin	Composed with Brandon Roberts
2018	The Emperor of Paris 	Jean-François Richet 	Composed with Marcus Trumpp
2019	Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile	Joe Berlinger 	Composed with Dennis Smith
2019	Velvet Buzzsaw 	Dan Gilroy 	Composed with Buck Sanders
2019	Long Shot 	Jonathan Levine 	Composed with Miles Hankins
2019	Ford v Ferrari 	James Mangold 	Composed with Buck Sanders
2019	Gemini Man 	Ang Lee 	Rejected score; replaced by Lorne Balfe
2019	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 	André Øvredal 	Composed with Anna Drubich
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