Marco Belrami

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Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York of Italian and Greek descent.[1] 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 legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith.
A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first movie 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 movies 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. One of his recent works include Live Free or Die Hard, the fourth installment in the Die Hard tetralogy, for which Beltrami used some of Michael Kamen's 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.[2] 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.[3]
Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments like bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.
Collaborations
Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as Len Wiseman, John Moore, Wes Craven, and Guillermo del Toro.[4] 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 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 possible 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. As a sidenote, 'Chinese Democracy' is also the name of a track on Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma.
Discography
Films
1990s
Year 	Title 	Notes
1994 	Death Match 	
1995 	The Whispering 	
1995	The Bicyclist 	Short film
1996 	Inhumanoid 	Television film
1996	Scream 	
1997 	Stranger in My Home 	Television film
1997	Mimic 	
1997	Scream 2 	
1998 	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later 	Uncredited
1998	54 	
1998	David and Lisa 	Television film
1998	The Faculty 	
1999 	The Minus Man 	
1999	Dybt vand 	Television film
1999	The Florentine 	Television film
1999	Tuesdays with Morrie 	Television film
1999	Walking Across Egypt 	
2000s
Year 	Title 	Notes
2000 	Goodbye Casanova 	
2000	The Crow: Salvation 	
2000	Scream 3 	
2000	The Incorporated 	
2000	The Watcher 	
2000	Highway 395 	
2000	Dracula 2000 	
2001 	Angel Eyes 	
2001	Joy Ride 	
2002 	The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 	
2002	I Am Dina 	
2002	Resident Evil 	
2002	Blade II 	
2003 	Dracula II: Ascension 	Direct-to-video
2003	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 	
2004 	Hellboy 	
2004	I, Robot 	
2004	Flight of the Phoenix 	
2005 	Cursed 	
2005	xXx: State of the Union 	
2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 	
2005	Red Eye 	
2006 	Underworld: Evolution 	
2006	The Omen 	
2007 	Captivity 	
2007	The Substitute 	
2007	The Invisible 	
2007	3:10 to Yuma 	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score
Nominated - World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year
2007	Live Free or Die Hard 	
2008 	The Eye 	
2008	Amusement 	
2008	Max Payne 	
2008	Mesrine 	Only Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One
2009 	In the Electric Mist 	
2009	The Hurt Locker 	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score
Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer
2009	Knowing 	
2010s
Year 	Title 	Notes
2010 	Repo Men 	
2010	Jonah Hex 	
2010	My Soul to Take 	
2011 	The Sunset Limited 	Television film
2011	Soul Surfer 	Satellite Award for Best Original Score
2011	Scream 4 	
2011	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark 	
2011	The Thing 	
2012 	The Woman in Black 	
2012	Trouble with the Curve 	
2012	The Sessions 	
2013 	A Good Day to Die Hard 	Filming
2013	Snow Piercer 	Filming
2013	World War Z 	
2013	The Wolverine 	
2013	Carrie 	Filming (replacing John Powell)
Television
Year 	Title 	Notes
2009–2011 	V 	22 episodes
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