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Other films include [[Dan Scanlon]]'s ''[[Onward (film)|Onward]]'', [[Mimi Leder]]'s ''[[On the Basis of Sex]]'', [[Nora Twomey]]'s ''[[The Breadwinner (film)|The Breadwinner]]'', [[Bennett Miller]]'s ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]'' and ''[[Moneyball (film)|Moneyball]]'' and [[Marc Webb]]'s ''[[500 Days of Summer|(500) Days of Summer]]''. |
Other films include [[Dan Scanlon]]'s ''[[Onward (film)|Onward]]'', [[Mimi Leder]]'s ''[[On the Basis of Sex]]'', [[Nora Twomey]]'s ''[[The Breadwinner (film)|The Breadwinner]]'', [[Bennett Miller]]'s ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]'' and ''[[Moneyball (film)|Moneyball]]'' and [[Marc Webb]]'s ''[[500 Days of Summer|(500) Days of Summer]]''. |
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On September 30, 2021, Danna received a Career Achievement Award from the [[Zurich Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Croll|first=Ben|date=2021-09-27|title=For Oscar-Winning |
On September 30, 2021, Danna received a Career Achievement Award from the [[Zurich Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Croll|first=Ben|date=2021-09-27|title=For Oscar-Winning 'Life of Pi' Composer Mychael Danna, Concept is King|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/mychael-danna-zurich-film-festival-1235074290/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Career Achievement Award for Film Composer Mychael Danna|url=http://zff.com/en/festival-info/news/2021/2675/career-achievement-award-composer-mychael-danna/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725080753/https://zff.com/en/festival-info/news/2021/2675/career-achievement-award-composer-mychael-danna/|archive-date=2021-07-25|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Zurich Film Festival|language=de}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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|rowspan="1"| 2013 || ''[[Devil's Knot (film)|Devil's Knot]]'' || |
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|rowspan="3"| 2014 || ''[[Transcendence (2014 film)|Transcendence]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Mychael Danna to Score Wally |
|rowspan="3"| 2014 || ''[[Transcendence (2014 film)|Transcendence]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Mychael Danna to Score Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'|url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/12/19/mychael-danna-to-score-wally-pfisters-transcendence//|publisher=Film Music Reporter|access-date=December 20, 2013|date=December 19, 2013}}</ref> || |
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|| ''[[Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film)|Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk]]'' || With his brother [[Jeff Danna]] |
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|rowspan="2"| 2017 || ''[[The Breadwinner (film)|The Breadwinner]]''<ref name="film-music-breadwinner-danna">{{cite news|title=Mychael & Jeff Danna to Score |
|rowspan="2"| 2017 || ''[[The Breadwinner (film)|The Breadwinner]]''<ref name="film-music-breadwinner-danna">{{cite news|title=Mychael & Jeff Danna to Score 'The Breadwinner'|url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2017/06/02/mychael-jeff-danna-to-score-the-breadwinner/|access-date=7 July 2017|work=Film Music Reporter|publisher=Film Music Reporter|date=2 June 2017}}</ref> || With his brother [[Jeff Danna]] |
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==Further reading== |
==Further reading== |
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* {{cite book |last1=Coleman |first1=Lindsay |editor1-last=Coleman |editor1-first=Lindsay |editor2-last=Tillman |editor2-first=Joakim |title=Contemporary Film Music: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composiiton |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=187–193 |chapter=Mychael Danna Interview |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-57375-9_12}} |
* {{cite book |last1=Coleman |first1=Lindsay |editor1-last=Coleman |editor1-first=Lindsay |editor2-last=Tillman |editor2-first=Joakim |title=Contemporary Film Music: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composiiton |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=187–193 |chapter=Mychael Danna Interview |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-57375-9_12|isbn=978-1-137-57374-2 }} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Golub |first1=Peter |last2=Jarzebowski |first2=Katy |editor1-last=Coleman |editor1-first=Lindsay |editor2-last=Tillman |editor2-first=Joakim |title=Contemporary Film Music: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composiiton |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=195–219 |chapter=Mychael Danna: Music as Metaphor |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-57375-9_13}} |
* {{cite book |last1=Golub |first1=Peter |last2=Jarzebowski |first2=Katy |editor1-last=Coleman |editor1-first=Lindsay |editor2-last=Tillman |editor2-first=Joakim |title=Contemporary Film Music: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composiiton |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=195–219 |chapter=Mychael Danna: Music as Metaphor |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-57375-9_13|isbn=978-1-137-57374-2 }} |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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Mychael Danna | |
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Background information | |
Born | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | September 20, 1958
Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation(s) | Composer |
Instruments | Piano, keyboards, guitar |
Years active | 1987–present |
Website | www |
Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries World Without End.
Early life and education
Danna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but his family moved to Burlington, Ontario, when he was four weeks old.[1] He is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He studied music composition at the University of Toronto, winning the Glenn Gould Composition Scholarship in 1985.
Career
Danna served for five years as composer-in-residence at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto (1987–1992). Works for dance include music for Dead Souls (Carbone Quatorze Dance Company, directed by Gilles Maheu 1996), and a score for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Gita Govinda (2001) based on the 1000-year-old classical Gita Govinda, with choreographer Nina Menon. In June 2014, Danna was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Toronto, for his career achievements in the field of music.[2]
He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won five times for Achievement in Music - Original Score.[3] Danna is recognized as one of the pioneers of combining non-Western sound sources with orchestral and electronic minimalism in the world of film music. This reputation has led him to work with such directors as Atom Egoyan, Deepa Mehta, Terry Gilliam, Scott Hicks, Ang Lee, Gillies MacKinnon, James Mangold, Mira Nair, Billy Ray, Joel Schumacher, and Denzel Washington. His soundtrack for Ang Lee's Life of Pi earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for Pi's Lullaby.
Other films include Dan Scanlon's Onward, Mimi Leder's On the Basis of Sex, Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, Bennett Miller's Capote and Moneyball and Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer.
On September 30, 2021, Danna received a Career Achievement Award from the Zurich Film Festival.[4][5]
Personal life
Danna's wife Aparna is of Indian origin; the couple have two sons. He is the older brother of composer Jeff Danna.
Filmography
References
- ^ "Life of Pi golden for Burlington's Mychael Danna". www.insidehalton.com. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ "Convocation 2014: meet honorary grad Mychael Danna". Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ "Canada's Awards Database". Academy.ca. 2011-03-28. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
- ^ Croll, Ben (2021-09-27). "For Oscar-Winning 'Life of Pi' Composer Mychael Danna, Concept is King". Variety. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Career Achievement Award for Film Composer Mychael Danna". Zurich Film Festival (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
- ^ "Mychael Danna to Score Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'". Film Music Reporter. December 19, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
- ^ "Mychael & Jeff Danna to Score 'The Breadwinner'". Film Music Reporter. Film Music Reporter. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
Further reading
- Coleman, Lindsay (2017). "Mychael Danna Interview". In Coleman, Lindsay; Tillman, Joakim (eds.). Contemporary Film Music: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composiiton. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 187–193. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57375-9_12. ISBN 978-1-137-57374-2.
- Golub, Peter; Jarzebowski, Katy (2017). "Mychael Danna: Music as Metaphor". In Coleman, Lindsay; Tillman, Joakim (eds.). Contemporary Film Music: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composiiton. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 195–219. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57375-9_13. ISBN 978-1-137-57374-2.
External links
- Mychael Danna – official site
- Mychael Danna discography at Discogs
- Mychael Danna at IMDb
- Mychael Danna talks about The Nativity Story
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Animated film score composers
- Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
- Best Original Score Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
- Canadian classical composers
- Canadian film score composers
- Canadian male classical composers
- Golden Globe Award-winning musicians
- Male film score composers
- Musicians from Winnipeg
- Pixar people
- University of Toronto alumni
- Varèse Sarabande Records artists
- 20th-century Canadian composers
- 21st-century Canadian composers