Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami
Born	Marco Edward Beltrami October 7, 1966 Long Island, New York

Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer. He has been the music director for all the Wes Craven movies since Scream.

Life and career

Beltrami was born in 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 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 2003 death. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma, and was recently nominated for the 2010 Academy Awards for his scoring of The Hurt Locker alongside Buck Sanders.

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. He has also worked with other musicians, including Marilyn Manson (for Resident Evil).

It was even reported in October 2002 on Marco's official website that he had worked on orchestral arrangements for the songs "Thyme", "The General", "Leave Me Alone", and "Seven" off the then unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. None of the tracks are confirmed for release on the album, but they were confirmed as being recorded during the sessions, and may see release on one of Axl Rose's reported "sequels" if they are not released on Chinese Democracy. However, Marco was credited for providing arrangements on the songs "Street Of Dreams", "Madagascar", "There Was a Time", "This I Love" & "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
2007	Live Free or Die Hard
2008	The Eye
2008	The Hurt Locker
2008	Amusement
2008	Max Payne
2008	Mesrine	Only Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One
2009	In the Electric Mist
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
2011	Scream 4
2011	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2011	The Thing
2012	The Woman in Black
2012	World War Z
2013	A Good Day to Die Hard	Pre-production

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2009–2011	V	22 episodes

External links

• Personal website
• Marco Beltrami discography at MusicBrainz
• Marco Beltrami at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography at Movie Music UK
• Marco Beltrami interview at UnderScores : Musique de Film