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Dan Romer

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Dan Romer
GenresFilm score, video game score, pop
Occupation(s)Film composer, music producer, songwriter
InstrumentsPiano, guitar, accordion, mandolin
Websitewww.danromer.com

Dan Romer is an American film composer, music producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles.[1]

Career

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As a film composer, Romer's scores include four-time Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beasts of No Nation, Chasing Coral, Gleason, The Good Doctor and the Emmy-winning Jim: The James Foley Story.[2] His score for the HBO miniseries Station Eleven was also nominated for an Emmy in 2022.[3] Romer scored the Ubisoft video game Far Cry 5 released on March 27, 2018.

He has produced music for numerous artists including A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera, whose single "Say Something", topped charts around the world, hit 6× Platinum, sold over seven million copies, and won a 2015 Grammy. Dan co-produced "Treat You Better" by Shawn Mendes which reached No. 1 on the iTunes chart and No. 3 on the US Top 40 pop radio charts in September 2016.[2] Romer composed the score to the Pixar animated feature film, Luca,[4] which was the most-watched streaming film of 2021, with over 10.6 billion minutes watched.[5][6][7] He worked with Justin Paul on the incidental underscore for Stephen Chbosky's 2021 film adaptation of Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.[8]

Discography

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As composer

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Film

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Year Title Director Awards Notes
2007 Death to the Tinman Ray Tintori Winner of 2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Filmmaking Award Short film
2008 Glory at Sea Benh Zeitlin Winner of 2008 Boston Independent Film Festival; Winner of 2008 CineVegas International Film Festival; Winner of 2008 SXSW Film Festival; Winner of 2008 Woodstock Film Festival Short film
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin Nominated for 4 Academy Awards at the 85th Academy Awards Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin
Sleepwalking in the Rift Cary Fukunaga Short film
2014 The Last Season Sara Dosa Winner of San Francisco International Film Festival Documentary
The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger Michael Lukk Litwak Winner of 2014 First Run Festival; Winner of 2014 The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Short film
The Organization Michael Lukk Litwak Short film
Tomorrow We Disappear Jim Goldblum, Adam M. Weber Winner of 2014 EBS International Documentary Festival; Winner of 2014 Philadelphia Film Festival; Winner of 2015 Florida Film Festival Documentary
2015 Beasts of No Nation Cary Joji Fukunaga
Digging for Fire Joe Swanberg
Finders Keepers Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel Winner of Traverse City Film Festival; Winner of 2015 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards; Winner of 2016 Cinema Eye Honors Awards Documentary
Mediterranea Jonas Carpignano Winner of 2015 Gotham Awards; Winner of Istanbul International Film Festival; Winner of Munich Film Festival Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin
Napoleon in Exile Michael Lukk Litwak Short film
Stryka Emily Carmichael Short film
Walter Anna Mastro
2016 Gleason Clay Tweel Winner of 2016 SXSW Film Festival; Winner of 2016 Montclair Film Festival; Winner of 2016 Seattle International Film Festival Documentary
Jim: The James Foley Story Brian Oakes Winner of 2016 Emmy for Exceptional Documentary Documentary
Katie Says Goodbye Wayne Roberts Winner of 2016 Stockholm Film Festival; Winner of 2017 Manchester International Film Festival
2017 A Ciambra Jonas Carpignano Winner of Europa Cinemas Label Award
Brimstone & Glory Viktor Jakovleski Winner of Golden Gate Award Documentary
Chasing Coral Jeff Orlowski Winner of 2017 Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Documentary Documentary
Freak Show Trudie Styler
Shot in the Dark Dustin Nakao-Haider Documentary
The Little Hours Jeff Baena
Win It All Joe Swanberg
2018 Krystal William H. Macy
Zoe Drake Doremus
2019 Skin Guy Nattiv
2020 Wendy Benh Zeitlin
2021 A Chiara Jonas Carpignano Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin
Ciao Alberto McKenna Jean Harris
Dear Evan Hansen Stephen Chbosky Nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards Incidental score; co-composed with Justin Paul
Luca Enrico Casarosa Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 94th Academy Awards; Winner of People's Choice Award for The Family Movie of 2021
2023 Crater Kyle Patrick Alvarez Co-composed with Osei Essed
Genie Sam Boyd
Mustache Imran J. Khan
Woman of the Hour Anna Kendrick

Television

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Year Title Creator(s) Developer(s) Awards Notes
2016–2019 Easy Joe Swanberg Episodes "Controlada" and "Chemistry Read"[9]
2017–2021 Atypical Robia Rashid
2017–present The Good Doctor David Shore Winner of an ASCAP Screen Music Award
2018 Maniac Patrick Somerville Cary Joji Fukunaga
Patrick Somerville
2019–present Ramy Ramy Youssef
Ari Katcher
Ryan Welch
Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo
2020–present Love Life Sam Boyd Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo
2021–present Superman & Lois Greg Berlanti
Todd Helbing
2021–2022 Station Eleven Patrick Somerville Emmy Nominee (Original Score in a Limited Series)
2022–present Little Demon Darcy Fowler
Seth Kirschner
Kieran Valla
Composed with John Zarcone

Video games

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Year Title Publisher Awards Notes
2018 Far Cry 5 Ubisoft [10]

Music producer

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Year Song Artist Certifications
2004 Coalmine The Woes
2005 Batten the Hatches Jenny Owen Youngs
2009 Transmitter Failure Jenny Owen Youngs
2009 Everybody Ingrid Michaelson
2010 Songs for a Sinking Ship April Smith and the Great Picture Show
2012 Safe Travels Jukebox the Ghost
2013 "Say Something" A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera RIAA: 6× Platinum, ARIA: 4× Platinum, MC: 6× Platinum, RMNZ: 2× Platinum, GLF: 2× Platinum, BPI: 1× Platinum, IFPI: 1× Platinum
2014 Is There Anybody Out There? A Great Big World The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 3.
Jukebox the Ghost Jukebox the Ghost
2015 When the Morning Comes A Great Big World US Billboard No. 75
2016 "Treat You Better" Shawn Mendes RIAA: 3× Platinum, MC: Platinum, ARIA: 3× Platinum, BPI: Platinum, FIMI: 3× Platinum
2018 "We Can Do Better" Matt Simons
2021 Dear Evan Hansen Various artists Nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards

References

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  1. ^ "Dan Romer Keeps it Simple with the Portico 5012". Rupertneve.com. October 22, 2009. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Wacey, Rob. "Dan Romer Biography", AllMusic. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  3. ^ "Station Eleven - Emmy Awards, Nominations and Wins". emmys.com. 2022.
  4. ^ "We announce today Luca's music composer: the amazing Dan Romer". Twitter. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  5. ^ Hailey McCullough (January 24, 2022). "Disney/Pixar's Luca Was the Top Streaming Movie of 2021". CBR. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  6. ^ Richard Fink (January 22, 2022). "Pixar's Luca Is The Most Streamed Movie of 2021 According to Nielsen Charts". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  7. ^ "'Luca' and 'Lucifer' were the most watched movie and series in streaming in 2021". Hot Movies News. January 22, 2022. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  8. ^ "Dan Romer & Justin Paul Scoring Stephen Chbosky's 'Dear Evan Hansen' | Film Music Reporter".
  9. ^ "Dan Romer filmography", IMDb. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  10. ^ Kelly, Andy. "The apocalyptic music of Far Cry 5", PC Gamer, September 28, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
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