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Marco Edward Beltrami
BornOctober 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.[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 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

References

  1. ^ http://www.scoretrack.net/beltrami.html

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