Marco Beltrami
Marco Edward Beltrami | |
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Born | October 7, 1966 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2009–2011 | V | 22 episodes |