Christophe Beck
{{Short description|Canadian composer (born 1968)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Christophe Beck
| image = Master class with Christophe Beck (by Canadian File Centre).jpg
| caption = Beck in 2012
| birth_name = Jean-Christophe Beck
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968}}
| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| genre = Film and television scores
| occupation = {{hlist|Composer|conductor|arranger}}
}}
Jean-Christophe Beck (born in 1968) is a Canadian television and film score composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Frozen (2013) and Frozen 2 (2019), the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) as well as the TV miniseries WandaVision (2021), Hawkeye (2021), and Agatha All Along (2024) for Marvel Studios, and Free Guy (2021) for 20th Century Studios, as well as Disney's 100th anniversary logo.
He composed the scores for several of Shawn Levy's films, including Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Pink Panther (2006), The Internship (2013), and Free Guy (2021). Notably, he won an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is also known for composing the scores of the film series The Hangover (2009-2013). He is the older brother of composer, pianist and rapper Chilly Gonzales.
Early life
Beck started piano lessons at the age of five, and by the time he turned eleven, he was learning Bee Gees songs by ear and performing with his first band, Newton Talks, who licensed a song to Hot Tub Time Machine. Beck attended Crescent School where he studied piano, saxophone, and drums. He wrote two musicals while studying music at Yale University.{{cite web|url=https://www.christophebeck.com/#about|title=Christophe Beck - Official Composer Website|date=February 15, 2020|website=Christophe Beck}}
Career
File:Christophe Beck SDCC 2014 (14782713903).jpg in 2014]]
Upon graduation, Beck moved to Los Angeles to attend USC's film scoring program, where he studied with Jerry Goldsmith. A personal recommendation from Buddy Baker, then head of the USC Music Department, led to his first assignment for a Canadian TV series called White Fang. Several TV series later, he was asked to score the second season of the WB Network show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Beck received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for his score to the Buffy episode "Becoming, Part 1".
In 2000, the cheerleading comedy Bring It On launched Beck's film career. His credits include Under the Tuscan Sun, Edge of Tomorrow, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Pitch Perfect, and the Hangover trilogy. More recently, Beck scored the Oscar- and Grammy-winning animated film Frozen, and several installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). At the D23 Expo in 2022, it was announced that Beck had composed a new arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" to accompany Disney's 100th anniversary logo, conducted by Tim Davies, which debuted ahead of the film Strange World.{{Cite web |date=September 12, 2022 |title=New Details About Disney 100 Years of Wonder Revealed to Fans During D23 Expo |url=https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/new-details-about-disney-100-years-of-wonder-revealed-to-fans-during-d23-expo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912170600/https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/new-details-about-disney-100-years-of-wonder-revealed-to-fans-during-d23-expo/ |archive-date=September 12, 2022 |access-date=September 18, 2022 |publisher=The Walt Disney Company}}
Beck works out of his studio in Santa Monica, California.
Discography
= Composer =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Work !Notes |
| 1993
| rowspan="4" |(TV series) |
| rowspan="1" |1995 |
| rowspan="5" |1996 |
| Second Noah |
| Crossworlds |
| Past Perfect
| |
| Mr. October
|(Short) |
| rowspan="5" |1997
|(TV Movie) |
| Two
|(TV series) |
| Killing Mr. Griffin
|(TV Movie) |
| Hostile Intent
| |
| The Alarmist
| |
| rowspan="8" |1998
|(TV series) |
| Starstruck
| |
| F/X: The Series
|(TV series) |
| Bone Daddy
| |
| Airborne
| |
| Dog Park
| |
| Earthquake in New York
|(TV Movie) |
| Spy Game
|(TV series) |
| rowspan="5" |1999
| |
| Let the Devil Wear Black
| |
| Guinevere
| |
| Coming Soon
| |
| The Last Witness
|(TV Movie) |
| rowspan="5" |2000
| |
| Angel
|(TV series) |
| Bring It On
| |
| The Practice
|(TV series) |
| Big Time
|(Short) |
| rowspan="4" |2001
|Lightmaker | |
| Wolf Girl
|(TV Movie) |
| The Cutting Room
|(Short) |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer
|(TV series) |
| rowspan="5" |2002
| |
| The Skulls II
|(Video) |
| Interstate 60
| |
| Stealing Harvard
| |
| The Tuxedo
| |
| rowspan="7" |2003
| |
| The Event
| |
| Confidence
| |
| American Wedding
| |
| Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
| |
| Under the Tuscan Sun
| |
| Cheaper by the Dozen
| |
| rowspan="7" |2004
| |
| The Skulls III
|(Video) |
| Garfield
| |
| A Cinderella Story
| |
| Little Black Book
| |
| Without a Paddle
| |
| Taxi
| |
| rowspan="6" |2005
| |
| Ice Princess
| |
| The Perfect Man
| |
| 3 Needles
| |
| Two for the Money
| |
| Yours, Mine & Ours
| |
| rowspan="9" |2006
|The Making of 'Two for the Money' | rowspan="2" |(Video documentary short) |
| Insider Interview: The Real Brandon |
| The Pink Panther
| |
| The Sentinel
| |
| Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
| |
| Zoom
| |
| School for Scoundrels
| |
| Day Break
|(TV series) |
| We Are Marshall
| |
| rowspan="5" |2007
| |
| Charlie Bartlett
| |
| License to Wed
| |
| The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
| |
| Fred Claus
| |
| rowspan="3" |2008
| |
| Drillbit Taylor
| |
| What Happens in Vegas
| |
| rowspan="7" |2009
| |
| The Pink Panther 2
| |
| The Hangover
| |
| I Love You, Beth Cooper
| |
| Post Grad
| |
| The Marc Pease Experience
| |
| All About Steve
| |
| rowspan="8" |2010
|(Documentary) |
| Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
| |
| Hot Tub Time Machine
| |
| Date Night
| |
| Death at a Funeral
| |
| RED
| |
| Due Date
| |
| Burlesque
| |
| rowspan="5" |2011
| |
| The Hangover Part II
| |
| Crazy, Stupid, Love.
| |
| Tower Heist
| |
| The Muppets
|(Original songs by Bret McKenzie) |
| rowspan="9" |2012
| |
| The Road We've Traveled
|(Documentary short) |
| The Watch
| |
| Pitch Perfect
| |
| Paperman
|(Short) |
| The Guilt Trip
| |
| The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
|(TV series) |
| Rogue
| rowspan="2" |(TV Movie) |
| Little Brother |
| rowspan="7" |2013
|(Segment "Happy Birthday") |
| Charlie Countryman
| |
| The Hangover Part III
| |
| The Internship
| |
| R.I.P.D.
| |
| Runner Runner
| |
| Frozen
|(Original songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez) |
| rowspan="9" |2014
| |
| Muppets Most Wanted
|(Original songs by Bret McKenzie) |
| 30 for 30: Soccer Stories
|(TV series) |
| Red Army
|(Documentary) |
| Edge of Tomorrow
| |
| Let's Be Cops
| |
| Good Kill
| |
| Cake
| |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
| |
| rowspan="7" |2015
| |
| Frozen Fever
|(Short) |
| Get Hard
| |
| Hot Pursuit
| |
| Ant-Man
| |
| The Peanuts Movie
| |
| Sisters
| |
| rowspan="2" |2016
| |
| June
| rowspan="2" |(Short) |
| rowspan="6" |2017
|Lou |
| An Ordinary Man
| |
| A Symphony of Hope
|(Documentary) |
| American Made
| |
| Olaf's Frozen Adventure
|(Short) |
| The 12th Man
| |
| rowspan="4" |2018
| |
| Anon
| |
| Ant-Man and the Wasp
| |
| The Christmas Chronicles
| |
| rowspan="3" |2019
|Watson |(Documentary) |
| Frozen II
|(Original songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez) |
| Frozen II - SAKS - Enchanted Forest
|(TV Special) |
| rowspan="3" |2020
| |
| Once Upon a Snowman
|(Short) |
| The Christmas Chronicles 2
| |
| rowspan="3" |2021
|(Limited series, original themes by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez) |
| Free Guy
| |
| Hawkeye
|(Limited series, composed with Michael Paraskevas) |
| rowspan="3"| 2023
|Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | |
| Shazam! Fury of the Gods
|(Replaced Benjamin Wallfisch) |
| Nimona
| |
| rowspan=4|2024
| |
| Unfrosted
| |
| The Instigators
| |
| Agatha All Along
|(Limited series, composed with Michael Paraskevas, original songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez) |
= Music department =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Work !Job !Notes !Reference |
| 1990
|(orchestrator) | | rowspan="26" |{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065100/|title=Christophe Beck|website=IMDb|access-date=February 15, 2020}} |
| 1994
|Death Match |(additional music programmer) | |
| rowspan="2" |1995
|(composer) | rowspan="2" |(TV series) |
| Land's End
|(composer) |
| 1997
|(music producer: score) | |
| 1998
|(composer) |(TV series) |
| rowspan="2" |1999
|(score produced by) | |
| Guinevere
| rowspan="2" |(score producer) | |
| 2000
| |
| 2001
|(musical director) |(TV series) |
| rowspan="2" |2002
|Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road |(conductor: score) | |
| HBO First Look
|(musician) |(TV Series documentary short) |
| 2003
|(conductor) | |
| rowspan="2" |2004
|(score produced by) | |
| Without a Paddle
|(score producer) | |
| rowspan="2" |2006
| rowspan="2" |(score producer) | |
| School for Scoundrels
| |
| rowspan="2" |2007
|(composer) |(TV series) |
| Charlie Bartlett
|(score producer) | |
| rowspan="2" |2010
|Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief |(composer: theme music) | |
| Hot Tub Time Machine
|(score producer) | |
| 2012
|(score produced by) | |
| 2013
|(additional song orchestrator) | |
| 2018
|BaseBoys |(music) |(TV series) |
| 2020
|(music by) | |
| 2025
|(music consultant) | |
= Soundtrack =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Work !Job !Notes !Reference |
| 1997
|(performer: "Looking for James") | |
| 1999
|(performer: "Alive Again") | |
| 2000
|(performer) |(TV series) |
| rowspan="2" |2002
|(writer: "The Beef Song") | |
| Big Fat Liar
|(writer: "Spanish Backlot") | |
| rowspan="2" |2003
|(performer: "F**k You Very Much", "Mother", "Final Goodbye") | |
| Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
|("Son Sueños") | |
| 2005
|(writer: "Springtime" (2003)) | |
| rowspan="2" |2006
|(writer: "Home 3") | |
| Employee of the Month
|(performer: "All About the Money") | |
| 2007
|(writer: "Kids Miss the Old Life", "Even the Dog Is Homesick") | |
| 2008
|(arranger: "Ninety Times Nine") | |
| 2009
|Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts |(performer: "Rave Opera") / (writer: "Rave Opera") |(Video) |
| rowspan="2" |2010
|(writer: "Blind Man") | |
| Knight and Day
|(writer: "Dolby's Con") | |
| rowspan="2" |2012
|(writer: "Jack and Ali") | |
| Atop the Fourth Wall
|("Close Your Eyes") |(TV series) |
| 2013
|[producer: "Vuelie", "Heimr Àrnadalr" (uncredited), "Vuelie (Reprise)"] | |
| rowspan="2" |2014
|(writer: "Blind Man") |(uncredited) |
| The Judge
|(writer: "Rose Pregnant") | |
| 2015
|Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip |(writer: "Joy Steals Cab") | |
| rowspan="2" |2016
|Disney Magic Kingdoms |(performer: "Elsa and Anna", "Epilogue") |(Video Game) |
| Life Is
|(music: "Let It Glow") |(Short) |
| 2018
|["The Great Thaw", "Vuelie (Reprise)"] | |
| rowspan="3" |2019
|(writer: "Heading To The States") |(uncredited) |
| Avengers: Endgame
|(writer: "Ant-Man Theme") | |
| Frozen II
|(producer: "Vuelie") | |
| 2020
|(writer: "Trolls You Wanna Have Fun") | |
Filmography
= Actor =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Work !Role !Notes !Reference |
| 2000
|Pianist |(uncredited) |
= Self =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Work !Role !Notes !Reference |
| 2007
| rowspan="6" |Himself |Documentary |
| 2009
|Le grand journal de Canal+ |TV series documentary |
| 2014
|TV series |
| 2016
|Score: A Film Music Documentary |Documentary |
| 2017
|Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |Documentary |
| 2018
|Score: The Podcast |TV series |
Accolades
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| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Award !Category !Work !Result !Reference |
| rowspan="3" |1998
|Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) |Buffy the Vampire Slayer |{{Won}} | rowspan="31" | |
| rowspan="2" |Gemini Awards
| rowspan="2" |Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series |F/X: The Series |{{Nominated}} |
| F/X: The Series For episode "Requiem for a Cop" |{{Nominated}} |
| 2000
|OFTA Television Award |Best New Theme Song in a Series |{{Nominated}} |
| 2002
|Buffy the Vampire Slayer |{{Nominated}} |
| 2006
|Most Intrusive Musical Score |Zoom |{{Nominated}} |
| 2007
|Best Original Score for a Comedy Film |{{Nominated}} |
| 2010
|HMMA Award |Best Original Score - Indie Film / Documentary / Short | rowspan="2" |Waiting for 'Superman' |{{Won}} |
| rowspan="2" |2011
|IFMCA Award |Best Original Score for a Documentary Film |{{Nominated}} |
| SLFCA Award
|Best Music | rowspan="2" |The Muppets |{{Nominated}} |
| 2012
|Top Box Office Films |{{Won}} |
| rowspan="5" |2013
|Awards Circuit Community Awards |Best Original Score | rowspan="8" |Frozen |{{Nominated}} |
| ICP Award
|Best Original Score or Soundtrack |{{draw|10th place}} |
| PFCS Award
|Best Original Score |{{Won}} |
| SLFCA Award
|Best Soundtrack |{{Nominated}} |
| WAFCA Award
|Best Original Score |{{Nominated}} |
| rowspan="5" |2014
|Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production |{{Won}} |
| rowspan="1" |DFCS Award
|Best Original Score |{{Nominated}} |
| Gold Derby Award
|Original Score |{{Nominated}} |
| HMMA Award
|Best Original Score - Documentary |{{Nominated}} |
| IFMCA Award
|Best Original Score for an Animated Film | rowspan="2" |Frozen |{{Nominated}} |
| rowspan="2" |2015
|Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media |{{Nominated}} |
| HMMA Award
|Best Original Score - Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film |{{Nominated}} |
| rowspan="3" |2018
|Annie Awards |Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production |{{Nominated}} |
| HMMA Award
|Best Original Score - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Film |{{Nominated}} |
| Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival
|Best Music |{{Nominated}} |
| 2019
|HMMA Award |Best Original Score - Animated Film | rowspan="4" |Frozen II |{{Nominated}} |
| rowspan="3" |2020
|Annie Awards |Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production |{{Nominated}} |
| Awards Circuit Community Awards
|Best Original Score |{{Nominated}} |
| IFMCA Award
|Best Original Score for an Animated Film |{{Nominated}} |
| 2021
|{{Nominated}} |
See also
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.christophebeck.com}}
- {{IMDb name|65100}}
- [http://www.bluntinstrument.org.uk/beck/bio/graphy.htm Biography]
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