Marco Beltrami
{{short description|American film composer (born 1966)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Marco Beltrami
| birth_name =
| image = MARCOBELTRAMI.jpg
| caption = Beltrami in 2020
| birth_place = Long Island, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Composer, conductor
| genre = Film score, post-rock
| years_active = 1994–present
| background = non_performing_personnel
| associated_acts = {{hlist|Buck Sanders|Marcus Trumpp|Miles Hankins|Brandon Roberts}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|10|7}}
}}
Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, Carrie, A Quiet Place, and The Nun II), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science fiction (I, Robot, Snowpiercer), Western (3:10 to Yuma, Jonah Hex, The Homesman), and superhero (Hellboy, The Wolverine, Logan, Venom: Let There Be Carnage).
A long-time collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami scored seven of the director's films including the original four Craven-directed films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He has also worked with such directors as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Ole Bornedal, Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon-ho, Dan Gilroy, and John Krasinski. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and The Hurt Locker (2008), and a Golden Globe Award for A Quiet Place (2018). He won a Satellite Award for Soul Surfer (2011) and an Emmy Award for Free Solo (2018).
Early life
Beltrami was born on Long Island, New York, of Italian and Greek descent.{{cite web|url=http://www.scoretrack.net/beltrami.html |title=ScoreTrack.Net: Music for Movies - Exclusive interview with Marco Beltrami |access-date=March 21, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806123018/http://www.scoretrack.net/beltrami.html |archive-date=August 6, 2009 }} 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 composer Jerry Goldsmith.I, Robot "Two-disc Collector's Edition" DVD / Blu-ray isolated score with composer's commentary (transcription unavailable)
Career
A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first 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 films 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.
He has composed the recent entries in the Die Hard saga, Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard, taking over from Michael Kamen from whom Beltrami used some of the original themes from the previous three films due to Kamen's death in 2003. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma. Despite having met a mixed critical response, he was also nominated, alongside Buck Sanders, for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Score for his score to The Hurt Locker.{{cite web |first=Christian |last=Clemmensen |title=The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami) | date = February 19, 2010 |url=http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/hurt_locker.html |publisher=Filmtracks.com |access-date=May 11, 2012}} In 2011, he was met with critical praise and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for his score to the drama film Soul Surfer.{{cite web |first=Christian |last=Clemmensen |title=Soul Surfer (Marco Beltrami) | date = July 7, 2011 |url=http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/soul_surfer.html |publisher=Filmtracks.com |access-date=May 11, 2012}} Beltrami composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film November Man.{{cite web |url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/12/03/marco-beltrami-scoring-november-man/|title=Marco Beltrami Scoring 'November Man'|publisher=Film Music Reporter|date=December 3, 2013 }} He co-composed the score for the 2015 Fantastic Four film with Philip Glass.{{cite web|url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2015/01/06/marco-beltrami-to-score-the-fantastic-four-reboot/ |title=Marco Beltrami to Score 'The Fantastic Four' Reboot |date=January 6, 2015 | publisher=Film Music Reporter |access-date=August 14, 2015}}
Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments such as bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.
Collaborations
Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as Wes Craven, James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, John Moore, Jean-François Richet, Jonathan Levine, and John Krasinski.{{cite web |first=Christian |last=Clemmensen |title=Marco Beltrami (1966–) |url=http://www.filmtracks.com/composers/beltrami.shtml |publisher=Filmtracks.com |access-date=May 11, 2012}} He has also worked with other musicians, including Marilyn Manson (for Resident Evil).
It was reported in October 2002 on Beltrami's official website that he had worked on orchestral arrangements for "Thyme", "The General", and "Elvis Presley and the Monster of Soul" (also known as "Leave Me Alone") from the then-unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy.{{cite web|url=http://www.gnrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?pid=55647#p55647|title=2002: Chinese Whispers / 2002 / GNR Evolution - Guns N Roses Forum|website=www.gnrevolution.com}} While none of those tracks appear on the final track listing of the album, they were confirmed as being recorded during the sessions with a chance of release in the future. However, he was credited officially for providing arrangements on "Street of Dreams", "Madagascar", "There Was a Time", "This I Love", and "Prostitute". "Chinese Democracy" is also the name of a track on Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma. In 2023 he was credited on the final single release of "The General".[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35IMLsf54oI the general]
Credits
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1994
| Death Match |Joe Coppoletta | |
| rowspan="2" |1995
| The Bicyclist |Robert Stark Hickey | Short film |
| The Whispering
|Gregory Gieras | |
| 1996
| Scream |1st of 7 collaborations with Craven |
| rowspan="3" |1997
| Mimic |1st of 3 collaborations with del Toro |
| Nightwatch
|1st of 4 collaborations with Bornedal |
| Scream 2
|Wes Craven | |
| rowspan="3" | 1998
| Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Composed with John Ottman |
| 54
| |
| The Faculty
| |
| rowspan="3" |1999
| |
| The Florentine
| |
| The Crow: Salvation
| |
| rowspan="5" |2000
|Wes Craven | |
| The Incorporated
| |
| Dracula 2000
| |
| The Watcher
|Joe Charbanic | |
| Highway 395
| |
| rowspan=2 | 2001
|Composed with Michael Sherwood |
| Joy Ride
| |
| rowspan=4 | 2002
| The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | |
| I Am Dina
|Ole Bornedal | |
| Resident Evil
| Composed with Marilyn Manson |
| Blade II
|Guillermo del Toro | |
| 2003
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines |Terminator themes by Brad Fiedel |
| rowspan="4" |2004
| I, Robot |Replaced Trevor Jones |
| Hellboy
|Guillermo del Toro | |
| Flight of the Phoenix
|1st of 4 collaborations with Moore |
| Alien vs. Predator
|Paul W. S. Anderson |Rejected score; replaced by Harald Kloser |
| rowspan="4" | 2005
| Cursed |Wes Craven | |
| XXX: State of the Union
| |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
| |
| Red Eye
|Wes Craven | |
| rowspan=2 | 2006
| Underworld themes by Paul Haslinger |
| The Omen
|John Moore | Omen themes by Jerry Goldsmith |
| rowspan="7" |2007
|Ole Bornedal | |
| TMNT
|Rejected score; replaced by Klaus Badelt |
| Captivity
| |
| The Invisible
| |
| 3:10 to Yuma
| 1st of 4 collaborations with Mangold |
| Live Free or Die Hard
|Len Wiseman | Die Hard themes by Michael Kamen |
| The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
|Kieran Fitzgerald |Composed with Bobby Flores |
| rowspan=4 | 2008
| The Eye |David Moreau | |
| Max Payne
|John Moore | Composed with Buck Sanders |
| Amusement
|John Simpson | |
| Mesrine
| Composed with Marcus Trumpp |
| rowspan=3 | 2009
| |
| The Hurt Locker
| Composed with Buck Sanders |
| Knowing
|Alex Proyas | |
| rowspan="4" | 2010
| align="left"| Repo Men | |
| Jonah Hex
| Composed with Mastodon |
| Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
|Composed with Buck Sanders |
| My Soul to Take
|Wes Craven | |
| rowspan="3" |2011
| |
| The Thing
|The Thing themes by Ennio Morricone |
| Scream 4
|Wes Craven | |
| rowspan="3" |2012
| |
| The Woman in Black
| |
| The Sessions
| |
| rowspan=6 | 2013
|Composed with Buck Sanders |
| A Good Day to Die Hard
|John Moore |Die Hard themes by Michael Kamen |
| Snowpiercer
| |
| The Wolverine
|James Mangold | |
| World War Z
|Composed with Muse |
| Carrie
|Replaced John Debney and John Powell |
| rowspan=6 |2014
|Tommy Lee Jones | |
| The Giver
| |
| The November Man
| |
| The Drop
| |
| Seventh Son
| |
| The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
| Composed with Brandon Roberts & Marcus Trumpp |
| rowspan=6| 2015
| |
| Hitman: Agent 47
| |
| Fantastic Four
| Composed with Philip Glass |
| True Story
| |
| No Escape
|Composed with Buck Sanders |
| The Night Before
|Jonathan Levine | Composed with Miles Hankins |
| rowspan=3|2016
|Alex Proyas | |
| The Shallows
| |
| Ben-Hur
| |
| rowspan="5" |2017
| |
| Matilda
| |
| Logan
|James Mangold |Replaced Cliff Martinez |
| Little Evil
|Composed with Brandon Roberts & Marcus Trumpp |
| The Snowman
|Replaced Jonny Greenwood |
| rowspan="3" |2018
|1st of 2 collaborations with Krasinski |
| Free Solo
|Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi |Composed with Brandon Roberts |
| The Emperor of Paris
|Jean-François Richet |Composed with Marcus Trumpp |
| rowspan=6|2019
| Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Composed with Dennis Smith |
| Velvet Buzzsaw
| Composed with Buck Sanders |
| Long Shot
|Jonathan Levine | Composed with Miles Hankins |
| Ford v Ferrari
| James Mangold | Composed with Buck Sanders |
| Gemini Man
| Ang Lee | Rejected score; replaced by Lorne Balfe |
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
| Composed with Anna Drubich |
| rowspan="4" | 2020
|Composed with Brandon Roberts |
| A Quiet Place Part II
| John Krasinski | |
| Love and Monsters
|Composed with Marcus Trumpp |
| The Way I See It
| Composed with Buck Sanders & Brandon Roberts |
| rowspan="7" | 2021
| Composed with Brandon Roberts |
| Fear Street Part One: 1994
| rowspan=3| Leigh Janiak | Composed with Marcus Trumpp |
| Fear Street Part Two: 1978
| Composed with Brandon Roberts |
| Fear Street Part Three: 1666
| Composed with Anna Drubich & Marcus Trumpp |
| American Night
|Alessio Della Valle | |
| Venom: Let There Be Carnage
| |
| The Shadow in My Eye
|Ole Bornedal |Composed with Buck Sanders & Ceiri Torjussen |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
|Damien Power |Composed with Miles Hankins |
| Deep Water
| |
| rowspan="4" | 2023
|Jean-François Richet |Composed with Marcus Trumpp |
| ''Renfield
| |
| The Nun II
| |
| Silent Night
| |
| rowspan="1" | 2025
|From the World of John Wick: Ballerina |Len Wiseman |Composed with Anna Drubich |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1995
| align="left"| Land's End |13 episodes |
| 1996
| align="left"| Inhumanoid | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| rowspan="2" | 1997
| align="left"| Stranger in My Home |
| align="left"| Dellaventura
|1 episode |
| 1998
| align="left"| David and Lisa | rowspan="3" |Television film |
| rowspan="2" |1999
| align="left"| Dybt vand |
| align="left"| Tuesdays with Morrie |
| 2000
| Television film; composed with Gianluca Piersanti |
| 2002
| align="left"| Glory Days |9 episodes |
| 2000–04
|85 episodes |
| 2009–11
| align="left"| V | 22 episodes |
| 2011 |
| 2014
| align="left" |1864 |
| 2014–17
| align="left"| Turn: Washington's Spies | 40 episodes |
| 2015–16
|Theme music and 13 episodes |
| 2017–18
| Six | 18 episodes |
| rowspan="2" |2019
|10 episodes |
| Bubble Guppies
|featuring Bleeding Fingers Music |
| 2021
|8 episodes |
| 2022–23
|16 episodes |
| 2023 |
| 2024
|Miniseries |
=Video game=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Notes |
|---|
| 2017
|Theme and additional music |
=Actor=
Awards and nominations
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= Industry awards =
=[[Academy Awards]]=
=[[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globes]]=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Category ! Work ! Result |
|---|
| 2019
| A Quiet Place | {{nom}} |
=[[Primetime Emmy Awards]]=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Category ! Work ! Result |
|---|
| 1999
| Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore) | David and Lisa | {{nom}} |
| 2019
| Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) | {{won}} |
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AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score
- 2016: Gods of Egypt (nominated)
César Award for Best Original Music
- 2009: Mesrine (nominated)Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
- 2019: Free Solo (nominated)
Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Score
- 1998: Mimic (nominated)
- 2002: Joy Ride (nominated)
- 2005: Hellboy (nominated)
- 2013: The Woman in Black (nominated)
Fright Meter Award for Best Score
- 2012: The Woman in Black (nominated)
- 2018: A Quiet Place (nominated)
Grand Bell Award for Best Music
- 2013: Snowpiercer (nominated)
Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score
- 2018: Free Solo (nominated)
- 2019: Ford v. Ferrari (won)
Satellite Award for Best Original Score
- 2011: Soul Surfer (won)
- 2019: Ford v. Ferrari (nominated)
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=Critics awards=
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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score
- 2008: 3:10 to Yuma (nominated)
Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score
- 2019: A Quiet Place (nominated)
Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Music
- 2017: Gods of Egypt (nominated)
Hawaii Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score
- 2019: A Quiet Place (nominated)
Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score
- 2008: 3:10 to Yuma (nominated)
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References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111004100628/http://www.marcobeltrami.com/ Personal website]
- {{musicbrainz artist|id=bced6266-4c23-4806-8e3d-165eac0ad494}}
- {{IMDb name|1937}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060427053902/http://www.moviemusicuk.us/beltrami.htm Biography at Movie Music UK]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080915055615/http://www.underscores.fr/index.php/2008/08/goldsmith-by-beltrami-vo/ Marco Beltrami interview] at [http://www.underscores.fr/ UnderScores : Musique de Film]
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