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Carter Burwell

Carter Burwell

Sound1955New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, scoring most of their films. He has also scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Spike Jonze, Martin McDonagh, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock. Burwell received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015), McDonagh's films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022).

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Acting History

Future
Go, Beavers!
Original Music Composer
Jack of Spades
Original Music Composer
2026
Wild Horse Nine
Original Music Composer
2025
Honey Don't!
Original Music Composer
Honey Don't!
Conductor
Honey Don't!
Orchestrator
Good Fortune
Original Music Composer
2024
Drive-Away Dolls
Original Music Composer
Drive-Away Dolls
Orchestrator
2023
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self - Nominee• 1 eps
Finestkind
Original Music Composer
To Catch a Killer
Original Music Composer
2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
Original Music Composer
Catherine Called Birdy
Original Music Composer
2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Original Music Composer
2020
Space Force
TVOriginal Music Composer• 10 eps
2019
The Good Liar
Original Music Composer
Missing Link
Original Music Composer
The Morning Show
TVOriginal Music Composer
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Original Music Composer
2017
Wonderstruck
Original Music Composer
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Original Music Composer
2016
Hail, Caesar!
Original Music Composer
The Finest Hours
Original Music Composer
The Family Fang
Original Music Composer
The Founder
Original Music Composer
The Founder
Conductor
2015
Legend
Original Music Composer
Carol
Original Music Composer
Anomalisa
Original Music Composer
Anomalisa
Orchestrator
Mr. Holmes
Original Music Composer
2014
Olive Kitteridge
TVOriginal Music Composer• 4 eps
2013
The Fifth Estate
Original Music Composer
2012
Seven Psychopaths
Original Music Composer
2011
Mildred Pierce
TVOriginal Music Composer
2010
Howl
Original Music Composer
The Kids Are All Right
Original Music Composer
True Grit
Original Music Composer
2009
A Serious Man
Original Music Composer
The Blind Side
Original Music Composer
Where the Wild Things Are
Original Music Composer
2008
Burn After Reading
Original Music Composer
Twilight
Original Music Composer
In Bruges
Original Music Composer
2007
No Country for Old Men
Original Music Composer
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Original Music Composer
2006
The Hoax
Original Music Composer
2004
Kinsey
Original Music Composer
The Alamo
Original Music Composer
The Alamo
Conductor
The Ladykillers
Original Music Composer
2003
Intolerable Cruelty
Original Music Composer
2002
S1m0ne
Original Music Composer
The Rookie
Original Music Composer
Searching for Paradise
Original Music Composer
Adaptation.
Original Music Composer
2001
A Knight's Tale
Original Music Composer
The Man Who Wasn't There
Original Music Composer
2000
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Original Music Composer
Before Night Falls
Original Music Composer
Hamlet
Original Music Composer
What Planet Are You From?
Original Music Composer
1999
The General's Daughter
Original Music Composer
Mystery, Alaska
Original Music Composer
The Corruptor
Original Music Composer
Three Kings
Original Music Composer
Being John Malkovich
Original Music Composer
1998
Gods and Monsters
Original Music Composer
The Big Lebowski
Original Music Composer
The Hi-Lo Country
Original Music Composer
Velvet Goldmine
Original Music Composer
Mercury Rising
Additional Music
1997
Assassin(s)
Original Music Composer
The Locusts
Original Music Composer
Conspiracy Theory
Original Music Composer
Picture Perfect
Original Music Composer
The Jackal
Original Music Composer
The Spanish Prisoner
Original Music Composer
1996
Joe's Apartment
as The Roach Chorus (voice)
Fargo
Original Music Composer
Joe's Apartment
Original Music Composer
The Celluloid Closet
Original Music Composer
The Chamber
Original Music Composer
Fear
Original Music Composer
1995
Rob Roy
Original Music Composer
A Goofy Movie
Original Music Composer
Two Bits
Original Music Composer
Bad Company
Original Music Composer
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
Original Music Composer
Airheads
Original Music Composer
It Could Happen to You
Original Music Composer
1993
Kalifornia
Original Music Composer
This Boy's Life
Original Music Composer
And the Band Played On
Original Music Composer
Wayne's World 2
Original Music Composer
A Dangerous Woman
Original Music Composer
1992
Storyville
Original Music Composer
Waterland
Original Music Composer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Original Music Composer
Transeltown
Original Music Composer
1991
Scorchers
as Piano Player
Barton Fink
Original Music Composer
Doc Hollywood
Original Music Composer
Scorchers
Original Music Composer
1990
Miller's Crossing
Original Music Composer
1988
Funny
as Self
It Takes Two
Original Music Composer
Checking Out
Original Music Composer
The Beat
Original Music Composer
Pass the Ammo
Original Music Composer
1987
Raising Arizona
Original Music Composer
1986
Psycho III
Original Music Composer
1985
Blood Simple
Original Music Composer
R.A.B.L.
Original Music Composer
1978

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Personal Info

Known For
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/18/1955(70 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA