A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Carter Benedict Burwell
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
November 18, 1955
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has consistently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Burwell has also scored three of Todd Haynes's films, three of Spike Jonze's films, and all the films of Martin McDonagh. He has received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015) and McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
Additional Music:
1998 Mercury Rising
Conductor:
1998 Mercury Rising
1999 Mystery, Alaska
2004 The Alamo
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2016 The Founder
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2024 Drive-Away Dolls
Music:
1985 A Hero of Our Time
1988 The Beat
1997 Girls Night Out
1998 Mercury Rising
1999 Mystery, Alaska
2004 The Alamo
2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2016 The Founder
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 Hunting Bigfoot
2024 Drive-Away Dolls
Musician:
1985 A Hero of Our Time
1988 The Beat
1997 Girls Night Out
1998 Mercury Rising
1999 Mystery, Alaska
2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2004 The Alamo
2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2016 The Founder
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 Hunting Bigfoot
2024 Drive-Away Dolls
Orchestrator:
1985 A Hero of Our Time
1988 The Beat
1997 Girls Night Out
1998 Mercury Rising
1999 Mystery, Alaska
2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2004 The Alamo
2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2015 Anomalisa
2016 The Founder
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 Hunting Bigfoot
2024 Drive-Away Dolls
Original Music Composer:
1985 A Hero of Our Time
1985 Blood Simple
1985 R.A.B.L.
1986 Psycho III
1987 Raising Arizona
1988 It Takes Two
1988 Pass the Ammo
1988 The Beat
1989 Checking Out
1990 Miller's Crossing
1991 Barton Fink
1991 Doc Hollywood
1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 Storyville
1992 Transeltown
1992 Waterland
1993 A Dangerous Woman
1993 And the Band Played On
1993 Kalifornia
1993 This Boy's Life
1993 Wayne's World 2
1993 XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
1994 Airheads
1994 It Could Happen to You
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1995 A Goofy Movie
1995 Bad Company
1995 Rob Roy
1995 Two Bits
1996 Fargo
1996 Fear
1996 Joe's Apartment
1996 The Celluloid Closet
1996 The Chamber
1997 Assassin(s)
1997 Conspiracy Theory
1997 Girls Night Out
1997 Picture Perfect
1997 The Jackal
1997 The Spanish Prisoner
1998 Gods and Monsters
1998 Mercury Rising
1998 The Big Lebowski
1998 The Hi-Lo Country
1998 Velvet Goldmine
1999 Being John Malkovich
1999 Mystery, Alaska
1999 The Corruptor
1999 The General's Daughter
1999 The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
1999 Three Kings
2000 Before Night Falls
2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000 Hamlet
2000 What Planet Are You From?
2001 A Knight's Tale
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
2002 Adaptation.
2002 S1m0ne
2002 Searching for Paradise
2002 The Rookie
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
2004 Kinsey
2004 The Alamo
2004 The Ladykillers
2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2006 The Hoax
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 No Country for Old Men
2008 Burn After Reading
2008 In Bruges
2008 Twilight
2009 A Serious Man
2009 The Blind Side
2009 Where the Wild Things Are
2010 Howl
2010 The Kids Are All Right
2010 True Grit
2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2012 Seven Psychopaths
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2013 The Fifth Estate
2015 Anomalisa
2015 Carol
2015 Legend
2015 Mr. Holmes
2016 Hail, Caesar!
2016 The Family Fang
2016 The Finest Hours
2016 The Founder
2017 Goodbye Christopher Robin
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 Wonderstruck
2018 Hunting Bigfoot
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2019 Missing Link
2019 The Good Liar
2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth
2022 Catherine Called Birdy
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin
2023 Finestkind
2023 Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future
2023 To Catch a Killer
2024 Drive-Away Dolls
Original Music Composer:
2011 Mildred Pierce
2014 Olive Kitteridge
2019 The Morning Show
2020 Space Force
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