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Joel Goodman

Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York, United States

Biography from TheMovieDB

Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Goodman creates music for narrative feature films, documentaries, television, album releases, performance ensembles and other forms of collaborative media. Joel has scored over 125 films and television programs that have received 5 Oscar nominations, 20 Emmy awards and over 30 Emmy nominations. He has scored over 40 films for HBO and composed the Main Theme for the long-running and critically acclaimed PBS series American Experience. His scores can regularly be heard in movie theaters and on television around the world.  Joel has collaborated with an impressive array of distinguished directors and producers including Neil LaBute, Albert Maysles, Andrew Jarecki, Barbara Kopple, Wong Kar-wai, Rachel Grady, Marshall Curry, Sebastian Junger, Barak Goodman, Alexandra Pelosi, Michael Epstein, Oren Jacoby, Irene Taylor Brodsky, and Fisher Stevens. Joel recently completed scores to: Jay Myself (Oscilloscope) about the celebrated photographer and collector Jay Maisel; Voyeur (Netflix), the story of iconic journalist Gay Talese's relationship with a motel owner that spied on guests; Q Ball (Fox Sports), about the San Quentin prison basketball team; Obit (Amazon), an endearing and uplifting look into the secret world of New York Times obituary writers; and Everything Is Copy (HBO), a candid portrait of beloved author and screenwriter Nora Ephron. A native New Yorker, Joel lives in Los Angeles, where he enjoys riding his bicycle and of course, many hours writing music.

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Film Production

Additional Music:
2011  Hot Coffee

Music:
1997  Green Chimneys
1999  Cherry
2001  Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
2002  The Collector of Bedford Street
2003  The Forgotten
2003  Undermind
2006  Canvas
2006  Disorder
2007  Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
2007  Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
2009  A Village Called Versailles
2009  Looking for Lincoln
2009  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2010  Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
2010  Law & Disorder
2010  Racing Dreams
2011  Hot Coffee
2011  Saving Pelican 895
2011  The Greely Expedition
2011  The Revolutionary
2013  American Winter
2016  Crashing the Party
2017  Shadowman
2018  Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
2018  The Bombing of Wall Street
2018  The Gilded Age
2019  League of Legends: Origins
2019  On Broadway
2020  Give My Regards to Broadway
2020  The Curve
2021  The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
2023  Trees and Other Entanglements

Original Music Composer:
1997  Green Chimneys
1999  Cherry
1999  The Children of Chabannes
2001  Children Underground
2001  Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
2001  The Follow
2002  The Collector of Bedford Street
2003  Born Rich
2003  The Forgotten
2003  Undermind
2004  Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004  The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
2005  Bearing Witness
2006  Canvas
2006  Disorder
2007  Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
2007  Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
2008  Kit Carson
2009  A Village Called Versailles
2009  Looking for Lincoln
2009  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2010  Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
2010  Lafayette: The Lost Hero
2010  Law & Disorder
2010  Once Brothers
2010  Racing Dreams
2011  Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
2011  Gun Fight
2011  Hot Coffee
2011  Saving Pelican 895
2011  The Greely Expedition
2011  The Revolutionary
2013  American Winter
2013  Miss You Can Do It
2013  Running from Crazy
2015  Dirty Weekend
2015  Everything Is Copy
2015  Southern Rites
2016  Crashing the Party
2017  Obit
2017  Shadowman
2018  GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
2018  Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
2018  The Bombing of Wall Street
2018  The Gilded Age
2018  The Test and the Art of Thinking
2019  League of Legends: Origins
2019  On Broadway
2020  Give My Regards to Broadway
2020  The Curve
2021  The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
2023  Trees and Other Entanglements

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TV Production

Music:
2013  Makers: Women Who Make America

Original Music Composer:
2013  Makers: Women Who Make America
2021  Confronting a Serial Killer
2021  Murder Among the Mormons
2021  Once Upon a Time in Queens

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