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Carter Burwell

Composer / Audio Engineer | * 11/18/1955 (68) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored 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) and McDonagh's films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022). ()
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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).

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

Known for these Movies & Shows

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. ...

Carol

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2015 | 3.7/5 | 1h 58min
Romance / Love, Drama
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After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bil ...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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2017 | 4.0/5 | 1h 55min
Crime, Drama
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Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them. ...

The Banshees of Inisherin

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2022 | 3.8/5 | 1h 48min
Drama, Comedy
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Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reub ...

True Grit

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2010 | 3.7/5 | 1h 50min
Drama, Adventure, Western
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Awards & Nominations for Carter Burwell

British Independent Film Award for Best Music 2x Academy Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
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Movies with Carter Burwell as Actor(2)

2007 Lights, Action, Music
1992 Transeltown

Movies with Carter Burwell as Crew(110)

Sound/Original Music Composer2024 Drive-Away Dolls
Sound/Music2023 To Catch a Killer
Sound/Music2023 The Alchemist
Sound/Music2022 Catherine Called Birdy
Sound/Music2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 The Banshees of Inisheer
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 The Good Liar
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 Missing Link
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sound/Orchestrator2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sound/Conductor2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 Goodbye Christopher Robin
Sound/Music2017 Wonderstruck
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 The Family Fang
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 The Finest Hours
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 The Founder
Sound/Conductor2016 The Founder
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Hail, Caesar!
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Mr. Holmes
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Anomalisa
Sound/Orchestrator2015 Anomalisa
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Legend
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Carol
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 The Fifth Estate
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 Seven Psychopaths
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 True Grit
Sound/Music2010 The Kids Are All Right
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Howl
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 Where the Wild Things Are
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 The Blind Side
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 A Serious Man
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Twilight
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Burn After Reading
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 In Bruges
Sound/Original Music Composer2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sound/Conductor2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sound/Orchestrator2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sound/Original Music Composer2007 No Country for Old Men
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Sound/Music2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 The Hoax
Sound/Original Music Composer2004 The Alamo
Sound/Conductor2004 The Alamo
Sound/Original Music Composer2004 Kinsey
Sound/Original Music Composer2004 The Ladykillers
Sound/Original Music Composer2003 Intolerable Cruelty
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Searching for Paradise
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 S1m0ne
Sound/Music2002 The Rookie
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Adaptation.
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 A Knight's Tale
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Sound/Musician2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Hamlet
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 What Planet Are You From?
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Before Night Falls
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Being John Malkovich
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 The Corruptor
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Mystery, Alaska
Sound/Conductor1999 Mystery, Alaska
Sound/Music1999 The General's Daughter
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Three Kings
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 The Big Lebowski
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 Gods and Monsters
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 Velvet Goldmine
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 The Hi-Lo Country
Crew/Additional Music1998 Mercury Rising
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Conspiracy Theory
Sound/Music1997 Girls Night Out
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 The Jackal
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 The Spanish Prisoner
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Assassin(s)
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Picture Perfect
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Fear
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 The Celluloid Closet
Sound/Music1996 Joe's Apartment
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Fargo
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 The Chamber
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Two Bits
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 A Goofy Movie
Sound/Music1995 Bad Company
Sound/Music1995 Rob Roy
Sound/Music1994 Airheads
Sound/Original Music Composer1994 It Could Happen to You
Sound/Original Music Composer1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 This Boy's Life
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 Kalifornia
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 Wayne's World 2
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 A Dangerous Woman
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 And the Band Played On
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Sound/Music1992 Waterland
Sound/Music1992 Storyville
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Transeltown
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Doc Hollywood
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Barton Fink
Sound/Original Music Composer1990 Miller's Crossing
Sound/Music1989 Checking Out
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Pass the Ammo
Sound/Music1988 The Beat
Sound/Original Music Composer1987 Raising Arizona
Sound/Original Music Composer1986 Psycho III
Sound/Original Music Composer1985 R.A.B.L.
Sound/Music1985 A Hero of Our Time
Sound/Original Music Composer1984 Blood Simple

TV Shows/Series with Carter Burwell as Crew(2)

Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Space Force
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 The Morning Show

Additional Information

Born: Friday, 11/18 1955 (November) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 68 years + 160 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Harvard University, Harvard College, King School
Spouses (current/former): Christine Sciulli
Other names for Carter Burwell (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Carter Benedict Burwell"
Carter Burwell frequently works together with these people:
Ethan Coen (63x, Crew)
Joel Coen (56x, Crew)
Skip Lievsay (29x, Crew)
Matheus Orlandi (22x, Crew)
Adam Milo Smalley (17x, Crew)
Robert Graf (14x, Crew)
Bill Condon (13x, Crew)
Roger Deakins (13x, Crew)
Peter F. Kurland (13x, Crew)
Tim Bevan (12x, Crew)
Nancy Haigh (12x, Crew)
Steve Carell (5x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:13077, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/24/2024