Marco Beltrami Marco Beltrami

Born: 7 October 1966, Fornero, Italy.

Biography:
Italian-American composer Marco Beltrami was born in the small town of Fornero, Italy, but grew up on Long Island, New York, after his parents emigrated at the beginning of the 1970s. He graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island, spent some time in Venice working with the eminent classical composer Luigi Nono, studied at the Yale School of Music upon his return to the USA, and then moved west to USC in Los Angeles, where he studied under Jerry Goldsmith among others. A few classical commissions and USC student films notwithstanding, Beltrami scored his first movie 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 genre, with the "Scream" sequels and hit movies such as "Mimic" (1997), "The Faculty" (1998), Dracula 2000" (2000), "The Watcher" (2000), "Angel Eyes" (2001), "Resident Evil" (2002, co-composed with Marilyn Manson), "Blade 2" (2002), "Hellboy" (2004) and "I Robot" (2004) featuring in prominently his resume. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his touching score "David and Lisa" (1998), indicating a desire to spread his musical wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing, and received his first Oscar nomination for his score for director James Mangold’s western remake “3:10 to Tuma” in 2007.

Reviews:
3:10 to Yuma, 54, Angel Eyes, Captivity, The Eye, The Faculty, Flight of the Phoenix, Hellboy, I Robot, The Invisible, Knowing, Live Free or Die Hard, Max Payne, Mimic, The Minus Man, The Omen, Resident Evil, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3 and The Watcher

Filmography:
Knowing (2009), The Eye (2008), In the Electric Mist (2008), Max Payne (2008), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Captivity (2007), The Invisible (2007), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Vikaren (2007), The Omen (2006), Underworld Evolution (2006), Cursed (2005), Red-Eye (2005), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), XXX: State of the Union (2005), Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Hellboy (2004), I Robot (2004), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest (2003), Blade II (2002), The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), I Am Dina (2002), Resident Evil (2002), Angel Eyes (2001), Goodbye Casanova (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Scary Movie 2 (2001), The Crow: Salvation (2000), Dracula 2000 (2000), Highway 395 (2000), Scream 3 (2000), The Watcher (2000), Deep Water (1999), The Florentine (1999), The Minus Man (1999), Tuesdays With Morrie (1999), Walking Across Egypt (1999), 54 (1998), David and Lisa (1998), The Faculty (1998), Halloween: H20 (1998), Nightwatch (1998), Mimic (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Stranger in My Home (1997), The Incorporated (1996), Scream (1996), The Whispering (1996), Land's End (1995), The Bicyclist (1994), Death Match (1994).

Highest Grossing Films as at end of 2007 (adjusted for inflation):
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ($176.6m), I Robot ($165.1m), Scream ($165.0m), Scream 2 ($156.4m), Live Free or Die Hard ($138.8m), Scream 3 ($117.1m), Blade II ($100.3m), Hellboy ($68.0m), Underworld Evolution ($67.4m), Red-Eye ($64.0m)

Awards:
2009 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score – The Hurt Locker
2007 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score – 3:10 to Yuma
1999 Emmy Awards – Nominee, Outstanding Music Composition for a Mini– Series, Movie, or Special – David & Lisa

Links:
Official Site

3:10 to Yuma 54 Angel Eyes Blade 2 Captivity The Crow: Salvation Cursed The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Deep Water Dracula 2000 The Faculty Flight of the Phoenix The Florentine Hellboy I Am Dina I Robot Joyride Knowing Live Free or Die Hard Max Payne Mimic The Minus Man The Omen Resident Evil Scream/Scream 2 Scream 3 Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Underworld Evolution The Watcher


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