Carter Burwell

Born November 18, 1955 · New 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Carter Burwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Sound 115

2020s

2026
Wild Horse Nine
Original Music Composer
91
2025
Good Fortune
Original Music Composer
67
Honey Don't!
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
52
2024
Drive-Away Dolls
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
57
2023
Finestkind
Original Music Composer
52
Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future
Original Music Composer
To Catch a Killer
Original Music Composer
59
2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
Original Music Composer
82
Catherine Called Birdy
Original Music Composer
72
2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Original Music Composer
79
2020
Space Force
Original Music Composer
66

2010s

2019
The Good Liar
Original Music Composer
64
The Morning Show
Original Music Composer
80
Missing Link
Original Music Composer
72
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Original Music Composer
77
Hunting Bigfoot
Music
2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
84
Wonderstruck
Original Music Composer
65
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Original Music Composer
66
2016
The Founder
Original Music Composer, Conductor
72
The Family Fang
Original Music Composer
67
Hail, Caesar!
Original Music Composer
69
The Finest Hours
Original Music Composer
64
2015
Anomalisa
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
79
Carol
Original Music Composer
82
Legend
Original Music Composer
64
Mr. Holmes
Original Music Composer
71
2014
Olive Kitteridge
Original Music Composer
80
2013
The Fifth Estate
Original Music Composer
53
2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Original Music Composer
55
Seven Psychopaths
Original Music Composer
72
2011
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Original Music Composer
46
Mildred Pierce
Original Music Composer
74
2010
True Grit
Original Music Composer
80
Howl
Original Music Composer
The Kids Are All Right
Original Music Composer
77

2000s

2009
The Blind Side
Original Music Composer
69
Where the Wild Things Are
Original Music Composer
69
A Serious Man
Original Music Composer
77
2008
Twilight
Original Music Composer
55
Burn After Reading
Original Music Composer
70
In Bruges
Original Music Composer
77
2007
No Country for Old Men
Original Music Composer
86
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
79
2006
The Hoax
Original Music Composer
67
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Original Music Composer, Music
54
2004
Kinsey
Original Music Composer
75
The Alamo
Original Music Composer, Conductor
57
The Ladykillers
Original Music Composer
59
2003
Intolerable Cruelty
Original Music Composer
67
2002
Adaptation.
Original Music Composer
80
S1m0ne
Original Music Composer
56
Searching for Paradise
Original Music Composer
The Rookie
Original Music Composer
73
2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
76
A Knight's Tale
Original Music Composer
65
2000
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Musician, Original Music Composer
30
Before Night Falls
Original Music Composer
Hamlet
Original Music Composer
What Planet Are You From?
Original Music Composer
50

1990s

1999
Being John Malkovich
Original Music Composer
83
Mystery, Alaska
Original Music Composer, Conductor
56
Three Kings
Original Music Composer
77
The General's Daughter
Original Music Composer
52
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
Original Music Composer
The Corruptor
Original Music Composer
57
1998
The Hi-Lo Country
Original Music Composer
59
Gods and Monsters
Original Music Composer
77
Velvet Goldmine
Original Music Composer
67
The Big Lebowski
Original Music Composer
78
1997
The Spanish Prisoner
Original Music Composer
74
The Jackal
Original Music Composer
50
Girls Night Out
Music
The Locusts
Original Music Composer
49
Conspiracy Theory
Original Music Composer
62
Picture Perfect
Original Music Composer
52
Assassin(s)
Original Music Composer
1996
The Chamber
Original Music Composer
47
Joe's Apartment
Original Music Composer
47
Fear
Original Music Composer
58
The Celluloid Closet
Original Music Composer
Fargo
Original Music Composer
85
1995
Two Bits
Original Music Composer
Rob Roy
Original Music Composer
67
A Goofy Movie
Original Music Composer
65
Bad Company
Original Music Composer
47
1994
Airheads
Original Music Composer
52
It Could Happen to You
Original Music Composer
67
The Hudsucker Proxy
Original Music Composer
66
1993
Wayne's World 2
Original Music Composer
61
And the Band Played On
Original Music Composer
81
A Dangerous Woman
Original Music Composer
Kalifornia
Original Music Composer
61
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
Original Music Composer
This Boy's Life
Original Music Composer
70
1992
Storyville
Original Music Composer
Waterland
Original Music Composer
60
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Original Music Composer
51
Transeltown
Original Music Composer
1991
Doc Hollywood
Original Music Composer
63
Barton Fink
Original Music Composer
77
Scorchers
Original Music Composer
52
1990
Miller's Crossing
Original Music Composer
78

1980s

1988
Checking Out
Original Music Composer
It Takes Two
Original Music Composer
54
The Beat
Original Music Composer
Pass the Ammo
Original Music Composer
1987
Raising Arizona
Original Music Composer
76
1986
Psycho III
Original Music Composer
57
1985
Blood Simple
Original Music Composer
80
R.A.B.L.
Original Music Composer
A Hero of Our Time
Music
Creation Myth
Music
1983
Steps
Music

No release date

Jack of Spades
Original Music Composer

Acted in 3

1990s

1996
Joe's Apartment
The Roach Chorus (voice)
47
1992
Transeltown
Movie
1991
Scorchers
Piano Player
52

Other crew 2

2000s

2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Additional Music
75

1990s

1998
Mercury Rising
Additional Music
48

Directed 1

1970s

1978
Help, I'm Being Crushed to Death by a Black Rectangle
Director

Visual effects 1

1980s

1984
3DV
Animation

Appearances6

2020s

2026
Inside The Works
Self
2022
Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth
Self

2010s

2013
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Self - Interviewed Guest · 1 episode

2000s

2007
Lights, Action, Music
Self

1980s

1988
Funny
Self

1940s

1944
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 episode