Biography
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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2020s
- 2023
- 2021
Confronting a Serial Killer
Original Music Composer
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Original Music Composer
- 2020
The Curve
Original Music Composer
Give My Regards to Broadway
Original Music Composer
2010s
- 2019
League of Legends Origins
Original Music Composer
On Broadway
Original Music Composer
- 2018
The Test and the Art of Thinking
Original Music Composer
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
Original Music Composer
The Bombing of Wall Street
Original Music Composer
The Gilded Age
Original Music Composer
- 2017
Shadowman
Original Music Composer
Obit
Original Music Composer
- 2016
Crashing the Party
Original Music Composer
- 2015
Everything Is Copy
Original Music Composer
Dirty Weekend
Original Music Composer
- 2013
JFK
Original Music Composer
Running from Crazy
Original Music Composer
- 2011
The Revolutionary
Music
Gun Fight
Original Music Composer
The Greely Expedition
Music
- 2010
Lafayette: The Lost Hero
Original Music Composer
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
Music
Law & Disorder
Music
Racing Dreams
Music
2000s
- 2009
A Village Called Versailles
Music
Looking for Lincoln
Music
- 2008
Kit Carson
Original Music Composer
- 2007
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
Music
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
Music
- 2006
Canvas
Music
Disorder
Music
- 2004
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
Original Music Composer
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
Original Music Composer
- 2003
The Forgotten
Music
Undermind
Music
Born Rich
Original Music Composer
- 2002
The Collector of Bedford Street
Music
- 2001
Children Underground
Original Music Composer
The Follow
Original Music Composer
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Music
1990s
- 1999
- 1997
Green Chimneys
Music
Other crew 1
2010s
- 2011
Hot Coffee
Additional Music