Carter Burwell

Carter Burwell

Known for
Sound
Born
November 18, 1955 (age 70)
Birthplace
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.

Known For

Photos

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Filmography

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Go, Beavers!

Go, Beavers!

Movie · Original Music Composer

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Jack of Spades

Jack of Spades

Movie · Original Music Composer

2026
Wild Horse Nine poster

Wild Horse Nine

Movie · Original Music Composer

2025
Honey Don't! poster

Honey Don't!

Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

2025
Good Fortune poster

Good Fortune

Movie · Original Music Composer

2024
Drive-Away Dolls poster

Drive-Away Dolls

Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

2023
Finestkind poster

Finestkind

Movie · Original Music Composer

2023
To Catch a Killer poster

To Catch a Killer

Movie · Original Music Composer

2023
Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future poster

Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future

Movie · Original Music Composer

2022
The Banshees of Inisherin poster

The Banshees of Inisherin

Movie · Original Music Composer

2022
Catherine Called Birdy poster

Catherine Called Birdy

Movie · Original Music Composer

2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth poster

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Movie · Original Music Composer

2020
Space Force poster

Space Force

TV · Original Music Composer · 10 eps

2019
Missing Link poster

Missing Link

Movie · Original Music Composer

2019
The Good Liar poster

The Good Liar

Movie · Original Music Composer

2019
The Morning Show poster

The Morning Show

TV · Original Music Composer · 30 eps

2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs poster

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Movie · Original Music Composer

2018
Hunting Bigfoot poster

Hunting Bigfoot

Movie · Music

2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri poster

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

2017
Wonderstruck poster

Wonderstruck

Movie · Original Music Composer

2017
Goodbye Christopher Robin poster

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Movie · Original Music Composer

2016
Hail, Caesar! poster

Hail, Caesar!

Movie · Original Music Composer

2016
The Finest Hours poster

The Finest Hours

Movie · Original Music Composer

2016
The Family Fang poster

The Family Fang

Movie · Original Music Composer

2016
The Founder poster

The Founder

Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor

2015
Mr. Holmes poster

Mr. Holmes

Movie · Original Music Composer

2015
Carol poster

Carol

Movie · Original Music Composer

2015
Legend poster

Legend

Movie · Original Music Composer

2015
Anomalisa poster

Anomalisa

Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

2014
Olive Kitteridge poster

Olive Kitteridge

TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps

2013
The Fifth Estate poster

The Fifth Estate

Movie · Original Music Composer

2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 poster

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Movie · Original Music Composer

2012
Seven Psychopaths poster

Seven Psychopaths

Movie · Original Music Composer

2011
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 poster

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

Movie · Original Music Composer

2011
Moving Gracefully Towards the Exit

Moving Gracefully Towards the Exit

Movie · Music, Orchestrator

2011
Mildred Pierce poster

Mildred Pierce

TV · Original Music Composer · 5 eps

2010
The Kids Are All Right poster

The Kids Are All Right

Movie · Original Music Composer

2010
Howl poster

Howl

Movie · Original Music Composer

2010
True Grit poster

True Grit

Movie · Original Music Composer

2009
The Blind Side poster

The Blind Side

Movie · Original Music Composer

2009
A Serious Man poster

A Serious Man

Movie · Original Music Composer

2009
Where the Wild Things Are poster

Where the Wild Things Are

Movie · Original Music Composer

2008
Burn After Reading poster

Burn After Reading

Movie · Original Music Composer

2008
In Bruges poster

In Bruges

Movie · Original Music Composer

2008
Twilight poster

Twilight

Movie · Original Music Composer

2007
No Country for Old Men poster

No Country for Old Men

Movie · Original Music Composer

2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead poster

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor

2006
The Hoax poster

The Hoax

Movie · Original Music Composer

2006
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus poster

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Movie · Original Music Composer

2004
The Alamo poster

The Alamo

Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor

2004
Kinsey poster

Kinsey

Movie · Original Music Composer

2004
The Ladykillers poster

The Ladykillers

Movie · Original Music Composer

2003
Intolerable Cruelty poster

Intolerable Cruelty

Movie · Original Music Composer

2002
S1m0ne poster

S1m0ne

Movie · Original Music Composer

2002
Adaptation. poster

Adaptation.

Movie · Original Music Composer

2002
The Rookie poster

The Rookie

Movie · Original Music Composer

2002
Searching for Paradise poster

Searching for Paradise

Movie · Original Music Composer

2001
The Man Who Wasn't There poster

The Man Who Wasn't There

Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

2001
A Knight's Tale poster

A Knight's Tale

Movie · Original Music Composer

2000
What Planet Are You From? poster

What Planet Are You From?

Movie · Original Music Composer

2000
Hamlet poster

Hamlet

Movie · Original Music Composer

2000
Before Night Falls poster

Before Night Falls

Movie · Original Music Composer

2000
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 poster

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Movie · Musician, Original Music Composer

1999
Being John Malkovich poster

Being John Malkovich

Movie · Original Music Composer

1999
Three Kings poster

Three Kings

Movie · Original Music Composer

1999
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale poster

The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale

Movie · Original Music Composer

1999
The General's Daughter poster

The General's Daughter

Movie · Original Music Composer

1999
The Corruptor poster

The Corruptor

Movie · Original Music Composer

1999
Mystery, Alaska poster

Mystery, Alaska

Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor

1998
The Big Lebowski poster

The Big Lebowski

Movie · Original Music Composer

1998
The Hi-Lo Country poster

The Hi-Lo Country

Movie · Original Music Composer

1998
Velvet Goldmine poster

Velvet Goldmine

Movie · Original Music Composer

1998
Gods and Monsters poster

Gods and Monsters

Movie · Original Music Composer

1997
The Spanish Prisoner poster

The Spanish Prisoner

Movie · Original Music Composer

1997
Conspiracy Theory poster

Conspiracy Theory

Movie · Original Music Composer

1997
Picture Perfect poster

Picture Perfect

Movie · Original Music Composer

1997
Girls Night Out poster

Girls Night Out

Movie · Music

1997
The Jackal poster

The Jackal

Movie · Original Music Composer

1997
Assassin(s) poster

Assassin(s)

Movie · Original Music Composer

1997
The Locusts poster

The Locusts

Movie · Original Music Composer

1996
Fargo poster

Fargo

Movie · Original Music Composer

1996
Fear poster

Fear

Movie · Original Music Composer

1996
The Chamber poster

The Chamber

Movie · Original Music Composer

1996
The Celluloid Closet poster

The Celluloid Closet

Movie · Original Music Composer

1996
Joe's Apartment poster

Joe's Apartment

Movie · Original Music Composer

1995
A Goofy Movie poster

A Goofy Movie

Movie · Original Music Composer

1995
Rob Roy poster

Rob Roy

Movie · Original Music Composer

1995
Bad Company poster

Bad Company

Movie · Original Music Composer

1995
Two Bits poster

Two Bits

Movie · Original Music Composer

1994
It Could Happen to You poster

It Could Happen to You

Movie · Original Music Composer

1994
The Hudsucker Proxy poster

The Hudsucker Proxy

Movie · Original Music Composer

1994
Airheads poster

Airheads

Movie · Original Music Composer

1993
Kalifornia poster

Kalifornia

Movie · Original Music Composer

1993
This Boy's Life poster

This Boy's Life

Movie · Original Music Composer

1993
Wayne's World 2 poster

Wayne's World 2

Movie · Original Music Composer

1993
And the Band Played On poster

And the Band Played On

Movie · Original Music Composer

1993
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint poster

XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint

Movie · Original Music Composer

1993
A Dangerous Woman poster

A Dangerous Woman

Movie · Original Music Composer

1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer poster

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Movie · Original Music Composer

1992
Waterland poster

Waterland

Movie · Original Music Composer

1992
Storyville poster

Storyville

Movie · Original Music Composer

1992
Transeltown poster

Transeltown

Movie · Original Music Composer

1991
Barton Fink poster

Barton Fink

Movie · Original Music Composer

1991
Doc Hollywood poster

Doc Hollywood

Movie · Original Music Composer

1991
Scorchers poster

Scorchers

Movie · Original Music Composer

1990
Miller's Crossing poster

Miller's Crossing

Movie · Original Music Composer

1988
Pass the Ammo poster

Pass the Ammo

Movie · Original Music Composer

1988
It Takes Two poster

It Takes Two

Movie · Original Music Composer

1988
Checking Out poster

Checking Out

Movie · Original Music Composer

1988
The Beat poster

The Beat

Movie · Original Music Composer

1987
Raising Arizona poster

Raising Arizona

Movie · Original Music Composer

1986
Psycho III poster

Psycho III

Movie · Original Music Composer

1985
R.A.B.L. poster

R.A.B.L.

Movie · Original Music Composer

1985
Blood Simple poster

Blood Simple

Movie · Original Music Composer

1985
A Hero of Our Time poster

A Hero of Our Time

Movie · Music

1985
Creation Myth poster

Creation Myth

Movie · Music

1983
Steps poster

Steps

Movie · Music