Joel Goodman
- Known for
- Sound
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
What About Me?
Movie · Original Music Composer
Trees and Other Entanglements
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Movie · Original Music Composer
Murder Among the Mormons
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
Confronting a Serial Killer
TV · Original Music Composer · 5 eps
Once Upon a Time in Queens
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
The Curve
Movie · Original Music Composer
Give My Regards to Broadway
Movie · Original Music Composer
On Broadway
Movie · Original Music Composer
League of Legends Origins
Movie · Original Music Composer
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Test and the Art of Thinking
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Gilded Age
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Bombing of Wall Street
Movie · Original Music Composer
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
Movie · Original Music Composer
Obit
Movie · Original Music Composer
Voyeur
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shadowman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Crashing the Party
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dirty Weekend
Movie · Original Music Composer
Everything Is Copy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Southern Rites
Movie · Original Music Composer
Running from Crazy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Miss You Can Do It
Movie · Original Music Composer
American Winter
Movie · Music
Makers: Women Who Make America
TV · Music · 3 eps
JFK
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
Gun Fight
Movie · Original Music Composer
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Movie · Original Music Composer
Saving Pelican 895
Movie · Music
The Revolutionary
Movie · Music
The Greely Expedition
Movie · Music
Racing Dreams
Movie · Music
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale
Movie · Music
Lafayette: The Lost Hero
Movie · Original Music Composer
Law & Disorder
Movie · Music
Once Brothers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Looking for Lincoln
Movie · Music
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Movie · Music
A Village Called Versailles
Movie · Music
Kit Carson
Movie · Original Music Composer
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
Movie · Music
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
Movie · Music
Disorder
Movie · Music
Canvas
Movie · Music
Bearing Witness
Movie · Original Music Composer
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
Movie · Original Music Composer
Born Rich
Movie · Original Music Composer
Undermind
Movie · Music
The Forgotten
Movie · Music
The Collector of Bedford Street
Movie · Music
Children Underground
Movie · Original Music Composer
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Movie · Music
The Follow
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Children of Chabannes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cherry
Movie · Original Music Composer
Origin of the Species
Movie · Original Music Composer
Green Chimneys
Movie · Music