Carter Burwell

Carter Burwell

  • Birthday: 1955-11-18
  • Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
  • Also know as: Carter Benedict Burwell

Biography

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has consistently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Burwell has also scored three of Todd Haynes's films, three of Spike Jonze's films, and all the films of Martin McDonagh. He has received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015) and McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

Filmography

Production

Mercury Rising

1998

As Additional Music

The Big Lebowski

1998

As Original Music Composer

Fargo

1996

As Original Music Composer

Barton Fink

1991

As Original Music Composer

Miller's Crossing

1990

As Original Music Composer

Raising Arizona

1987

As Original Music Composer

Being John Malkovich

1999

As Original Music Composer

The Hi-Lo Country

1998

As Original Music Composer

Velvet Goldmine

1998

As Original Music Composer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992

As Original Music Composer

What Planet Are You From?

2000

As Original Music Composer

Fear

1996

As Original Music Composer

Hamlet

2000

As Original Music Composer

It Could Happen to You

1994

As Original Music Composer

The Alamo

2004

As Original Music Composer

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

As Original Music Composer

Kalifornia

1993

As Original Music Composer

Burn After Reading

2008

As Original Music Composer

Before Night Falls

2000

As Original Music Composer

Kinsey

2004

As Original Music Composer

The Chamber

1996

As Original Music Composer

The Blind Side

2009

As Original Music Composer

Three Kings

1999

As Original Music Composer

Rob Roy

1995

As Music

This Boy's Life

1993

As Original Music Composer

Joe's Apartment

1996

As Music

Conspiracy Theory

1997

As Original Music Composer

Wayne's World 2

1993

As Original Music Composer

S1m0ne

2002

As Original Music Composer

Picture Perfect

1997

As Original Music Composer

A Knight's Tale

2001

As Original Music Composer

A Serious Man

2009

As Original Music Composer

Psycho III

1986

As Original Music Composer

The Hoax

2006

As Original Music Composer

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

2006

As Original Music Composer

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

2011

As Original Music Composer

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

2012

As Original Music Composer

Pass the Ammo

1988

As Original Music Composer

Seven Psychopaths

2012

As Original Music Composer

The Beat

1988

As Music

Mr. Holmes

2015

As Original Music Composer

Blood Simple

1984

As Original Music Composer

Adaptation.

2002

As Original Music Composer

The Jackal

1997

As Original Music Composer

A Goofy Movie

1995

As Original Music Composer

Airheads

1994

As Music

In Bruges

2008

As Original Music Composer

Carol

2015

As Original Music Composer

Legend

2015

As Original Music Composer

Intolerable Cruelty

2003

As Original Music Composer

No Country for Old Men

2007

As Original Music Composer

The Finest Hours

2016

As Original Music Composer

Anomalisa

2015

As Original Music Composer

The Family Fang

2016

As Original Music Composer

The Celluloid Closet

1996

As Original Music Composer

Assassin(s)

1997

As Original Music Composer

Doc Hollywood

1991

As Original Music Composer

Wonderstruck

2017

As Music

The Ladykillers

2004

As Original Music Composer

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017

As Original Music Composer

Goodbye Christopher Robin

2017

As Original Music Composer

Howl

2010

As Original Music Composer

Twilight

2008

As Original Music Composer

The Rookie

2002

As Music

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018

As Original Music Composer

Missing Link

2019

As Original Music Composer

Hunting Bigfoot

2018

As Music

The Alamo

2004

As Conductor

Bad Company

1995

As Music

The Founder

2016

As Conductor

The Founder

2016

As Original Music Composer

The Good Liar

2019

As Original Music Composer

Two Bits

1995

As Original Music Composer

Waterland

1992

As Music

A Dangerous Woman

1993

As Original Music Composer

Checking Out

1989

As Music

Anomalisa

2015

As Orchestrator

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2007

As Original Music Composer

True Grit

2010

As Original Music Composer

Searching for Paradise

2002

As Original Music Composer

Transeltown

1992

As Original Music Composer

The Fifth Estate

2013

As Original Music Composer

A Hero of Our Time

1985

As Music

Storyville

1992

As Music

The Corruptor

1999

As Original Music Composer

Mystery, Alaska

1999

As Original Music Composer

Mystery, Alaska

1999

As Conductor

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

2000

As Original Music Composer

The Spanish Prisoner

1997

As Original Music Composer

Girls Night Out

1997

As Music

Where the Wild Things Are

2009

As Original Music Composer

And the Band Played On

1993

As Original Music Composer

Hail, Caesar!

2016

As Original Music Composer

R.A.B.L.

1985

As Original Music Composer

Gods and Monsters

1998

As Original Music Composer

The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

As Original Music Composer

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994

As Original Music Composer

XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint

1993

As Original Music Composer

To Catch a Killer

2023

As Music

Drive-Away Dolls

2024

As Original Music Composer

The General's Daughter

1999

As Original Music Composer

It Takes Two

1988

As Original Music Composer

Finestkind

2023

As Original Music Composer

The Kids Are All Right

2010

As Original Music Composer

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