Carter Burwell

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1955-11-18 (69 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Carter Benedict Burwell

Carter 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).

Known For

Sound

2024
Drive-Away Dolls

as Original Music Composer

2024
Drive-Away Dolls

as Conductor

2024
Drive-Away Dolls

as Orchestrator

2023
Finestkind

as Original Music Composer

2023
To Catch a Killer

as Original Music Composer

2022
The Banshees of Inisherin

as Original Music Composer

2022
Catherine Called Birdy

as Original Music Composer

2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth

as Original Music Composer

2020
Space Force

as Original Music Composer

2019
Missing Link

as Original Music Composer

2019
The Good Liar

as Original Music Composer

2019
The Morning Show

as Original Music Composer

2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Original Music Composer

2018
2017
2017
Wonderstruck

as Original Music Composer

2017
Goodbye Christopher Robin

as Original Music Composer

2016
Hail, Caesar!

as Original Music Composer

2016
The Finest Hours

as Original Music Composer

2016
The Family Fang

as Original Music Composer

2016
The Founder

as Original Music Composer

2016
The Founder

as Conductor

2015
Mr. Holmes

as Original Music Composer

2015
Carol

as Original Music Composer

2015
Legend

as Original Music Composer

2015
Anomalisa

as Original Music Composer

2015
Anomalisa

as Orchestrator

2014
Olive Kitteridge

as Original Music Composer

2013
The Fifth Estate

as Original Music Composer

2012
2012
Seven Psychopaths

as Original Music Composer

2011
2011
Mildred Pierce

as Original Music Composer

2010
The Kids Are All Right

as Original Music Composer

2010
Howl

as Original Music Composer

2010
True Grit

as Original Music Composer

2009
The Blind Side

as Original Music Composer

2009
A Serious Man

as Original Music Composer

2009
Where the Wild Things Are

as Original Music Composer

2008
Burn After Reading

as Original Music Composer

2008
In Bruges

as Original Music Composer

2008
Twilight

as Original Music Composer

2007
No Country for Old Men

as Original Music Composer

2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

as Original Music Composer

2006
The Hoax

as Original Music Composer

2006
2004
The Alamo

as Original Music Composer

2004
Kinsey

as Original Music Composer

2004
The Ladykillers

as Original Music Composer

2004
The Alamo

as Conductor

2003
Intolerable Cruelty

as Original Music Composer

2002
S1m0ne

as Original Music Composer

2002
Adaptation.

as Original Music Composer

2002
The Rookie

as Original Music Composer

2002
Searching for Paradise

as Original Music Composer

2001
The Man Who Wasn't There

as Original Music Composer

2001
A Knight's Tale

as Original Music Composer

2000
What Planet Are You From?

as Original Music Composer

2000
Hamlet

as Original Music Composer

2000
Before Night Falls

as Original Music Composer

2000
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

as Original Music Composer

1999
Being John Malkovich

as Original Music Composer

1999
Three Kings

as Original Music Composer

1999
The General's Daughter

as Original Music Composer

1999
The Corruptor

as Original Music Composer

1999
Mystery, Alaska

as Original Music Composer

1999
Mystery, Alaska

as Conductor

1998
The Big Lebowski

as Original Music Composer

1998
The Hi-Lo Country

as Original Music Composer

1998
Velvet Goldmine

as Original Music Composer

1998
Gods and Monsters

as Original Music Composer

1997
The Spanish Prisoner

as Original Music Composer

1997
Conspiracy Theory

as Original Music Composer

1997
Picture Perfect

as Original Music Composer

1997
1997
The Jackal

as Original Music Composer

1997
Assassin(s)

as Original Music Composer

1996
Fargo

as Original Music Composer

1996
Fear

as Original Music Composer

1996
The Chamber

as Original Music Composer

1996
The Celluloid Closet

as Original Music Composer

1996
Joe's Apartment

as Original Music Composer

1995
A Goofy Movie

as Original Music Composer

1995
Rob Roy

as Original Music Composer

1995
Bad Company

as Original Music Composer

1995
Two Bits

as Original Music Composer

1994
It Could Happen to You

as Original Music Composer

1994
The Hudsucker Proxy

as Original Music Composer

1994
Airheads

as Original Music Composer

1993
Kalifornia

as Original Music Composer

1993
This Boy's Life

as Original Music Composer

1993
Wayne's World 2

as Original Music Composer

1993
And the Band Played On

as Original Music Composer

1993
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint

as Original Music Composer

1993
A Dangerous Woman

as Original Music Composer

1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

as Original Music Composer

1992
Storyville

as Original Music Composer

1992
Waterland

as Original Music Composer

1992
Transeltown

as Original Music Composer

1991
Barton Fink

as Original Music Composer

1991
Doc Hollywood

as Original Music Composer

1990
Miller's Crossing

as Original Music Composer

1988
Pass the Ammo

as Original Music Composer

1988
The Beat

as Music

1988
It Takes Two

as Original Music Composer

1988
Checking Out

as Original Music Composer

1987
Raising Arizona

as Original Music Composer

1986
Psycho III

as Original Music Composer

1985
R.A.B.L.

as Original Music Composer

1985
1984
Blood Simple

as Original Music Composer

Actor

Crew

1998
Mercury Rising

as Additional Music