About

Known credits:
124
Birthday:
1955-11-18
Place of birth:
New York City, New York, USA
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Carter Burwell

Overview

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

Acting
2022 Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth Actor Self N/A
N/A
2007 Lights, Action, Music Actor Self 59
Average
1992 Transeltown Actor 59
Average
1988 Funny Actor Self N/A
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Directing
1978 Help, I'm Being Crushed to Death by a Black Rectangle Directing Director N/A
N/A

Sound
2024 Drive-Away Dolls Sound Orchestrator 56
Average
2024 Drive-Away Dolls Sound Original Music Composer 56
Average
2024 Drive-Away Dolls Sound Conductor 56
Average
2023 Finestkind Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
2023 Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2023 To Catch a Killer Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
2022 Catherine Called Birdy Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
2019 The Good Liar Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
2019 The Morning Show Sound Original Music Composer 77
Good
2019 Missing Link Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sound Original Music Composer 69
Fair
2018 Hunting Bigfoot Sound Music 59
Average
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Sound Conductor 79
Good
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Sound Original Music Composer 79
Good
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Sound Orchestrator 79
Good
2017 Wonderstruck Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2017 Goodbye Christopher Robin Sound Original Music Composer 66
Fair
2016 The Founder Sound Conductor 69
Fair
2016 The Founder Sound Original Music Composer 69
Fair
2016 The Family Fang Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2016 Hail, Caesar! Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2016 The Finest Hours Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
2015 Anomalisa Sound Orchestrator 68
Fair
2015 Anomalisa Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
2015 Carol Sound Original Music Composer 73
Good
2015 Legend Sound Original Music Composer 69
Fair
2015 Mr. Holmes Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
2014 Olive Kitteridge Sound Original Music Composer 73
Good
2013 The Fifth Estate Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
2012 Seven Psychopaths Sound Original Music Composer 66
Fair
2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
2011 Mildred Pierce Sound Original Music Composer 69
Fair
2010 True Grit Sound Original Music Composer 71
Good
2010 Howl Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2010 The Kids Are All Right Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
2009 The Blind Side Sound Original Music Composer 75
Good
2009 Where the Wild Things Are Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
2009 A Serious Man Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
2008 Twilight Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
2008 Burn After Reading Sound Original Music Composer 66
Fair
2008 In Bruges Sound Original Music Composer 73
Good
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sound Orchestrator 67
Fair
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sound Original Music Composer 67
Fair
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sound Conductor 67
Fair
2007 No Country for Old Men Sound Original Music Composer 78
Good
2006 The Hoax Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Sound Music 59
Average
2004 Kinsey Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
2004 The Alamo Sound Conductor 58
Average
2004 The Alamo Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2004 The Ladykillers Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2003 Intolerable Cruelty Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2002 Adaptation. Sound Original Music Composer 71
Good
2002 S1m0ne Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2002 Searching for Paradise Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
2002 The Rookie Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There Sound Original Music Composer 71
Good
2001 A Knight's Tale Sound Original Music Composer 67
Fair
2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Sound Musician 49
Bad
2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Sound Original Music Composer 49
Bad
2000 Before Night Falls Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
2000 Hamlet Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2000 What Planet Are You From? Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1999 Being John Malkovich Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
1999 Mystery, Alaska Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
1999 Mystery, Alaska Sound Conductor 60
Fair
1999 Three Kings Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
1999 The General's Daughter Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
1999 The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
1999 The Corruptor Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1998 The Hi-Lo Country Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1998 Gods and Monsters Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
1998 Velvet Goldmine Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
1998 The Big Lebowski Sound Original Music Composer 77
Good
1997 The Spanish Prisoner Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
1997 The Jackal Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
1997 Girls Night Out Sound Music 59
Average
1997 Conspiracy Theory Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
1997 Picture Perfect Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1997 Assassin(s) Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1996 The Chamber Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1996 Joe's Apartment Sound Original Music Composer 57
Average
1996 Fear Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
1996 Fargo Sound Original Music Composer 77
Good
1996 The Celluloid Closet Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
1995 Two Bits Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1995 Rob Roy Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
1995 A Goofy Movie Sound Original Music Composer 67
Fair
1995 Bad Company Sound Original Music Composer 57
Average
1994 Airheads Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
1994 It Could Happen to You Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy Sound Original Music Composer 67
Fair
1993 Wayne's World 2 Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
1993 And the Band Played On Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1993 A Dangerous Woman Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1993 Kalifornia Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
1993 XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
1993 This Boy's Life Sound Original Music Composer 66
Fair
1992 Storyville Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1992 Waterland Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sound Original Music Composer 57
Average
1992 Transeltown Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1991 Doc Hollywood Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
1991 Barton Fink Sound Original Music Composer 71
Good
1990 Miller's Crossing Sound Original Music Composer 71
Good
1988 Checking Out Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1988 It Takes Two Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1988 The Beat Sound Music 59
Average
1988 Pass the Ammo Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1987 Raising Arizona Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
1986 Psycho III Sound Original Music Composer 57
Average
1985 R.A.B.L. Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
1985 A Hero of Our Time Sound Music N/A
N/A
1984 Blood Simple Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair

Crew
1998 Mercury Rising Crew Additional Music 61
Fair