About

Known credits:
53
Birthday:
1954-02-05
Place of birth:
The Bronx, New York, USA
Website:
N/A

Cliff Martinez

Overview

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Known for

Acting
1992 Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!? Actor 59
Average
1986 Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO Actor Drums N/A
N/A

Sound
2023 Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2023 Copenhagen Cowboy Sound Original Music Composer 69
Fair
2022 Touch of Crude Sound Music 59
Average
2022 Kimi Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2019 Too Old to Die Young Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
2019 Genghis Khan Sound Music N/A
N/A
2018 Hotel Artemis Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2018 Game Night Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
2018 The Legend of Red Hand Sound Music 59
Average
2018 Den of Thieves Sound Original Music Composer 66
Fair
2017 The Foreigner Sound Original Music Composer 67
Fair
2016 War Dogs Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
2016 The Neon Demon Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
2016 The Secret Slaves of the Middle East Sound Music N/A
N/A
2014 My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Sound Music 59
Average
2014 The Knick Sound Original Music Composer 77
Good
2014 The Normal Heart Sound Original Music Composer 71
Good
2014 Mea Culpa Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2013 Only God Forgives Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2013 Spring Breakers Sound Original Music Composer 52
Average
2012 The Company You Keep Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2012 Golem Sound Music 59
Average
2012 Arbitrage Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
2011 Drive Sound Original Music Composer 75
Good
2011 Contagion Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
2011 The Lincoln Lawyer Sound Original Music Composer 70
Good
2010 Severe Clear Sound Music 58
Average
2009 In the Beginning Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2009 Spy(ies) Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2008 Vice Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2008 Stiletto Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2006 First Snow Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2005 Havoc Sound Original Music Composer 56
Average
2005 Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt Sound Music N/A
N/A
2004 Wicker Park Sound Original Music Composer 64
Fair
2003 Wonderland Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2002 Solaris Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2002 Narc Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
2000 Traffic Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
1999 The Limey Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
1998 Wicked Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1997 Schizopolis Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1996 Gray's Anatomy Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1995 The Underneath Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1993 King of the Hill Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
1992 Black Magic Sound Music 58
Average
1991 Kafka Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
1990 Pump Up the Volume Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
1989 sex, lies, and videotape Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair

Crew
2012 NWR Crew Additional Music 59
Average
1997 The Fifth Element Crew Additional Music 74
Good