Biography
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, scoring most of their films. He has also scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Spike Jonze, Martin McDonagh, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock. Burwell received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015), McDonagh's films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Carter Burwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- British Independent Film Award — Best Music
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 2023 · nominated
- Golden Globe Award — Best Original Score · 2023 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 2018 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 2016 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
No Country for Old Men
Transeltown
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
The Morning Show
The Blind Side
Olive Kitteridge
The Banshees of Inisherin
Carol
In Bruges
The Man Who Wasn't There
Barton Fink
Being John Malkovich
Miller's Crossing
True Grit
Adaptation.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Blood Simple
The Celluloid Closet
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Founder
Legend
Anomalisa
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Hudsucker Proxy
This Boy's Life
Raising Arizona
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Mildred Pierce
A Goofy Movie
Good Fortune
Finestkind
To Catch a Killer
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Missing Link
A Knight's Tale
Velvet Goldmine
Gods and Monsters
Seven Psychopaths
The Rookie
The Spanish Prisoner
The Good Liar
A Serious Man
Burn After Reading
Rob Roy
It Could Happen to You
The Finest Hours
The Kids Are All Right
Kinsey