Biography
David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads. Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media, including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Webby Lifetime Achievement Award · 2008
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 1988
- Bessie Awards
- David di Donatello — Best Score
- Tony Award — Best Original Score · 2024 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 2023 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 1988 · nominated
Filmography46 titles
Stop Making Sense
Monk in Pieces
Tom Zé: Liberated Astronaut
The Simpsons
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Break It All: The History of Rock in Latin America
David Byrne's American Utopia
The Last Emperor
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
John Mulaney: Baby J
Under African Skies
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
This Must Be the Place
Saturday Night Live
Contemporary Color
StarTalk
Until the End of the World
True Stories
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Something Wild
60 Minutes
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
We Want the Funk!
Austin City Limits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
The Twits
Real Time with Bill Maher
Married to the Mob
Lulu on the Bridge
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Heavy Petting
The Jonathan Ross Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
She Hate Me
The Truth About Charlie
Checking Out
Changing Lanes
Twyla Moves
Hream
Museum Town
Celia: The Queen