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Lorne Balfe

Sound

Born February 23, 1976 · Inverness, Scotland, UK

Also known as Oswin Mackintosh · Лорн Бэлф

Biography

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television and video game scores.  A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and Mikael Håfström. He composed the new fanfare for Skydance Media transcribed as There's a World, There's A Moon. Balfe also composed the Annapurna Pictures deep note opening logo. Balfe is also involved in The Game Awards, serving as the conductor of the Game Awards Orchestra and the composer and arranger of several musical performances featured at the show. Since The Game Awards 2018, he has composed a medley of the themes of the six nominees for Game of the Year each year, presented as the award at the end of the show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Balfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography50+ titles

Inception

2010Additional Music

Top Gun: Maverick

2022Music Score Producer

The Crown

2016Music, Original Music Composer

Life on Our Planet

2023Music Producer, Original Music Composer

Dopesick

2021Original Music Composer

The Dinosaurs

2026Original Music Composer

Young Woman and the Sea

2024Music Score Producer

Pennyworth

2019Original Music Composer

His Dark Materials

2019Original Music Composer

Tetris

2023Original Music Composer

Gran Turismo

2023Original Music Composer

Iron Man

2008Additional Music

Batman Begins

2005Music Programmer

The Wheel of Time

2021Original Music Composer

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

2024Original Music Composer

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023Original Music Composer

The Tomorrow War

2021Original Music Composer

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

2018Original Music Composer

The Florida Project

2017Original Music Composer

Gloria

2014Original Music Composer

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

2024Original Music Composer, Vocals

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

2023Original Music Composer

13 Hours

2016Original Music Composer

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

2025Score Engineer

Black Widow

2021Original Music Composer

The Lego Batman Movie

2017Original Music Composer

Sherlock Holmes

2009Music Producer

Bad Boys for Life

2020Original Music Composer

The Driver

2014Original Music Composer

Five

2011Original Music Composer

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005Additional Music

Restless

Original Music Composer

Girl Rising

2013Original Music Composer

Megamind

2010Original Music Composer

Carry-On

2024Original Music Composer

Ghosted

2023Original Music Composer

Sons of Liberty

2015Original Music Composer

Son of God

2014Original Music Composer

Rango

2011Additional Music

Novocaine

2025Original Music Composer

Black Adam

2022Original Music Composer

Rumble

2021Original Music Composer

Home

2015Original Music Composer

Megamind: The Button of Doom

2011Original Music Composer

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

2024Conductor, Original Music Composer

Luther: The Fallen Sun

2023Original Music Composer

Ambulance

2022Original Music Composer

The Cry

2018Original Music Composer

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2012Additional Music

Over the Hedge

2006Thanks