Biography
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).
Awards & recognition
- Robert Award — Best Score · 2017
- Robert Award — Best Score · 2014
Filmography45 titles
The Knick
The Normal Heart
The Wilds
The Square
Drive
The Fifth Element
Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn
Too Old to Die Young
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
The Lincoln Lawyer
Traffic
Pump Up the Volume
Pee-wee's Playhouse
The Foreigner
Copenhagen Cowboy
Den of Thieves
War Dogs
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Game Night
Wicker Park
Narc
King of the Hill
Contagion
The Neon Demon
The Limey
Gray's Anatomy
Touch of Crude
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Kafka
Mea culpa
Arbitrage
Kimi
The Company You Keep
Schizopolis
Hotel Artemis
First Snow
Wonderland
Solaris
Only God Forgives
The Underneath
Spy(ies)
Severe Clear
Spring Breakers
Havoc
Wicked