Carter Burwell

Age: N/A | From: New York City, New York, USA

TV
Involvement

126

Movie
Involvement

Person Details

Birthday:

Aliases: Carter Benedict Burwell

Gender: Male

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Homepage: http://www.carterburwell.com/main/carter_burwell.shtml

Movie Involvements: 126

TV Involvements: 5

Most Famous Work

Biography

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has consistently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Burwell has also scored three of Todd Haynes's films, three of Spike Jonze's films, and all the films of Martin McDonagh. He has received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015) and McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

Most Famous Work

Average

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2022	Self	Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth 2022-01-14 Movie
2013	Self - Interviewed Guest	Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies 2013-09-12 TV Show
2007	Self	Lights, Action, Music 2007-08-06 Movie
1992	N/A	Transeltown 1992-06-16 Movie
1991	Piano Player	Scorchers 1991-07-07 Movie
1988	Self	Funny 1988-04-01 Movie
1944	Self - Nominee	Golden Globe Awards 1944-01-20 TV Show
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2025	Original Music Composer	Honey Don't! 2025-08-21 Movie
	Conductor	Honey Don't! 2025-08-21 Movie
	Orchestrator	Honey Don't! 2025-08-21 Movie
2024	Original Music Composer	Drive-Away Dolls 2024-02-22 Movie
	Orchestrator	Drive-Away Dolls 2024-02-22 Movie
	Conductor	Drive-Away Dolls 2024-02-22 Movie
2023	Original Music Composer	Finestkind 2023-09-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future 2023-04-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	To Catch a Killer 2023-04-06 Movie
2022	Original Music Composer	The Banshees of Inisherin 2022-10-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Catherine Called Birdy 2022-09-23 Movie
2021	Original Music Composer	The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021-12-05 Movie
2020	Original Music Composer	Space Force 2020-05-29 TV Show
2019	Original Music Composer	The Good Liar 2019-11-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Morning Show 2019-11-01 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Missing Link 2019-04-04 Movie
2018	Original Music Composer	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018-11-09 Movie
	Music	Hunting Bigfoot 2018-08-30 Movie
2017	Original Music Composer	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017-12-01 Movie
	Orchestrator	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017-12-01 Movie
	Conductor	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017-12-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Wonderstruck 2017-10-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Goodbye Christopher Robin 2017-09-29 Movie
2016	Conductor	The Founder 2016-11-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Founder 2016-11-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Family Fang 2016-04-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hail, Caesar! 2016-02-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Finest Hours 2016-01-27 Movie
2015	Original Music Composer	Anomalisa 2015-12-30 Movie
	Orchestrator	Anomalisa 2015-12-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Carol 2015-11-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Legend 2015-09-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mr. Holmes 2015-06-19 Movie
2014	Original Music Composer	Olive Kitteridge 2014-11-02 TV Show
2013	Original Music Composer	The Fifth Estate 2013-10-11 Movie
2012	Original Music Composer	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 2012-11-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Seven Psychopaths 2012-10-12 Movie
2011	Original Music Composer	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 2011-11-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mildred Pierce 2011-03-27 TV Show
2010	Original Music Composer	True Grit 2010-12-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Howl 2010-08-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Kids Are All Right 2010-07-09 Movie
2009	Original Music Composer	The Blind Side 2009-11-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Where the Wild Things Are 2009-10-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Serious Man 2009-10-02 Movie
2008	Original Music Composer	Twilight 2008-11-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Burn After Reading 2008-09-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	In Bruges 2008-02-08 Movie
2007	Original Music Composer	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007-09-26 Movie
	Orchestrator	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007-09-26 Movie
	Conductor	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007-09-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	No Country for Old Men 2007-06-13 Movie
2006	Original Music Composer	The Hoax 2006-10-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus 2006-08-30 Movie
	Music	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus 2006-08-30 Movie
2004	Original Music Composer	Kinsey 2004-09-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Alamo 2004-04-07 Movie
	Conductor	The Alamo 2004-04-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Ladykillers 2004-03-25 Movie
2003	Original Music Composer	Intolerable Cruelty 2003-09-02 Movie
2002	Original Music Composer	Adaptation. 2002-12-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	S1m0ne 2002-08-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Searching for Paradise 2002-06-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Rookie 2002-03-25 Movie
2001	Original Music Composer	The Man Who Wasn't There 2001-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Knight's Tale 2001-05-11 Movie
2000	Musician	Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 2000-10-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 2000-10-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Before Night Falls 2000-09-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hamlet 2000-05-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	What Planet Are You From? 2000-03-03 Movie
1999	Original Music Composer	Being John Malkovich 1999-10-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mystery, Alaska 1999-10-01 Movie
	Conductor	Mystery, Alaska 1999-10-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Three Kings 1999-09-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The General's Daughter 1999-06-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale 1999-06-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Corruptor 1999-03-12 Movie
1998	Original Music Composer	The Hi-Lo Country 1998-12-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gods and Monsters 1998-09-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Velvet Goldmine 1998-08-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Big Lebowski 1998-03-06 Movie
1997	Original Music Composer	The Spanish Prisoner 1997-12-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Jackal 1997-11-14 Movie
	Music	Girls Night Out 1997-10-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Locusts 1997-10-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Conspiracy Theory 1997-08-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Picture Perfect 1997-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Assassin(s) 1997-04-30 Movie
1996	Original Music Composer	The Chamber 1996-10-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Joe's Apartment 1996-07-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fear 1996-04-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fargo 1996-03-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Celluloid Closet 1996-01-30 Movie
1995	Original Music Composer	Two Bits 1995-10-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rob Roy 1995-04-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Goofy Movie 1995-04-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bad Company 1995-01-20 Movie
1994	Original Music Composer	Airheads 1994-08-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	It Could Happen to You 1994-07-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Hudsucker Proxy 1994-03-11 Movie
1993	Original Music Composer	Wayne's World 2 1993-12-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	And the Band Played On 1993-09-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Dangerous Woman 1993-09-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kalifornia 1993-06-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint 1993-06-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	This Boy's Life 1993-04-09 Movie
1992	Original Music Composer	Storyville 1992-08-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Waterland 1992-08-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992-07-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Transeltown 1992-06-16 Movie
1991	Original Music Composer	Doc Hollywood 1991-08-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Barton Fink 1991-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Scorchers 1991-07-07 Movie
1990	Original Music Composer	Miller's Crossing 1990-09-21 Movie
1988	Original Music Composer	Checking Out 1988-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	It Takes Two 1988-07-13 Movie
	Music	The Beat 1988-06-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Pass the Ammo 1988-03-04 Movie
1987	Original Music Composer	Raising Arizona 1987-03-13 Movie
1986	Original Music Composer	Psycho III 1986-04-02 Movie
1985	Original Music Composer	R.A.B.L. 1985-01-01 Movie
	Music	A Hero of Our Time 1985-01-01 Movie
	Music	Creation Myth 1985-01-01 Movie
1984	Original Music Composer	Blood Simple 1984-03-26 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv