Marco Beltrami

MARCO BELTRAMI scored director Kathryn Bigelow's acclaimed The Hurt Locker, which won six Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director, and garnered Beltrami an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Score. He also received an Academy Award® nomination for his score to James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma.

Beltrami reunited with Guillermo del Toro to compose music for Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. His many other feature credits include Len Wiseman's Live Free or Die Hard; The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, for director Tommy Lee Jones; I, Robot, for director Alex Proyas; del Toro's Hellboy ; and Jonathan Mostow's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

A protégé of acclaimed composer Jerry Goldsmith, Beltrami got his big break scoring Wes Craven's Scream. Beltrami threw away conventional horror-music clichés, calling upon the influences of his idol, Ennio Morricone, and likened the film to a Western.

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