Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer best known for his work scoring horror films such as Mimic (1997), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011), The Woman in Black (2012), and all four films in the Scream franchise (1995-2011). A long-time friend and collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami has scored seven of the director's films since their first collaboration on Scream (1996). Beltrami has been nominated for two Aca...
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Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer best known for his work scoring horror films such as Mimic (1997), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011), The Woman in Black (2012), and all four films in the Scream franchise (1995-2011). A long-time friend and collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami has scored seven of the director's films since their first collaboration on Scream (1996). Beltrami has been nominated for two Academy Awards and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for Soul Surfer (2011).
Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York of Italian and Greek descent. He attended Ward Melville High School, and afterwards, graduated from Brown University and studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith.
A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first movie feature in 1994, the thriller Death Match...
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