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| x Marco Beltrami | 54 |
Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer. He has been the music director for all the Wes Craven movies since Scream.
Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York of Italian and Greek descent. He attended Ward Melville...
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| Blade II | |||
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| x Ennio Morricone |
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A Fistful of Dollars |
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne], (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over...
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| Nightmare Castle | |||
| Fists in the Pocket | |||
| For a Few Dollars More | |||
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| x John Williams |
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1941 |
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star...
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| A.I. Artificial Intelligence | |||
| Always | |||
| Amistad | |||
| Catch Me If You Can | |||
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| x Michael Small | 1969 |
Michael Small (May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003) was an American film score composer best known for his scores to thriller movies such as The Parallax View, Marathon Man, and The Star Chamber. Relatively few of his scores are available on compact...
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| Firstborn | |||
| Klute | |||
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| x Dominic Muldowney | 1984 |
Dominic Muldowney (born 1952, Southampton) is a British composer.
He studied at the universities of Southampton (with Jonathan Harvey) and York (with Bernard Rands and David Blake), and took private lessons with Harrison Birtwistle. From 1974 to...
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| Bloody Sunday | |||
| Copenhagen | |||
| The Peacock Spring | |||
| Baal | |||
| x Eurythmics |
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Eurythmics are a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, disbanded since 1990, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart (both previously in the bands The Catch and The Tourists), the duo released...
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| x Dave Grusin |
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...And Justice for All |
Robert David "Dave" Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy...
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| Absence of Malice | |||
| Author! Author! | |||
| Ishtar | |||
| Mulholland Falls | |||
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| x James Horner |
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*batteries not included |
James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer, orchestrator and conductor of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic...
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| 48 Hrs. | |||
| A Beautiful Mind | |||
| Aliens | |||
| All the King's Men | |||
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| x Arthur Lange |
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99 River Street |
Arthur Lange (April 16, 1889 – December 7, 1956) was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run. Lange shared an Oscar nomination with...
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| Cavalcade | |||
| The Dancing Masters | |||
| The Woman in the Window | |||
| Woman on the Run | |||
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| x Emil Newman | 99 River Street |
Emil Newman (January 20, 1911—August 30, 1984) was an American composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for musical direction on the classic Sun Valley Serenade (1941).
A native of Connecticut,...
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| Island in the Sky | |||
| Rancho Notorious | |||
| Woman on the Run | |||
| Big Jim McLain | |||
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| x Gabriel Yared | Betty Blue |
Gabriel Yared (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English...
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| Breaking and Entering | |||
| City of Angels | |||
| The English Patient | |||
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | |||
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| x D.H. Doane | 5 Card Stud | ||
| x Maurice Jarre |
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5 Card Stud |
Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor.
Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David...
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| A Passage to India | |||
| After Dark, My Sweet | |||
| Dead Poets Society | |||
| Doctor Zhivago | |||
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| x F.C. Van Al Styne | 5 Card Stud | ||
| x Paul Smith | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Paul J. Smith (October 30, 1906 - January 25, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American music composer. He was born in Calumet, Michigan. Smith spent much of his life working at Disney as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live...
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| The Shaggy Dog | |||
| Susie the Little Blue Coupe | |||
| Perri | |||
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | |||
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| x David Shire | 2010: The Year We Make Contact |
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such...
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| All the President's Men | |||
| Class of '44 | |||
| Only When I Laugh | |||
| Raid on Entebbe | |||
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| x György Ligeti |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact |
György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian: Ligeti György Sándor, [ˈliɡɛti ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before...
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| 2001: A Space Odyssey | |||
| Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow | |||
| x Richard Strauss |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact |
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and...
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| 2001: A Space Odyssey | |||
| Catch-22 | |||
| Abraham's Valley | |||
| x Bass Brothers |
Bass Brothers is the professional name for the team of Mark and Jeff Bass, the Detroit producers responsible for grooming megastar Eminem in his early days and collaborating on much of his subsequent music. Before that they worked with George...
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Obie Trice III (born November 14, 1977) is an American rapper and songwriter. He began rapping at the age of 11, and is most known for his time spent signed to Shady Records. Obie Trice has formed his own record label, Black Market Entertainment....
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| x Kevin Bassinson | 100 Girls | ||
| x Frank Zappa |
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200 Motels |
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique...
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| Baby Snakes | |||
| Y tu mamá también | |||
| Video from Hell | |||
| Trans Trans (Transformers Transformed) | |||
| x Various | 24 Hour Party People | ||
| Broadway: The Golden Age | |||
| Extreme Days | |||
| Nýtt Líf | |||
| Rokk í Reykjavík | |||
| x Mark Tschanz | Teknolust | ||
| 2:37 | |||
| x CFNY-FM |
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7 Seconds |
CFNY-FM, promoted under the branding 102.1 The Edge, is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.1 FM. The station rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s due to its freestyle DJing format and unique (at that point) choice to play alternative...
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| x John Murphy | 28 Days Later |
John Murphy (born 4 March 1965) is an English film composer. He is a self taught multi-instrumental musician who began his career in the 1980s working notably with The Lotus Eaters, Thomas Lang, Gary Wall (singer) and Claudia Brücken.
Murphy is best...
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| All about the Benjamins | |||
| Basic Instinct 2 | |||
| Friday After Next | |||
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | |||
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| x Gustavo Santaolalla | 21 Grams |
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.
Santaolalla was...
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| Amores perros | |||
| Babel | |||
| Brokeback Mountain | |||
| North Country | |||
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| x Dato Evgenidze | 9th Company | ||
| Since Otar Left | |||
| x David Newman | 102 Dalmatians |
David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning nearly forty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films.
Newman was born in Los Angeles,...
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| Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | |||
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | |||
| Daddy Day Care | |||
| Monster-in-Law | |||
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| x Manohari Singh | 1942: A Love Story |
Manohari Singh (March 8, 1931 – July 13, 2010) was an Indian saxophonist and a key member of Bollywood film composer Rahul Dev Burman's team.
Born in Kolkata in a family of musicians, Manohari Singh watched his father - originally from Nepal - and...
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| Santaan Film | |||
| x Harris Jayaraj |
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12B |
Harris Jayaraj (Tamil: ஹாரிஸ் ஜெயராஜ்; born 8 January 1975) is an Indian film composer. He has written scores and soundtracks for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.
Harris Jayaraj hails from a pious Christian Nadar family from Tirunelveli and was born...
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| Anniyan | |||
| Arul | |||
| Bheema | |||
| Chellamae | |||
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| x Rob Dougan |
Rob Dougan, also known as Rob D (born 1969 Sydney, Australia), is a genre-blending music composer. Mixing elements of orchestral music, trip hop, and bluesy vocals, his work is tangentially relatable to electronic music. He was known primarily for...
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| x James Newton Howard |
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A Perfect Murder |
James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films. The recipient of eight Academy Award...
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| Batman Begins | |||
| Big Trouble | |||
| Collateral | |||
| Dave | |||
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| x Andrew Gross | 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag | ||
| Down and Derby | |||
| Facade | |||
| Bring it On: Fight to the Finish | |||
| Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | |||
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| x John Coda | 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain |
John Coda is a Composer.
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| P.U.N.K.S. | |||
| Bratz: The Movie | |||
| x Michael Kamen | 101 Dalmatians |
Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.
Kamen was born in New York City, USA. He was the second of...
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| Band of Brothers | |||
| Brazil | |||
| Die Hard | |||
| Don Juan DeMarco | |||
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| x Richard Gibbs | 10 Things I Hate About You |
Richard “Ribbs” Gibbs (born in 1955 in Bay Village, Ohio) is an American film composer and music producer whose credits include the films Sweet Hearts Dance, Dr. Dolittle, Big Momma's House, The Book of Stars, Queen of the Damned and the television...
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| Amos & Andrew | |||
| Dr. Dolittle | |||
| John Tucker Must Die | |||
| My Baby's Daddy | |||
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| x Luis Salazar |
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7 mujeres, 1 homosexual y Carlos |
Luis Ernesto Salazar Garcia (born May 19, 1956 in Barcelona, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela) is a former third baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball, a right-handed batter who played from 1980 to 1992.
In his 13-year career, Salazar played in...
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| x Giovanni Arreola | 7 mujeres, 1 homosexual y Carlos | ||
| x Carlos Tachiquín | 7 mujeres, 1 homosexual y Carlos | ||
| x Selena Arizanovic | |||
| x Ocacia | 500 Years Later |
Ocacia is an international smooth jazz studio and performance group. Ocacia is known for their socially conscious lyrics. The music is characterized by some as "escapist" in the usage of space, chords and ethnic overtones. The chord structure has an...
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| Our Story Our Voice | |||
| Motherland | |||
| x Ralph Carmichael | 4D Man |
Ralph Carmichael (born 28 May 1927, Quincy, Illinois) is a composer and arranger of both secular pop music and contemporary Christian music, being regarded as one of the pioneers of the latter genre. Married to Marvella and father to composer and...
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| The Blob | |||
| x Radiohead |
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Meeting People Is Easy |
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Colin Greenwood (bass), Phil Selway (drums,...
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| I Come with the Rain | |||
| Seoul Sisters | |||
| The Island President | |||
| x Von Dexter | 13 Ghosts | ||
| x Nino Rota |
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8½ |
Nino Rota (December 3, 1911, Milan – April 10, 1979, Rome) was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco...
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| Amarcord | |||
| Boccaccio '70 | |||
| Fellini's Casanova | |||
| I Clowns | |||
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| x Joseph Koo | A Better Tomorrow |
Joseph Koo Kar-Fai, MBE, SBS (born January 1, 1933 in Guangzhou, China) is one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong. He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs. He is the younger brother of famous Chinese singer Koo Mei (顧媚).
Koo was...
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| A Better Tomorrow 2 | |||
| Fist of Legend | |||
| Way of the Dragon | |||
| The Big Boss | |||
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| x Vince Guaraldi | A Boy Named Charlie Brown |
Vincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip....
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| A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving | |||
| A Charlie Brown Christmas | |||
| It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown | |||
| x Philip Glass |
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara |
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. One of the highest profile composers writing "classical" music today, he is often said to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. His music is also often...
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| A Brief History of Time | |||
| Koyaanisqatsi | |||
| Naqoyqatsi | |||
| Powaqqatsi | |||
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| x Randy Newman |
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A Bug's Life |
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.
Newman often writes lyrics from the...
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| Babe: Pig in the City | |||
| Cars | |||
| James and the Giant Peach | |||
| Major League | |||
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| x Ernest Gold | A Child Is Waiting |
Ernest Gold (born Ernst Sigmund Goldner; July 13, 1921 – March 17, 1999) was an American composer.
Gold was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to the U.S. in 1938, after the Nazi invasion of Austria (his paternal grandfather was Jewish). Gold wrote...
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| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | |||
| Ship of Fools | |||
| Cross of Iron | |||
| The Screaming Skull | |||
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| x Romeo Díaz | A Chinese Ghost Story | ||
| x James Wong |
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A Chinese Ghost Story |
James 'Jim' Wong (Traditional Chinese: 黃毅瑜; Cantonese: Wong4 Ngai6 Jyu4; born April 20, 1959) is a Hong Kong-born American television producer, writer, and film director notable for his screen works of The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond,...
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| Bullet in the Head | |||
| Once Upon a Time in China | |||
| The Moon Warriors | |||
| Just Heroes | |||
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| x Paul Zaza | A Christmas Story |
Paul Zaza is a Genie Award-winning film score and songwriter. In 1980 he won the Genie Award for Best Music Score alongside Carl Zittrer for their work on Murder by Decree. He was nominated for the same award in 1985 for Isaac Littlefeathers. In...
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| Blown Away | |||
| Grizzly Falls | |||
| In Her Defense | |||
| My Bloody Valentine | |||
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| x Carl Zittrer | A Christmas Story | ||
| Black Christmas | |||
| Porky's | |||
| Porky's II: The Next Day | |||
| Prom Night | |||
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| x Marvin Hatley | A Chump at Oxford |
Thomas Marvin Hatley (April 3, 1905 – August 23, 1986), professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an American film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940.
Hatley wrote many of the...
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| Block-Heads | |||
| Bonnie Scotland | |||
| One Good Turn | |||
| Saps at Sea | |||
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| x Danny Elfman |
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A Civil Action |
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme. He was the lead singer and songwriter...
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| A Simple Plan | |||
| Anywhere But Here | |||
| Batman | |||
| Beetlejuice | |||
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| x Wendy Carlos | A Clockwork Orange |
Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos first came to prominence in 1968 with Switched-On Bach, a recording of music by J.S. Bach painstakingly assembled, phrase-by-phrase, on the Moog synthesizer, at the time a...
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| The Shining | |||
| Split Second | |||
