Carter Burwell
Known for: Sound
Born: November 18, 1955
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, scoring most of their films. He has also scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Spike Jonze, Martin McDonagh, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock. Burwell received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015), McDonagh's films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Carter Burwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Advertisement
Filmography
122 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
NR
Wild Horse Nine
2026
NR
Inside The Works
2026
6.8
Good Fortune
2025
5.5
Honey Don't!
2025
5.5
Drive-Away Dolls
2024
6.9
Finestkind
2023
10.0
Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future
2023
6.8
To Catch a Killer
2023
7.5
The Banshees of Inisherin
2022
6.0
Catherine Called Birdy
2022
NR
Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth
2022
6.9
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
6.5
Space Force
2020
6.7
The Good Liar
2019
7.7
The Morning Show
2019
6.9
Missing Link
2019
7.1
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
10.0
Hunting Bigfoot
2018
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
6.1
Wonderstruck
2017
7.0
Goodbye Christopher Robin
2017
7.2
The Founder
2016
5.8
The Family Fang
2016
5.9
Hail, Caesar!
2016
6.6
The Finest Hours
2016
7.1
Anomalisa
2015
7.5
Carol
2015
7.0
Legend
2015
6.5
Mr. Holmes
2015
7.6
Olive Kitteridge
2014
6.0
The Fifth Estate
2013
7.5
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
2013
6.5
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
6.8
Seven Psychopaths
2012NR
Moving Gracefully Towards the Exit
2011
6.2
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
7.0
Mildred Pierce
2011
7.3
True Grit
2010
6.5
Howl
2010
6.6
The Kids Are All Right
2010
7.7
The Blind Side
2009
6.5
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
6.7
A Serious Man
2009
6.3
Twilight
2008
6.7
Burn After Reading
2008
7.5
In Bruges
2008
8.0
No Country for Old Men
2007
7.1
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
7.0
Lights, Action, Music
2007
6.3
The Hoax
2006
6.1
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2006
6.6
Kinsey
2004
5.8
The Alamo
2004
6.1
The Ladykillers
2004
6.0
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
7.3
Adaptation.
2002
6.0
S1m0ne
2002
6.0
Searching for Paradise
2002
6.8
The Rookie
2002
7.5
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
6.9
A Knight's Tale
2001
4.3
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
6.7
Before Night Falls
2000
7.3
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
5.8
Hamlet
2000
5.4
What Planet Are You From?
2000
7.4
Being John Malkovich
1999
6.3
Mystery, Alaska
1999
6.6
Three Kings
1999
6.4
The General's Daughter
1999
6.5
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
1999
6.1
The Corruptor
1999
6.0
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
6.9
Gods and Monsters
1998
6.9
Velvet Goldmine
1998
6.3
Mercury Rising
1998
7.8
The Big Lebowski
1998
6.8
The Spanish Prisoner
1997
6.4
The Jackal
1997
9.0
Girls Night Out
1997
5.7
The Locusts
1997
6.6
Conspiracy Theory
1997
5.9
Picture Perfect
1997
6.3
Assassin(s)
1997
5.9
The Chamber
1996
5.8
Joe's Apartment
1996
6.7
Fear
1996
7.2
The Celluloid Closet
1996
7.8
Fargo
1996
5.7
Two Bits
1995
6.7
Rob Roy
1995
7.0
A Goofy Movie
1995
5.0
Bad Company
1995
6.2
Airheads
1994
6.7
It Could Happen to You
1994
7.1
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
6.1
Wayne's World 2
1993
6.4
And the Band Played On
1993
5.5
A Dangerous Woman
1993
6.6
Kalifornia
1993
NR
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
1993
7.1
This Boy's Life
1993
5.3
Storyville
1992
6.3
Waterland
1992
5.6
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
8.0
Transeltown
1992
6.4
Doc Hollywood
1991
7.5
Barton Fink
1991
4.4
Scorchers
1991
7.4
Miller's Crossing
1990
4.4
Checking Out
1988
5.4
It Takes Two
1988
6.2
The Beat
1988
8.0
Funny
1988
4.8
Pass the Ammo
1988
7.1
Raising Arizona
1987
5.7
Psycho III
1986
7.2
Blood Simple
1985
7.0
R.A.B.L.
1985
7.0
A Hero of Our Time
1985
NR
Creation Myth
1985
NR
3DV
1984
NR
Steps
1983
NR
Help, I'm Being Crushed to Death by a Black Rectangle
1978NR
Subway Slut
1977
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944NR
Go, Beavers!
—NR
Jack of Spades
—