Cast & creator
Carter Burwell
Best known for Golden Globe Awards, The Morning Show, Twilight
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.
Also known as: Carter Benedict Burwell
142
film credits
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television credits
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1944–2026 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (148)
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Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
The Morning Show
Original Music Composer
2019
Twilight
Original Music Composer
2008
No Country for Old Men
Original Music Composer
2007
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Original Music Composer
2011
The Big Lebowski
Original Music Composer
1998
Space Force
Original Music Composer
2020
The Blind Side
Original Music Composer
2009
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Original Music Composer
2012
A Knight's Tale
Original Music Composer
2001
Fargo
Original Music Composer
1996
The Banshees of Inisherin
Original Music Composer
2022
The Founder
Original Music Composer
2016The Founder
Conductor
2016
A Goofy Movie
Original Music Composer
1995
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Original Music Composer
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Orchestrator
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Conductor
2017
Mercury Rising
Additional Music
1998
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Additional Music
2000
In Bruges
Original Music Composer
2008
The Jackal
Original Music Composer
1997
Good Fortune
Original Music Composer
2025
Missing Link
Original Music Composer
2019
Drive-Away Dolls
Original Music Composer
2024Drive-Away Dolls
Conductor
2024Drive-Away Dolls
Orchestrator
2024
Being John Malkovich
Original Music Composer
1999
Mildred Pierce
Original Music Composer
2011
True Grit
Original Music Composer
2010
Mr. Holmes
Original Music Composer
2015
Three Kings
Original Music Composer
1999
This Boy's Life
Original Music Composer
1993
Honey Don't!
Original Music Composer
2025Honey Don't!
Conductor
2025Honey Don't!
Orchestrator
2025
Hail, Caesar!
Original Music Composer
2016
Legend
Original Music Composer
2015
Olive Kitteridge
Original Music Composer
2014
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Original Music Composer
2018
To Catch a Killer
Original Music Composer
2023
Fear
Original Music Composer
1996
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Original Music Composer
2021
The Finest Hours
Original Music Composer
2016
Conspiracy Theory
Original Music Composer
1997
Burn After Reading
Original Music Composer
2008
Seven Psychopaths
Original Music Composer
2012
Wild Horse Nine
Original Music Composer
2026
Carol
Original Music Composer
2015
Raising Arizona
Original Music Composer
1987
Adaptation.
Original Music Composer
2002
The Ladykillers
Original Music Composer
2004
A Serious Man
Original Music Composer
2009
The Good Liar
Original Music Composer
2019
Miller's Crossing
Original Music Composer
1990
Blood Simple
Original Music Composer
1985
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Original Music Composer
2007Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Conductor
2007Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Orchestrator
2007
It Could Happen to You
Original Music Composer
1994
Where the Wild Things Are
Original Music Composer
2009
Intolerable Cruelty
Original Music Composer
2003
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Original Music Composer
1992
The Fifth Estate
Original Music Composer
2013
Joe's Apartment
The Roach Chorus (voice)
1996Joe's Apartment
Original Music Composer
1996
The General's Daughter
Original Music Composer
1999
Wayne's World 2
Original Music Composer
1993
The Hudsucker Proxy
Original Music Composer
1994
The Man Who Wasn't There
Original Music Composer
2001The Man Who Wasn't There
Conductor
2001The Man Who Wasn't There
Orchestrator
2001
The Alamo
Original Music Composer
2004The Alamo
Conductor
2004
Barton Fink
Original Music Composer
1991
The Rookie
Original Music Composer
2002
The Kids Are All Right
Original Music Composer
2010
The Family Fang
Original Music Composer
2016
Psycho III
Original Music Composer
1986
The Corruptor
Original Music Composer
1999
Kalifornia
Original Music Composer
1993
Doc Hollywood
Original Music Composer
1991
Picture Perfect
Original Music Composer
1997
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Musician
2000Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Original Music Composer
2000
Gods and Monsters
Original Music Composer
1998
Airheads
Original Music Composer
1994
The Chamber
Original Music Composer
1996
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Original Music Composer
2017
And the Band Played On
Original Music Composer
1993
Mystery, Alaska
Original Music Composer
1999Mystery, Alaska
Conductor
1999
Rob Roy
Original Music Composer
1995
Anomalisa
Original Music Composer
2015Anomalisa
Orchestrator
2015
Kinsey
Original Music Composer
2004
Velvet Goldmine
Original Music Composer
1998
Finestkind
Original Music Composer
2023
The Spanish Prisoner
Original Music Composer
1997
S1m0ne
Original Music Composer
2002
The Hi-Lo Country
Original Music Composer
1998
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Original Music Composer
2006Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Music
2006
Before Night Falls
Original Music Composer
2000
What Planet Are You From?
Original Music Composer
2000
Howl
Original Music Composer
2010
Wonderstruck
Original Music Composer
2017
The Hoax
Original Music Composer
2006
Bad Company
Original Music Composer
1995
A Dangerous Woman
Original Music Composer
1993
Waterland
Original Music Composer
1992
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Self - Interviewed Guest
2013
Catherine Called Birdy
Original Music Composer
2022
It Takes Two
Original Music Composer
1988
Two Bits
Original Music Composer
1995
Hamlet
Original Music Composer
2000
Hunting Bigfoot
Music
2018
The Celluloid Closet
Original Music Composer
1996
Checking Out
Original Music Composer
1988
Storyville
Original Music Composer
1992
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
Original Music Composer
1999
A Hero of Our Time
Music
1985
Assassin(s)
Original Music Composer
1997
Scorchers
Piano Player
1991Scorchers
Original Music Composer
1991
The Locusts
Original Music Composer
1997
Pass the Ammo
Original Music Composer
1988Jack of Spades
Original Music Composer
Girls Night Out
Music
1997
Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth
Self
2022
The Beat
Original Music Composer
1988
Lights, Action, Music
Self
2007
Inside The Works
Self
2026
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
Original Music Composer
1993
Funny
Self
1988
Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future
Original Music Composer
2023Go, Beavers!
Original Music Composer
R.A.B.L.
Original Music Composer
1985
Creation Myth
Music
1985
Help, I'm Being Crushed to Death by a Black Rectangle
Director
1978Subway Slut
Director
1977
Transeltown
1992Transeltown
Original Music Composer
1992
3DV
Animation
1984
Searching for Paradise
Original Music Composer
2002
Steps
Music
1983Moving Gracefully Towards the Exit
Music
2011Moving Gracefully Towards the Exit
Orchestrator
2011