Cast & creator
Elliot Goldenthal
Best known for The Oscars, Heat, Heat
Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He is also a film-music composer, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida, directed by his long-time partner Julie Taymor.
46
film credits
1
television credits
5
1953–2020 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (47)
Showing 47 of 47 credits
The Oscars
Self
1953
Heat
Original Music Composer
1995Heat
Orchestrator
1995
Batman & Robin
Original Music Composer
1997
Interview with the Vampire
Original Music Composer
1994
Pet Sematary
Original Music Composer
1989
Demolition Man
Original Music Composer
1993
A Time to Kill
Original Music Composer
1996
Batman Forever
Original Music Composer
1995
Public Enemies
Original Music Composer
2009
Alien³
Original Music Composer
1992
S.W.A.T.
Original Music Composer
2003
Sphere
Original Music Composer
1998
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Original Music Composer
2001
Across the Universe
Orchestrator
2007Across the Universe
Original Music Composer
2007
Frida
Original Music Composer
2002Frida
Songs
2002
Drugstore Cowboy
Original Music Composer
1989
Our Souls at Night
Original Music Composer
2017
Michael Collins
Original Music Composer
1996
Titus
Original Music Composer
1999
The Tempest
Original Music Composer
2010
The Glorias
Original Music Composer
2020
The Good Thief
Original Music Composer
2003The Good Thief
Orchestrator
2003
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Self
2017
In Dreams
Orchestrator
1999In Dreams
Original Music Composer
1999
Roswell
Original Music Composer
1994
Cobb
Original Music Composer
1994
The Butcher Boy
Original Music Composer
1998
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Music
2014
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Self
2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Original Music Composer
2003
Golden Gate
Original Music Composer
1994
The Making of 'Heat'
Music
2005
Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary
Self
2017
Criminal Justice
Original Music Composer
1990
Lights, Action, Music
Self
2007
Fool's Fire
Original Music Composer
1992
Cocaine Cowboys
Original Music Composer
1979
Blank Generation
Music
1980Blank Generation
Conductor
1980
Voices
Original Music Composer
1995
Grand Isle
Original Music Composer
1991
Forest
Music
2007