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CURRENT COMPOSERS FROM A TO F: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
MICHAEL ANDREWS
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Funny People--51 (U.S. gross in millions)
2. Orange County--41
3. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story--18
4. Unaccompanied Minors--16
5. Out Cold--13
6. Me and You and Everyone We Know--3
He shared the scoring credit on Judd Apatow's Funny People with co-star Jason Schwarzman, and next he scores a vehicle for Apatow veteran Jay Baruchel, She's Out of My League.
3 EMMY NOMINATIONS
1 GRAMMY NOMINATION
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation--71
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors--44
3. The Beach--39
4. Dark Water--25
5. Arlington Road--24
6. The Wicker Man--23
7. Cousins--22
8. Cabin Fever--21
9. Wild at Heart--14
10. Blue Velvet--8
Badalamenti has kept busy with European projects, including two British films -- the romantic drama The Edge of Love, and the psychological drama 44 Inch Chest.
Despite the many Hollywood hits on his resume, Badelt has been working a lot in international cinema lately, including the French thriller Pour Elle (currently being remade by Paul Haggis as a Russell Crowe vehicle, The Next Three Days) and the comedy Le Petit Nicholas. The long-delayed Elmore Leonard adaptation Killshot ultimately went straight to DVD, but Badelt is getting strong reviews for the quirky comedy The Extra Man, starring Paul Dano and Kevin Kline.
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. The Dukes of Hazzard--80
2. Hostel--47
3. Shutter--25
4. Cabin Fever--21
5. Beerfest--19
6. Hostel, Part II-- 17
7. Broken Lizard's Club Dread--5
8. Beyond the Mat--2
Barr scored Broken Lizard's latest, and barely released, comedy, The Slammin' Salmon, and still scores HBO's popular vampire series True Blood. He also has at least three features coming up: Cotton, Open House and Peep World.
JOHN BARRY
5 OSCARS, 7 NOMINATIONS
1 EMMY NOMINATION
1 GRAMMY, 3 NOMINATIONS
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES: The Lion in Winter, Midnight Cowboy, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Dances With Wolves--184
2. Indecent Proposal--106
3. Out of Africa--87
4. Moonraker--70
5. Thunderball--63
6. Octopussy--62
7. The Deep--61 (approx)
8. The Specialist--57
9. King Kong--52
10. Goldfinger--51
Barry fans starving for new music from their hero had a small treat last year with the release a new Shirley Bassey album, The Performance (produced by David Arnold), which featured a brand new John Barry/Don Black song, "Our Time Is Now.”
TERENCE BLANCHARD
3 GRAMMYS, 7 NOMINATIONS
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Inside Man--88
2. Barbershop--75
3. Next Friday--57
4. Malcolm X--48
5. Jungle Fever--31
6. Love & Basketball--27
7. Waist Deep --21
8. Summer of Sam--19
9. Sugar Hill--18
10. Original Sin--16
Miracle at St. Anna, Blanchard's latest film for Spike Lee, was a deserved flop, while Cadillac Records never found the audience it deserved. Blanchard just won his third Grammy, for Best Improvised Jazz Solo for the piece "Dancin' 4 Chicken," and performed the solos for Louis, the trumpet-playing alligator in Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. An Inconvenient Truth--23
2. Into the Wild--18
3. Affliction--6
4. Who Killed the Electric Car--1
He scored last year's critically acclaimed baseball drama Sugar.
He scored a TV movie called Safe Harbor, from Raise the Titanic director Jerry Jameson.
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. The Fast and the Furious--144
2. Monster--34
3. Driven--32
4. Stealth--31
5. Go--16
6. Catch and Release--15
7. Underclassman--5
He scored the Pixar short Tokyo Mater, a parody of Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift featuring characters from Cars.
2 OSCAR NOMINATIONS
5 GRAMMYS, 7 NOMINATIONS
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Walk the Line--119
2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood--69
3. Crazy Heart--11 (as of 2/7/10)
Burnett shared the scoring credit with the late Stephen Bruton for the critically acclaimed Crazy Heart. He shared the Golden Globe for its winning song, "The Weary Kind," and just earned his second Oscar nomination for the song.
PAUL CANTELON
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. The Other Boleyn Girl--26
2. W.--25
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly--5
He scored the Julie Christie/Shia LaBoeuf segment of New York, I Love You, written by Anthony Minghella and directed by Shekhar Kapur.
TEDDY CASTELLUCCI
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Wild Hogs--168
2. Big Daddy--163
3. The Longest Yard--158
4. Anger Management--134
5. Mr. Deeds--126
6. 50 First Dates--119
7. The Wedding Singer--80
8. White Chicks--69
9. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo--65
10. Little Man--58
Since Castellucci has stopped scoring Adam Sandler projects, he's been taking on smaller, more offbeat projects like the true-life drama American Violet and the comedy The Answer Man, along with the hugely successful Wild Hogs.
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Boyz N the Hood--57
2. Romeo Must Die--55
3. Passenger 57--44
4. What's Love Got to Do With It?--39
5. Undercover Brother--38
6. Higher Learning--38
7. First Sunday--37
8. The Best Man--34
9. Eddie--31
10. Poetic Justice--27
His most recent features were the comedies First Sunday and Soul Men.
1 EMMY NOMINATION
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Austin Powers in Goldmember--213
2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me--205
3. The Santa Clause 2--139
4. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause--84
5. Mortal Kombat--70
6. Big Momma's House 2--70
7. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery--53
8. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay--38
9. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation--35
10. Deck the Halls--35
Tooth Fairy, his third film for Michael Lembeck (director of the Santa Clause sequels) is doing decent business. The Love Guru was a flop, while the disappointing Harold & Kumar sequel did decent business. The Mike Judge comedy Extract was well reviewed but not widely seen.
CHARLIE CLOUSER
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Saw II--87
2. Saw III--80
3. Saw IV--63
4. Saw V--56
5. Saw--55
6. Resident Evil: Extinction--50
7. The Stepfather--28
8. Saw VI--27
9. Dead Silence--16
10. Death Sentence--9
The latest Saw grossed less than half of any previous entry in the series; even the Clouser-scored remake of The Stepfather did better. He scores the TV series Numbers (excuse me, Numb3rs), and will presumably score the planned 3D Saw sequel.
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Ronin--41
2. Battlefield Earth--21
3. Pulse--20
4. Wrong Turn--15
5. They--12
6. Bones--7
7. Apartment Zero--1
Still working regularly in horror, including the direct-to-video Lost Boys 3.
BILL CONTI
1 OSCAR, 3 NOMINATIONS
3 EMMYS, 12 NOMINATIONS
1 GRAMMY NOMINATION
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES: Rocky, An Unmarried Woman, The Right Stuff, Broadcast News
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Rocky III--125
2. Rocky--117
3. The Karate Kid, Part II--115
4. The Karate Kid--90
5. Rocky II--85
6. Rocky Balboa--70
7. Private Benjamin--69
8 The Thomas Crown Affair--69
9. For Your Eyes Only--54
He scored the baseball drama The Perfect Game, from Harry and the Hendersons director William Dear.
MICHAEL CONVERTINO
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES: Children of a Lesser God
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. The Santa Clause--144
2. Jungle 2 Jungle--59
3. Bull Durham--50
4. The Doctor--38
5. Children of a Lesser God--31
6. Guarding Tess--27
7. Bed of Roses--19
8. Milk Money--18
9. Dance with Me--15
10. The Hidden--9
No credits for the last six years.
He had his biggest U.S. hit with the stop-motion Coraline, and scored two of this year's five Oscar nominees for Animated Feature -- Coraline and The Secret of Kells.
The Danna brothers had a modest hit with Lakeview Terrace, and scored the latest Terry Gilliam film, the Oscar-nominated Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The Boondock Saints sequel lingered in theaters for a surprisingly long time, and he scored another Tim Blake Nelson-directed feature, the upcoming pot-growing comedy Leaves of Grass. Last year he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
His opera Rio de Sangre will premiere this October in Milwaukee.
1 OSCAR
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES: The Crying Game, The Full Monty
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. The Crying Game--62
2. The Full Monty--45
3. A Man Apart--26
4. Say Anything--20
5. Tristan + Isolde--14
6. Disorderlies--10
7. Pushing Tin--8
8. Hiding Out--7
9. American History X--6
10. Monkeybone--5
Working regularly in British television, including The Red Dahlia and Trial and Retribution.
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Stardust--38
2. Ninja Assassin--38 (2/7/10)
3. Hannibal Rising--27
4. The Young Victoria--8 (2/7/10)
5. Layer Cake--2
He had two major projects in 2009, and Ninja Assassin and the Oscar-nominated Young Victoria could hardly be more different. He was announced for Matthew Vaughn's comic-book comedy Kick-Ass, but it is rumored that the score is currently in flux. He is scoring the period action film Centurion for Descent director Neil Marshall, and he scored the ghost story From Time to Time, directed by Gosford Park's Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes.
GEORGE FENTON
5 OSCAR NOMINATIONS
2 EMMYS, 3 NOMINATIONS
2 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES: Gandhi, Dangerous Liaisons
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Hitch--159
2. Sweet Home Alabama--127
3. You've Got Mail--115
4. Groundhog Day--70
5. Fool's Gold--70
6. Ever After--65
7. Bewitched--62
8. Gandhi--52
9. Anna and the King--39
10. Last Holiday--38
He has scored his fifth film for director Andy Tennant, the comedy thriller The Bounty Hunter.
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Dante's Peak--67
2. Beavis and Butt-head Do America--63
3. Alien Resurrection--47
4. Thirteen Ghosts--41
5. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer--40
6. Legion--34 (2/7/10)
Frizzell has carved himself a nice little niche scoring B-movie thrillers like Legion and Whiteout. The religion-themed comedy-drama Henry Poole Is Here was a change-of-pace project but only grossed $1 million. Next he's scoring a thriller called The Roommate | 
