Carter Burwell
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).
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Films (122)

Caballo salvaje nueve
2026 · Original Music Composer

Inside The Works
2026 · Self

Good Fortune
2025 · Original Music Composer

Honey Don't!
2025 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

Drive-Away Dolls
2024 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor

Finestkind
2023 · Original Music Composer

Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future
2023 · Original Music Composer

To Catch a Killer
2023 · Original Music Composer

The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 · Original Music Composer

Catherine Called Birdy
2022 · Original Music Composer

Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth
2022 · Self

The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Original Music Composer

The Good Liar
2019 · Original Music Composer

Missing Link
2019 · Original Music Composer

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Original Music Composer

Hunting Bigfoot
2018 · Music

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor

Wonderstruck
2017 · Original Music Composer

Goodbye Christopher Robin
2017 · Original Music Composer

The Founder
2016 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Family Fang
2016 · Original Music Composer

Hail, Caesar!
2016 · Original Music Composer

The Finest Hours
2016 · Original Music Composer

Anomalisa
2015 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Carol
2015 · Original Music Composer

Legend
2015 · Original Music Composer

Mr. Holmes
2015 · Original Music Composer

The Fifth Estate
2013 · Original Music Composer

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012 · Original Music Composer

Seven Psychopaths
2012 · Original Music Composer
Moving Gracefully Towards the Exit
2011 · Music, Orchestrator

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011 · Original Music Composer

True Grit
2010 · Original Music Composer

Howl
2010 · Original Music Composer

The Kids Are All Right
2010 · Original Music Composer

The Blind Side
2009 · Original Music Composer

Where the Wild Things Are
2009 · Original Music Composer

A Serious Man
2009 · Original Music Composer

Twilight
2008 · Original Music Composer

Burn After Reading
2008 · Original Music Composer

In Bruges
2008 · Original Music Composer

No Country for Old Men
2007 · Original Music Composer

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor

Lights, Action, Music
2007 · Self

The Hoax
2006 · Original Music Composer

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2006 · Original Music Composer, Music

Kinsey
2004 · Original Music Composer

The Alamo
2004 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Ladykillers
2004 · Original Music Composer

Intolerable Cruelty
2003 · Original Music Composer

Adaptation.
2002 · Original Music Composer

S1m0ne
2002 · Original Music Composer

Searching for Paradise
2002 · Original Music Composer

The Rookie
2002 · Original Music Composer

The Barber : L'Homme qui n'était pas là
2001 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

Chevalier
2001 · Original Music Composer

Blair Witch 2 : Le Livre des ombres
2000 · Musician, Original Music Composer

Avant la nuit
2000 · Original Music Composer

O'Brother
2000 · Additional Music

Hamlet
2000 · Original Music Composer

De quelle planète viens-tu ?
2000 · Original Music Composer

Being John Malkovich
1999 · Original Music Composer

Mystery, Alaska
1999 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Three Kings
1999 · Original Music Composer

The General's Daughter
1999 · Original Music Composer

The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
1999 · Original Music Composer

The Corruptor
1999 · Original Music Composer

The Hi-Lo Country
1998 · Original Music Composer

Gods and Monsters
1998 · Original Music Composer

Velvet Goldmine
1998 · Original Music Composer

Mercury Rising
1998 · Additional Music

The Big Lebowski
1998 · Original Music Composer

The Spanish Prisoner
1997 · Original Music Composer

The Jackal
1997 · Original Music Composer

Girls Night Out
1997 · Music

The Locusts
1997 · Original Music Composer

Conspiracy Theory
1997 · Original Music Composer

Picture Perfect
1997 · Original Music Composer

Assassin(s)
1997 · Original Music Composer

The Chamber
1996 · Original Music Composer

Joe's Apartment
1996 · The Roach Chorus (voice), Original Music Composer

Fear
1996 · Original Music Composer

The Celluloid Closet
1996 · Original Music Composer

Fargo
1996 · Original Music Composer

Two Bits
1995 · Original Music Composer

Rob Roy
1995 · Original Music Composer

A Goofy Movie
1995 · Original Music Composer

Bad Company
1995 · Original Music Composer

Airheads
1994 · Original Music Composer

It Could Happen to You
1994 · Original Music Composer

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Original Music Composer

Wayne's World 2
1993 · Original Music Composer

And the Band Played On
1993 · Original Music Composer

A Dangerous Woman
1993 · Original Music Composer

Kalifornia
1993 · Original Music Composer

XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
1993 · Original Music Composer

This Boy's Life
1993 · Original Music Composer

Storyville
1992 · Original Music Composer

Waterland
1992 · Original Music Composer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 · Original Music Composer

Transeltown
1992 · Original Music Composer

Doc Hollywood
1991 · Original Music Composer

Barton Fink
1991 · Original Music Composer

Scorchers
1991 · Piano Player, Original Music Composer

Miller's Crossing
1990 · Original Music Composer

Checking Out
1988 · Original Music Composer

It Takes Two
1988 · Original Music Composer

The Beat
1988 · Original Music Composer

Funny
1988 · Self

Pass the Ammo
1988 · Original Music Composer

Raising Arizona
1987 · Original Music Composer

Psycho III
1986 · Original Music Composer

Blood Simple
1985 · Original Music Composer

R.A.B.L.
1985 · Original Music Composer

A Hero of Our Time
1985 · Music

Creation Myth
1985 · Music

3DV
1984 · Animation

Steps
1983 · Music

Help, I'm Being Crushed to Death by a Black Rectangle
1978 · Director
Subway Slut
1977 · Director
Go, Beavers!
· Original Music Composer
Jack of Spades
· Original Music Composer
Séries (6)

Space Force
2020 · Original Music Composer

The Morning Show
2019 · Original Music Composer

Olive Kitteridge
2014 · Original Music Composer

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
2013 · Self - Interviewed Guest

Mildred Pierce
2011 · Original Music Composer

Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee

