Carter Benedict Burwell was born on November 18,1954 and is an American film composer.
15 Facts About Carter Burwell
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Carter Burwell has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films.
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Carter Burwell has scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Spike Jonze, Martin McDonagh, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock.
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Carter Burwell was born in New York City, the son of Natalie, a math teacher, and Charles Carter Burwell, who founded Thaibok Fabrics, Ltd.
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Carter Burwell graduated from King School in Stamford, Connecticut with George Hofecker and other notables and Harvard College, where he was a cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon.
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Carter Burwell wrote and recorded the original score for the film The Bourne Identity, but director Doug Liman wanted something else and replaced it with a score by John Powell.
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Carter Burwell performed in New York with several bands, notably The Same, Thick Pigeon, and Radiante.
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Carter Burwell played in Thick Pigeon with Stanton Miranda; the group released two albums, Too Crazy Cowboys and tracks on Miranda Dali, originally released as a Miranda solo project but later reissued as a Thick Pigeon release.
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On Carter Burwell's soundtrack for Psycho III, Miranda was a featured singer.
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Carter Burwell used the country music genre as the basis for his score for the Coens' Raising Arizona in 1987.
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Carter Burwell's work has alternated between live performance, dance and theater commissions, and film scoring.
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In 2009, Carter Burwell was the recipient of the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
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Carter Burwell was nominated for the Annie Award for Music in an Animated Feature Production for Anomalisa and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Carol.
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Carter Burwell was awarded Film Composer of the Year by the World Soundtrack Awards, and the score for Carol received the Public Choice Award for the Best Score of the Year.
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Carter Burwell received his first Academy Award for Best Original Score nomination for Carol, his second for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and his third for The Banshees Of Inisherin.