22 Facts About Clint Mansell

Clinton Darryl Mansell is an English musician, singer, and composer.

Clint Mansell served as the lead vocalist of alt-rock band Pop Will Eat Itself.

Clint Mansell partnered with American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and composed the scores for his films Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and Noah.

Clint Mansell is best known for the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, particularly the film's composition "Lux Aeterna" and a re-orchestrated version titled "Requiem for a Tower" that was created for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer, both of which have been featured in multiple advertisements, films, film trailers, video games and other media.

Clint Mansell has provided the scores for the Ben Wheatley films High-Rise, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead and Rebecca and In the Earth.

Clint Mansell has composed music for television and video games.

Clint Mansell's father worked for the electricity board and his mother was a preparer of school meals.

Clint Mansell served as the band's lead vocalist, guitarist and one of the band's main songwriters.

Clint Mansell was invited by Reznor to move to an apartment in New Orleans owned by Reznor, where Mansell lived for three years, prior to settling in Los Angeles.

Clint Mansell performed backing vocals on Nine Inch Nails' 1999 album The Fragile.

Clint Mansell reunited with PWEI in 2005 for their "Reformation" tour, which included performances in Nottingham, Birmingham and London, England.

Aronofky suggested that Clint Mansell write the opening title piece for Pi, Aronfsky's feature film directorial debut.

Aronofsky had intended to use pre-existing electronic music in the rest of the film, but due to a lack of funds, he found it difficult to acquire the rights to much of the music that interested him and Clint Mansell was hired to provide music for the entire film.

Clint Mansell wrote the score for Aronofsky's next film, Requiem for a Dream, which became a cult hit.

Clint Mansell was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media as well as for Best Original Sountrack and Soundtrack Composer of the Year at the 11th World Soundtrack Awards.

Clint Mansell created the film score for Moon, Duncan Joness feature film directorial debut.

Clint Mansell won Best Technical Achievement at the British Independent Film Awards for Moons score.

In 2011 Clint Mansell was hired to provide the score for The Iron Lady, but he was later replaced by composer Thomas Newman.

Clint Mansell provided the scores for the films Stoker and Filth, which were both released in 2013.

Clint Mansell provided the music for Wheatley's subsequent works Happy New Year, Colin Burstead and Rebecca and In the Earth.

Clint Mansell has performed some of his film compositions live with the Sonus Quartet in the US, the UK and Australia.

In February 2019, Clint Mansell signed a publishing deal with Decca Publishing, a division of Decca Records.