15 Facts About Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami was born on October 7,1966 and is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores.

Marco Beltrami has worked in a number of genres, including horror, action, science-fiction, Western, and superhero.

Marco Beltrami has worked with such directors as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Ole Bornedal, Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon-ho, Dan Gilroy, and John Krasinski.

Marco Beltrami has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma and The Hurt Locker, and a Golden Globe Award for A Quiet Place.

Marco Beltrami won a Satellite Award for Soul Surfer and an Emmy Award for Free Solo.

Marco Beltrami was born on Long Island, New York, of Italian and Greek descent.

Marco Beltrami attended Ward Melville High School, and afterwards, graduated from Brown University and studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under composer Jerry Goldsmith.

Marco Beltrami was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for the film David and Lisa in 1998, indicating a desire to spread his musical wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing.

Marco Beltrami has composed the recent entries in the Die Hard saga, Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard, taking over from Michael Kamen from whom Beltrami used some of the original themes from the previous three films due to Kamen's death in 2003.

Marco Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma.

Marco Beltrami composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film November Man.

Marco Beltrami co-composed the score for the 2015 Fantastic Four film with Philip Glass.

Marco Beltrami often employs both traditional percussive instruments such as bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.

Marco Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as Wes Craven, James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, John Moore, Jonathan Levine, and John Krasinski.

Marco Beltrami has worked with other musicians, including Marilyn Manson.