Life and career

Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York, of Italian and Greek descent. He 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 legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith.

A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first feature in 1994, the thriller Death Match for director Joe Coppolletta, and reached a higher level of public acclaim in 1996 when he wrote the score for Wes Craven's smash hit shocker Scream. Since then, Beltrami has become firmly entrenched as a composer of choice for the horror/thriller and action genre, with the Scream sequels and hit films such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Angel Eyes (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Resident Evil (2002), which he co-composed with Marilyn Manson), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), I, Robot (2004) and Red Eye (2005) featuring prominently in his resume. Apart from horror/thriller and action, he also scores certain independent films such as The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He 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. He 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. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma. Despite having met a mixed critical response, he was also nominated, alongside Buck Sanders, for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Score for his score to The Hurt Locker. In 2011, he was met with critical praise and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for his score to the drama film Soul Surfer. Beltrami composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film November Man.

Beltrami composed the score for the 2015 Fantastic Four film.

Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments like bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.

Collaborations

Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, John Moore, Wes Craven, and Guillermo del Toro. He has also worked with other musicians, including Marilyn Manson (for Resident Evil).

It was reported in October 2002 on Beltrami's official website that he had worked on orchestral arrangements for "Thyme", "The General" and "Leave Me Alone" from the then-unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. While none of those tracks appear on the final track listing of the album, they were confirmed as being recorded during the sessions with a possible chance of release in the future. However, he was credited officially for providing arrangements on "Street of Dreams", "Madagascar", "There Was a Time", "This I Love" and "Prostitute". As a sidenote, "Chinese Democracy" is also the name of a track on Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma.

Discography

Films

1990s

Year	Title	Notes
1994	Death Match
1995	The Whispering
	The Bicyclist	Short film
1996	Inhumanoid	Television film
	Scream
1997	Stranger in My Home	Television film
	Mimic
	Scream 2
1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Uncredited
	54
	David and Lisa	Television film
	The Faculty
1999	The Minus Man
	Dybt vand	Television film
	The Florentine	Television film
	Tuesdays with Morrie	Television film
	Walking Across Egypt

2000s

Year	Title	Notes
2000	Goodbye Casanova
	The Crow: Salvation
	Scream 3
	The Incorporated
	The Watcher
	Highway 395
	Dracula 2000
2001	Angel Eyes
	Joy Ride
2002	The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
	I Am Dina
	Resident Evil	Shared with Marilyn Manson
	Blade II
2003	Dracula II: Ascension	Direct-to-video
	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2004	Hellboy
	I, Robot
	Flight of the Phoenix
2005	Cursed
	xXx: State of the Union
	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
	Red Eye
2006	Underworld: Evolution
	The Omen
2007	Captivity
	The Substitute
	The Invisible
	3:10 to Yuma	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year
	Live Free or Die Hard
2008	The Eye
	Amusement
	Max Payne	Composed WithBuck Sanders
	Mesrine	Only Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One
2009	In the Electric Mist
	The Hurt Locker	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer
		Knowing

2010s

Year	Title	Notes
2010	Repo Men
	Jonah Hex	Shared with Mastodon
	My Soul to Take
2011	The Sunset Limited	Television film
	Soul Surfer	Satellite Award for Best Original Score
	Scream 4
	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark	Composed With Buck Sanders
	The Thing
2012	The Woman in Black
	Trouble with the Curve
	The Sessions
2013	Warm Bodies	Composed With Buck Sanders
	A Good Day to Die Hard
	Snowpiercer
	World War Z
	The Wolverine
	Carrie	replacing John Powell
	The Homesman
2014	The Giver
	The November Man
	The Drop
	Seventh Son	Replaced A. R. Rahman and Tuomas Kantelinen
2015	The Woman in Black: Angel of Death	With Brandon Roberts and Marcus Trumpp
	The Gunman
	True Story
	Fantastic Four	With Philip Glass
	Hitman: Agent 47
	No Escape	Composed With Buck Sanders
	The Night Before	With Miles Hawkins
2016	Gods of Egypt
	The Shallows
	Ben-Hur

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2009-2011	V	22 episodes
2014-present	Turn: Washington's Spies	10 episodes
2014-present	1864 (TV series)	8 episodes

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