Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has consistently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Burwell has also scored three of Todd Haynes's films, three of Spike Jonze's films, and all the films of Martin McDonagh. He has received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015) and McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
Known For
Fargo
(1996)
Original Music Composer
Twilight
(2008)
Original Music Composer
The Founder
(2016)
Conductor and Original Music Composer
Drive-Away Dolls
(2024)
Original Music Composer
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
(2012)
Original Music Composer
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
(2011)
Original Music Composer
No Country for Old Men
(2007)
Original Music Composer
Fear
(1996)
Original Music Composer
True Grit
(2010)
Original Music Composer
Conspiracy Theory
(1997)
Original Music Composer
The Blind Side
(2009)
Original Music Composer
The Big Lebowski
(1998)
Original Music Composer
Carol
(2015)
Original Music Composer
In Bruges
(2008)
Original Music Composer
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(2017)
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, and Conductor
Legend
(2015)
Original Music Composer
Full Filmography
Sound
Blood Simple
(1985)
Original Music Composer
A Hero of Our Time
(1985)
Music
R.A.B.L.
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Psycho III
(1986)
Original Music Composer
Raising Arizona
(1987)
Original Music Composer
Pass the Ammo
(1988)
Original Music Composer
The Beat
(1988)
Music
It Takes Two
(1988)
Original Music Composer
Checking Out
(1989)
Music
Miller's Crossing
(1990)
Original Music Composer
Barton Fink
(1991)
Original Music Composer
Doc Hollywood
(1991)
Original Music Composer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(1992)
Original Music Composer
Waterland
(1992)
Music
Transeltown
(1992)
Original Music Composer
Storyville
(1992)
Music
Kalifornia
(1993)
Original Music Composer
This Boy's Life
(1993)
Original Music Composer
Wayne's World 2
(1993)
Original Music Composer
A Dangerous Woman
(1993)
Original Music Composer
And the Band Played On
(1993)
Original Music Composer
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
(1993)
Original Music Composer
It Could Happen to You
(1994)
Original Music Composer
Airheads
(1994)
Music
The Hudsucker Proxy
(1994)
Original Music Composer
Rob Roy
(1995)
Music
A Goofy Movie
(1995)
Original Music Composer
Bad Company
(1995)
Music
Two Bits
(1995)
Original Music Composer
Fargo
(1996)
Original Music Composer
Fear
(1996)
Original Music Composer
The Chamber
(1996)
Original Music Composer
Joe's Apartment
(1996)
Music
The Celluloid Closet
(1996)
Original Music Composer
Conspiracy Theory
(1997)
Original Music Composer
Picture Perfect
(1997)
Original Music Composer
The Jackal
(1997)
Original Music Composer
Assassin(s)
(1997)
Original Music Composer
The Spanish Prisoner
(1997)
Original Music Composer
Girls Night Out
(1997)
Music
The Big Lebowski
(1998)
Original Music Composer
The Hi-Lo Country
(1998)
Original Music Composer
Velvet Goldmine
(1998)
Original Music Composer
Gods and Monsters
(1998)
Original Music Composer
Being John Malkovich
(1999)
Original Music Composer
Three Kings
(1999)
Original Music Composer
The Corruptor
(1999)
Original Music Composer
Mystery, Alaska
(1999)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
(1999)
Original Music Composer
The General's Daughter
(1999)
Original Music Composer
What Planet Are You From?
(2000)
Original Music Composer
Hamlet
(2000)
Original Music Composer
Before Night Falls
(2000)
Original Music Composer
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
(2000)
Original Music Composer and Musician
The Man Who Wasn't There
(2001)
Original Music Composer
A Knight's Tale
(2001)
Original Music Composer
S1m0ne
(2002)
Original Music Composer
Adaptation.
(2002)
Original Music Composer
The Rookie
(2002)
Music
Searching for Paradise
(2002)
Original Music Composer
Intolerable Cruelty
(2003)
Original Music Composer
The Alamo
(2004)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Kinsey
(2004)
Original Music Composer
The Ladykillers
(2004)
Original Music Composer
The Hoax
(2006)
Original Music Composer
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
(2006)
Original Music Composer and Music
No Country for Old Men
(2007)
Original Music Composer
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
(2007)
Original Music Composer, Conductor, and Orchestrator
Burn After Reading
(2008)
Original Music Composer
In Bruges
(2008)
Original Music Composer
Twilight
(2008)
Original Music Composer
The Blind Side
(2009)
Original Music Composer
A Serious Man
(2009)
Original Music Composer
Where the Wild Things Are
(2009)
Original Music Composer
Howl
(2010)
Original Music Composer
True Grit
(2010)
Original Music Composer
The Kids Are All Right
(2010)
Original Music Composer
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
(2011)
Original Music Composer
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
(2012)
Original Music Composer
Seven Psychopaths
(2012)
Original Music Composer
The Fifth Estate
(2013)
Original Music Composer
Mr. Holmes
(2015)
Original Music Composer
Legend
(2015)
Original Music Composer
Carol
(2015)
Original Music Composer
Anomalisa
(2015)
Original Music Composer and Orchestrator
The Finest Hours
(2016)
Original Music Composer
The Family Fang
(2016)
Original Music Composer
The Founder
(2016)
Conductor and Original Music Composer
Hail, Caesar!
(2016)
Original Music Composer
Wonderstruck
(2017)
Music
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(2017)
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, and Conductor
Goodbye Christopher Robin
(2017)
Original Music Composer
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
(2018)
Original Music Composer
Hunting Bigfoot
(2018)
Music
Missing Link
(2019)
Original Music Composer
The Good Liar
(2019)
Original Music Composer
The Tragedy of Macbeth
(2021)
Music
Catherine Called Birdy
(2022)
Music
The Banshees of Inisherin
(2022)
Original Music Composer
To Catch a Killer
(2023)
Music
Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future
(2023)
Original Music Composer
Finestkind
(2023)
Original Music Composer
Drive-Away Dolls
(2024)
Original Music Composer
Acting
Funny
(1988)
Self
Transeltown
(1992)
Lights, Action, Music
(2007)
Self
Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth
(2022)
Self
Crew