Marco Beltrami
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Beltrami at ComicCon 2013
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Marco Edward Beltrami |
| Born |
7 October 1966 Long Island, New York |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Marco Edward Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film and television composer, best known for his work scoring horror films such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Resident Evil (2002), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) and The Woman in Black (2012). A long-time friend and collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami has scored seven of the director's films including all four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). Beltrami has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma and The Hurt Locker, and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for Soul Surfer (2011). He also scored Guillermo del Toro's 2004 supernatural superhero film Hellboy and the 2013 superhero film The Wolverine.
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.
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