Elliot Goldenthal is an American

United States

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...

. He was a student of Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

 and John Corigliano

John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...

, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He is also a film-music composer, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

 in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida

Frida

Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....

, directed by his long-time partner Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...

.

Life and career

Goldenthal was born on May 2, 1954, as the youngest son of a Jewish housepainter father and a Catholic seamstress mother in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, where he was influenced from an early age by music from all cultures and genres. He lived in a multi-cultural part of town, and this is reflected in his works. He attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn where, at the age of 14, he had his very first ballet Variations on Early Glimpses performed; he continued to display his eclectic musical range, performing with rock bands in the seventies. He then studied music full time at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...

, where he studied with composer John Corigliano

John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...

 (whom he greatly admired), to earn his Bachelor of Music degree (1977) and Master of Music (1979) in musical composition.

He lives in New York City

New York City

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 "happily unmarried", as he once put it, with his partner Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...

, whom he met in 1980 through a mutual acquaintance, who told him "I know a person whose work is just as grotesque as yours"; they have an office/apartment where they both live and work.

Goldenthal has written works for concert hall, theater, dance and film.
His work includes music for films such as Alien 3, Michael Collins

Michael Collins (film)

Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as General Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival....

, Batman Forever

Batman Forever

Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Returns , with Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Batman...

, Heat and the Academy Award

Academy Awards

An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

-winning score for Julie Taymor's "Frida

Frida

Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....

", a movie in which Goldenthal had a small acting part as a "Newsreel Reporter". Incidentally he also had a small part in the stage show "Juan Darièn" as a "Circus Barker / Streetsinger". See below for links to individual score pages; some with audio samples.

The Tony-Award winning carnival mass Juan Darièn (1988/'96) and The Green Bird (1999), based on a story by Carlo Gozzi

Carlo Gozzi

Carlo, Count Gozzi was an Italian playwright.Born in Venice, he came from an old Venetian family from the Republic of Ragusa...

, are a few of the composer's theater works.

In 2006, Goldenthal completed his original three-act opera with Taymor entitled Grendel an adaptation of the John Gardner novel

Grendel (novel)

Grendel is a 1971 parallel novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.Grendel...

 which told the story of Beowulf from the monster's point of view. It had its world premiere in early June 2006 at the Los Angeles Opera

Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center.-Current leadership:...

, the role of Grendel performed by Eric Owens

Eric Owens (bass-baritone)

Eric Owens is an American operatic bass-baritone born July 11, 1970 in Philadelphia. He attended Central High School "247", Temple University's Boyer College of Music, and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia...

, with an audience containing the likes of John Williams

John Williams

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

 and Emmy Rossum

Emmy Rossum

Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She first starred in a string of movies including Songcatcher , An American Rhapsody, and Passionada . However, it was her role in Mystic River that garnered her wider recognition...

; the opus was added to the Los Angeles Opera's permanent repertoire and earned Goldenthal a nomination in April 2007 for the Pulitzer Prize for Music

Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year...

.

In 2008 Goldenthal reunited with Michael Mann to score 1930s gangster movie Public Enemies and in 2009 he scored another Julie Taymor Shakespeare adaptation, The Tempest

The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...

.

He cites acclaimed Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu

Toru Takemitsu

was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...

 as an influence and someone he styles his own career on; Goldenthal has said that the lines between traditional concert music and orchestral film score have become more blurred which is the way he thinks it should be. He has also collaborated four times with Irish director Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...

, scoring movies like Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is a 1994 American drama and horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. The film focuses on Lestat and Louis, beginning with Louis' transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791...

and In Dreams

In Dreams (film)

In Dreams is a 1999 psychological thriller film directed by Neil Jordan. It stars Annette Bening as a New England illustrator who begins experiencing visions of a missing child who turns out to be her own daughter; through her dreams, she begins having psychic connections to a serial killer ...

.

Style

Elliot Goldenthal has been called by film-music collectors the "thinking man's composer" and a generally more cerebral choice for film makers and fans of film music alike. He is known for his often intense experimentation, intelligent nuances and willingness to try new and unconventional

Musique concrète

Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

 techniques and processes (For two good examples of this, see Alien 3 (soundtrack)

Alien 3 (soundtrack)

The avante garde Alien³ score was written for the motion picture of the same name. Scored by Elliot Goldenthal, it was his first big mainstream score; he described it as an experiment and spent a whole year creating it.-The score:...

and Titus (soundtrack)

Titus (soundtrack)

Titus is the original soundtrack to the 1999 motion picture Titus. Elliot Goldenthal wrote the score for the film, an adaptation of Shakespeare's first, and bloodiest, tragedy Titus Andronicus; written and directed by Julie Taymor, Goldenthal's long-time friend and partner...

). This experimental approach has led him to score movies in almost every genre from horror to action to Shakespeare adaptations; the only type of film he has not yet scored is comedy, but at the same time he has composed comedic motifs for several films such as Demolition Man and the more colorful Batman sequels

Batman Forever

Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Returns , with Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Batman...

, which are considered tongue-in-cheek types of movies in the first place. It is this openness to try his hand at anything which has gained him a lot of respect in the music and film communities and with fans. He is not as well known, or popular, as other film composers such as the "household names" John Williams or Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including critically acclaimed film scores for The Lion King , Crimson Tide , The Thin Red Line , Gladiator , The Dark Knight and Inception .Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the...

 but he is widely appreciated among film score fans for his sheer musical abilities and distinctive style; a style, which though artistically appreciated among film music enthusiasts, some have said can be too experimental or inaccessible to the mainstream listener because of Goldenthals passion for defying the norms of contemporary classical music.

Atonal and brutal in his action music, sometimes in underscore and tends to use very fast French horn bending tones/whining; although Goldenthal himself has said that he doesn't "hear" atonal and tonal, rather "...I don't have any differentiation in my head between tonal and atonal, I either hear melody or I hear sonority — I don't hear atonal or tonal so much."
Goldenthal often works with a team he assembled after the soundtrack for Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 crime drama directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, based on a novel by James Fogle. Matt Dillon stars in the title role, and Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and William S. Burroughs are also featured. Drugstore Cowboy was filmed mainly around...

: Teese Gohl as supervising producer, Robert Ehlai as orchestrator, Joel Iwataki as sound engineer and Richard Martinez as electronic music producer. According to Martinez, "a lot of composers want to focus on writing their music, and that's what [his] team allows Elliot to do."

At the website filmscoremonthly.com a former classmate of Goldenthals replied to a piece on the Sphere score from 1998 saying that when he and Elliot were both studying at the Manhattan School of Music in the '70s Elliot was already experimenting with unusual techniques and when studying trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

 once, Elliot asked him to "buzz into the wrong end of the mouthpiece and sing into it as well", he thought he was crazy but looking back after a decade or so of Goldenthals film and concert music he said that he "...was just way ahead of the rest of us."

Respected cultural historian and critic Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi received a degree in Mathematics in 1982 from University of Turin, where he did work on the General Theory of Relativity. For a number of years he was the head of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti, based in Cupertino, California. He has been a visiting scholar at...

 found fit to mention Goldenthal in lists of honour and general overview of film music on his website, placing three of Goldenthal's theatre works in a "Brief history of music through its milestone compositions" and putting his score for "Drugstore Cowboy" at number 27 in a list of "Best musicals of all time".

Film works

• 1979 - Cocaine Cowboys
• 1980 - Blank Generation
  Blank Generation (1980 film)
  Blank Generation is a 1980 West German and American co-produced musical film. It was directed and co-written by Ulli Lommel, and it stars Carole Bouquet as the French journalist Nada.-Cast:*Carole Bouquet as Nada*Richard Hell as Billy...
  
  
• 1989 - Drugstore Cowboy
  Drugstore Cowboy (soundtrack)
  Drugstore Cowboy is the soundtrack to the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy. It features six songs and fifteen excerpts from the film score by Elliot Goldenthal. It is one of his earliest works; in it he does not use an orchestra but a whole range of different instruments treated in a synthesizer...
  
  
• 1989 - Pet Sematary
  Pet Sematary (soundtrack)
  Elliot Goldenthal's score to the film Pet Sematary was his first mainstream score. Its style is sometimes compared to Jack Nitzsche's score to The Exorcist while the theme is inspired by Lalo Schifrin's score to The Amityville Horror....
  
  
• 1991 - Grand Isle
• 1992 - Alien 3
  Alien 3 (soundtrack)
  The avante garde Alien³ score was written for the motion picture of the same name. Scored by Elliot Goldenthal, it was his first big mainstream score; he described it as an experiment and spent a whole year creating it.-The score:...
  
  
• 1993 - Demolition Man
• 1993 - Golden Gate score
• 1994 - Interview with the Vampire
  Interview with the Vampire (soundtrack)
  Elliot Goldenthal scored the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, working again with director and frequent collaborator Neil Jordan.-The score:...
  
   (Oscar Nomination)
• 1994 - Cobb
  Cobb (soundtrack)
  -The score:Goldenthal himself can be heard performing the guttural vocals on the opening cue, a Baptist hymn of the sort Cobb had heard as a young child...
  
  
• 1995 - Batman Forever
• 1995 - Heat
• 1996 - Michael Collins
  Michael Collins (soundtrack)
  Elliot Goldenthal's score for Michael Collins was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Original Dramatic Score".Sinéad O'Connor and the late Irish tenor Frank Patterson both contributed to the soundtrack.- Track listing :...
  
   (Oscar Nomination)
• 1996 - A Time to Kill
  A Time to Kill (soundtrack)
  Elliot Goldenthal scored the movie A Time to Kill in 1996. Its emotional, sweeping themes are typical of Goldenthal's other scores with, often, intense and/or stark emotional motifs....
  
  
• 1997 - The Butcher Boy
  The Butcher Boy (soundtrack)
  Elliot Goldenthal scored the 1997 movie The Butcher Boy; the soundtrack was released in 1998. It marks another collaboration with director Neil Jordan.- Track listing :# The Francie Brady Show - Elliot Goldenthal...
  
  
• 1997 - Batman & Robin (score not commercially released)
• 1998 - In Dreams
  In Dreams (soundtrack)
  The score to the psychological thriller In Dreams by Elliot Goldenthal is an avante-garde work filled with his trademark techniques and dissonance...
  
   score
• 1998 - Sphere score
• 1999 - Titus score - film directed by Julie Taymor
• 2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within score
• 2002 - Frida
  Frida (soundtrack)
  Frida is the original soundtrack album, on the Universal label, of the 2002 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film Frida starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro and Ashley Judd. The original score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal...
  
   (Oscar Winner) - film directed by Julie Taymor
• 2002 - The Good Thief score
• 2003 - S.W.A.T. score
• 2007 - Across the Universe
  Across the Universe (film)
  Across the Universe is a musical romantic drama film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film's plot is centered around songs by The Beatles. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007. The script is based on an original...
  
   soundtracks - film directed by Julie Taymor
• 2009 - Public Enemies
• 2010 - The Tempest - film directed by Julie Taymor

Concert music works

• 1980 - Brass Quintet No. 1, Brass Quintet No. 2
  Brass Quintet No. 2
  "Brass Quintet No. 2" is a composition, circa 1980, by Elliot Goldenthal for brass ensemble, it comes in three parts and is published as sheet music by G. Schirmer, Inc. It was recently recorded by the brass ensemble Extension Ensemble for their 2004 album New York Presence....
  
   (No. 2 has been recorded recently by Extension Ensemble
  Extension Ensemble
  Extension Ensemble is an American five piece Brass Quintet, based in New York, composed of Ralph Alessi , Sycil Mathai , Theo Primis , Mike Boschen and Andrew Bove...
  
  , New York)
• 1988 - Pastime Variations
  Pastime Variations
  "Pastime Variations" was an 1988 orchestral work by Elliot Goldenthal commemorating the 75th anniversary of Ebbets Field, former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. It was performed by the Haydn-Mozart Chamber Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music....
  
  
• 1990 - Shadow Play Scherzo
  Shadow Play Scherzo
  "Shadow Play Scherzo" was an orchestral work by Elliot Goldenthal, commissioned in 1988 by ASCAP in honour of Leonard Bernstein's 70th birthday and composed in 1990. It was performed at Town Hall, New York by the Brooklyn Philharmonic. It was well received by critics....
  
  
• 1996 - Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio
  Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio
  Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio is a large scale orchestral oratorio composed by Elliot Goldenthal, commissioned and performed by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in 1993 for the 20th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.-The album:...
  
   (recorded in 1995, featuring Yo Yo Ma)

Theatre works

• 1984 - Play
  Play (theatre)
  A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...
  
  , "The King Stag" (production of Carlo Gozzi's play by Andrei Serban)
• 1985 - Musical, "Liberty's Taken" (an original musical co-created with David Suehsdorf and Julie Taymor)
• 1986 - Musical, "The Transposed Heads" (adapted by Sidney Goldfarb
  Sidney Goldfarb
  Sidney Goldfarb is a Harvard College-educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, serving as its first director. He continues to...
  
   and Julie Taymor from the novel by Thomas Mann
  Thomas Mann
  Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
  
  )
• 1988 - Play (Commedia), "The Serpent Woman" (production of Carlo Gozzi's Commedia)
• 1988 - Musical, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass
  Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass (score)
  The Obie award winning score for "Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass" was first composed by Elliot Goldenthal circa 1988 when the musical first opened off-Broadway in a small, former church and was subsequently reworked and refined for the on-Broadway release of the show in 1996.-History:Goldenthal...
  
  " (off-Broadway, reworked and recorded for Broadway in 1996; Co-bookwriter, lyricist, arranger of the Latin
  Latin
  Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
  
   text.)
• 1998 - Ballet
  Ballet
  Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
  
  , "Othello
  Othello (Ballet Score)
  Othello is an orchestral score composed by Elliot Goldenthal for Lar Lubovitch's production of the ballet in 1998 and released commercially on the Varèse Sarabande label...
  
  " (a ballet with choreography by Lar Lubovitch
  Lar Lubovitch
  Lar Lubovitch is an American choreographer and founded his own dance company, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. Based in New York City, he and the company have toured worldwide....
  
  )
• 1999 - Musical "The Green Bird
  The Green Bird (score)
  "The Green Bird" score is composed and orchestrated by Elliot Goldenthal for the 1999 musical of the same name, directed by long-time Goldenthal collaborator Julie Taymor; it is an allegorical fairy tale of a royal family's rite of passage after being separated by a wicked grandmother.The score...
  
  " (on Broadway production of production of Carlo Gozzi's work)
  Stage director: Julie Taymor
• 2006 - Opera
  Opera
  Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
  
  , "Grendel" (opened June at Los Angeles Opera; not released on CD yet as of October 2009)
  Libretto: Julie Taymor and J D. McClatchy, after the novel Grendel
  Grendel (novel)
  Grendel is a 1971 parallel novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.Grendel...
  
  by John Gardner, and the poem Beowulf
  Beowulf
  Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...
  
  
  Stage director: Julie Taymor

Awards and nominations

• (2007) Pulitzer Prize for Music
  Pulitzer Prize for Music
  The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year...
  
   in Music Nomination for his acclaimed "Grendel" opera
• (2004) Emmy Awards Nomination, "Great Performances: Dance in America" - Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
• (2004) ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Win, "S.W.A.T." - Top Box Office Film Score
• (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003
  World Soundtrack Awards 2003
  The 3rd World Soundtrack Awards were awarded on 12 October 2003 in Ghent, Belgium.-Winners:*Soundtrack Composer of the Year:**Elliot Goldenthal - Frida*Best Original Soundtrack of the Year:**Frida - Elliot Goldenthal...
  
   Win, "Frida" - Best Original Soundtrack of the Year
• (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Win, "Frida" - Soundtrack Composer of the Year
• (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Nomination, "Burn It Blue" from "Frida" - Best Original Song Written for a Film
• (2002) Academy Awards
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   Win, "Frida" - Best Original Score
• (2002) Academy Awards Nomination, "Frida", "Burn It Blue" - Best Original Song
• (2002) Golden Globes Win, "Frida" - Best Original Score
• (2002) World Soundtrack Awards 2002
  World Soundtrack Awards 2002
  The 2nd World Soundtrack Awards were awarded on 19 October 2002 in Ghent, Belgium.-Winners:*Soundtrack Composer of the Year:**Patrick Doyle - Gosford Park*Best Original Soundtrack of the Year:...
  
   Nomination, "The Dream Within" from "Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within" - Best Original Song Written for a Film
• (1999) CFCA awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
• (1998) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman & Robin" - Top Box Office Film Score
• (1998) Chicago Film Critics Awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
• (1998) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998
  Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998
  The 24th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1998, were voted on in December 1998. The awards were presented Jan...
  
   Win, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
• (1997) Tony Awards Nomination, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   Production) - Best Original Musical Score
• (1997) ASCAP awards Win, "A Time to Kill" - Top Box Office Film Score
• (1997) Grammy Nomination, "Defile and Lament" from "A Time to Kill"
• (1996) Academy Awards Nomination, "Michael Collins" - Best Original Score
• (1996) Golden Globe Nomination, "Michael Collins" - Best Original Score
• (1996) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman Forever" - Top Box Office Film Score
• (1995) Grammy Nomination, "Batman Forever" - Best Instrumental Composition
• (1995) ASCAP awards Win, "Interview with the Vampire" - Top Box Office Film Score
• (1995) Golden Globe Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" - Best Original Score
• (1994) Academy Awards Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" - Best Original Score
• (1994) ASCAP awards Win, "Demolition Man" - Top Box Office Film Score
• (1990) Edinburgh Festival Critics Choice Award
  Edinburgh Festival
  The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
  
   Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" - Best Music
• (1990) American Academy of Arts and Letters
  The American Academy of Arts and Letters
  The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Located in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York, it shares Audubon Terrace, its Beaux Arts campus on...
  
   Richard Rodgers Award Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" - Best Music
• (1988) Obie Award
  Obie Award
  The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
  
   Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Original Production) - Best Music

Among others including the Arturo Toscanini Award, the New Music for Young Ensembles composition prize, the Stephen Sondheim Award in Music Theater and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.

Quotes

Trailer music

A number of Goldenthal's cues (as is common with a lot of composers) have been used for trailer music, below is a list of known uses up to 2004.

Interview with the Vampire (1994) was used in:

Copycat (1995) - Theatrical Trailer

Alien III (1992) was used in:

The Animatrix (2003) - Theatrical Trailer

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - TV Trailer

The Matrix (1999) - Theatrical Trailer

The Matrix (1999) - TV Trailer

The Village (2004) - Theatrical Trailer

Batman Forever (1995) was used in:

Batman & Robin (1997) - Theatrical Trailer

Batman Forever (1995) - Theatrical Trailer

Demolition Man (1993) was used in:

Evolution (2001) - Internet Trailer

Men in Black (1997) - Theatrical Trailer

Men in Black II (2002) - Teaser Trailer

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) was used in:

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) - Teaser Trailer

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - Teaser Trailer

Heat: (1995) was used in:

L.A. Confidential (1997) - TV Trailer

See also

• Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
  
• John Corigliano
  John Corigliano
  John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tōru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...
  
  
• Julie Taymor
  Julie Taymor
  Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...
  
  
• Avant-garde
  Avant-garde
  Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
  
  
• Contemporary classical music
  Contemporary classical music
  Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
  
  
• Musique concrète
  Musique concrète
  Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
  
  
• Modernism (music)
  Modernism (music)
  Modernism in music is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, political advocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with the past or common practice.- Defining musical modernism :...
  
  

External links

• Elliot Goldenthal at the Internet Broadway Dabatase
• Elliot Goldenthal at Rate Your Music
  Rate Your Music
  Rate Your Music is a metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles, videos, bootlegs, and movies are rated and reviewed by users. This data is then used to generate recommendations for users and to create rated lists of albums...
  
  
• [ Elliot Goldenthal] at Allmusic
• "A Website for the Composer"
• Elliot Goldenthal at Theoscarsite.com
• Elliot Goldenthal at Variety.com
• Elliot Goldenthal at Moviemusicuk.us
• An Interview with both Taymor and Goldenthal by the New York Times
• An indepth interview from 2003