Michael Stevens is an American

United States

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 jazz musician and composer. He has collaborated with friend Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood is an American jazz musician. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early '90s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998...

 on numerous projects, including the film scores to Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

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's films, Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima

is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the...

in 2006, Gran Torino

Gran Torino

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in 2008 and Invictus

Invictus (film)

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in 2009. He was nominated with partner Kyle Eastwood for a 2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Original Score (Letters from Iwo Jima).