Marco Beltrami ’91 MusM

Marco Beltrami received Academy Award nominations for his iconic scores to 3:10 to Yuma and The Hurt Locker. He has lent his voice to such hit films as Live Free or Die Hard; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; I, Robot; and the Scream series. His other scores include The Homesman, directed by Tommy Lee Jones; the zombie comedy Warm Bodies; the latest installment of the Bruce Willis action series A Good Day To Die Hard; Snowpiercer, starring Chris Evans and directed by Joon-ho Bong; the Brad Pitt action thriller World War Z; James Mangold’s The Wolverine; the remake of the classic horror hit Carrie; the Fantastic Four reboot directed by Josh Trank; and Columbia Pictures’ holiday comedy The Night Before, starring Seth Rogan and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Beltrami’s most recent credits include Twentieth Century Fox’s Logan; The Shallows; Universal Pictures’ crime drama The Snowman; and Paramount Pictures’ horror-thrillers A Quiet Place Parts I and II.

Born in New York, Beltrami studied music at the Yale School of Music and then in Italy, before apprenticing with legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith in Los Angeles.