Acting credits
8
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Carter Burwell
Sound
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.5
Moderate attention
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Movies: 115Series: 6Crew credits: 116
TMDB ID: 1225
IMDb ID: nm0001980
Known for: Sound
Born: November 18, 1955
Age: 70
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2026
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.56
Wikidata: Q374754
Also known as
Carter Benedict Burwell
Other jobs
Original Music Composer (109)Music (4)Additional Music (2)Musician (1)
Biography
Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, scoring most of their films. He has also scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Spike Jonze, Martin McDonagh, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock. Burwell received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes's Carol (2015), McDonagh's films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Carter Burwell.
Nov 6
Wild Horse Nine
Original Music Composer
2026 Movie
7.0
Good Fortune
Original Music Composer
2025 Movie
5.7
Honey Don't!
Original Music Composer
2025 Movie
5.5
Drive-Away Dolls
Original Music Composer
2024 Movie
6.9
Finestkind
Original Music Composer
2023 Movie
10.0
Schoolhood, The Past References of an Unforeseeable Future
Original Music Composer
2023 Movie
6.9
To Catch a Killer
Original Music Composer
2023 Movie
7.5
The Banshees of Inisherin
Original Music Composer
2022 Movie
6.1
Catherine Called Birdy
Original Music Composer
2022 Movie
Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth
as Self
2022 Movie
6.9
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Original Music Composer
2021 Movie
6.7
The Good Liar
Original Music Composer
2019 Movie
6.9
Missing Link
Original Music Composer
2019 Movie
7.1
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Original Music Composer
2018 Movie
10.0
Hunting Bigfoot
Music
2018 Movie
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Original Music Composer
2017 Movie
6.1
Wonderstruck
Original Music Composer
2017 Movie
7.0
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Original Music Composer
2017 Movie
7.1
The Founder
Original Music Composer
2016 Movie
5.8
The Family Fang
Original Music Composer
2016 Movie
5.9
Hail, Caesar!
Original Music Composer
2016 Movie
6.6
The Finest Hours
Original Music Composer
2016 Movie
7.1
Anomalisa
Original Music Composer
2015 Movie
7.5
Carol
Original Music Composer
2015 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Carter Burwell.
6.5
Space Force
Original Music Composer • 10 eps
2020 Series
7.7
The Morning Show
Original Music Composer • 30 eps
2019 Series
7.6
Olive Kitteridge
Original Music Composer • 4 eps
2014 Series
7.5
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
as Self - Interviewed Guest • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.0
Mildred Pierce
Original Music Composer • 5 eps
2011 Series
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee • 1 eps
1944 Series