Film music contributor

Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an Academy-Award nominated Italian-American film composer. Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York, USA. (His father, born in Italy, taught mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook;...

John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932), is an Academy Award, Grammy, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award Winning American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in...

Dominic Muldowney (born 1952 in Southampton) is a British composer. He studied at the universities of Southampton (with Jonathan Harvey) and York (with Bernard Rands and David Blake), and took private lessons with Harrison Birtwistle. From 1974 to...

David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature film and television, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work. Although he has worked in...

Ilayaraaja ( இளையராஜா in Tamil) (born June 2, 1943) is an Indian film composer. He has composed over 5000 songs and provided background music for more than 840 Indian films in various languages in a career spanning more than 30 years. He has won the...

Arthur Lange (April 16, 1889 – December 7, 1956) was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run. Lange shared an Oscar nomination with...

Gabriel Yared (Arabic: جبرائيل يارد) (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later...

Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, September 13 1924) is a French composer and conductor. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film score for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia...

Yuvan Shankar Raja (Tamil: யுவன் சங்கர் ராஜா) is one of top film music composers from Tamil Nadu. He is one of the most successful composers in South India. The first film he composed for was the Tamil film Aravindhan. Hailing from a musical...

Al Hoffman (September 25 1902–July 21 1960), a member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many number one hits through each decade,...

David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and...

Richard Georg Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era and early modern era, particularly noted for his opera and tone poem – the most famous being "Also sprach Zarathustra", (the opening section of...

Luis Resto (born September 21, 1960 in Juncos, Puerto Rico) is a former welterweight professional boxer from Bronx, New York. Resto moved from Puerto Rico to the Bronx when he was nine years old. Late in his eighth grade year, he elbowed his math...