Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe is a Grammy Award-winning composer and producer known for his various film, television, and video game scores. A protégé of composer Hans Zimmer, he has garnered acclaim for scoring such high-profile films as 2017's The Lego Batman Movie, 2018's Mission Impossible: Fallout, and 2022's Black Adam.
Born in Inverness, Scotland in 1976, Balfe grew up in a musical family and began playing piano at a young age. A gifted musician, by his teens he was making a living writing jingles for commercials, a skill he quickly transitioned into scoring music for TV shows. After a period living in London, he relocated to California, where he joined the staff at composer Hans Zimmer's Santa Monica-based Remote Control Productions. Working with Zimmer, he earned credits for such notable productions as Batman Begins, The Da Vinci Code, Transformers, and more.
In 2009, he joined Zimmer and composer James Newton Howard in taking home the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their work on director Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel The Dark Knight. However, it was Balfe's collaboration with Zimmer on the music for the 2010 animated film Megamind that helped launch his solo composing career. At the same time, he earned acclaim for his work in video games, composing the music for Crysis 2, Skylanders, Assassin's Creed: Revelations with Jesper Kyd, and Assassin's Creed III. Both of his Assassin's Creed scores earned BAFTA nominations for Best Original Music.
Although he continued to work with Zimmer, Balfe became an in-demand composer in his own right, and supplied the scores for such high-profile productions as 2013's biopic Salinger, 2014's animated Penguins of Madagascar, and 2015's Terminator Genysis. In 2017, he composed the music for The Lego Batman Movie. He was also score producer on the war drama Dunkirk that year, and earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Main Title Theme for his collaboration with Zimmer on the National Geographic Channel's Albert Einstein series Genius. In 2018, he scored Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible: Fallout and returned the following year with a handful of projects, including joining the series His Dark Materials as main composer and supplying the music for the Will Smith sci-fi thriller Gemini Man and the Michael Bay action movie 6 Underground. Balfe then paired with Zimmer again for 2020's Rebuilding Paradise, director Ron Howard's documentary about the 2018 California wildfires. He also scored the 2020 Will Smith and Martin Lawrence action comedy Bad Boys for Life.
Highlights of over a dozen projects he released over the next two years included 2021's Outside the Wire, Marvel entry Black Widow, and 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, whose soundtrack combined the talents of Balfe, Zimmer, Harold Faltermeyer, and Lady Gaga. That year, he also composed the score for the DC Comics blockbuster Black Adam, whose pulsing tension he contrasted with the softer, more lyrical approach of his music for the Julia Roberts-George Clooney romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise.
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Top Gun: Maverick (Music From The Motion Picture)
Lady Gaga, OneRepublic, Lorne Balfe, Harold Faltermeyer, Hans Zimmer
Film Soundtracks - Released by Interscope Records on 27 May 2022
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Music from the Motion Picture)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Sony Classical on 12 Jul 2023
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Assassin's Creed 3 (Original Game Soundtrack)
Video Games - Released by Ubisoft Music on 30 Oct 2012
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Ad Astra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 18 Oct 2019
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Gran Turismo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Lorne Balfe, Andrew Kawczynski
Film Soundtracks - Released by Masterworks on 11 Aug 2023
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The Wheel of Time: Season 2, Vol. 1 (Prime Video Original Series Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Milan on 8 Sep 2023
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Argylle (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)
Lorne Balfe, Ariana DeBose, Boy George
Film Soundtracks - Released by Platoon on 2 Feb 2024
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Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington (Original Game Soundtrack)
Video Games - Released by Ubisoft Music on 30 Oct 2012
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Music from the Motion Picture) [Extended Edition]
Film Soundtracks - Released by Sony Classical on 12 Jul 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Music from the Motion Picture)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Paramount Music on 13 Jul 2018
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Original Game Score)
Soundtracks - Released by Activision on 1 Jun 2010
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The Wheel of Time: Season 2, Vol. 2 (Prime Video Original Series Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Milan on 22 Sep 2023
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Music from the Official Teaser Trailer)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Paramount Music on 24 Jun 2022
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Life On Our Planet (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Netflix Music on 13 Oct 2023
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Black Widow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Hollywood Records on 9 Jul 2021
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Decca (UMO) on 31 Mar 2023
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The Dungeon Master’s Jukebox (Music Inspired By Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Decca (UMO) on 28 Jul 2023
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Music from the Motion Picture)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Paramount Music on 15 Jan 2016
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The Wheel of Time: The First Turn (Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Milan on 12 Nov 2021
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Book of the Bard (Music Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)
Folk - Released by Paramount Music on 23 Jun 2023
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The Crown Season Two (Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series)
Rupert Gregson-Williams, Lorne Balfe
TV Series - Released by Sony Classical on 8 Dec 2017
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