Lorne Balfe

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Lorne Balfe

Sound 50 February 23, 1976

Inverness, Scotland, UK

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television and video game scores.  A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring cred…

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Inception

Inception

8.4 2010 Movie
Iron Man

Iron Man

7.7 2008 Movie
Batman Begins

Batman Begins

7.7 2005 Movie
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

7.2 2009 Movie
Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick

8.2 2022 Movie
Black Widow

Black Widow

7.1 2021 Movie
Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

7.5 2018 Movie
Terminator Genisys

Terminator Genisys

6.0 2015 Movie
Bad Boys for Life

Bad Boys for Life

7.1 2020 Movie
Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell

6.1 2017 Movie
Megamind

Megamind

7.0 2010 Movie
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

6.5 2008 Movie

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Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television and video game scores.  A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and Mikael Håfström. He composed the new fanfare for Skydance Media transcribed as There's a World, There's A Moon. Balfe also composed the Annapurna Pictures deep note opening logo. Balfe is also involved in The Game Awards, serving as the conductor of the Game Awards Orchestra and the composer and arranger of several musical performances featured at the show. Since The Game Awards 2018, he has composed a medley of the themes of the six nominees for Game of the Year each year, presented as the award at the end of the show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Balfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  1. 2026
    The Cat in the Hat

    Movie Original Music Composer

  2. 2026
    7 Dogs

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2026
    Butcher: Invisible Wounds

    Movie Music Score Producer

  4. 2026
    The Dinosaurs

    TV show Original Music Composer

  5. 2025
    The War Between the Land and the Sea

    TV show Original Music Composer

  6. 2025
    The Hack

    TV show Original Music Composer

  7. 2025
    The Cut

    Movie Original Music Composer

  8. 2025
    The Naked Gun

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2025
    Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    Movie Score Engineer

  10. 2025
    Hallow Road

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2025
    The Woman in the Yard

    Movie Original Music Composer

  12. 2025
    We Are Storror

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 2025
    Novocaine

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 2024
    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 2024
    Carry-On

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2024
    Apartment 7A

    Movie Music Score Producer

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  1. 2024
    Slingshot

    Movie Music Score Producer

  2. 2024
    Decoded

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2024
    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

    Movie Original Music Composer

  4. 2024
    Bad Boys: Ride or Die

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2024
    Young Woman and the Sea

    Movie Music Score Producer

  6. 2024
    Argylle

    Movie Original Music Composer

  7. 2024
    Stockholm Bloodbath

    Movie Music Producer

  8. 2023
    Life on Our Planet

    TV show Original Music Composer

  9. 2023
    Gran Turismo

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2023
    Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2023
    When We Danced

    Movie Music Producer

  12. 2023
    Ghosted

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 2023
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 2023
    Tetris

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 2023
    Luther: The Fallen Sun

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2022
    Black Adam

    Movie Original Music Composer

  17. 2022
    Ticket to Paradise

    Movie Original Music Composer

  18. 2022
    Secret Headquarters

    Movie Original Music Composer

  19. 2022
    The Forgiven

    Movie Original Music Composer

  20. 2022
    Top Gun: Maverick

    Movie Music Score Producer

  21. 2022
    Infinite Storm

    Movie Original Music Composer

  22. 2022
    Ambulance

    Movie Original Music Composer

  23. 2021
    Silent Night

    Movie Original Music Composer

  24. 2021
    The Wheel of Time

    TV show Original Music Composer