Christopher Young
- Sound
- April 28, 1957 · Redbank, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Passenger · Music
- A Natural Selection · Music
- Tragic Tones: The Music of Hider in the House · Self, Thanks
- The Piper · Music
- Echo 3 · Music
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities · Music
- The Offering · Music
- The Empty Man · Music
- Pet Sematary · Music
- Fanboy · Music
- Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend · Self
- Eli Roth's History of Horror · Self
- Afterbirth: The Evolution of 'Species' · Self
- Score: A Film Music Documentary · Self
- The Monkey King 2 · Music
- Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II · Self
- The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
- Deliver Us from Evil · Music
- The Single Moms Club · Music
- The Monkey King · Music
- A Madea Christmas · Music
- Gods Behaving Badly · Music
- Killing Season · Music
- Love's Routine · Music
- The Smile Man · Music
- Saving Norman · Music
- The Black Tulip · Music
- Sinister · Music
- Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan · Self
- Scary or Die · Music
- The Baytown Outlaws · Music
- The Rum Diary · Music
- The Ghostmaker · Music
- Priest · Music
- When in Rome · Music
- Creation · Music
- Love Happens · Music
- Drag Me to Hell · Pedestrian with Cupcake, Music
- The Uninvited · Music
- The Informers · Music
- Sleepwalking · Music
- Untraceable · Music
- The Science of Sound · Self
- Shortcut to Happiness · Music
- Spider-Man 3 · Music
- Lucky You · Music
- Ghost Rider · Music
- The Grudge 2 · Music
- Tales from The Grudge · Music
- An Unfinished Life · Additional Music
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose · Music
- Beauty Shop · Music
- The Grudge · Music
- Something the Lord Made · Music
- Runaway Jury · Music
- The Core · Music
- The Country Bears · Music
- Scenes of the Crime · Music
- The Shipping News · Music
- Bandits · Music
- The Glass House · Music
- Swordfish · Music
- Sweet November · Music
- The Warden · Music
- The Gift · Music
- Bless the Child · Music
- Wonder Boys · Music
- The Big Kahuna · Music, Orchestrator
- The Hurricane · Music
- In Too Deep · Music
- Entrapment · Music
- Urban Legend · Music
- Judas Kiss · Music
- Rounders · Music
- Hush · Music
- Hard Rain · Music
- The Man Who Knew Too Little · Music
- Murder at 1600 · Music, Orchestrator
- Head Above Water · Music
- Set It Off · Music