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Cliff Martinez

Profession
Sound
Born
February 5, 1954 · The Bronx, New York, USA

Biography

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Known for

Drive poster
Drive
Film · 2011 · ★ 7.6
The Fifth Element poster
The Fifth Element
Film · 1997 · ★ 7.6
Contagion poster
Contagion
Film · 2011 · ★ 6.7
Game Night poster
Game Night
Film · 2018 · ★ 6.9
War Dogs poster
War Dogs
Film · 2016 · ★ 7.0
Spring Breakers poster
Spring Breakers
Film · 2013 · ★ 5.3
The Neon Demon poster
The Neon Demon
Film · 2016 · ★ 6.5
The Lincoln Lawyer poster
The Lincoln Lawyer
Film · 2011 · ★ 7.2
Den of Thieves poster
Den of Thieves
Film · 2018 · ★ 6.9
The Foreigner poster
The Foreigner
Film · 2017 · ★ 7.0
Only God Forgives poster
Only God Forgives
Film · 2013 · ★ 5.8
Traffic poster
Traffic
Film · 2000 · ★ 7.1

Filmography