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Lorne Balfe

Profession
Sound
Born
February 23, 1976 · Inverness, Scotland, UK

Biography

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.

Known for

Inception poster
Inception
Film · 2010 · ★ 8.4
Iron Man poster
Iron Man
Film · 2008 · ★ 7.7
Batman Begins poster
Batman Begins
Film · 2005 · ★ 7.7
Sherlock Holmes poster
Sherlock Holmes
Film · 2009 · ★ 7.2
Top Gun: Maverick poster
Top Gun: Maverick
Film · 2022 · ★ 8.2
Black Widow poster
Black Widow
Film · 2021 · ★ 7.1
Mission: Impossible - Fallout poster
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Film · 2018 · ★ 7.5
Terminator Genisys poster
Terminator Genisys
Film · 2015 · ★ 6.0
Bad Boys for Life poster
Bad Boys for Life
Film · 2020 · ★ 7.1
Ghost in the Shell poster
Ghost in the Shell
Film · 2017 · ★ 6.1
The Simpsons Movie poster
The Simpsons Movie
Film · 2007 · ★ 7.0
Megamind poster
Megamind
Film · 2010 · ★ 7.0

Filmography