Angelo Badalamenti
Birth Name:
Angelo Badalamenti
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, United States
Profession
Soundtrack, Music department, Actor
Fast Facts
- Won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2008
- Won a Saturn Award for Best Music and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Original Score for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" in 1993
- Won the Henry Mancini Lifetime Achievement Award at the ASCAP Film and Television Awards in 2011
- Studied composition and the instruments French horn and piano at the Eastman School of Music and earned his Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music
- Started out as a music teacher in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, where he worked for five years while performing as a pianist during the summers
- Best known as a film and television composer who worked on the series "Twin Peaks" and the films "The Beach" and "Mulholland Drive․"
- Frequently collaborates with director David Lynch, which has led to such films as "Mulholland Drive," "Blue Velvet," and "Wild at Heart․"
- Has worked with a number of prominent musicians, including David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Liza Minelli, and Paul McCartney
- Created the distinctive theme song for the TV series "Inside the Actors Studio․"
- Wrote the torch theme song "The Flaming Arrow" for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics
Awards
- 1990Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Main Title Theme Music:Nominated
- 1990Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore):Nominated
- 1990Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music and Lyrics:Nominated
- 1991Grammy - Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television:Nominated
- 1991Grammy - Best Pop Instrumental Performance:Winner
- 1992Chainsaw Award - Best Soundtrack:Nominated
- 1993Saturn Award - Best Music:Winner
- 1993Independent Spirit Award - Best Original Score:Winner
- 1996César - Best Music (Meilleure musique):Nominated
- 1997OFTA Television Award - Best New Theme Song in a Motion Picture or Miniseries:Nominated
- 1998Chainsaw Award - Best Score:Winner
- 2000Golden Globe - Best Original Score - Motion Picture:Nominated
- 2000Sierra Award - Best Score:Nominated
- 2000OFCS Award - Best Original Score:Nominated
- 2002AFI Award - Composer of the Year:Nominated
- 2002Saturn Award - Best Music:Nominated
- 2002Anthony Asquith Award for Film MusicNominated
- 2002CFCA Award - Best Original Score:Nominated
- 2002Golden Globe - Best Original Score - Motion Picture:Nominated
- 2002OFTA Film Award - Best Music, Original Score:Nominated
- 2002OFCS Award - Best Original Score:Winner
- 2004Chainsaw Award - Best Score:Winner
- 2004IFMCA Award - Best Original Score for a Drama Film:Nominated
- 2005César - Best Music Written for a Film (Meilleure musique écrite pour un film):Nominated
- 2005World Soundtrack Award - Soundtrack Composer of the Year:Winner
- 2006Chainsaw Award - Best Score:Nominated
- 2007Felix - Best Original Score:Nominated
- 2008Felix - Best Original Score:Nominated
- 2011Felix - Best Original Score:Nominated
- 2013Felix - Best Original Score:Winner
- 2014IFMCA Award - Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller Film:Nominated
- 2016Robert - Best Original Score (Årets score):Nominated
- 2016Robert - Best Song (Årets originale sang):Nominated