Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries World Without End.
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Mychael Danna Biography / Wiki
| Name | Mychael Danna |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Sound |
| Place of Birth | Winnipeg, Canada |
| Date of Birth | September 20, 1958 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 64 |
| Deathday |
Mychael Danna Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Speaking Parts | Concert Pianist (uncredited) | 1989-09-29 | A struggling actor’s job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed wit… |
| Score: A Film Music Documentary | Self | 2017-03-16 | Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on t… |
| Ennio | Self | 2022-02-17 | A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-… |
| The Sweet Hereafter | Live Band Harmonium Player (uncredited) | 1997-09-25 | A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Capote | Original Music Composer | 2005-09-30 | A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book “In Cold Blood”…. |
| Monsoon Wedding | Original Music Composer | 2001-08-30 | As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This fi… |
| The Sweet Hereafter | Original Music Composer | 1997-09-25 | A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives… |
| The Nativity Story | Original Music Composer | 2006-11-30 | Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visua… |
| Girl, Interrupted | Original Music Composer | 1999-12-21 | Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen’s prescribed “short rest” from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unk… |
| Bounce | Original Music Composer | 2000-11-15 | A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one’s wife…. |
| Hearts in Atlantis | Original Music Composer | 2001-09-07 | A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives…. |
| Tideland | Original Music Composer | 2005-09-09 | Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagina… |
| Ride with the Devil | Music | 1999-11-24 | Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us… |
| Vanity Fair | Original Music Composer | 2004-09-01 | Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a … |
| The Time Traveler’s Wife | Original Music Composer | 2009-08-14 | Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true lov… |
| 8MM | Original Music Composer | 1999-02-26 | A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the he… |
| Surf’s Up | Original Music Composer | 2007-06-08 | Surf’s Up is an animated feature that goes behind the scenes of the high-octane world of competitive penguin surfing. The film profiles Cody Maverick,… |
| Where the Truth Lies | Original Music Composer | 2005-10-07 | An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team…. |
| Lakeview Terrace | Original Music Composer | 2008-09-19 | A young interracial couple has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of… |
| Chloe | Original Music Composer | 2010-03-04 | A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger…. |
| (500) Days of Summer | Original Music Composer | 2009-07-17 | Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their … |
| Life of Pi | Music | 2012-11-20 | The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper’s son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipw… |
| Ordinary Magic | Original Music Composer | 1993-10-20 | When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violen… |
| Devil’s Knot | Original Music Composer | 2013-05-09 | The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual…. |
| Moneyball | Original Music Composer | 2011-09-23 | The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-gen… |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Music | 2009-10-01 | A travelling theatre company has more to it than meets the eye. It is an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus and the audience is… |
| The Captive | Original Music Composer | 2014-08-09 | Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she’s still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra her… |
| Blood Relations | Original Music Composer | 1988-07-01 | A trip to meet her fiance’s family becomes a descent into hell when Marie discovers that her future husband wants more than just a wife… Dying for … |
| Caribe | Original Music Composer | 1987-12-24 | Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropi… |
| Going the Distance | Original Music Composer | 2010-08-27 | Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work … |
| Chosen | Music | 2001-01-01 | The Driver is carrying an Asian child who has been chosen for a strange ritual. He must drive him through a dark night in the city to get to a monk’s … |
| Remember | Original Music Composer | 2015-10-23 | With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the d… |
| The Whistleblower | Music | 2010-09-13 | Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to … |
| The Good Dinosaur | Original Music Composer | 2015-11-14 | An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend…. |
| The Confession | Music | 1999-03-26 | After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctors responsible. Slick law… |
| The Guys | Music | 2002-09-11 | The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the editor who helps him prepare the eulogies he must del… |
| Cold Comfort | Original Music Composer | 1989-08-28 | Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who’s more than a guest. He’s a pris… |
| Metal Messiah | Music | 1978-04-26 | A bizarre sci-fi rock opera like little else being produced under the banner of Canadian film at the time, Metal Messiah is about an enigmatic metalli… |
| The Adjuster | Original Music Composer | 1991-11-27 | An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple’s landlords…. |
| My Niagara | Music | 1992-09-12 | Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai’s life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up … |
| Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Original Music Composer | 2016-11-10 | 19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his… |
| Lilies | Music | 1996-09-07 | 1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. However, once there, Bilodeau … |
| Antwone Fisher | Original Music Composer | 2002-12-19 | A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and r… |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas | Original Music Composer | 2017-10-12 | In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, … |
| Narmada: A Valley Rises | Music | 1994-09-01 | Narmada: A Valley Rises is beautifully photographed, inspiring film. It documents a 200 kilometer non-violent Gandhian march involving 6000 participan… |
| How Can It Be | Music | 2008-10-03 | The story of Zainab and Arif, who live their son, Munna, in Brooklyn. Zainab makes the complicated decision to leave her protected life and follow her… |
| Migration | Music | 2008-03-07 | One of a four-film series on the AIDS epidemic in India, this film examines the virus as Indian society’s great class leveler, following its transmiss… |
| Johann’s Gift to Christmas | Music | 1992-09-25 | A mouse from the streets and a church mouse try to help a priest and an organist save Christmas by composing a Christmas carol…. |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Original Music Composer | 2006-07-26 | A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant…. |
| Water | Additional Soundtrack | 2005-09-08 | The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi’s groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live wi… |
| The Ice Storm | Original Music Composer | 1997-02-05 | In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century…. |
| Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer | Original Music Composer | 1993-02-28 | A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off because of his temper. The film als… |
| The Breadwinner | Music | 2017-11-17 | A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family…. |
| One Man Out | Music | 1989-05-05 | A soldier of fortune fights drug runners in Central America…. |
| Sanjay’s Super Team | Music | 2015-11-18 | SANJAY’S SUPER TEAM follows the daydream of a young Indian boy, bored with his father’s religious meditation, who imagines “a kind of ancient, Hindu v… |
| Exotica | Music | 1994-11-30 | In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th… |
| Transcendence | Original Music Composer | 2014-04-16 | Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them… |
| Shattered Glass | Original Music Composer | 2003-11-14 | The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff wr… |
| Guest of Honour | Music | 2020-07-09 | Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she’s been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting ou… |
| New York, I Love You | Original Music Composer | 2008-09-06 | New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond Dist… |
| Storks | Original Music Composer | 2016-09-22 | Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery s… |
| Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love | Music | 1996-09-11 | Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. Years later, the two have matured, but have mainta… |
| The Red Sea Diving Resort | Original Music Composer | 2019-07-28 | Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid r… |
| On the Basis of Sex | Music | 2018-12-25 | Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century o… |
| After the Wedding | Original Music Composer | 2019-08-09 | Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignite… |
| The Addams Family | Original Music Composer | 2019-10-10 | The Addams family’s lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their exte… |
| Onward | Original Music Composer | 2020-02-29 | In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there…. |
| Guest of Honour | Original Music Composer | 2020-07-09 | Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she’s been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting ou… |
| Trucker | Original Music Composer | 2008-04-24 | Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that’s fine with her. But, when Peter’s father, Len, falls… |
| Ararat | Music | 2002-05-20 | Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide…. |
| Adoration | Music | 2009-04-15 | For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Interne… |
| Speaking Parts | Original Music Composer | 1989-09-29 | A struggling actor’s job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed wit… |
| Family Viewing | Original Music Composer | 1987-09-09 | An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-do… |
| Green Dragon | Original Music Composer | 2001-05-17 | A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, ‘Green Dragon’ focuses on a young boy an… |
| To Each His Own Cinema | Original Music Composer | 2007-10-31 | A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema…. |
| Being Julia | Original Music Composer | 2004-09-03 | Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all – including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant… |
| Fracture | Music | 2007-04-19 | A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put h… |
| Stillwater | Original Music Composer | 2021-07-29 | Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder … |
| Dance Me Outside | Music | 1995-03-10 | Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas… |
| Stranger Inside | Music | 2001-06-23 | After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison where her mother, whom she has never met, is also imprisoned…. |
| Breach | Music | 2007-02-12 | Eric O’Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, an… |
| Cinderella | Music | 2021-09-03 | Cinderella, an orphaned girl with an evil stepmother, has big dreams and with the help of her Fabulous Godmother, she perseveres to make them come tru… |
| The Addams Family 2 | Original Music Composer | 2021-10-01 | The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters…. |
| Johnny Mnemonic | Original Music Composer | 1995-05-26 | In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks… |
| Lonely Hearts | Music | 2006-04-30 | In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the ‘The Lonely Hearts Killers’ kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who fi… |
| Murder One | Original Music Composer | 1988-09-23 | This crime drama is based on the true story of Billy Isaacs. Freshly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire dysfuncti… |
| The Snow Walker | Music | 2003-01-01 | A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a loc… |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Original Music Composer | 2022-07-15 | Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instan… |
| Return to Space | Music | 2022-04-07 | The inspirational rise of SpaceX as well as Elon Musk’s two-decade effort to resurrect America’s space travel ambitions…. |
| Return to Space | Vocals | 2022-04-07 | The inspirational rise of SpaceX as well as Elon Musk’s two-decade effort to resurrect America’s space travel ambitions…. |
| Cooking With Stella | Original Music Composer | 2010-03-19 | Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff…. |
| Don’t Think Twice | Music | 1999-09-17 | A black comedy, Don’t Think Twice is a disturbing and profound examination of the morals of a man forced to choose between lover and family…. |
| Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story | Original Music Composer | 1996-10-06 | Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she… |
| Termini Station | Original Music Composer | 1989-08-21 | Termini Station is a Canadian made drama, released in 1989 and directed by Allan King. The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly and… |
| The Darling Family | Original Music Composer | 1994-08-26 | … |
| Stone of Destiny | Music | 2008-12-19 | Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scott… |
| My Father’s Dragon | Original Music Composer | 2022-11-04 | Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elme… |
| The Whistleblower | Music Producer | 2010-09-13 | Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to … |
| A Dog’s Way Home | Music | 2019-01-10 | The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human…. |
| Management | Music | 2009-02-08 | A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won’t leave her alone…. |
| Music | Two hundred years after the construction of the great cathedral, the medieval town of Kingsbridge is taken under siege by Queen Isabella. Caris, a vi… | ||
| Original Music Composer | Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her empl… | ||
| Original Music Composer | From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last work, The Last Tycoon follows Monroe Stahr, Hollywood’s Golden Boy as he battles father figure and boss Pat Brady for … | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Calendar | Thanks | 1993-06-03 | A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their d… |
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