Christopher Young
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.
Filmography (75)
Passenger
The Offering
The Empty Man
Pet Sematary
The Monkey King 2
Deliver Us from Evil
The Single Moms Club
A Madea Christmas
Killing Season
Sinister
The Baytown Outlaws
Priest
The Rum Diary
When in Rome
Drag Me to Hell
The Uninvited
Love Happens
Creation
Untraceable
The Informers
Sleepwalking
Spider-Man 3
Ghost Rider
Lucky You
The Grudge 2
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
An Unfinished Life
Beauty Shop
The Grudge
Something the Lord Made
The Core
Runaway Jury
The Country Bears
Swordfish
The Glass House
Bandits
The Shipping News
Sweet November
Bless the Child
The Gift
Wonder Boys
The Hurricane
Entrapment
In Too Deep
The Big Kahuna
Urban Legend
Hard Rain
Rounders
Judas Kiss
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Murder at 1600
Unforgettable
Set It Off
Head Above Water
Copycat
Species
Virtuosity
Tales from the Hood
Murder in the First
Dream Lover
The Dark Half
The Vagrant
Rapid Fire
Jennifer Eight
The Fly II
Hider in the House
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The Telephone
Bat★21
Hellraiser
Flowers in the Attic
Trick or Treat
Invaders from Mars
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
