Lorne Balfe

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.

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Novocaine

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The Woman in the Yard

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The Wheel of Time

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Bad Boys: Ride or Die

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

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The Crown

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Top Gun: Maverick

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Carry-On

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2017	Self	One Brick at a Time: Making the LEGO Batman Movie 2017-06-19 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2025	Original Music Composer	Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning 2025-05-17 Movie
	Music	Hallow Road 2025-05-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Woman in the Yard 2025-03-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Novocaine 2025-03-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	We Are Storror 2025-03-08 Movie
2024	Original Music Composer	Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024-12-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Carry-On 2024-12-05 Movie
	Music Score Producer	Apartment 7A 2024-09-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Cut 2024-09-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Decoded 2024-07-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F 2024-06-20 Movie
	Conductor	Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F 2024-06-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bad Boys: Ride or Die 2024-06-05 Movie
	Vocals	Bad Boys: Ride or Die 2024-06-05 Movie
	Music Score Producer	Young Woman and the Sea 2024-05-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Argylle 2024-01-31 Movie
	Music Producer	Stockholm Bloodbath 2024-01-19 Movie
2023	Original Music Composer	Life on Our Planet 2023-10-25 TV Show
	Music Producer	Life on Our Planet 2023-10-25 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Gran Turismo 2023-08-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 2023-07-08 Movie
	Music Producer	When We Danced 2023-04-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ghosted 2023-04-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023-03-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tetris 2023-03-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Luther: The Fallen Sun 2023-02-24 Movie
2022	Original Music Composer	Black Adam 2022-10-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ticket to Paradise 2022-09-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Secret Headquarters 2022-08-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Forgiven 2022-07-01 Movie
	Music Score Producer	Top Gun: Maverick 2022-05-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Infinite Storm 2022-03-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ambulance 2022-03-16 Movie
2021	Original Music Composer	Silent Night 2021-12-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Wheel of Time 2021-11-18 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Dopesick 2021-10-13 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	The Tomorrow War 2021-09-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Skyanders: Awaken of Evil 2021-08-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Black Widow 2021-07-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Resurrection 2021-03-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rumble 2021-02-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Outside the Wire 2021-01-15 Movie
2020	Original Music Composer	Songbird 2020-12-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Reagans 2020-11-15 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Jungleland 2020-11-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Military Wives 2020-03-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rebuilding Paradise 2020-01-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bad Boys for Life 2020-01-15 Movie
2019	Original Music Composer	6 Underground 2019-12-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Master Moley by Royal Invitation 2019-11-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	His Dark Materials 2019-11-03 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Gemini Man 2019-10-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Where's My Roy Cohn? 2019-09-20 Movie
	Music Producer	Driven 2019-08-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler 2019-07-28 TV Show
	Theme Song Performance	Looking Up 2019-07-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Georgetown 2019-05-14 Movie
2018	Original Music Composer	The Cry 2018-09-30 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018-07-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Studio 54 2018-06-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018-03-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Hurricane Heist 2018-02-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	12 Strong 2018-01-18 Movie
2017	Original Music Composer	Adam: The Prophet 2017-11-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Geostorm 2017-10-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Florida Project 2017-10-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Adam: The Mirror 2017-10-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Zygote 2017-07-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Firebase 2017-06-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rakka 2017-06-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Le Mans: Racing Is Everything 2017-06-09 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Churchill 2017-05-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ghost in the Shell 2017-03-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lego Batman Movie 2017-02-08 Movie
2016	Original Music Composer	The Crown 2016-11-04 TV Show
	Music	The Crown 2016-11-04 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	War on Everyone 2016-10-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2016-01-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll 2016-01-05 Movie
2015	Original Music Composer	American Hero 2015-12-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Captive 2015-09-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Summer of '92 2015-08-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Terminator Genisys 2015-06-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Wasted Beauty 2015-06-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dough 2015-04-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Home 2015-03-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bone in the Throat 2015-03-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sons of Liberty 2015-01-25 TV Show
2014	Original Music Composer	Manny 2014-12-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Penguins of Madagascar 2014-11-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gloria 2014-10-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Blackwood 2014-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Almost Home 2014-03-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Son of God 2014-02-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist 2014-02-17 Movie
2013	Original Music Composer	Not Another Happy Ending 2013-10-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Red Wing 2013-10-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Salinger 2013-09-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Frozen Ground 2013-07-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Girl Rising 2013-03-07 Movie
2012	Original Music Composer	Restless 2012-12-27 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	The Sweeney 2012-09-11 Movie
2011	Original Music Composer	Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters 2011-12-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Five 2011-10-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ironclad 2011-03-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Megamind: The Button of Doom 2011-02-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Dilemma 2011-01-13 Movie
2010	Original Music Composer	Megamind 2010-10-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sodales 2010-10-25 Movie
2009	Music Producer	Sherlock Holmes 2009-12-23 Movie
2008	Music	The Ties That Bind Us 2008-03-03 Movie
2006	Original Music Composer	Mystery of the Megavolcano 2006-09-26 Movie
2005	Music Programmer	Batman Begins 2005-06-10 Movie
2004	Original Music Composer	Shoebox Zoo 2004-09-21 TV Show
2003	Original Music Composer	Ancient Warriors 2003-03-01 Movie
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Crew

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2019	Additional Music	Ad Astra 2019-09-17 Movie
	Executive Music Producer	Crawl 2019-07-11 Movie
2012	Additional Music	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted 2012-06-06 Movie
2011	Additional Music	Rango 2011-03-02 Movie
2010	Additional Music	Inception 2010-07-15 Movie
2008	Additional Music	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 2008-10-30 Movie
	Additional Music	Iron Man 2008-04-30 Movie
2006	Thanks	Over the Hedge 2006-05-17 Movie
2005	Additional Music	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005-09-15 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv