Mychael Danna
| Mychael Danna | |
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 Danna at the CFC Garden Party, on June 21, 2012 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | September 20, 1958 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupations | Composer |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Website | mychaeldanna.com |
Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian film composer, winning the Best Original Score for Life of Pi.
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Life and career
Danna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but his family moved to Burlington, Ontario when he was four weeks old.1 He is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won five times for Achievement in Music - Original Score.2 Danna is recognized as one of the pioneers of combining non-Western sound sources with orchestral and electronic minimalism in the world of film music. This reputation has led him to work with such directors as Atom Egoyan, Deepa Mehta, Terry Gilliam, Scott Hicks, Ang Lee, Gillies MacKinnon, James Mangold, Mira Nair, Billy Ray, Joel Schumacher, and Denzel Washington. His soundtrack for Ang Lee's Life of Pi earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song Pi's Lullaby.
He studied music composition at the University of Toronto, winning the Glenn Gould Composition Scholarship in 1985. Danna also served for five years as composer-in-residence at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto (1987–1992). Works for dance include music for Dead Souls (Carbone Quatorze Dance Company, directed by Gilles Maheu 1996), and a score for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Gita Govinda (2001) based on the 1000-year-old classical Gita Govinda, with choreographer Nina Menon.
His wife Aparna is of Indian origin. They have two sons Keshav and Arjun.
Recent projects include Deepa Mehta's Water, Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies, Terry Gilliam's Tideland, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine, Bennett Miller's Capote, and Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1987 | Family Viewing | |
| 1987 | Caribe | |
| 1988 | Murder One | |
| 1988 | Blood Relations | |
| 1989 | Speaking Parts | |
| 1989 | Road to Avonlea | TV series |
| 1989 | One Man Out | |
| 1989 | Cold Comfort | |
| 1989 | Without Work: Not by Choice | Short Film |
| 1989 | Termini Station | |
| 1990 | Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder | |
| 1991 | The Adjuster | |
| 1991 | Johann's Gift to Christmas | TV Short series |
| 1991 | Montréal vu par... | segment "En passant" |
| 1991 | The Big Slice | |
| 1993 | Hush Little Baby | TV movie |
| 1993 | Gross Misconduct | TV movie |
| 1993 | Ordinary Magic | |
| 1994 | Exotica | |
| 1994 | The Darling Family | |
| 1994 | Narmada: A Valley Rises | Documentary |
| 1995 | Johnny Mnemonic | |
| 1995 | Dance Me Outside | |
| 1996 | Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story | TV movie |
| 1996 | Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love | |
| 1996 | Lilies | |
| 1997 | The Ice Storm | |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | |
| 1998 | At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story | |
| 1999 | The Boondock Saints | With his brother Jeff |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | |
| 1999 | Don't Think Twice | Short Film |
| 1999 | Ride with the Devil | |
| 1999 | Felicia's Journey | |
| 1999 | 8MM | |
| 1999 | The Confession | |
| 2000 | Bounce | |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | |
| 2001 | Monsoon Wedding | |
| 2001 | The Hire: Chosen | |
| 2001 | Green Dragon | With his brother Jeff |
| 2002 | Antwone Fisher | |
| 2002 | The Guys | |
| 2002 | Ararat | |
| 2003 | The Snow Walker | |
| 2003 | Shattered Glass | |
| 2003 | Hulk | Additional cue "Mother" |
| 2004 | Being Julia | |
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | |
| 2005 | Sohni Sapna | |
| 2005 | Eve and the Fire Horse | |
| 2005 | Tideland | With his brother Jeff |
| 2005 | Water | Winner - Genie Award for Best Original Score Background Score only |
| 2005 | Capote | |
| 2005 | Where the Truth Lies | |
| 2005 | Aurora Borealis | |
| 2006 | The Nativity Story | |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | |
| 2006 | Lonely Hearts | |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | |
| 2007 | Breach | |
| 2008 | Adoration | |
| 2008 | Lakeview Terrace | With his brother Jeff |
| 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | |
| 2009 | Chloe | |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | With his brother Jeff |
| 2009 | The Time Traveler's Wife | |
| 2011 | Camelot (series) | With his brother Jeff |
| 2011 | Moneyball | |
| 2012 | Life of Pi | Academy Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe for Best Original Score Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Song |
| 2013 | Devil's Knot |
References
- ^ http://www.insidehalton.com/what's%20on/article/1565364--life-of-pi-golden-for-burlington-s-mychael-danna
- ^ "Canada's Awards Database". Academy.ca. 2011-03-28. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
External links
- Official Mychael Danna website
- Mychael Danna at the Internet Movie Database
- Danna talks about The Nativity Story
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