Biography
Brian Tyler is a composer of over 60 films. He composed and conducted the scores for: The Keanu Reeves thriller, “Constantine” “Rambo” directed by Sylvester Stallone, “Eagle Eye” for producer Steven Spielberg, the box office hits “Fast & Furious” and “Fast Five,” “Law Abiding Citizen,” starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, “The Expendables” and the epic science fiction film “Battle: Los Angeles.” Tyler also scored the blockbuster videogame, “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” which grossed $775 million in its first 5 days. He also recently arranged and conducted the new film logo music for Universal Pictures and composed a theme for the 100 year anniversary of the studio. He is currently composing the score for “The Expendables 2,” starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by Simon West.
Tyler began scoring features shortly after he received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his master's degree from Harvard University. Tyler’s score for Bill Paxton’s, “Frailty,” won a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 as well as The World Soundtrack Award for Best New Film Composer of the Year. He has received two Emmy®-nominations, seven BMI Music Awards, five ASCAP Music Awards, and was nominated for “Film Composer of the Year” by the International Film Music Critics Association in 2009. He was nominated for a record of 6 Goldspirit Awards, including Best Composer of the Year in 2012.
Tyler is skilled in a variety of instruments that include the drums, piano, guitar, orchestral and world percussion, bass, cello, guitarviol, charango and bouzouki, amongst others. After composing the score for “The Hunted” for Academy Award®-winning director William Friedkin, Tyler was featured on the cover of Film Score Monthly Magazine dubbed as “The Future of Film Scoring.” He then composed the score for Disney's, “The Greatest Game Ever Played” starring Shia LaBeouf. His score for “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts while his soundtrack for “Children of Dune” reached #4 on the Amazon.com album charts. Other film credits include 20th Century Fox’s science-fiction film “Timeline” directed by Richard Donner, “Alien vs Predator: Requiem,” and “The Final Destination.”
Television credits include “Star Trek: Enterprise” and most recently, “Terra Nova” produced by Steven Spielberg; as well as “Hawaii Five-O” which airs on CBS. His music has been used in a multitude of film trailers including “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” and “The Departed.” In 2010, Tyler was inducted into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Millennium Films
Composer
Documentaries | |
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2018 |
The Devil We Know |
2016 |
Under the Gun |
2014 |
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe |
Screenwriter
Actor
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2016 |
SCORE: A Film Music Documentary |
2003 |
The Making of 'Darkness Falls' |
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