Christopher Young
Sound
Born 1957-04-28
Redbank, New Jersey, USA
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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.
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58 credits
Spider-Man 3
Passenger
Ghost Rider
Sinister
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Drag Me to Hell
Priest
The Core
Echo 3
The Empty Man
Species
Pet Sematary
The Grudge
Swordfish
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Hellraiser
The Gift
Dream Lover
Entrapment
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Deliver Us from Evil
Rounders
Sweet November
Copycat
When in Rome
Murder in the First
Bandits
Runaway Jury
The Hurricane
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The Glass House
The Rum Diary
Beauty Shop
The Monkey King
The Uninvited
Murder at 1600
The Grudge 2
The Monkey King 2
Urban Legend
Invaders from Mars
The Informers
Virtuosity
The Fly II
Something the Lord Made
The Baytown Outlaws
Untraceable
Set It Off
Hard Rain
The Country Bears
The Shipping News
Flowers in the Attic
Killing Season
Bless the Child
Jennifer Eight
Shortcut to Happiness
Love Happens
Wonder Boys
The Dark Half
Acting
7 credits
Drag Me to Hell
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Species
An Unfinished Life
Hellraiser
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Murder at 1600
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