Mychael Danna

Mychael Danna
Danna at the CFC Garden Party, on June 21, 2012
Background information
Born	(1958-09-20) September 20, 1958 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Origin	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)	Composer
Years active	1987–present
Website	mychaeldanna.com

Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian film composer. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on World Without End: Medieval Life and Death Part 1 and 2.

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. In June 2014, Danna was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Toronto, for his career achievements in the field of music.^[3]

Family

Danna's wife Aparna is of Indian origin; the couple have two sons. He is the older brother of composer Jeff Danna.

Recent projects

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, Moneyball and Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer.

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
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	Background score only Genie Award for Best Original Score
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	With Rob Simonsen
2009	Chloe
2009	Management
2009	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	With his brother Jeff
2009	The Time Traveler's Wife
2011	Camelot	TV series With his brother Jeff
2011	Moneyball
2012	Life of Pi	Academy Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated – Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Pi's Lullaby")
2014	Devil's Knot
2014	Transcendence^[4]
2014	The Captive
2015	Sanjay's Super Team	Short Film
2015	Remember
2015	The Good Dinosaur	With his brother Jeff
2016	Storks	With his brother Jeff
2016	Collateral Beauty

References

↑ "Life of Pi golden for Burlington's Mychael Danna". www.insidehalton.com. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
↑ "Canada's Awards Database". Academy.ca. 2011-03-28. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
↑ "Convocation 2014: meet honorary grad Mychael Danna". Retrieved 1 September 2014.
↑ "Mychael Danna to Score Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'". Film Music Reporter. December 19, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.

External links

Awards for Mychael Danna

Academy Award for Best Original Score

1934–1950	Louis Silvers (1934) Max Steiner (1935) Leo F. Forbstein (1936) Charles Previn (1937) Erich Wolfgang Korngold/Alfred Newman (1938) Herbert Stothart/Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken (1939) Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington/Alfred Newman (1940) Bernard Herrmann/Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace (1941) Max Steiner/Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld (1942) Alfred Newman/Ray Heindorf (1943) Max Steiner/Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon (1944) Miklós Rózsa/Georgie Stoll (1945) Hugo Friedhofer/Morris Stoloff (1946) Miklós Rózsa/Alfred Newman (1947) Brian Easdale/Johnny Green and Roger Edens (1948) Aaron Copland/Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton (1949) Franz Waxman/Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (1950)

1951–1975	Franz Waxman/Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin (1951) Dimitri Tiomkin/Alfred Newman (1952) Bronisław Kaper/Alfred Newman (1953) Dimitri Tiomkin/Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin (1954) Alfred Newman/Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch (1955) Victor Young/Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1956) Malcolm Arnold (1957) Dimitri Tiomkin/Andre Previn (1958) Miklós Rózsa/Andre Previn and Ken Darby (1959) Ernest Gold/Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman (1960) Henry Mancini/Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal (1961) Maurice Jarre/Ray Heindorf (1962) John Addison/Andre Previn (1963) Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman/Andre Previn (1964) Maurice Jarre/Irwin Kostal (1965) John Barry/Ken Thorne (1966) Elmer Bernstein/Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1967) John Barry/Johnny Green (1968) Burt Bacharach/Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman (1969) Francis Lai/The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) (1970) Michel Legrand/John Williams (1971) Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell/Ralph Burns (1972) Marvin Hamlisch/Marvin Hamlisch (1973) Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola/Nelson Riddle (1974) John Williams/Leonard Rosenman (1975)

1976–2000	Jerry Goldsmith/Leonard Rosenman (1976) John Williams/Jonathan Tunick (1977) Giorgio Moroder/Joe Renzetti (1978) Georges Delerue/Ralph Burns (1979) Michael Gore (1980) Vangelis (1981) John Williams/Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse (1982) Bill Conti/Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1983) Maurice Jarre/Prince (1984) John Barry (1985) Herbie Hancock (1986) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su (1987) Dave Grusin (1988) Alan Menken (1989) John Barry (1990) Alan Menken (1991) Alan Menken (1992) John Williams (1993) Hans Zimmer (1994) Luis Enríquez Bacalov/Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995) Gabriel Yared/Rachel Portman (1996) James Horner/Anne Dudley (1997) Nicola Piovani/Stephen Warbeck (1998) John Corigliano (1999) Tan Dun (2000)

2001–present	Howard Shore (2001) Elliot Goldenthal (2002) Howard Shore (2003) Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (2004) Gustavo Santaolalla (2005) Gustavo Santaolalla (2006) Dario Marianelli (2007) A. R. Rahman (2008) Michael Giacchino (2009) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010) Ludovic Bource (2011) Mychael Danna (2012) Steven Price (2013) Alexandre Desplat (2014) Ennio Morricone (2015)

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

1947–1975	Life with Father – Max Steiner (1947) The Red Shoes – Brian Easdale (1948) The Inspector General – Johnny Green (1949) Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman (1950) September Affair – Victor Young (1951) High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin (1952) On the Beach – Ernest Gold (1959) The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin (1960) The Guns of Navarone – Dimitri Tiomkin (1961) To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein (1962) (1963) The Fall of the Roman Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin (1964) Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre (1965) Hawaii – Elmer Bernstein (1966) Camelot – Frederick Loewe (1967) The Shoes of the Fisherman – Alex North (1968) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach (1969) Love Story – Francis Lai (1970) Shaft – Isaac Hayes (1971) The Godfather – Nino Rota (1972) Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Neil Diamond (1973) The Little Prince – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe (1974) Jaws – John Williams (1975)

1975–2000	A Star is Born – Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams (1976) Star Wars – John Williams (1977) Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder (1978) Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola (1979) The Stunt Man – Dominic Frontiere (1980) (1981) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Williams (1982) Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder (1983) A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre (1984) Out of Africa – John Barry (1985) The Mission – Ennio Morricone (1986) The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cong Su (1987) Gorillas in the Mist – Maurice Jarre (1988) The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken (1989) The Sheltering Sky – Richard Horowitz, Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990) Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken (1991) Aladdin – Alan Menken (1992) Heaven & Earth – Kitarō (1993) The Lion King – Hans Zimmer (1994) A Walk in the Clouds – Maurice Jarre (1995) The English Patient – Gabriel Yared (1996) Titanic – James Horner (1997) The Truman Show – Burkhard Dallwitz, Philip Glass (1998) 1900 – Ennio Morricone (1999) Gladiator – Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer (2000)

2001–present	Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong (2001) Frida – Elliot Goldenthal (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore (2003) The Aviator – Howard Shore (2004) Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams (2005) The Painted Veil – Alexandre Desplat (2006) Atonement – Dario Marianelli (2007) Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (2008) Up – Michael Giacchino (2009) The Social Network – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (2010) The Artist – Ludovic Bource (2011) Life of Pi – Mychael Danna (2012) All Is Lost – Alex Ebert (2013) The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson (2014) The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone (2015)

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