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Mychael Danna
Highest Rated: 100% Speaking Parts (1990)
Lowest Rated: 19% Transcendence (2014)
Birthday: Sep 20, 1958
Birthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Mychael Danna was an award-winning composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on Ang Lee's critically acclaimed film, "Life of Pi" (2012). Danna crafted meticulously integrated scores for films, which made him a sought-after composer by many directors, including Atom Egoyan, Terry Gilliam and Ang Lee. His ability to meld international melodies and instrumentation with modern Western minimalism helped bring unique moods to some of the largest blockbusters and most personal independent films.
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| 75% | No Score Yet | Seven Veils | Original Music | - | 2023 |
| 87% | 72% | My Father's Dragon | Original Music | - | 2022 |
| 35% | 96% | Where the Crawdads Sing | Original Music | $90.0M | 2022 |
| 28% | 69% | The Addams Family 2 | Original Music | $56.5M | 2021 |
| 41% | 58% | Cinderella | Original Music | - | 2021 |
| 75% | 72% | Stillwater | Original Music | $14.4M | 2021 |
| 88% | 95% | Onward | Original Music | $60.4M | 2020 |
| 42% | 36% | Guest of Honour | Original Music | - | 2019 |
| 45% | 69% | The Addams Family | Original Music | $673.0K | 2019 |
| 29% | 77% | The Red Sea Diving Resort | Original Music | - | 2019 |
| 59% | 71% | A Dog's Way Home | Original Music | $42.0M | 2019 |
| 72% | 76% | On the Basis of Sex | Original Music | $24.7M | 2018 |
| 79% | 78% | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Original Music | $5.7M | 2017 |
| 95% | 88% | The Breadwinner | Original Music | $302.9K | 2017 |
| 91% | 83% | Score: A Film Music Documentary | Self | $97.3K | 2016 |
| 44% | 41% | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Original Music | $1.7M | 2016 |
| 65% | 62% | Storks | Original Music | $72.7M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Storks | Original Music | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Storks | Original Music | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Dinosaur | Original Music | - | 2015 |
| 69% | 79% | Remember | Original Music | $1.2M | 2015 |
| 75% | 64% | The Good Dinosaur | Original Music | $123.1M | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Dinosaur | Original Music | - | 2015 |
| 28% | 35% | The Captive | Original Music | - | 2014 |
| 19% | 37% | Transcendence | Original Music | $23.0M | 2014 |
| 26% | 39% | Devil's Knot | Original Music | - | 2013 |
| 86% | 84% | Life of Pi | Original Music | $125.0M | 2012 |
| 94% | 86% | Moneyball | Original Music | $75.6M | 2011 |
| 76% | 71% | The Whistleblower | Original Music | $1.1M | 2010 |
| 54% | 52% | Going the Distance | Original Music | $17.8M | 2010 |
| 43% | 16% | Cooking With Stella | Original Music | - | 2009 |
| 51% | 39% | Chloe | Original Music | $3.1M | 2009 |
| 64% | 60% | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Original Music | $7.7M | 2009 |
| 37% | 37% | New York, I Love You | Original Music | $1.6M | 2009 |
| 39% | 59% | The Time Traveler's Wife | Original Music | $63.4M | 2009 |
| 85% | 84% | (500) Days of Summer | Original Music | $32.4M | 2009 |
| 53% | 58% | Stone of Destiny | Original Music | - | 2008 |
| 58% | 57% | Trucker | Original Music | $52.2K | 2008 |
| 63% | 49% | Adoration | Original Music | $293.6K | 2008 |
| 67% | 45% | Heaven on Earth | Original Music | - | 2008 |
| 45% | 39% | Lakeview Terrace | Original Music | $39.3M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | 8 | Original Music | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Pomegranates and Myrrh | Original Music | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Migration | Original Music | - | 2008 |
| 79% | 70% | Surf's Up | Original Music | - | 2007 |
| 72% | 73% | Fracture | Original Music | $39.0M | 2007 |
| 84% | 67% | Breach | Original Music | $33.0M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Artaud Double Bill | Music | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surf's Up | Original Music | - | 2007 |
| 48% | 49% | Lonely Hearts | Original Music | $187.4K | 2006 |
| 38% | 76% | The Nativity Story | Original Music | $37.6M | 2006 |
| 91% | 91% | Little Miss Sunshine | Original Music | $59.9M | 2006 |
| 77% | 85% | Eve & the Fire Horse | Original Music | - | 2005 |
| 31% | 64% | Tideland | Original Music | $61.2K | 2005 |
| 89% | 82% | Capote | Original Music | $28.7M | 2005 |
| 77% | 74% | Being Julia | Original Music | $7.7M | 2004 |
| 51% | 50% | Vanity Fair | Music | $16.1M | 2004 |
| 55% | 71% | Ararat | Original Music | $1.6M | 2002 |
| 78% | 86% | Antwone Fisher | Music | $21.1M | 2002 |
| 61% | 50% | Green Dragon | Original Music | $146.1K | 2001 |
| 95% | 87% | Monsoon Wedding | Original Music | $13.9M | 2001 |
| 49% | 64% | Hearts in Atlantis | Original Music | $24.2M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | Stranger Inside | Music | - | 2001 |
| 53% | 32% | Bounce | Original Music | $36.8M | 2000 |
| 88% | 71% | Felicia's Journey | Original Music | $819.9K | 1999 |
| 53% | 84% | Girl, Interrupted | Original Music | - | 1999 |
| 23% | 52% | 8MM | Original Music | $36.3M | 1999 |
| 60% | 76% | Regeneration | Original Music | $19.3K | 1997 |
| 98% | 86% | The Sweet Hereafter | Original Music | $4.4M | 1997 |
| 86% | 82% | The Ice Storm | Original Music | $7.9M | 1997 |
| 40% | 71% | Kama Sutra | Original Music | $4.1M | 1996 |
| 95% | 83% | Exotica | Original Music | $5.0M | 1994 |
| 69% | 90% | Dance Me Outside | Original Music | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Ordinary Magic | Original Music | - | 1993 |
| 100% | 68% | Speaking Parts | Original Music | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Family Viewing | Original Music | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Metal Messiah | Original Music | - | 1977 |