Geoffrey Zanelli is an American composer[1] working primarily in the medium of film, television, and video game scores.[2] His early career was notable for scoring additional music on roughly 30 film scores written by Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Steve Jablonsky including several blockbuster films. He has since moved on to more solo work, winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special for his score to the miniseries Into the West.
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Geoff Zanelli | |
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Birth name | Geoffrey Zanelli |
Born | Westminster, California, U.S. |
Genres | Film score, television score, video game score |
Occupation(s) | Composer, orchestrator |
Instruments | Piano, keyboards, guitar, bass |
Years active | 1997–present |
Labels | Remote Control Productions |
Website | www |
Aside from film and television scores, Zanelli also works with recording artists, writing arrangements for Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, Robbie Williams, The Webb Sisters, Mest and Story of the Year. He is credited as a guitarist/bassist/keyboardist on the song "I'm Not Dead" from recording artist Pink.[3]
Zanelli is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music.[4] Zanelli began his musical career as a guitar player and songwriter for local acts in Southern California. While attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music on scholarship, Zanelli dual majored in Film Scoring and Music Production/Engineering. He was the recipient of both the Doug Timm Award in recognition of his film scoring work and the Music Production and Engineering Scholar Award.[5]
In 1994, Hans Zimmer met Zanelli. Believing him to be a promising young talent, Zimmer invited him to Los Angeles to join his group of film composers. Zanelli earned a reputation as a workhorse while working as an engineer on the debut album from Goldfinger as well as Zimmer's Oscar Award-nominated score for The Preacher's Wife.
Zanelli's experience and desire to collaborate led him to work with British composer John Powell on his first Hollywood feature, Face/Off. Throughout the following years he built the foundation for his scoring career, composing with Powell, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Steve Jablonsky on many feature films, including: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,[6] Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,[7] Rango[8] and the Golden Globe-nominated scores for The Last Samurai[9] and Pearl Harbor.[10][11]
One of his earliest solo works, Steven Spielberg's miniseries Into the West, earned him an Emmy.[12] In approximately one year, Zanelli scored the films Disturbia, Hitman, Outlander, Delgo, Ghost Town and Gamer. Harking back to his days as a songwriter, he co-wrote the song "Don't Make Me Wait" for Disturbia. He currently writes at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions.[13]
In early 2013, influential film blog Ain't It Cool News called his score for The Odd Life of Timothy Green the best score of 2012.[14] In 2017, he composed the score to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, picking up the mantle from long-time series composer Hans Zimmer. In June 2018, he composed the score, with Jon Brion, in Christopher Robin.[15]
Year | Title | Director | Studio / Publisher | Notes |
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2004 | House of D | David Duchovny | Bob Yari Productions Lionsgate Films |
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Secret Window | David Koepp | Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Releasing |
Composed with Philip Glass | |
2007 | Hitman | Xavier Gens | Dune Entertainment EuropaCorp 20th Century Fox |
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Disturbia | D. J. Caruso | DreamWorks Pictures The Montecito Picture Company Paramount Pictures |
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2008 | Delgo | Marc F. Adler Jason Maurer |
Fathom Studios Freestyle Releasing |
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Outlander | Howard McCain | The Weinstein Company Virtual Studios |
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Ghost Town | David Koepp | Spyglass Entertainment DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures |
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2009 | Gamer | Mark Neveldine Brian Taylor |
Lakeshore Entertainment Lionsgate Films |
Composed with Robert Williamson |
2011 | You May Not Kiss the Bride | Rob Hedden | Showcase Entertainment Freestyle Releasing |
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Beneath the Darkness | Martin Guigui | Sunset Pictures Image Entertainment |
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2012 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | Peter Hedges | Scott Sanders Productions Walt Disney Pictures |
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2013 | Once Upon a Time in Queens | David Rodriguez | Grindstone Entertainment Lionsgate Films |
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Louder Than Words | Anthony Fabian | Identity Films ARC Entertainment |
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2014 | School Dance | Nick Cannon | N'Credible Entertainment Lionsgate Films |
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2015 | The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power |
Mike Elliott | Universal 1440 Entertainment Universal Pictures |
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Mortdecai | David Koepp | Odd Lot Entertainment Infinitum Nihil Lionsgate Films |
Composed with Mark Ronson | |
No Stranger Than Love | Nick Wernham | Innis Lake Entertainment Orion Pictures Momentum Pictures |
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2016 | Bling | Kyung Ho Lee Wonjae Lee |
Digiart Productions Digital Idea Momentum Pictures |
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Masterminds | Jared Hess | Michaels-Goldwyn Relativity Media |
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2017 | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Joseph Ruben | Eastern Sunrise Films Paladin |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |
Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg |
Jerry Bruckheimer Films Walt Disney Pictures |
Themes by Hans Zimmer | |
2018 | Traffik | Deon Taylor | Codeblack Films Summit Entertainment |
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Christopher Robin | Marc Forster | 2DUX² Walt Disney Pictures |
Replaced Jóhann Jóhannsson Composed with Jon Brion | |
2019 | The Intruder | Deon Taylor | Screen Gems Primary Wave Entertainment Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs | Sung-ho Hong Moo-Hyun Jang Young Sik Uhm |
Locus Creative Studios Next Entertainment World |
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Black and Blue | Deon Taylor | Hidden Empire Film Group Screen Gems |
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Joachim Rønning | Roth Films Walt Disney Pictures |
Replaced James Newton Howard | |
2020 | You Should Have Left | David Koepp | Blumhouse Productions Universal Pictures |
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Fatale | Deon Taylor | Hidden Empire Film Group Summit Entertainment |
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2021 | The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 |
Hidden Empire Film Group | ||
2022 | Fear |
Year | Title | Network(s) | Notes |
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2000 | Die Motorrad-Cops | RTL | Episode: "Am Abgrund" |
Fear | MTV | 3 episodes | |
2000-03 | SportsCentury | ESPN | 8 episodes |
2002 | National Geographic Explorer | National Geographic | Episode: "Lost Subs: Disaster at Sea" Composer of additional music Composed by Steve Jablonsky |
Live from Baghdad | HBO | Television film Composer of additional music Composed by Steve Jablonsky | |
2003 | Threat Matrix | ABC | Episode: "Pilot" Composer of additional music Composed by Steve Jablonsky |
2005 | Into the West | TNT | Miniseries; 6 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) |
2010 | The Pacific | HBO | Miniseries; 10 episodes Composed with Blake Neely Theme music by Hans Zimmer Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) |
2013 | Killing Kennedy | National Geographic | Television film |
Christmas in Conway | ABC | ||
2022 | The First Lady | Showtime |
Year | Title | Publisher | Notes |
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2004 | Champions of Norrath | Sony Online Entertainment | Composer of additional music Composed by Inon Zur |
2007 | Shrek the Third | Activision | Composer of additional music Composed by Winifred Phillips |
2009 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized | ||
2010 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | Nintendo DS version | |
2011 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – Defiance | ||
TBA | Star Citizen | Cloud Imperium Games | Composed with Pedro Camacho |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
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2006 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) | Into the West | Won |
International Film Music Critics Awards | Best Original Score for a Television Series | Into the West | Nominated | |
2008 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Top Box Office Films | Disturbia | Nominated |
2010 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) | The Pacific | Nominated |
2019 | International Film Music Critics Awards | Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | Christopher Robin | Nominated |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Film | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Nominated |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special | |
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