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Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. 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 the miniseries World Without End.

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Mychael Danna
Danna in January 2020
Background information
Born	(1958-09-20) September 20, 1958 (age 64) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Origin	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)	Composer
Instruments	Piano, keyboards, guitar
Years active	1987–present

Website	www.mychaeldanna.com

Early life and education

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 studied music composition at the University of Toronto, winning the Glenn Gould Composition Scholarship in 1985.

Career

Danna 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.[2]

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.[3] 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 for Pi's Lullaby.

Other films include Dan Scanlon's Onward, Mimi Leder's On the Basis of Sex, Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, Bennett Miller's Capote and Moneyball and Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer.

On September 30, 2021, Danna received a Career Achievement Award from the Zurich Film Festival.[4][5]

Personal life

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

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
1987	Family Viewing
1987	Caribe
1988	Murder One
1988	Blood Relations
1989	Speaking Parts
	Road to Avonlea	TV series
	One Man Out
	Cold Comfort
	Without Work: Not by Choice	Short Film
	Termini Station
1990	Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder
1991	The Adjuster
	Johann's Gift to Christmas	TV Short series
	Montréal vu par...	segment: "En passant"
	The Big Slice
1993	Hush Little Baby	TV movie
	Gross Misconduct	TV movie
	Ordinary Magic
1994	Exotica
	The Darling Family
	Narmada: A Valley Rises	Documentary
	Dance Me Outside
1995	Johnny Mnemonic
1996	Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story	TV movie
	Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
	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 Danna
	Girl, Interrupted
	Don't Think Twice	Short Film
	Ride with the Devil
	Felicia's Journey
	8MM
	The Confession
2000	Bounce
2001	Hearts in Atlantis
	Monsoon Wedding
	The Hire: Chosen
	Green Dragon	With his brother Jeff Danna
2002	Antwone Fisher
	The Guys
	Ararat
2003	The Snow Walker
	Shattered Glass
	Hulk	Additional cue "Mother"
2004	Being Julia
2004	Vanity Fair
2005	Sohni Sapna
	Eve and the Fire Horse
	Tideland	With his brother Jeff Danna
	Water	Background score only Genie Award for Best Original Score
	Capote
	Where the Truth Lies
	Aurora Borealis
2006	The Nativity Story
	Little Miss Sunshine
	Lonely Hearts
2007	Surf's Up
	Breach
	Fracture	With his brother Jeff Danna
2008	Adoration
	Management
	Lakeview Terrace	With his brother Jeff Danna
2009	(500) Days of Summer	With Rob Simonsen
	Chloe
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	With his brother Jeff Danna
	The Time Traveler's Wife
2011	Camelot	TV series With his brother Jeff Danna
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")
2013	Devil's Knot
2014	Transcendence[6]
	The Captive
	Tyrant	TV series With his brother Jeff Danna
2015	Sanjay's Super Team	Short Film
	Remember
	The Good Dinosaur	With his brother Jeff Danna Replaced Thomas Newman
2016	Storks	With his brother Jeff Danna
2016	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	With his brother Jeff Danna
2017	The Breadwinner[7]	With his brother Jeff Danna
2017	The Man Who Invented Christmas
2018	On the Basis of Sex
2019	A Dog's Way Home
	The Red Sea Diving Resort
	After the Wedding
	Guest of Honour
	The Addams Family	With his brother Jeff Danna
2020	Onward	With his brother Jeff Danna
2021	Stillwater
2021	The Addams Family 2	With his brother Jeff Danna
2022	Return to Space	with Harry Gregson-Williams
2022	Where the Crawdads Sing

References

"Life of Pi golden for Burlington's Mychael Danna". www.insidehalton.com. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
"Convocation 2014: meet honorary grad Mychael Danna". Retrieved 1 September 2014.
"Canada's Awards Database". Academy.ca. 2011-03-28. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
Croll, Ben (2021-09-27). "For Oscar-Winning 'Life of Pi' Composer Mychael Danna, Concept is King". Variety. Retrieved 2021-09-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
"Career Achievement Award for Film Composer Mychael Danna". Zurich Film Festival (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
"Mychael Danna to Score Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'". Film Music Reporter. December 19, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
"Mychael & Jeff Danna to Score 'The Breadwinner'". Film Music Reporter. Film Music Reporter. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.

External links

Mychael Danna – official site
Mychael Danna discography at Discogs
Mychael Danna at IMDb
Mychael Danna talks about The Nativity Story

Awards for Mychael Danna

v t e Academy Award for Best Original Score
1930s	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 and Leo Shuken (1939)
1940s	Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and 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) Miklos Rozsa / Georgie Stoll (1945) Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff (1946) Miklos Rozsa / Alfred Newman (1947) Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens (1948) Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton (1949)
1950s	Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (1950) Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin (1951) Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman (1952) Bronislau 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) Miklos Rozsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby (1959)
1960s	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)
1970s	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) Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman (1976) John Williams / Jonathan Tunick (1977) Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti (1978) Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns (1979)
1980s	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)
1990s	John Barry (1990) Alan Menken (1991) Alan Menken (1992) John Williams (1993) Hans Zimmer (1994) Luis 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)
2000s	Tan Dun (2000) 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)
2010s	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010) Ludovic Bource (2011) Mychael Danna (2012) Steven Price (2013) Alexandre Desplat (2014) Ennio Morricone (2015) Justin Hurwitz (2016) Alexandre Desplat (2017) Ludwig Göransson (2018) Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
2020s	Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020) Hans Zimmer (2021)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special
1955–1975	Walter Schumann (1955) Richard Rodgers (1962) Robert Russell Bennett (1963) Elmer Bernstein (1964) Pete Rugolo (1970) Walter Scharf (1971) John Williams (1972) Jerry Goldsmith (1973) Fred Karlin (1974) Jerry Goldsmith (1975)
1976–2000	Jerry Goldsmith (1976) Leonard Rosenman and Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1977) Jimmie Haskell (1978) Leonard Rosenman (1979) Jerry Fielding (1980) Jerry Goldsmith (1981) Patrick Williams (1982) Billy Goldenberg (1983) Bruce Broughton (1984) Allyn Ferguson (1985) Laurence Rosenthal (1986) Laurence Rosenthal (1987) Laurence Rosenthal (1988) Basil Poledouris (1989) James Di Pasquale (1990) Richard Bellis (1991) Bruce Broughton (1992) Patrick Williams (1993) Lennie Niehaus (1994) Laurence Rosenthal (1995) Ernest Troost (1996) Laurence Rosenthal (1997) Bruce Broughton (1998) Richard Hartley (1999) John Altman (2000)
2001–present	Arturo Sandoval (2001) Adrian Johnston (2002) Bruce Broughton (2003) Bruce Broughton (2004) Bruce Broughton (2005) Geoff Zanelli (2006) Jeff Beal (2007) Jeff Beal (2008) Howard Goodall (2009) Alex Wurman (2010) Carter Burwell (2011) Javier Navarrete (2012) Mychael Danna (2013) David Arnold and Michael Price (2014) Rachel Portman (2015) Victor Reyes (2016) Jeff Russo (2017) Cyril Aufort (2018) Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2020) Carlos Rafael Rivera (2021) Cristobal Tapia de Veer (2022)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
1940s	Life with Father – Max Steiner (1947) The Red Shoes – Brian Easdale (1948) The Inspector General – Johnny Green (1949)
1950s	Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman (1950) September Affair – Victor Young (1951) High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin (1952) On the Beach – Ernest Gold (1959)
1960s	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)
1970s	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 and Frederick Loewe (1974) Jaws – John Williams (1975) A Star is Born – Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams (1976) Star Wars – John Williams (1977) Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder (1978) Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
1980s	The Stunt Man – Dominic Frontiere (1980) No Award (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 and Cong Su (1987) Gorillas in the Mist – Maurice Jarre (1988) The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken (1989)
1990s	The Sheltering Sky – Richard Horowitz and 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 and Philip Glass (1998) The Legend of 1900 – Ennio Morricone (1999)
2000s	Gladiator – Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer (2000) 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)
2010s	The Social Network – Trent Reznor and 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) La La Land – Justin Hurwitz (2016) The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat (2017) First Man – Justin Hurwitz (2018) Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
2020s	Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020) Dune – Hans Zimmer (2021)

v t e Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Main Title Theme – TV Show/Limited Series
Max Richter (2014) Jeff Danna & Mychael Danna (2015) Victor Reyes (2016) Nick Urata and Daniel Handler (2017) Carlos Rafael Rivera (2018) Steven Price (2019) Nathan Barr (2020) Roahn Hylton, Jacob Yoffee & Scotty Granger (2021)

v t e Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film
John Powell (2014) Christophe Beck (2015) Alexandre Desplat (2016) Michael Giacchino (2017) Alexandre Desplat (2018) John Powell (2019) Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020) Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna (2021)

International Film Music Critics Association Award for Film Score of the Year

Jerry Goldsmith (1998)
Jerry Goldsmith (1999)
Michael Giacchino (2004)
John Williams (2005)
James Newton Howard (2006)
Dario Marianelli (2007)
Alexandre Desplat (2008)
Michael Giacchino (2009)
John Powell (2010)
John Williams (2011)
Mychael Danna (2012)
Abel Korzeniowski (2013)
Hans Zimmer (2014)
John Williams (2015)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (2016)
Jonny Greenwood (2017)
John Powell (2018)
John Williams (2019)
Christopher Willis (2020)
Maurizio Malagnini (2021)

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[de] Mychael Danna

Mychael Danna (* 20. September 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba; manchmal auch Michael Danna) ist ein kanadischer Komponist von Filmmusik sowie Oscar-Preisträger.

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[ru] Данна, Майкл

Майкл Данна (англ. Mychael Danna; родился 20 сентября 1958 года) — канадский композитор, специализирующийся на музыке для кинофильмов, брат композитора Джеффа Данна. Лауреат премий «Золотой глобус» и «Оскар» за лучшую музыку к фильму «Жизнь Пи» (2012).

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