Dan Romer | |
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 Romer playing the accordion in his studio | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Film score, video game score, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Film composer, music producer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Piano, guitar, accordion, mandolin |
| Website | www |
Dan Romer is an American film composer, music producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. [1]
As a film composer, Romer's scores include four-time Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild , Beasts of No Nation , Chasing Coral , Gleason , The Good Doctor and the Emmy-winning Jim: The James Foley Story . [2] His score for the HBO miniseries Station Eleven was also nominated for an Emmy in 2022. [3] Romer scored the Ubisoft video game Far Cry 5 released on March 27, 2018.
He has produced music for numerous artists including A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera, whose single "Say Something", topped charts around the world, hit 6× Platinum, sold over seven million copies, and won a 2015 Grammy. Dan co-produced "Treat You Better" by Shawn Mendes which reached No. 1 on the iTunes chart and No. 3 on the US Top 40 pop radio charts in September 2016. [2] Romer composed the score to the Pixar animated feature film, Luca , [4] which was the most-watched streaming film of 2021, with over 10.6 billion minutes watched. [5] [6] [7] He worked with Justin Paul on the incidental underscore for Stephen Chbosky's 2021 film adaptation of Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen . [8]
| Year | Title | Director | Awards | Notes |
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| 2007 | Death to the Tinman | Ray Tintori | Winner of 2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Filmmaking Award | Short film |
| 2008 | Glory at Sea | Benh Zeitlin | Winner of 2008 Boston Independent Film Festival; Winner of 2008 CineVegas International Film Festival; Winner of 2008 SXSW Film Festival; Winner of 2008 Woodstock Film Festival | Short film |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin | Nominated for 4 Academy Awards at the 85th Academy Awards | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin |
| Sleepwalking in the Rift | Cary Fukunaga | Short film | ||
| 2014 | The Last Season | Sara Dosa | Winner of San Francisco International Film Festival | Documentary |
| The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger | Michael Lukk Litwak | Winner of 2014 First Run Festival; Winner of 2014 The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival | Short film | |
| The Organization | Michael Lukk Litwak | Short film | ||
| Tomorrow We Disappear | Jim Goldblum, Adam M. Weber | Winner of 2014 EBS International Documentary Festival; Winner of 2014 Philadelphia Film Festival; Winner of 2015 Florida Film Festival | Documentary | |
| 2015 | Beasts of No Nation | Cary Joji Fukunaga | ||
| Digging for Fire | Joe Swanberg | |||
| Finders Keepers | Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel | Winner of Traverse City Film Festival; Winner of 2015 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards; Winner of 2016 Cinema Eye Honors Awards | Documentary | |
| Mediterranea | Jonas Carpignano | Winner of 2015 Gotham Awards; Winner of Istanbul International Film Festival; Winner of Munich Film Festival | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin | |
| Napoleon in Exile | Michael Lukk Litwak | Short film | ||
| Stryka | Emily Carmichael | Short film | ||
| Walter | Anna Mastro | |||
| 2016 | Gleason | Clay Tweel | Winner of 2016 SXSW Film Festival; Winner of 2016 Montclair Film Festival; Winner of 2016 Seattle International Film Festival | Documentary |
| Jim: The James Foley Story | Brian Oakes | Winner of 2016 Emmy for Exceptional Documentary | Documentary | |
| Katie Says Goodbye | Wayne Roberts | Winner of 2016 Stockholm Film Festival; Winner of 2017 Manchester International Film Festival | ||
| 2017 | A Ciambra | Jonas Carpignano | Winner of Europa Cinemas Label Award | |
| Brimstone & Glory | Viktor Jakovleski | Winner of Golden Gate Award | Documentary | |
| Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski | Winner of 2017 Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Documentary | Documentary | |
| Freak Show | Trudie Styler | |||
| Shot in the Dark | Dustin Nakao-Haider | Documentary | ||
| The Little Hours | Jeff Baena | |||
| Win It All | Joe Swanberg | |||
| 2018 | Krystal | William H. Macy | ||
| Zoe | Drake Doremus | |||
| 2019 | Skin | Guy Nattiv | ||
| 2020 | Wendy | Benh Zeitlin | ||
| 2021 | A Chiara | Jonas Carpignano | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin | |
| Ciao Alberto | McKenna Jean Harris | |||
| Dear Evan Hansen | Stephen Chbosky | Nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards | Incidental score; co-composed with Justin Paul | |
| Luca | Enrico Casarosa | Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 94th Academy Awards; Winner of People's Choice Award for The Family Movie of 2021 | ||
| 2023 | Crater | Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Co-composed with Osei Essed | |
| Genie | Sam Boyd | |||
| Mustache | Imran J. Khan |
 | This article contains a list that has not been sorted. Specifically, it does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works (often, though not always, due to being in reverse-chronological order). See MOS:LISTSORT for more information.(January 2023) |
| Year | Title | Creator(s) | Developer(s) | Awards | Notes |
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| 2022–present | Little Demon | Darcy Fowler Seth Kirschner Kieran Valla | — | — | Composed with John Zarcone |
| 2021–2022 | Station Eleven | Patrick Somerville | — | Emmy Nominee (Original Score in a Limited Series) | — |
| 2021–present | Superman & Lois | — | Greg Berlanti Todd Helbing | — | — |
| 2020–present | Love Life | Sam Boyd | — | — | Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo |
| 2019–present | Ramy | Ramy Youssef Ari Katcher Ryan Welch | — | — | Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo |
| 2018 | Maniac | Patrick Somerville | Cary Joji Fukunaga Patrick Somerville | — | — |
| 2017–present | The Good Doctor | — | David Shore | Winner of an ASCAP Screen Music Award | — |
| 2017–2021 | Atypical | Robia Rashid | — | — | — |
| 2016–2019 | Easy | Joe Swanberg | — | — | Episodes "Controlada" and "Chemistry Read" [9] |
| Year | Title | Publisher | Awards | Notes |
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| 2018 | Far Cry 5 | Ubisoft | [10] | |
| This article contains a list that has not been sorted. Specifically, it does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works (often, though not always, due to being in reverse-chronological order). See MOS:LISTSORT for more information.(January 2023) |
| Year | Song | Artist | Certifications |
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| 2021 | Dear Evan Hansen | Various artists | Nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards |
| 2018 | "We Can Do Better" | Matt Simons | |
| 2016 | "Treat You Better" | Shawn Mendes | RIAA: 3× Platinum, MC: Platinum, ARIA: 3× Platinum, BPI: Platinum, FIMI: 3× Platinum |
| 2015 | When the Morning Comes | A Great Big World | US Billboard No. 75 |
| 2014 | Is There Anybody Out There? | A Great Big World | The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 3. |
| Jukebox the Ghost | Jukebox the Ghost | ||
| 2013 | "Say Something" | A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera | RIAA: 6× Platinum, ARIA: 4× Platinum, MC: 6× Platinum, RMNZ: 2× Platinum, GLF: 2× Platinum, BPI: 1× Platinum, IFPI: 1× Platinum |
| 2012 | Safe Travels | Jukebox the Ghost | |
| 2010 | Songs for a Sinking Ship | April Smith and the Great Picture Show | |
| 2009 | Everybody | Ingrid Michaelson | |
| 2009 | Transmitter Failure | Jenny Owen Youngs | |
| 2005 | Batten the Hatches | Jenny Owen Youngs | |
| 2004 | Coalmine | The Woes |
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Luca is a 2021 American animated coming-of-age fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film was directed by Enrico Casarosa in his feature directorial debut, produced by Andrea Warren and written by Jesse Andrews and Mike Jones from a story by Casarosa, Andrews, and Simon Stephenson. It stars the voices of Jacob Tremblay and Jack Dylan Grazer, with Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo, Marco Barricelli, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Peter Sohn, Lorenzo Crisci, Marina Massironi, and Sandy Martin in supporting roles. Set on the Italian Riviera in 1959, the film centers on Luca Paguro (Tremblay), a young sea monster boy with the ability to assume human form while on land, who explores the town of Portorosso with his new best friends, Alberto Scorfano (Grazer) and Giulia Marcovaldo (Berman), experiencing a life-changing summer adventure.
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Luca (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to Disney/Pixar's 2021 film of the same name, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The album, featuring original score composed by Dan Romer, was released on the Walt Disney Records label on June 18, 2021, coinciding the same day as the film's streaming release on Disney+. The film further includes Italian songs by Mina, Edoardo Bennato, Gianni Morandi, Rita Pavone and Quartetto Cetra, and excerpts from operas by Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini.
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