Mark Mancina

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Mark Mancina
Genres Film score, television score, rock, pop, progressive rock
Occupation(s)Composer, producer, arranger
Years active1987–present
Website mark-mancina.com

Mark Mancina is an American film composer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures, [1] Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including Speed , Bad Boys , Twister , Tarzan , Training Day , Brother Bear , Criminal Minds , Blood+, Planes and Moana . [2]

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He has made several collaborations with The Walt Disney Company, and has won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Annie Award for Brother Bear. For his work on the Disney Theatrical Productions adaptation of The Lion King, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score in a Musical. [3]

Career

Mancina has worked primarily as a composer for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air . He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Nick Glennie-Smith and Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He composed the score for the thriller Twister (1996) and the action films Speed (1994) and Bad Boys (1995). Mancina co-wrote several songs for Hanna-Barbera's 1990 animated film Jetsons: The Movie .

Mancina collaborated with John Van Tongeren to write the theme to the 1995 revival of The Outer Limits. They both scored ten episodes for the first season of the show. He collaborated with Phil Collins on two Disney animated feature films, Tarzan (for which soundtrack he and Collins received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album) and Brother Bear . Mancina wrote and composed the arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 2006 to 2022 for the previous Disney logo and was co-arranged with and orchestrated by David Metzger. Furthermore, he composed the music of the Disneynature logo, as well as co-composing the music of the 2013 DisneyToon Studios logo with Metzger.

Mancina composed the music for the 2005–06 anime television series Blood+ , which had music produced by Hans Zimmer. [4] Additionally in television, he composed score for Criminal Minds and Soldier Of Fortune, Inc.

Mancina has contributed to a number of progressive rock projects. He toured with Trevor Rabin in support of Can't Look Away and went on to produce tracks on the Yes album Union in 1991. He worked with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, as he coproduced their 1992 album, Black Moon , and he also wrote one song Burning Bridges on this record.

With playwright Glen Berger, Mancina has written a musical based on the film August Rush , for which he had written the score. Mancina and Berger cowrote the lyrics for the musical, with Mancina writing the music and Berger writing the book. Under the direction of John Doyle, it received its world premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois in May 2019. [5]

Although he did not participate in the 2020 film Bad Boys for Life , his original theme for Bad Boys is used heavily throughout the film as well as the end credits.

Personal life

He resides in Carmel, California, with his wife and daughter. Trained as a classical guitarist, he is an avid guitar player and rare instrument collector. [6]

Discography

Film

1980s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
1987 Mankillers David A. Prior Action International Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Composed with Tim James and Steven McClintock
Code Name Vengeance David Winters Action International Pictures
1988Death Chase David A. Prior
Night Wars
Space Mutiny David Winters
Neal Sundstrom
1989Hell on the Battleground David A. Prior
Future Force Composed with Steven McClintock

1990s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
1990The Lost Platoon David A. Prior Action International Pictures Composed with Tim James and Steven McClintock
Crossing the Line Gary Graver Epic Productions
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
VCL Communications
Days of Thunder Tony Scott Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Paramount Pictures
As composer of additional music
Score composed by Hans Zimmer
1991 Where Sleeping Dogs Lie Charles Finch Sotela Pictures
August Entertainment
Composed with Hans Zimmer
1993 Sniper Luis Llosa Baltimore Pictures
Iguana Producciones
Sniper Productions
TriStar Pictures (North America)
Odyssey Entertainment (International)
As composer of additional music
Score composed by Gary Chang & Hans Zimmer
True Romance Tony Scott Morgan Creek Productions
Davis Films
A Band Apart
Warner Bros.
As composer of additional music
Score composed by Hans Zimmer
1994 Monkey Trouble Franco Amurri Percy Main
Effe Productions
Victor Company of Japan
Ridley Scott Productions
New Line Cinema
The Lion King Roger Allers
Rob Minkoff
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Feature Animation
As composer of additional music & choral arranger
Score composed by Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice & Elton John

Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children

Speed Jan de Bont The Mark Gordon Company
20th Century Fox
1995 Man of the House James Orr Walt Disney Pictures
All Girl Productions
Orr & Cruickshank Productions
Bad Boys Michael Bay Columbia Pictures
Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Assassins Richard Donner Silver Pictures
Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions
Warner Bros.
Fair Game Andrew Sipes Silver Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures
Money Train Joseph Ruben Columbia Pictures
Peters Entertainment
1996 Twister Jan de Bont Warner Bros. (North America)
Universal Pictures (International)
Amblin Entertainment
Moll Flanders Pen Densham Trilogy Entertainment Group
Spelling Films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1997 Con Air Simon West Touchstone Pictures
Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Composed with Trevor Rabin
Speed 2: Cruise Control Jan de Bont Blue Tulip Productions
20th Century Fox
1998 Return to Paradise Joseph Ruben Propaganda Films
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
1999 Tarzan Chris Buck
Kevin Lima
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Feature Animation
Composed with Phil Collins

Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

2000s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
2000 Auggie Rose Matthew Tabak Franchise Pictures
Roxie Releasing
20th Century Fox Home Video
Composed with Don L. Harper
Bait Antoine Fuqua Warner Bros. Pictures
Castle Rock Entertainment
2001 Training Day Warner Bros. Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures
Outlaw Productions
Domestic Disturbance Harold Becker Paramount Pictures
2003 Brother Bear Aaron Blaise
Robert Walker
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Feature Animation
Composed with Phil Collins

Nominated- Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature Production

The Haunted Mansion Rob Minkoff Walt Disney Pictures
2004 The Reckoning Paul McGuigan Kanzaman
M.D.A. Films S.L.
Renaissance Films
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (Spain)
Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)
Composed with Adrian Lee
2005 Asylum David Mackenzie Momentum Pictures
Tarzan II Brian Smith Walt Disney Home Entertainment Composed with Phil Collins & David Metzger; Direct-to-video
2007 Shooter Antoine Fuqua Paramount Pictures
di Bonaventura Pictures
August Rush Kirsten Sheridan Southpaw Entertainment
CJ Entertainment
Warner Bros. Pictures (North America)
Odyssey Entertainment (International)
Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Music
2008 Camille Gregory MackenzieA-Mark Entertainment
Ruddy Morgan Productions
National Entertainment Media
2009 Imagine That Karey Kirkpatrick Paramount Pictures
Nickelodeon Movies
Di Bonaventura Pictures
Goldcrest Pictures
Internationale Filmproduktion Stella-del-Sud III GmbH Ko.
Hurricane Season Tim Story Dimension Films
The Weinstein Company

2010s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
2013 Penthouse North Joseph Ruben Dimension Films (United States)
Lionsgate (International)
Demarest Films
TAJJ Media
Bunk 11 Pictures
Kilburn Media
Planes Klay Hall Walt Disney Pictures
Disneytoon Studios
Nominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film
2014 Planes: Fire & Rescue Bobs Gannaway
2016 Moana Ron Clements
John Musker
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Composed with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i of the group Te Vaka

Nominated- Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Nominated- Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film
Nominated- Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in an Animated Film
Nominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film

2020s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
2020 Bad Boys for Life
  • Adil El Arbi
  • Bilall Fallah
Columbia Pictures
2.0 Entertainment
Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Overbrook Entertainment
Credited as composer of original Bad Boys theme
2021 Cry Macho Clint Eastwood Malpaso Productions
Warner Bros. Pictures
2022 The Sea Beast Chris Williams Netflix
Netflix Animation

Television

YearTitleNotes
1992 Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World Documentary series; 11 episodes
1993Taking Liberty Television film
Lifepod
1993–94 Space Rangers 6 episodes
1995–2000 The Outer Limits 18 episodes & theme music

Nominated- CableACE Award for Best Score in a Series

1997 Poltergeist: The Legacy Episode: "The Choice"
1997–98 Soldier of Fortune, Inc. 20 episodes & theme music
1998 From the Earth to the Moon Miniseries; 1 episode
Houdini Television film
1999 The Strip 10 episodes & theme music
2005–06 Blood+ Anime; 50 episodes
2005–09 Criminal Minds 88 episodes & theme music
2006A House Divided Television film

Theatre

YearTitleNotes
1997–present The Lion King Composed with Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice, Elton John, Lebo M, Jay Rifkin & Julie Taymor

Nominated- Tony Award for Best Original Score

Video games

YearTitleNotes
2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Composed with Lorne Balfe & Hans Zimmer
Additional music
Nominated- BAFTA Games Awards for Best Original Score
Nominated- BAFTA Games Awards for Best Audio
Nominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score for Interactive Media
2012 Sorcery

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