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{{Short description|American composer}}
{{About|the American composer|other persons named Christopher Young|Christopher Young (disambiguation)}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Christopher Young
| image            = Young 3.png
| caption          = Young in 2022
| image_size       = 
| birth_name       = 
| alias            = 
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1958|4|28}}
| birth_place      = [[Red Bank, New Jersey]], U.S.
| occupation       = {{hlist|[[Composer]]|[[orchestrator]]}}
| instrument       = [[Piano]]
| genre            = [[Film score]]
| years_active     = 1982–present
| website          = {{URL|http://officialchristopheryoung.com}}
}}

'''Christopher Young''' (born April 28, 1958) is an American [[composer]] of [[Film score|film and television scores]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/78140/Christopher-Young/filmography|title=Christopher Young : ''The New York Times'' review|work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104055314/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/78140/Christopher-Young/filmography |access-date=April 28, 2024|archive-date=2012-11-04 }}</ref>

Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including ''[[Hellraiser]]'', ''[[Species (film)|Species]]'', ''[[Urban Legend (film)|Urban Legend]]'', ''[[The Grudge]]'', ''[[The Exorcism of Emily Rose]]'', ''[[Drag Me to Hell]]'', ''[[Sinister (film)|Sinister]]'',  ''[[Deliver Us from Evil (2014 film)|Deliver Us from Evil]]'' and ''[[Pet Sematary (2019 film)|Pet Sematary]]''. Other works include ''[[Rapid Fire (1992 film)|Rapid Fire]]'', ''[[Copycat (1995 film)|Copycat]]'', ''[[Set It Off (film)|Set It Off]]'', ''[[Entrapment (film)|Entrapment]]'', ''[[The Hurricane (1999 film)|The Hurricane]]'', ''[[Swordfish (film)|Swordfish]]'', ''[[Ghost Rider (2007 film)|Ghost Rider]]'',  ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'', and [[The Shipping News (film)|''The Shipping News'']], for which he was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score]].

Young was honored with the prestigious [Richard H. Kirk] award at the 2008 [[Broadcast Music Incorporated|BMI]] Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/536623|title=BMI Film & Television Awards Tout Composers of Year's Top Film and Television Music|date=22 May 2008 |website=Bmi.com|access-date=2010-10-21}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Young was born in [[Red Bank, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bio |url=http://officialchristopheryoung.com/bio |website=OfficialChristopherYoung.com |access-date=10 December 2020}}</ref> He graduated from [[Hampshire College]] in Massachusetts with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in music, and then completed his post-graduate work at the [[University of North Texas]].

==Career==
In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of [[Bernard Herrmann]]'s works he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the [[UCLA Film School]] under [[David Raksin]]. He teaches at the [[Thornton School of Music]] of the [[University of Southern California]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://music.usc.edu/christopher-young/|title=Christopher Young|date=March 20, 2013|website=Music.usc.edu|access-date=April 28, 2024}}</ref>

==Works as composer==

===Film===
====1980s====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1981 
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''The Minstrel’s Song''
| Chris Hopkins
| Short film
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1982 
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Dorm That Dripped Blood]]''
| [[Stephen Carpenter (writer)|Stephen Carpenter]]<br />[[Jeffrey Obrow]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Highpoint (film)|Highpoint]]''
| [[Peter Carter (director)|Peter Carter]]
| Replacement score
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1983
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Robby (film)|Robby]]''
| Ralph C. Bluemke
| Replacement score – Music for the 1983 VHS release (original release: 1968)
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1984
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Power (1984 film)|The Power]]''
| Stephen Carpenter<br />Jeffrey Obrow
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''The Oasis''
| Sparky Greene
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="7" | 1985
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Avenging Angel (1985 film)|Avenging Angel]]''
| [[Robert Vincent O'Neil]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Def-Con 4]]''
| [[Paul Donovan (writer)|Paul Donovan]]
| Replacement score
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Barbarian Queen]]''
| [[Héctor Olivera (film director)|Héctor Olivera]]
| Tracked music – Credit shared with James Horner
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Wizards of the Lost Kingdom]]''
| Héctor Olivera
|Tracked music – Credit shared with James Horner
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Godzilla 1985]]''
| R.J. Kizer<br /> [[Koji Hashimoto (director)|Koji Hashimoto]]
| Tracked music (US release); part of Young's score from ''Def-Con 4'' appears in several scenes, including Godzilla's attack on the Soviet submarine, the scene where the SDF armored division arrives in Tokyo Bay, and Okumura's near-death experience during the helicopter extraction in Tokyo.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Wheels of Fire''
| [[Cirio H. Santiago]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge]]''
| [[Jack Sholder]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1986
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Getting Even (1986 film)|Getting Even]]''
| [[Dwight H. Little]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Torment''
| Samson Aslanian<br />John Hopkins
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Invaders from Mars (1986 film)|Invaders from Mars]]''
| [[Tobe Hooper]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Trick or Treat (1986 film)|Trick or Treat]]''
| [[Charles Martin Smith]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1987
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Hellraiser]]''
| [[Clive Barker]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Deathstalker II|Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans]]''
| [[Jim Wynorski]]
| Additional music – Tracked music
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Flowers in the Attic (1987 film)|Flowers in the Attic]]''
| [[Jeffrey Bloom]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''U-Boats: The Wolfpack''
| Patrick Griffin<br />Richard Jones
|Short films – “Rommel” / “Secret Weapons of WW2” / “U Boats: The Wolf Pack” / “B17 The Flying Fortress” / “Luftwaffe – The Air Weapon” – Tracked music
|-
|rowspan="4" | 1988
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Telephone (1988 film)|The Telephone]]''
| [[Rip Torn]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Bat*21]]''
| [[Peter Markle]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Haunted Summer]]''
| [[Ivan Passer]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Hellbound: Hellraiser II]]''
| [[Tony Randel]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1989
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Fly II]]''
| [[Chris Walas]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Hider in the House (film)|Hider in the House]]''
| Matthew Patrick
| {{N/A}}
|-
|}

====1990s====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
|rowspan="3"| 1990
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back''
| Joe Finley
| Tracked music – Direct-to-video
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Exorcist III]]''
| [[William Peter Blatty]]
| Incomplete unused replacement score
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Bright Angel]]''
| [[Michael Fields (director)|Michael Fields]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1991
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Five Heartbeats]]''
| [[Robert Townsend (actor)|Robert Townsend]]
| Additional music
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1992
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Vagrant (1992 film)|The Vagrant]]''
| [[Chris Walas]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Jersey Girl (1992 film)|Jersey Girl]]''
| David Burton Morris
| Unused
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Rapid Fire (1992 film)|Rapid Fire]]''
| [[Dwight H. Little]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Jennifer 8]]''
| [[Bruce Robinson]]
| Replacement score
|-
|rowspan="3"| 1993
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Dark Half (film)|The Dark Half]]''
| [[George A. Romero]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Sliver (film)|Sliver]]''
| [[Phillip Noyce]]
| Additional music
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Dream Lover (1993 film)|Dream Lover]]''
| [[Nicholas Kazan]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
| 1994
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Squanto:_A_Warrior%27s_Tale|Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale]]''
| [[Xavier Koller]]
| Incomplete unused score
|-
|rowspan="5"| 1995
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Murder in the First (film)|Murder in the First]]''
| [[Marc Rocco]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Tales from the Hood]]''
| [[Rusty Cundieff]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Species (film)|Species]]''
| [[Roger Donaldson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Virtuosity]]''
| [[Brett Leonard]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Copycat (1995 film)|Copycat]]''
| [[Jon Amiel]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="3"| 1996
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Unforgettable (1996 film)|Unforgettable]]''
| [[John Dahl]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Set It Off (film)|Set It Off]]''
| [[F. Gary Gray]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Head Above Water (film)|Head Above Water]]''
| [[Jim Wilson (producer)|Jim Wilson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1997
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Murder at 1600]]''
| Dwight H. Little
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little]]''
| Jon Amiel
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="6"| 1998
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Hard Rain (film)|Hard Rain]]''
| [[Mikael Salomon]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Hush (1998 film)|Hush]]''
| Jonathan Darby
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Rounders (film)|Rounders]]''
| John Dahl
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Judas Kiss (1998 film)|Judas Kiss]]''
| [[Sebastian Gutierrez (director)|Sebastian Gutierrez]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Urban Legend (film)|Urban Legend]]''
| [[Jamie Blanks]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Playing by Heart]]''
| [[Willard Carroll]]
| Additional music
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1999
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Entrapment (film)|Entrapment]]''
| Jon Amiel
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[In Too Deep (1999 film)|In Too Deep]]''
| [[Michael Rymer]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Big Kahuna (film)|The Big Kahuna]]''
| John Swanbeck
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Hurricane (1999 film)|The Hurricane]]''
| [[Norman Jewison]]
| {{N/A}}
|}

====2000s====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2000
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Wonder Boys (film)|Wonder Boys]]''
| [[Curtis Hanson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Bless the Child]]''
| [[Chuck Russell]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Gift (2000 film)|The Gift]]''
| [[Sam Raimi]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="7"| 2001
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Madison (film)|Madison]]''
|William Bindley
|Themes only – Score by [[Kevin Kiner]]
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Sweet November (2001 film)|Sweet November]]''
| [[Pat O'Connor (director)|Pat O'Connor]]
| Replacement score
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Swordfish (film)|Swordfish]]''
| [[Dominic Sena]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Scenes of the Crime]]''
| Dominique Forma
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Glass House (2001 film)|The Glass House]]''
| [[Daniel Sackheim]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Bandits (2001 film)|Bandits]]''
| [[Barry Levinson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Shipping News (film)|The Shipping News]]''
| [[Lasse Hallström]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2002
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Dragonfly (2002 film)|Dragonfly]]''
| [[Tom Shadyac]]
| Incomplete unused score
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Country Bears]]''
| Peter Hastings
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''The Tower''
| E. Gedney Webb<br />Jim Elliott
| Short film
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2003
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Core]]''
| [[Jon Amiel]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Shade (film)|Shade
]]''
| Damian Nieman
| European release only
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Runaway Jury]]''
| [[Gary Fleder]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Something%27s_Gotta_Give_(film)|Something’s Gotta Give]]''
| [[Nancy Meyers]]
| Additional music
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2004
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Spider-Man 2]]''
| Sam Raimi
| Additional music
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Grudge]]''
| [[Takashi Shimizu]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="5"| 2005
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Hide and Seek (2005 film)|Hide and Seek]]''
| [[John Polson]]
| Incomplete unused score
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Beauty Shop]]''
| [[Bille Woodruff]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous]]''
| [[John Pasquin]]
| Additional music – Tracked music
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Exorcism of Emily Rose]]''
| [[Scott Derrickson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[An Unfinished Life]]''
| Lasse Hallström
| Unused
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2006
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Ask the Dust (film)|Ask the Dust]]''
| [[Robert Towne]]
| Incomplete unused score
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Grudge 2]]''
| Takashi Shimizu
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Dark Ride (film)|Dark Ride]]''
| Craig Singer
| Themes only – Score by Kostas Christides
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2007
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Ghost Rider (2007 film)|Ghost Rider]]''
| [[Mark Steven Johnson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Spider-Man 3]]''
| Sam Raimi
| Also appears in a cameo role (“Music director”); Themes by [[Danny Elfman]]
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Lucky You (film)|Lucky You]]''
| Curtis Hanson
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Shortcut to Happiness]]''
| [[Alec Baldwin]] (credited as "Harry Kirkpatrick")
|Co-composed with [[Ramin Djawadi]]
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2008
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Untraceable]]''
| [[Gregory Hoblit]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Sleepwalking (film)|Sleepwalking]]''
| William Maher
| Replacement score
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Informers (2008 film)|The Informers]]''
| [[Gregor Jordan]]
| Replacement score
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2009
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Uninvited (2009 film)|The Uninvited]]''
| The Guard Brothers
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Drag Me to Hell]]''
| Sam Raimi
|Also appears in a cameo role (“Pedestrian with cupcake”)
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Creation (2009 film)|Creation]]''
| Jon Amiel
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Love Happens (2009 film)|Love Happens]]''
| Brandon Camp
| {{N/A}}
|}

====2010s====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2010
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[When in Rome (2010 film)|When in Rome]]''
| [[Mark Steven Johnson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Gone with the Pope''
| [[Duke Mitchell]]
| Additional music
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Black Tulip (2010 film)|The Black Tulip]]''
| [[Sonia Nassery Cole]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2011
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Priest (2011 film)|Priest]]''
| [[Scott Stewart (director)|Scott Stewart]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Rum Diary (film)|The Rum Diary]]''
| [[Bruce Robinson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Faces in the Crowd (2011 film)|Faces in the Crowd]]''
| [[Julien Magnat]]
| Themes only – Score by [[John McCarthy (composer)|John McCarthy]]
|-
|rowspan="5"| 2012
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Sinister (film)|Sinister]]''
| [[Scott Derrickson]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Tall Man (2012 film)|The Tall Man]]''
| [[Pascal Laugier]]
| Themes only – Score by Todd Bryanton
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Box of Shadows]]''
| Mauro Borrelli
| Themes only – Score by José J. Herring
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Baytown Outlaws]]''
| Barry Battles
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Scary or Die]]''
| Bob Badway
| Segment "Re-Membered"
|-
|rowspan="6"| 2013
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Saving Norman''
| Hanneke Schutte
| Short film produced by [[Kevin Spacey]]
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''The Smile Man''
| Anton Lanshakov
| Short film produced by Kevin Spacey
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Love’s Routine''
| Shirlyn Wong
| Short film produced by Kevin Spacey
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Killing Season (film)|Killing Season]]''
| Mark Steven Johnson
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Gods Behaving Badly (film)|Gods Behaving Badly]]''
| [[Marc Turtletaub]]
| Unreleased film
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[A Madea Christmas (film)|A Madea Christmas]]''
| [[Tyler Perry]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2014
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Monkey King (2014 film)|The Monkey King]]''
| [[Cheang Pou-soi]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Single Moms Club]]''
| Tyler Perry
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Deliver Us from Evil (2014 film)|Deliver Us from Evil]]''
| Scott Derrickson
| {{N/A}}
|-
| 2016
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Monkey King 2]]''
| Cheang Pou-soi
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2018
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''One by One''
| [[Jeffrey Obrow]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Tales from the Hood 2]]''
|[[Rusty Cundieff]]<br />[[Darin Scott]]
| Themes only – Score by [[Frederik Wiedmann]]
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2019
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Pet Sematary (2019 film)|Pet Sematary]]''
| [[Kevin Kölsch]]<br />[[Dennis Widmyer]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Fanboy''
|Gillian Greene
| Short film
|-
|}

====2020s====
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
| 2020
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Empty Man (film)|The Empty Man]]''
| David Prior
| {{N/A}}
|-
| 2022
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Offering (2023 film)|The Offering]]''
| [[Oliver Park]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2023
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Nosferatu|Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror]]''
| [[F._W._Murnau|Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau]]
| New score (original release: 1922)
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''The Piper''
|[[Erlingur Thoroddsen]]
| {{N/A}}
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Pursued''
|Jeffrey Obrow
| Themes only – Score by Max Blomgren and Jung J Lee
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Bentobox''
|Olivia Owyeung
| Short film – Themes only – Score by Matthew Rosales
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1986
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' 
| Sheldon Larry<br />[[Claudia Weill]]
| S1 E15 (“A Small Talent for War” / “A Matter of Minutes”)
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1987
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''American Harvest'' 
| [[Dick Lowry]]
| TV film
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Vietnam War Story'' 
| Georg Stanford Brown<br />David Burton Morris
| TV series – Unknown episodes; probably S1 E1 (“The Mine”) and S1 E5 (“R & R”)
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1989
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Vietnam War Story: The Last Days''
| Luis Soto<br />David Burton Morris
| TV film – Segments: “The Last Outpost” / “Dirty Work”
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1990
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Max_and_Helen|Max and Helen]]''
| Philip Saville
| TV film
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Last Flight Out''
| Larry Elikann
| TV film
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1994
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Judicial Consent]]''
| William Bindley
| TV film
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1996
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Norma Jean & Marilyn]]''
| [[Tim Fywell]]
| TV film
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2001
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''The Warden''
| [[Stephen Gyllenhaal]]
| TV film
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2004
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Something the Lord Made]]''
| [[Joseph Sargent]]
| TV film
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2014
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Dominion (TV series)|Dominion]]''
| [[Scott Stewart (director)|Scott Stewart]]
| TV series – S1 E0 (“Pilot”)
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2020
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[50 States of Fright]]''
| Sam Raimi
| TV series – S1 E1-2-3 (“The Golden Arm: Michigan”) + Series theme
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2022
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities]]'' 
| David Prior
| TV series – S1 E3 (“The Autopsy”)
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''[[Echo 3]]''
| [[Mark Boal]]<br />[[Pablo Trapero]]<br />[[Claudia Llosa]]<br />[[Jeffrey Nachmanoff]]
| TV series – 10 episodes – Replacement score
|-
|}

=== Video games ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
| 2009
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''[[The Saboteur]]''
| Trey Watkins
| Themes only – Score by Gabriel Mann and Rebecca Kneubuhl
|-
| 2017
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''[[Wilson's Heart (video game)|Wilson's Heart]]''
| Josh Bear
| {{N/A}}
|}

=== Other work ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
|-
| 1984
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''[[The Philadelphia Experiment (film)|The Philadelphia Experiment]]''
| [[Stewart Raffill]]
| Trailer music
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2011
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''A Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project''
| Brian Weidling
| Collaborative composition in aid of the charity “Hands Together” after the Haiti earthquake in 2010. A documentary directed by Brian Weidling, which captured the recording session, was released in 2017.
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''Susan Graham: A Documentary''
| {{N/A}}
| Music for a documentary commemorating the retirement of Susan Graham, president of the Connecticut prep school “The Gunnery”
|-
| 2016
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''[[Chevrolet]] TV-Spot''
| Sam Raimi
| Commercial
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2018
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''The Lost Children of Planet X''
|  {{N/A}}
| Concept album developed from unused cues originally composed for the film Lucky You
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''Three Bernard Herrmann “Melodramas”''
| {{N/A}}
| Narration of three poems – “Cynara” by Ernest Dowson, “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The City of Brass” – scored by Bernard Herrmann and performed by the Hollywood Studio Orchestra, conducted by Michael McGehee
|-
| 2022
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" |''Scream Warriors''
|  {{N/A}}
| Interludes and arrangements for the Halloween rock record by LVCRFT
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://officialchristopheryoung.com}}
* {{IMDb name|0002366}}
* [http://www.filmmusicsite.com/composers.cgi?go=interview&coid=127&firstname=Christopher&lastname=Young Interview with Christopher Young at FilmMusicSite]

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{{International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure Film}}
{{International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Comedy Film}}
{{International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film}}
{{International Film Music Critics Association Award for Film Music Composition of the Year}}
{{Saturn Award for Best Music}}
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