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{{Short description|American composer (born 1954)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Elliot Goldenthal
| image            = File:Film music goldenthal.jpg
| caption          = Goldenthal in 2014
| background       = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name       = 
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1954|5|2}}
| birth_place      = Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| genre            = {{hlist|[[Contemporary classical music|Contemporary classical]]|[[theatre music]]|[[film score]]|[[Avant garde music|avant-garde]]}}
| occupation       = {{hlist|Composer|songwriter}}
| years_active     = 1978–present
| associated_acts  = [[Julie Taymor]]
| website          = {{URL|https://www.elliotgoldenthal.com/}}
}}

'''Elliot Goldenthal''' (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of [[contemporary classical music]] and [[film score|film]] and [[Theatre music|theatrical scores]]. A student of [[Aaron Copland]] and [[John Corigliano]], he is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He won the [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]] in 2002 for his score to the motion picture ''[[Frida (2002 film)|Frida]]'', directed by his longtime partner [[Julie Taymor]].

==Early life and education==
Goldenthal was born on May 2, 1954, the youngest son of a Jewish housepainter father and a Catholic seamstress mother in [[Brooklyn]], New York City, where he was influenced from an early age by music from all cultures and genres. Both pairs of Goldenthal's grandparents emigrated to the United States from [[Bucharest]] and [[Iași]], Romania.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvr.ro/articol.php?id=112097 |title=Interviu în exclusivitate cu Elliot Goldenthal |publisher=[[Romanian Television|TVR.ro]] |language=ro |date=2011-10-08 |access-date=2011-11-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019031206/http://www.tvr.ro/articol.php?id=112097 |archive-date=October 19, 2011 }}</ref> Goldenthal lived in a multi-cultural part of town, and this is reflected in his works.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sg.style.yahoo.com/tagged/movies/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919200523/http://sg.movies.yahoo.com/Elliot%2BGoldenthal/biography/57588/family/|url-status=dead|title=Movies & TV reviews &#124; Yahoo Life Singapore|archive-date=September 19, 2007|website=Yahoo Style}}</ref> He attended [[John Dewey High School]] in Brooklyn where, at the age of 14, he had his very first ballet ''Variations on Early Glimpses'' performed; he continued to display his eclectic musical range, performing with rock bands in the seventies.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/elliot-goldenthal-57245546/ |title=Elliot Goldenthal |date=10 February 2015 |website=[[Hollywood.com]] |access-date=2016-03-30}}</ref>

He then studied music full-time at the prestigious [[Manhattan School of Music]], where he studied with composer [[John Corigliano]] (whom he greatly admired), to earn his [[Bachelor of Music]] degree (1977) and [[Master of Music]] degree (1979) in [[musical composition]].<ref name="soundtrack.net">Dan Goldwasser "[http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=51 The Sweet Revenge of Elliot Goldenthal]". ''SoundtrackNet'' Interview (January 21, 2000).</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History |last=Macdonald |first=Lawrence E. |publisher=Scarecrow Press |date=2013-05-02 |page=395 |isbn=978-0-8108-8398-7}}</ref>

==Career==
Goldenthal has written works for concert hall, theater, dance and film. His work includes music for films such as ''[[Pet Sematary (1989 film)|Pet Sematary]]'', ''[[Alien 3]]'', ''[[Michael Collins (film)|Michael Collins]]'', ''[[Batman Forever]]'', ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'' and the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning score for Julie Taymor's ''Frida'', a movie in which Goldenthal had a small acting part as a "Newsreel Reporter". Incidentally he also had a small part in the stage show ''Juan Darièn'' as a "Circus Barker / Streetsinger".<ref>[http://goldenthal.filmmusic.com/concert/juandarien/index.html Elliot Goldenthal Concert & Stage: ''Juan Darien – A Carnival Mass'' (1996)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711002325/http://goldenthal.filmmusic.com/concert/juandarien/index.html |date=July 11, 2011 }}</ref>

The Tony Award-winning ''[[Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass]]'' (1988/'96) and ''The Green Bird'' (1999), based on a story by [[Carlo Gozzi]], are two of the composer's theatre works. In 2006, Goldenthal completed his original three-act opera with Taymor entitled ''Grendel'' an adaptation of the [[John Gardner (novelist)|John Gardner]] [[Grendel (novel)|novel of the same name]] which told the story of [[Beowulf]] from the monster [[Grendel]]'s point of view. It had its world premiere in early June 2006 at the [[Los Angeles Opera]], the role of Grendel performed by [[Eric Owens (bass-baritone)|Eric Owens]], with an audience that included [[John Williams]] and [[Emmy Rossum]]; the opus was added to the Los Angeles Opera's permanent repertoire and earned Goldenthal a nomination in April 2007 for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502122027/https://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/music/%7B%7Bglobal.pageCanocialUrl%7D%7D|title=The Pulitzer Prizes|date=May 2, 2024|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page1842.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721203534/http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page1842.html|url-status=dead|title=Page Title<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref> In 2008 Goldenthal reunited with Michael Mann to score 1930s gangster movie ''[[Public Enemies (2009 film)|Public Enemies]]'' and in 2009 he scored another Julie Taymor Shakespeare adaptation, ''[[The Tempest]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://upcomingfilmscores.blogspot.com/2008/04/elliot-goldenthal-public-enemies.html |title=Upcoming Film Scores: Elliot Goldenthal: ''Public Enemies''|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528185919/http://upcomingfilmscores.blogspot.com/2008/04/elliot-goldenthal-public-enemies.html|archive-date=May 28, 2008}}</ref> He cites Japanese composer [[Tōru Takemitsu]] as an influence and someone he styles his own career on; Goldenthal has said that the lines between traditional concert music and orchestral film score have become more blurred which is the way he thinks it should be.<ref name="Elliot Goldenthal">[http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/elliotgoldenthal.asp?print=yes "Elliot Goldenthal" (March 2003) ''Sound on Sound''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314023402/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/elliotgoldenthal.asp?print=yes |date=March 14, 2012 }}</ref> He has also collaborated four times with Irish director [[Neil Jordan]], including on his films ''[[Interview with the Vampire (film)|Interview with the Vampire]]'' and ''[[In Dreams (film)|In Dreams]]''.

==Personal life==
He lives in New York City "happily unmarried", as he once put it,<ref name="Filmtracks: Elliot Goldenthal">{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmtracks.com/composers/goldenthal.shtml|title=Filmtracks: Elliot Goldenthal|website=Filmtracks.com}}</ref> with his partner [[Julie Taymor]], whom he met in 1980 through a mutual acquaintance, who told him, "I know a person whose work is just as grotesque as yours". They have an office/apartment where they both live and work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.donshewey.com/arts_articles/taymor_goldenthal.html|title="JULIE TAYMOR AND ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL: United in Their Love of the Outsider," by Don Shewey|website=Donshewey.com}}</ref>

==Style==
Elliot Goldenthal has been called the "thinking man's composer" by film-music collectors and a generally more cerebral choice for film makers and lovers of film music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-wave.net/titles/demolition_man.html |title=Goldenthal: Demolition Man |website=Movie-wave.net |date=2006 |access-date=2012-02-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/demolition_man.html |title=Demolition Man (Elliot Goldenthal) |website=Filmtracks.com |date=1993-11-23 |access-date=2010-08-31}}</ref> He is known for his experimentation, nuances and willingness to try [[Musique concrète|unconventional]] [[Experimental music#Techniques|techniques]]. He has scored films in almost every genre from horror to action to Shakespeare adaptations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmtracks.com/composers/goldenthal.shtml |title=Elliot Goldenthal |website=Filmtracks.com |date=June 17, 2009 |access-date=2010-08-31}}</ref> He has not yet scored comedy, but he has composed comedic motifs for several films such as ''Demolition Man'' and the Batman series. His eclectic output has gained him a great deal of respect in the music and film communities and with fans. He is widely appreciated for his musical abilities and distinctive style, although some find his work to be too experimental or inaccessible.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/elliotgoldenthal.asp?print=yes |title=Elliot Goldenthal |website=Soundonsound.com |access-date=2010-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314023402/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/elliotgoldenthal.asp?print=yes |archive-date=2012-03-14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/in_dreams.html |title=In Dreams (Elliot Goldenthal) |website=Filmtracks.com |date=1999-10-12 |access-date=2010-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moviemusicuk.us/batforcd.htm |title=Batman Forever |website=Moviemusicuk.us |access-date=2010-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112213413/http://www.moviemusicuk.us/batforcd.htm |archive-date=January 12, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/final_fantasy.html |title=Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Elliot Goldenthal) |website=Filmtracks.com |date=2001-07-03 |access-date=2010-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140710152931/http://filmtracks.com/titles/final_fantasy.html |archive-date=2014-07-10 }}</ref> His action music is brutal and atonal. Sometimes, in underscore, he uses very fast French horn passages with bending tones and whining. Goldenthal has said that he doesn't "hear" atonal and tonal, rather, "I either hear melody or I hear sonority".<ref name="Elliot Goldenthal"/>

{{rquote|right|Every project we do requires a different approach, but one thing that's always consistent is the framework that Rick provides. In essence, he's giving me all these new instruments to work with. He keeps coming up with surprising combinations of sounds.|Goldenthal (March 2003), on Richard Martinez<ref name="nyt2003"/>}}
Goldenthal often works with a team he assembled after the soundtrack for ''[[Drugstore Cowboy]]'': [[Teese Gohl]] as supervising producer, [[Robert Elhai]] as orchestrator, Joel Iwataki and Steve McLaughlin as sound engineers and [[Richard Martinez (music producer)|Richard Martinez]] as electronic music producer.<ref name="nyt2003">{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/nyregion/and-the-music-for-frida-produced-in-a-scarsdale-basement.html | title= ...and the Music for 'Frida,' Produced in a Scarsdale Basement | date= March 23, 2003| first= Thomas | last= Staudter | work= The New York Times | access-date=2011-01-30| quote= Bigger film projects then were offered to Mr. Goldenthal, and to meet the demands he assembled a four-person team that included Teese Gohl as supervising producer, Robert Ehlai as orchestrator, Joel Iwataki as sound engineer and Mr." Martinez, who is known as Rick, as electronic music producer.}}</ref> According to Martinez, "a lot of composers want to focus on writing their music, and that's what [his] team allows Elliot to do."<ref name="nyt2003"/> At the website filmscoremonthly.com, a former classmate of Goldenthal's commented on an article on the [[Sphere (1998 film)|''Sphere'']] score from 1998 which stated that when he and Elliot were both studying at the Manhattan School of Music in the '70s, Elliot was already experimenting with unusual techniques. Once, when studying [[trumpet]], Elliot had asked him to "buzz into the wrong end of the mouthpiece and sing into it as well". He thought he was crazy but, looking back after a decade or so of Goldenthal's film and concert music, he "was just way ahead of the rest of us," he said.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/1998/03_Mar---Spheres_of_Influence(Goldenthal).asp |title=3/3/98: Sphere of Influence (Goldenthal) |website=Filmscoremonthly.com |access-date=2010-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606030419/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/1998/03_Mar---Spheres_of_Influence%28Goldenthal%29.asp |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}</ref>

==List of works==
{{category see also|Compositions by Elliot Goldenthal|Elliot Goldenthal albums}}

===Film and television works===

==== Feature films ====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director(s)
! Studio(s)
!Publisher
! Notes
|-
| 1979
|''[[Cocaine Cowboys (1979 film)|Cocaine Cowboys]]''
| rowspan="2" |[[Ulli Lommel]]
| rowspan="2" | International Harmony
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
|1980
|''[[Blank Generation (1980 film)|Blank Generation]]''
|{{N/A}}
|Composed with [[Richard Hell and the Voidoids]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1989
|''[[Drugstore Cowboy]]''
|[[Gus Van Sant]]
| Avenue Pictures<br>[[Artisan Entertainment]]
|[[Novus Records|Novus]]
| Nominated- [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music]]
|-
|''[[Pet Sematary (1989 film)|Pet Sematary]]''
|[[Mary Lambert (director)|Mary Lambert]]
|[[Paramount Pictures]]
|[[Varèse Sarabande]]
|{{N/A}}
|-
|1992
|''[[Alien 3]]''
|[[David Fincher]]
|[[Brandywine Productions]]<br />[[20th Century Fox]]
|[[MCA Records|MCA]]
|Expanded soundtrack released by La-La Land Records.
|-
| 1993
|''[[Demolition Man (film)|Demolition Man]]''
|[[Marco Brambilla]]
|[[Silver Pictures]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Varèse Sarabande]]
|{{N/A}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |1994
|''[[Golden Gate (film)|Golden Gate]]''
|[[John Madden (director)|John Madden]]
|[[The Samuel Goldwyn Company]]
|{{N/A}}
|-
|''[[Interview with the Vampire (film)|Interview with the Vampire]]''
|[[Neil Jordan]]
|[[Geffen Pictures]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
|[[Geffen Records]]
| Nominated- [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated- [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated- [[Saturn Award for Best Music]]
|-
|''[[Cobb (film)|Cobb]]''
|[[Ron Shelton]]
|[[Regency Enterprises]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
|[[Sony Classical]]
|{{N/A}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |1995
|''[[Batman Forever]]''
|[[Joel Schumacher]]
|[[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
|[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
|Expanded soundtrack released by La-La Land Records.
Nominated- [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media]]
|-
|''[[Voices (1995 film)|Voices From a Locked Room]]''
|[[Malcolm Clarke (filmmaker)|Malcolm Clarke]]
|[[Sony Pictures Classics]]
|
|
|-
|''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]''
|[[Michael Mann (director)|Michael Mann]]
|[[Regency Enterprises]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
|[[Warner Bros. Records]]
| Nominated- [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1996
|''[[Michael Collins (film)|Michael Collins]]''
|[[Neil Jordan]]
|[[Geffen Pictures]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
| Nominated- [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated- [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated- [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated- [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music]]<br>[[Satellite Award for Best Original Score]]
|-
|''[[A Time to Kill (1996 film)|A Time to Kill]]''
|[[Joel Schumacher]]
|[[Regency Enterprises]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
| Nominated- [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1997
|''[[The Butcher Boy (1997 film)|The Butcher Boy]]''
|[[Neil Jordan]]
|[[Geffen Pictures]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
|Cinerama Records
|[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music]]<br>Nominated- [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score]]
|-
|''[[Batman & Robin (film)|Batman & Robin]]''
|[[Joel Schumacher]]
|[[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
|{{N/A}}
|Score never commercially released.
|-
| 1998
|''[[Sphere (1998 film)|Sphere]]''
|[[Barry Levinson]]
|[[Baltimore Pictures]]<br />[[Warner Bros.]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Varèse Sarabande]]
| Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande.
|-
| rowspan="2" |1999
|''[[In Dreams (film)|In Dreams]]''
|[[Neil Jordan]]
|[[Amblin Entertainment]]<br />[[DreamWorks Pictures]]
| Performed by the [[London Metropolitan Orchestra]].<br />Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande.
|-
|''[[Titus (film)|Titus]]''
|[[Julie Taymor]]
| OverSeas Filmgroup<br />Clear Blue Sky Productions<br />[[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Sony Classical]]
| Performed by the [[London Metropolitan Orchestra]].
|-
| 2001
|''[[Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within]]''
|[[Hironobu Sakaguchi]]
|[[Square Pictures]]<br />[[Columbia Pictures]]
| Performed by the [[London Symphony Orchestra]].
|-
| rowspan="2" |2002
|''[[Frida (2002 film)|Frida]]''
|[[Julie Taymor]]
|[[Ventanarosa]]<br />[[Lions Gate Films]]<br>[[Miramax Films]]
|[[Universal Music Group|Universal Music]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Original Score]]<br>[[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score]]<br>[[Satellite Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated- [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]]
|-
|''[[The Good Thief (film)|The Good Thief]]''
|[[Neil Jordan]]
|[[Alliance Atlantis]]<br />[[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]
|[[Island Records]]
| Performed by the [[London Metropolitan Orchestra]] & the Irish Film Orchestra.
|-
| 2003
|''[[S.W.A.T. (2003 film)|S.W.A.T.]]''
|[[Clark Johnson]]
|[[Original Film]]<br />[[Columbia Pictures]]
|[[Varèse Sarabande]]
|{{N/A}}
|-
| 2007
|''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]''
|[[Julie Taymor]]
|[[Revolution Studios]]<br />[[Columbia Pictures]]
|{{N/A}}
| Score never commercially released.
Nominated- [[Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media]]
|-
| 2009
|''[[Public Enemies (2009 film)|Public Enemies]]''
|[[Michael Mann]]
|[[Relativity Media]]<br />[[Universal Pictures]]
|[[Decca Records]]
| Nominated- [[Satellite Award for Best Original Score]]
|-
| 2010
|''[[The Tempest (2010 film)|The Tempest]]''
|[[Julie Taymor]]
|[[Touchstone Pictures]]<br />[[Miramax Films]]
|Zarathustra Music
|{{N/A}}
|-
| 2017
|''[[Our Souls at Night]]''
|[[Ritesh Batra]]
|[[Netflix]]
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|-
| 2020
|''[[The Glorias]]''
| Julie Taymor
|[[June Pictures]]
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|}

==== Television programs ====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director(s)
! Network(s)
! Notes
|-
|1989
|''Criminal Justice''
| Andy Wolk
|[[Home Box Office]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Television film]]
|-
|1991
|''[[Grand Isle (1991 film)|Grand Isle]]''
|[[Mary Lambert (director)|Mary Lambert]]
|[[TNT (U.S. TV network)|Turner Network Television]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1992
|[[Behind the Scenes (U.S. TV series)|''Behind the Scenes'']]
|[[Ellen Hovde]]<br>[[Muffie Meyer]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Public Broadcasting Service]]
|10-episode miniseries.
|-
|''Fool's Fire''
|[[Julie Taymor]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Television film]]
|-
|1994
|''[[Roswell (film)|Roswell]]''
|[[Jeremy Kagan]]
|[[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]
|-
|1996
|[[The West (miniseries)|''The West'']]
|[[Stephen Ives]]
|[[Public Broadcasting Service]]
|Episode: "The Geography of Hope"
|-
|2000
|''[[Por un beso]]''
|Alfredo Gurrola
|[[Televisa]]
|Episode: "Pilot"
|-
|2003
|[[Great Performances|''Great Performances: Dance in America'']]
|[[Julie Taymor]]
|[[Public Broadcasting Service]]
|Episode: "Lar Lubovitch's 'Othello'"
|}

=== Concert music works ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Notes
|-
|1974
|Three Pieces for Piano
|
|-
|1977
|Requiem Mass
|Un-premiered
|-
| rowspan="4" |1979
|Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
|Recorded by Tim Cobb & Stephen Gosling
|-
|Los Heraldos Negros – a song cycle for singer and percussion
|Un-premiered
|-
|Brass Quintet No. 1
|
|-
|Jabberwocky for Woodwind Quartet
|Set to the poem by [[Lewis Carroll]]

Also arranged for two bassoons and winds
|-
|1980
|Brass Quintet No. 2
|Recorded by the Extension ensemble
|-
|1988
|Pastime Variations – A Memorial for Ebbets Field
|
|-
|1990
|[[Shadow Play Scherzo]] for Orchestra
|
|-
|1996
|[[Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio]]
|Recorded by [[Pacific Symphony Orchestra]], featuring [[Yo Yo Ma]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2013
|String Quartet No. 1 "The Stone Cutters"
|Premiered by the [[FLUX Quartet]] in 2015
|-
|Adagietto Doloroso for orchestra
|Premiered at the Ghent Film Music Festival conducted by [[Dirk Brossé]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2014
|Symphony in G♯ Minor
|
|-
|Grand Gothic Suite
|
|-
|2015
|Lyric Suite: The Floods of Avon for String Orchestra and Piano
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2017
|Waltz & Agitato "Pravda" for Orchestra
|
|-
|For Trumpet & Strings  (First Movement of "Trumpet Concerto")
|Conducted by [[Dirk Brossé]] with trumpeter [[Tine Thing Helseth]]
|-
|2018
|Trumpet Concerto
|Conducted by [[Dirk Brossé]] with trumpeter [[Tine Thing Helseth]]
|-
|2019
|OCTOBER LIGHT: Adagio for Orchestra
|Premiered with Pacific Symphony under Carl. St. by Clair December 2019 
|-
|2021
|SYMPHONY NO.3 for Soprano and Orchestra 
Poems by Barbara Sadowska
|Premiered by soprano Adriana Ferfecka, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra and conductor Monika Stefaniak at the Krakow Filharmonia, 15 December 2021
|}

===Theatre works===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
!Type
! Notes
|-
|1984
|''The King Stag''
|[[Play (theatre)|Play]]
|
|-
|1985
|''Liberty's Taken''
| rowspan="2" |Musical
|Composed with David Suehsdorf and [[Julie Taymor]]
|-
|1986
|''The Transposed Heads''
|Adapted by [[Sidney Goldfarb]] and [[Julie Taymor]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1988
|''The Serpent Woman''
|Play 
|
|-
|''[[Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass]]''
|Musical
|Reworked and recorded in 1996
|-
|1997
|''[[Othello (Ballet Score)|Othello]]''
|[[Ballet]]
|Choreography by [[Lar Lubovitch]]
|-
|1999
|''[[The Green Bird (score)|The Green Bird]]''
|Musical
|
|-
|2006
|''[[Grendel (opera)|Grendel]]''
|[[Opera]]
|Libretto by [[Julie Taymor]] & [[J. D. McClatchy]]
|-
|2013
|''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
| rowspan="3" |Play 
|Production at the Polansky Theater
|-
|2015
|''Grounded''
|Premiered at [[The Public Theater]]
|-
|2017
|''[[M. Butterfly]]''
|
|}

==Awards and nominations==
* (2007) [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]] '''Nomination''' for his acclaimed ''"Grendel" opera''
* (2004) [[Emmy]] Awards '''Nomination''', "''Great Performances: Dance in America''" – Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
* (2004) [[ASCAP]] Film and Television Music Awards '''Win''', "''S.W.A.T.''" – Top Box Office Film Score
* (2003) [[World Soundtrack Awards 2003]] '''Win''', "''Frida''" – Best Original Soundtrack of the Year
* (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 '''Win''', "''Frida''" – Soundtrack Composer of the Year
* (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 ''Nomination''', "Burn It Blue" from "''Frida''" – Best Original Song Written for a Film
* (2002) [[Academy Awards]] '''Win''', "''Frida''" – Best Original Score
* (2002) Academy Awards '''Nomination''', "''Frida''", "Burn It Blue" – Best Original Song
* (2002) [[Golden Globes]] '''Win''', "''Frida''" – Best Original Score
* (2002) [[World Soundtrack Awards 2002]] '''Nomination''', "The Dream Within" from "''Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within''" – Best Original Song Written for a Film
* (1999) [[Chicago Film Critics Association]] awards '''Nomination''', "''The Butcher Boy''" – Best Original Score
* (1998) ASCAP awards '''Win''', "''Batman & Robin''" – Top Box Office Film Score
* (1998) [[Chicago Film Critics Awards]] '''Nomination''', "''The Butcher Boy''" – Best Original Score
* (1998) [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998]] '''Win''', "''The Butcher Boy''" – Best Original Score
* (1997) [[Tony Awards]] '''Nomination''', "''Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass''" ([[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] Production) – Best Original Musical Score
* (1997) ASCAP awards '''Win''', "''A Time to Kill''" – Top Box Office Film Score
* (1997) [[Grammy]] '''Nomination''', "Defile and Lament" from "''A Time to Kill''"
* (1996) Academy Awards '''Nomination''', "''Michael Collins''" – Best Original Score
* (1996) Golden Globe '''Nomination''', "''Michael Collins''" – Best Original Score
* (1996) ASCAP awards '''Win''', "''Batman Forever''" – Top Box Office Film Score
* (1995) Grammy '''Nomination''', "''Batman Forever''" – Best Instrumental Composition
* (1995) ASCAP awards '''Win''', "''Interview with the Vampire''" – Top Box Office Film Score
* (1995) Golden Globe '''Nomination''', "''Interview with the Vampire''" – Best Original Score
* (1994) Academy Awards '''Nomination''', "''Interview with the Vampire''" – Best Original Score
* (1994) ASCAP awards '''Win''', "''Demolition Man''" – Top Box Office Film Score
* (1990) [[Edinburgh Festival|Edinburgh Festival Critics Choice Award]] '''Win''', "''Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass''" – Best Music
* (1990) [[The American Academy of Arts and Letters|American Academy of Arts and Letters]] [[Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater|Richard Rodgers Award]] '''Win''', "''Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass''" – Best Music
* (1988) [[Obie Award]] '''Win''', "''Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass''" (Original Production) – Best Music

Among others including the [[Arturo Toscanini]] Award, the New Music for Young Ensembles composition prize, the Stephen Sondheim Award in Music Theater and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.warnerbros.com/landing|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230191727/http://michaelcollins.warnerbros.com/cmp/crew.html#elliot|url-status=dead|title=WarnerBros.com &#124; Landing|archivedate=December 30, 2007|website=Warnerbros.com}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Avant-garde]]
* [[Modernism (music)]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb name|6106|Elliot Goldenthal}}
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* [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p145391|pure_url=yes}} Elliot Goldenthal] at [[Allmusic]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051124131852/http://goldenthal.filmmusic.com/ "A Website for the Composer"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080225140541/http://www.moviemusicuk.us/goldenth.htm Elliot Goldenthal at Moviemusicuk.us]
* [http://www.donshewey.com/arts_articles/taymor_goldenthal.html An Interview with both Taymor and Goldenthal by the ''New York Times'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120314023402/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/elliotgoldenthal.asp?print=yes An indepth interview from 2003]

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