Cliff Martinez
Biography
Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).
Personal Details
Movies (45)
Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2023
Touch of Crude
Music (Sound)
2022
Kimi
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2022
Cliff and Larry: Beginnings
as Self
2018
Hotel Artemis
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2018
Game Night
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2018
The Legend of Red Hand
Music (Sound)
2018
Den of Thieves
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2018
The Foreigner
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2017
War Dogs
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2016
The Neon Demon
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2016
The Secret Slaves of the Middle East
Music (Sound)
2016
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Music (Sound)
2015
The Normal Heart
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2014
Mea Culpa
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2014
The Square
Songs (Sound)
2013
Only God Forgives
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2013
Spring Breakers
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2013
The Company You Keep
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2012
Golem
Music (Sound)
2012
Arbitrage
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2012
NWR
Additional Music (Crew)
2012
Drive
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2011
Contagion
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2011
The Lincoln Lawyer
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2011
Severe Clear
Music (Sound)
2010
In the Beginning
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2009
Spy(ies)
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2009
Vice
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2008
Stiletto
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2008
First Snow
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2006
Havoc
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2005
Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
Music (Sound)
2005
Wicker Park
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2004
Wonderland
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2003
Solaris
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2002
NARC
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2002
Traffic
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2000
The Limey
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1999
Wicked
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1998
The Fifth Element
Additional Music (Crew)
1997
Schizopolis
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1997
Gray's Anatomy
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1996
The Underneath
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1995
King of the Hill
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1993
