Mark McKenzie (composer)

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Mark McKenzie is an American

The magazine Variety wrote, "Mark McKenzie's commanding orchestral prowess puts him among the foremost symphonists in Hollywood." The 125 Motion pictures that McKenzie has orchestrated or composed have grossed over 13 billion dollars at the box office. The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter and numerous film music journals call Mark's music "timeless, profound, the most lyrical and emotionally resonant music ever written for film, triumphant, sublime, tender, inspiring, ravishing, lush, soulful, magical, the essence of unconditional love, a tribute to the overpowering inherent goodness alive within the human soul and a boundless expression of joy."^{[citation needed]}

Film composer

Films composed by McKenzie include:

• Frank and Jesse (1994)
• My Family (1995)
• The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1996)
• Dragonheart: A New Beginning (direct-to-video, 2000)
• Blizzard (2003)
• The Ultimate Gift (2006)
• Saving Sarah Cain (TV film, 2007)
• The Ultimate Life (2013)
• Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (direct-to-video, 2015)
• Max & Me (2016)
• Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (direct-to-video, 2017)
• Dragonheart: Vengeance (direct-to-video, 2020)

Film orchestrator

McKenzie has orchestrated over 100 movies, assisting composers including Danny Elfman, John Barry, Bruce Broughton, Randy Edelman, Jerry Goldsmith, Mark Isham, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, James Newton Howard, Nile Rodgers, Alan Silvestri, Marc Shaiman, and John Williams. These films include:

• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Sister Act (1992)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Men in Black (1997)
• The Mummy Returns (2001)
• Lilo & Stitch (2002)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
• Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

McKenzie orchestrated Jerry Goldsmith's final six films, including The Sum of All Fears, Star Trek: Nemesis, and Along Came a Spider. In addition Goldsmith used Mark to compose the final 7 minute action sequence for the Robert Redford film The Last Castle. He repeatedly called McKenzie "a god-send" and "one of my angels." Intrada Records re-released the entire Goldsmith soundtrack to The Last Castle and it includes McKenzie's "Prison Uprising" composition.

Other work

McKenzie composed the opening and closing logo music to the longest running television series in history, Hallmark Hall of Fame.

McKenzie's original compositions have been used at the

• Dances With Wolves (1990), which McKenzie orchestrated, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score
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• Men in Black (1997), which McKenzie orchestrated, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
• Mark's score to El Gran Milagro (2011) for multiple choirs, orchestra, soloists and the London Boys choir Libera^[1][2] won "Best Indie Score" at the "Hollywood Music in Media Awards" and was nominated as Best Score of the Year and Best Animated Score of the Year by the International Film Music Critics Association.
• The Max & Me soundtrack (2016) was nominated by the International Film Music Critics Association as Best Score of the Year, and won the IFMCA Best Animated Score of the Year (over Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Incredibles 2 and Isle of Dogs).

Memberships

Mark is a board member of the Society of Composers & lyricists, a voting member of the

External links

• Official website
• Mark McKenzie at
  IMDb
• Variety Article
• Review
• Interview
• Review