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Mychael Danna

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Biography

Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries World Without End.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Girl, Interrupted

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Tideland

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Little Miss Sunshine

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Good Dinosaur

Original Music Composer

Hulk

Music

Onward

Original Music Composer

Life of Pi

Original Music Composer

Where the Crawdads Sing

Original Music Composer

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Girlhood Reclaimed

From institutionalised rebellion to the raucous freedom of the last day of school, a chain of films that lets young women be messy, angry, and gloriously themse...

8 films

Pure-Hearted Heroes

Sixty years after Batman '66 taught us that heroism can be bright, sincere, and utterly without irony, this chain celebrates films whose protagonists believe, s...

7 films

Escapes from Broken Realities

A journey through films where children and the childlike build imaginative refuges from fractured worlds, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Terry Gilliam...

8 films

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