Donald Romain Davis Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Don Davis was born on February 4, 1957 in Anaheim, California, USA as Donald Romain Davis. He is known for his work on The Matrix (1999), Matrica. Revoliucijos (2003) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003). He has been married to Megan Jeanne MacDonald since May 25, 1986.
Virtuoso orchestral writing, especially for the brass section, including polytonality and extremly fast high staccato notes for the trumpets. Often uses "pyramid chords" (large chords building gradually up from the lowest note).
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That's just to keep me from going insane. Actually, I think it's more of a procrastination device because I spend more time trying to think up a title more than I do to write the thing. - when asked about his offbeat names to his score cues
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We're all pigeonholed, to a certain extent. People have their perceptions of what we do best. But, of course, it's better to be pigeonholed than not get any work. I'm not asked to do comedies very often, which would be a drag except I have friends who can't stand being pigeonholed as comedy scorers.
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Is a vegetarian.
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Member: American Federation of Musicians, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Music Center, Opera America, Hispanics for L.A. Opera, American Composers Forum, Broadcast Music Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Contemporary Opera, Amnesty International, Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, Progressive Democrats of America, UCLA Alumni Association.
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Renowned contemporary music conductor Ernest Bour, who led the Südwestfunk Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden, premiered Chamber Symphony (1981) at the Gaudeamus Foundation International Music Week.
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Went to UCLA where he discovered his passion for scoring movies.
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Played the trumpet as a young boy.
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Shut Up and Run
2017
Short post-production
False Memory Syndrome
post-production
CR: Enter the Matrix
2009
Video Game
Beauty and the Beast Season 2: Introductions with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton
2007
Video documentary short
Ten Inch Hero
2007
The Good Life
2007
The Marine
2006
Augusta, Gone
2006
TV Movie
The Matrix Online
2005
Video Game
Mighty Times: The Children's March
2004
Documentary short
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
2004
TV Movie documentary
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
The Fanimatrix: Run Program
2003
Video short
Kid's Story
2003
Short
The Second Renaissance Part II
2003
Short
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
The Animatrix
2003
Final Flight of the Osiris
2003
Short
The Second Renaissance Part I
2003
Short
Murder in Greenwich
2002
TV Movie
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
2002
Long Time Dead
2002
The Art of 'Jurassic Park III'
2001
Video documentary short
The Sound and Music of 'Jurassic Park III'
2001
Video documentary short
The Special Effects of 'Jurassic Park III'
2001
Video documentary short
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
The Unsaid
2001
Jurassic Park III
2001
Valentine
2001
Antitrust
2001
Well Met in Osaka
2000
Short
Personally Yours
2000
TV Movie
Race Against Time
2000
TV Movie
Hell Swarm
2000
TV Movie
House on Haunted Hill
1999
In the Company of Spies
1999
TV Movie
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
1999
Universal Soldier: The Return
1999
The Matrix
1999
A League of Old Men
1998
Route 9
1998
TV Movie
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998
TV Movie
The Lesser Evil
1998
The Lake
1998
TV Movie
The Third Twin
1997
TV Movie
House of Frankenstein
1997
TV Mini-Series 2 episodes
Weapons of Mass Distraction
1997
TV Movie
Warriors of Virtue
1997
A Match Made in Heaven
1997
TV Movie
Not in This Town
1997
TV Movie
Alibi
1997
TV Movie
Invasion
1997
TV Mini-Series 2 episodes
Pandora's Clock
1996
TV Mini-Series 2 episodes
Bound
1996
The Perfect Daughter
1996
TV Movie
The Beast
1996
TV Mini-Series 2 episodes
In the Lake of the Woods
1996
TV Movie
For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story
1996
TV Movie
CBS Schoolbreak Special
1995
TV Series 1 episode
Sleep, Baby, Sleep
1995
TV Movie
Taz-Mania
1993-1995
TV Series 4 episodes
SeaQuest 2032
1994-1995
TV Series 9 episodes
Capitol Critters
1992-1995
TV Series 8 episodes
A Little Tailor's Christmas Story
1994
Short
Leave of Absence
1994
TV Movie
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
TV Movie
Murder of Innocence
1993
TV Movie
Country Estates
1993
TV Movie
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1993
TV Series 1 episode
The Plucky Duck Show
1992
TV Series 1 episode
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
1992
Video
Woman with a Past
1992
TV Movie
Notorious
1992
TV Movie
A Little Piece of Heaven
1991
TV Movie
Tiny Toon Adventures
1990-1991
TV Series 5 episodes
My Life and Times
1991
TV Series 1 episode
Lies Before Kisses
1991
TV Movie
Session Man
1991
Short
Running Against Time
1990
TV Movie
Matlock
1990
TV Series 1 episode
Beauty and the Beast
1987-1990
TV Series 48 episodes
Home Fires Burning
1989
TV Movie
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
1988
TV Movie
Blackout
1988
A Stoning in Fulham County
1988
TV Movie
Bluegrass
1988
TV Movie
Sledge Hammer!
1987
TV Series 2 episodes
Hyperspace
1984
Hart to Hart
1983-1984
TV Series 4 episodes
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bound: Here's Johnny! With Christopher Meloni
2014
Video short music: score from 'Bound'
Femme Fatales with Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly
2014
Video short music: score from 'Bound'
Hail Ceasar with Joe Pantoliano
2014
Video short music: score from 'Bound'
Modern Noir: The Sights & Sounds of 'Bound'
2014
Video short music: score from 'Bound'
The 86th Annual Academy Awards
2014
TV Special arranger
Toy Story 3
2010
orchestrator
Return to House on Haunted Hill
2007
Video composer: theme music
The Good Life
2007
conductor / orchestration
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
conductor / orchestrator
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
conductor
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
2002
score producer
Monsters, Inc.
2001
orchestrator
The Unsaid
2001
conductor / orchestrator
Jurassic Park III
2001
composer: new music / conductor / orchestrator
Antitrust
2001
contractor
Personally Yours
2000
TV Movie conductor / orchestrator
Meet the Parents
2000
orchestrator
House on Haunted Hill
1999
orchestrator
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
1999
music performer
The Matrix
1999
conductor / orchestrator
A Bug's Life
1998
orchestrator
Pleasantville
1998
orchestrator
Lost in Space
1998
composer: additional music - uncredited / orchestrator
additional orchestrator / composer: additional music
Bonkers
1993-1994
TV Series composer - 14 episodes
The Pelican Brief
1993
orchestrator
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1993
orchestrator
Hocus Pocus
1993
orchestrator
Last Action Hero
1993
orchestrator - uncredited
Cop & ½
1993
orchestrator
Death Becomes Her
1992
orchestrator
Ricochet
1991
orchestrator
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
orchestrator
Hudson Hawk
1991
orchestrator
If Looks Could Kill
1991
orchestrator
Tiny Toon Adventures
1990
TV Series composer - 1 episode
Die Hard 2
1990
orchestrator
Ernest Saves Christmas
1988
orchestrator - uncredited
The In Crowd
1988
orchestrator
Flowers in the Attic
1987
conductor: orchestra
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
1987
additional orchestrator
Lime Street
1985-1986
TV Series composer - 4 episodes
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
1986
additional orchestrator
Moonlighting
1985
TV Series orchestrator - 1 episode
I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later
1985
TV Movie composer: additional music
V
1983
TV Mini-Series orchestrator - uncredited
Double Exposure
1983
orchestrator
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Luke Cage
2016
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Keanu
2016
writer: "Main Title/Trinity Infinity"
Coronation Street
2015
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Heat
2013/I
writer: "Double Trouble"
The Filthy Frank Show
2012
TV Series short writer - 1 episode
So You Think You Can Dance
TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2009 music - 1 episode, 2009
Nostalgia Critic
2008
TV Series music - 1 episode
Return to House on Haunted Hill
2007
Video writer: "Main Title"
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Movie
2007
TV Movie performer: "Burly Brawl" - uncredited
Idols
2005
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
performer: "The Trainman Cometh", "Tetsujin", "Navras" / producer: "The Trainman Cometh", "Tetsujin", "Navras" / writer: "The Trainman Cometh", "Tetsujin", "Navras"
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
arranger: "Mona Lisa Overdrive" / performer: "Burly Brawl" / producer: "Burly Brawl", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "Niaiserie" uncredited / writer: "Burly Brawl", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "Niaiserie" uncredited
The Animatrix
2003
writer: "RED PILL, BLUE PILL", "THE REAL"
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
2002
performer: "Ecks vs Sever Theme" / writer: "Ecks vs Sever Theme"
Jurassic Park III
2001
writer: "Isla Sorna Sailing Situation", "The Dynosaur Fly-By", "Cooper's Last Stand", "The Raptor Room", "Raptor Repartee", "Tree People", "Pteranodon Habitat", "Tiny Pecking Pteranodon", "Billy Oblivion", "Brachiosaurus On The Bank", "Nash Calling", "Bone Man Ben", "Frenzy Fuselage", "Clash Of Extinction", "The Hat Returns / End Credits" - uncredited
Down to Earth
2001
"That's A Team"
Warriors of Virtue
1997
music: "Inside Of You" / producer: "Inside Of You" / writer: "Inside Of You"
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
writer: "Mike & Alice's Restaurant"
Session Man
1991
Short writer: "Sixteen Tons"
Tiny Toon Adventures
1990
TV Series music - 1 episode
The In Crowd
1988
music: "Dance Party" - uncredited
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
1984
producer: "I Don't Wanna Come Down"
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Personally Yours
2000
TV Movie synthesizer engineer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Matrix: Path of Neo
2005
Video Game special thanks
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
Video documentary short thanks
Crash Course
2003
Video documentary short thanks
The Matrix Revisited
2001
Video documentary special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano
2016
Documentary short
Himself
Modern Noir: The Sights & Sounds of 'Bound'
2014
Video short
Himself
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012
Video documentary
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005
Video documentary
Himself
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005
Video documentary
Himself
The Matrix Revolutions: Aftermath
2004
Video documentary short
Himself
Inside 'The Animatrix'
2003
Video documentary short
Himself
Beyond Jurassic Park
2001
Video
Himself - Composer
The Sound and Music of 'Jurassic Park III'
2001
Video documentary short
Himself
The Matrix Revisited
2001
Video documentary
Composer
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2004
BMI Film Music Award
BMI Film & TV Awards
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
2004
BMI Film Music Award
BMI Film & TV Awards
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
2002
BMI Film Music Award
BMI Film & TV Awards
Jurassic Park III (2001)
1999
BMI Film Music Award
BMI Film & TV Awards
The Matrix (1999)
1995
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Seaquest DSV (1993)
1991
BMI TV Music Award
BMI Film & TV Awards
Matlock (1986)
1990
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2001
World Soundtrack Award
World Soundtrack Awards
Best Original Score of the Year Not Released on an Album
Antitrust (2001)
1999
FMCJ Award
International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
Film Score of the Year
The Matrix (1999)
1999
FMCJ Award
International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
Film Composer of the Year
1998
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore)
House of Frankenstein (1997)
1994
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Seaquest DSV (1993)
1992
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
A Little Piece of Heaven (1991)
1991
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
Lies Before Kisses (1991)
1991
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
My Life and Times (1991)
1988
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)