Cliff Martinez
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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).
Known for
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movieCopenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn
2023
Original Music Composer
tvCopenhagen Cowboy
2023
Original Music Composer
movieKimi
2022
Original Music Composer
tvThe Wilds
2020
Original Music Composer
tvToo Old to Die Young
2019
Original Music Composer
movieHotel Artemis
2018
Original Music Composer
tvEkspeditionen - På sporet af Vitus Bering
2018
Original Music Composer
movieGame Night
2018
Original Music Composer
movieDen of Thieves
2018
Original Music Composer
movieThe Foreigner
2017
Original Music Composer
movieWar Dogs
2016
Original Music Composer
movieThe Neon Demon
2016
Original Music Composer
tvThe Knick
2014
Original Music Composer
movieThe Normal Heart
2014
Original Music Composer
movieMea Culpa
2014
Original Music Composer
movieThe Square
2013
Songs
movieOnly God Forgives
2013
Original Music Composer
movieSpring Breakers
2013
Original Music Composer
movieThe Company You Keep
2012
Original Music Composer
Golem
2012
Music
movieArbitrage
2012
Original Music Composer
movieDrive
2011
Original Music Composer
movieContagion
2011
Original Music Composer
movieThe Lincoln Lawyer
2011
Original Music Composer
movieIn the Beginning
2009
Original Music Composer
movieSpy(ies)
2009
Original Music Composer
movieVice
2008
Original Music Composer
movieStiletto
2008
Original Music Composer
movieFirst Snow
2006
Original Music Composer
movieHavoc
2005
Original Music Composer
movieWicker Park
2004
Original Music Composer
movieWonderland
2003
Original Music Composer
movieSolaris
2002
Original Music Composer
movieNarc
2002
Original Music Composer
movieTraffic
2000
Original Music Composer
movieThe Limey
1999
Original Music Composer
movieWicked
1998
Original Music Composer
movieSchizopolis
1997
Original Music Composer
movieGray's Anatomy
1996
Original Music Composer
movieThe Underneath
1995
Original Music Composer
movieKing of the Hill
1993
Original Music Composer
movieBlack Magic
1992
Music, Original Music Composer
movieKafka
1991
Original Music Composer
moviePump Up the Volume
1990
Original Music Composer
moviesex, lies, and videotape
1989
Original Music Composer
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movieThe Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
2026
Self - Drummer, 1983-1986 (archive footage)
Crew2
movieNWR
2012
Additional Music
movieThe Fifth Element
1997
Additional Music