A veteran of the downtown New York art music scene Carter Burwell's first foray film scoring was for the Coen Bros' 1984 feature "Blood Simple." Carter quickly became one of the most significant composers on the indie alt scene, scoring films such as the Brad Pitt / Juliette Lewis / David Duchovny starrer "Kalifornia," and Stephen Gyllenhaal's "Waterland" in addition to the Coen Bros' "Raising Arizona," "Miller's Crossing," "Barton Fink" and "Hudsucker Proxy." It didn't take long for the studios to discover him. Carter was soon scoring major features such as Michael Caton-Jones' "Rob Roy," Imagine / Universal's "The Chamber," Richard Donner's "Conspiracy Theory," Fox's Jennifer Aniston-starrer "Picture Perfect" and Michael Caton-Jones' "The Jackal." Despite the major studio success, Carter has continued to maintain an impressive alliance with the indie scene scoring films like "Fargo," "The Big Lebowski," David Mamet's "Spanish Prisoner," Todd Hayne's "Velvet Goldmine" and Bill Condon's "God's & Monsters" starring Brendan Frasier and Ian McKellan. Carter's most recent credits incleude Disney's "Mystery Alaska" (starring Russell Crowe and Burt Reyonlds), "The Corruptor" starring Mark Wahlberg and Chow Yun Fat for New Line, "The General's Daughter" (John Travolta) for Paramount and the Warner Bros. Feature "Three Kings" starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. Now step into the latest offering from Burwell's creativity, the score for director Spike Jonze's highly anticipated "Being John Malkovich" (John Cusack and Cameron Diaz) for Polygram Filmed Entertainment.