Cliff Eidelman

Cliff Eidelman
Born	(1964-12-05) December 5, 1964 Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor
Website	www.cliffeidelman.com

Clifford Glen "Cliff" Eidelman (born December 5, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and conductor who has scored films including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

Career

Eidelman began his formal training in violin at the age of eight and continued with multi-instrument training ranging from piano and guitar in genres such as jazz to classic music in his youth. After studying music at Santa Monica College and the University of Southern California, he scored his first feature film Magdalene in 1989.

His breakthrough composition that catapulted him into stardom was his 1991 dark and choral composition to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The composition to the sixth installment of the Star Trek motion picture series was composed by Eidelman at the age of 26.

In the years after, Eidelman continued to compose dramatic and epic scores such as Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. As Eidelman's style of composing changed towards more sentimental and minimalistic scores, so did the films for which he scored.

Eidelman currently resides in Santa Monica, California and continues to score movies.

Notable scores

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
1988	Hanna's War	Menahem Golan	Cannon Films	with Dov Seltzer
	Magdalene	Monica Teuber	Orion Classics
1989	Dead Man Out	Richard Pearce	HBO	Television film
	To Die For	Deran Sarafian	Academy Entertainment
	Animal Behavior	Kjehl Rasmussen H. Anne Riley	Millimeter Films
	Triumph of the Spirit	Robert M. Young	Triumph Films
1990	Crazy People	Tony Bill	Paramount Pictures
	The Adventures of Ford Fairlane	Renny Harlin	20th Century Fox	with Yello
	Judgment	Tom Topor	HBO	Television film
1991	Delirious	Tom Mankiewicz	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	Nicholas Meyer	Paramount Pictures
1992	Christopher Columbus: The Discovery	John Glen	Warner Bros. Pictures
	Leap of Faith	Richard Pearce	Paramount Pictures
1993	Untamed Heart	Tony Bill	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	The Meteor Man	Robert Townsend	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1994	My Girl 2	Howard Zieff	Columbia Pictures
	A Simple Twist of Fate	Gillies MacKinnon	Touchstone Pictures
1995	Picture Bride	Kayo Hatta	Miramax Films	with Mark Adler
	Now and Then	Lesli Linka Glatter	New Line Cinema
	The Surrogate	Jan Egleson Raymond Hartung	ABC	Television film with Nicholas Pike
1996	Girl 6	Spike Lee	Fox Searchlight Pictures	with Prince
	If These Walls Could Talk	Nancy Savoca	HBO	Television film
1997	The Beautician and the Beast	Ken Kwapis	Paramount Pictures
	Free Willy 3: The Rescue	Sam Pillsbury	Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
1998	Montana	Jennifer Leitzes	Initial Entertainment Group
	One True Thing	Carl Franklin	Universal Pictures
1999	Boys Don't Cry	Kimberly Peirce	Fox Searchlight Pictures	with Nathan Larson
	Witness Protection	Richard Pearce	HBO	Television film
2000	Dr. T & the Women	Robert Altman	Artisan Entertainment	with Lyle Lovett
	For All Time	Steven Schachter	CBS	Television film with Mader
2001	An American Rhapsody	Éva Gárdos	Paramount Classics
	Shallow Hal	Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly	20th Century Fox	with William Goodrum and Ivy
2002	Harrison's Flowers	Elie Chouraqui	Universal Pictures
	The Mothman Prophecies	Mark Pellington	Screen Gems	with tomandandy
2003	Biker Boyz	Reggie Rock Bythewood	DreamWorks Pictures	with Camara Kambon
	The Lizzie McGuire Movie	Jim Fall	Walt Disney Pictures
2004	Before Sunset	Richard Linklater	Warner Independent Pictures
	Friday Night Lights	Peter Berg	Universal Pictures	with Brian Reitzell, Explosions in the Sky and David Torn
2005	Sexual Life	Ken Kwapis	Showtime Independent Films
	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants	Ken Kwapis	Warner Bros. Pictures
	Broken Flowers	Jim Jarmusch	Focus Features	with Mulatu Astatke
2006	Open Window	Mia Goldman	Image Entertainment
	Copying Beethoven	Agnieszka Holland	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
2007	Brooklyn Rules	Michael Corrente	The Weinstein Company	with Benny Rietveld
	Margot at the Wedding	Noah Baumbach	Paramount Vantage
2008	Smart People	Noam Murro	Miramax Films QED International	with Nuno Bettencourt
	Elegy	Isabel Coixet	Samuel Goldwyn Films
2009	He's Just Not That Into You	Ken Kwapis	New Line Cinema
	Whatever Works	Woody Allen	Sony Pictures Classics
2010	You Again	Andy Fickman	Touchstone Pictures	with Nathan Wang
	Stone	John Curran	Overture Films Relativity Media
2011	Friends with Benefits	Will Gluck	Screen Gems
	We Bought a Zoo	Cameron Crowe	20th Century Fox	with Jónsi
2012	Big Miracle	Ken Kwapis	Universal Pictures
	Rock of Ages	Adam Shankman	Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema	with Adam Anders and Peer Åström
2013	Oblivion	Joseph Kosinski	Universal Pictures	with M83, Anthony Gonzalez and Joseph Trapanese
	CBGB	Randall Miller	XLrator Media
2014	Men, Women & Children	Jason Reitman	Paramount Pictures	with Bibio
	Moms' Night Out	The Erwin Brothers	TriStar Pictures Affirm Films	with Marc Fantini and Steffan Fantini
2015	Spare Parts	Sean McNamara	Lionsgate Pantelion Films	with Andrés Levin
	Room	Lenny Abrahamson	Elevation Pictures A24 Universal Pictures	with Stephen Rennicks
2016	How to Be Single	Christian Ditter	Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	with Fil Eisler
	Keeping Up with the Joneses	Greg Mottola	20th Century Fox	with Jake Monaco
2017	Aftermath	Elliott Lester	Lionsgate Premiere	with Mark Todd
	The Disaster Artist	James Franco	A24 Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema	with Dave Porter
2018	The Last Movie Star	Adam Rifkin	A24	with Austin Wintory
	The Oath	Ike Barinholtz	Roadside Attractions Topic Studios	with Bret Mazur

External links

• Cliff Eidelman at IMDb
• Official website
• Cliff Eidelman at Filmtracks.com
• Cliff Eidelman at SoundtrackNet