SoundTrack Cologne is a conference for music and sound in

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

video game A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual fe ...

s and media which has been held annually in

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

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, since 2004.

Overview

SoundTrack Cologne is Europe's largest congress for music and sound in film, games and media. In some 50 round tables, panels, workshops and networking events, the focus is on current developments in the culture, law, marketing and technics of media music as well as

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s, professionalization and networking.

SEE THE SOUND

SEE THE SOUND, the film programme of SoundTrack Cologne, shows the broad array of connecting image and sound and brings films about music to the big screen.

European Education Alliance for Music and Sound in Media

EEAMS supports educators, students and industry professionals in the areas of filmmaking,

sound design Sound design is the art and practice of creating auditory elements of media. It involves specifying, acquiring and creating audio using production techniques and equipment or software. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including filmmaking ...

and media music composition and seeks to forge an inclusive framework to support collaborative links and to bridge interdisciplinary boundaries.

Awards

* SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Peer Raben Music Award * WDR Filmscore Award * European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * See The Sound Music Documentary Award * Award for the Best German Live Music TV-Show

Award Winners 2004

* Juhan Vihterpal (Estonia) - New Sound in European Film * Tom Werner, Michael Schlappa & Ralf Herrmann (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design

Award Winners 2005

* Maria Ushenina (Russia) – New Sound in European Film * Christopher Wilson (Great Britain) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Dimitri Dodoras (Deutschland) - Skoda SoundTrack Award for students

Award Winners 2006

* Paul van Vulpen (The Netherlands) – New Sound in European Film * Matthias Heuser, Lief Thomas & Christiane Buchmann – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design

Award Winners 2007

* Alexander Reumers (The Netherlands) – New Sound in European Film * Ravian de Vries & Susanne Grünewald (The Netherlands) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design

Award Winners 2008

* Peter Thomas – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Joram Letwory (The Netherlands) – New Sound in European Film * Henning Knoepfel (Great Britain) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Antoni Łazarkiewicz "Die zweite Frau" – German TV Music Award

Award Winners 2009

Irmin Schmidt Irmin Schmidt (born 29 May 1937) is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the band Can and composer of numerous film scores. Biography Early life and composer career Irmin Schmidt was born on 29 May 1937 in Berli ...

– SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Felix Rösch (Germany) – New Sound in European Film * Phillip Specht (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Titas Petrikis (Lithuania) – Peer Raben Music Award * Biber Gullatz & Andreas Schäfer (Komponist) "The Lost Father" – German TV Music Award

Award Winners 2010

* Bruhn Christian Bruhn – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Martin Batchelar (Great Britain) – WDR Filmscore Award * Jens Heuler & Dominik Campus (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best cooperation between composer and sound designer * Jewgeni Birkhoff (Germany) – Peer Raben Music Award * German TV Music Award - Fabian Römer (Composer): "Tatort: Weil sie böse sind" - Best Music a TV Movie - Sven Rossenbach & Florian van Volxem: "Im Angesicht des Verbrechens" Best Music for a TV Series - Michael Kadelbach: Henners Traum – Das größte Tourismusprojekt Europas Best Music for a Documentary

Award Winners 2011

* Horst Peter Koll – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Olivier Militon (France) – WDR Filmscore Award * Nathan Blais (France) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Pablo Pico (France) – Peer Raben Music Award

Award Winners 2012

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his lengthy ...

– SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * John Chua (Singapore) – WDR Filmscore Award * Sebastian Kübler (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Enrica Sciandrone (Italy/Great Britain) – Peer Raben Music Award

Award Winners 2013

Manfred Eicher Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records. Life and career Eicher was born in Lindau, Germany. He studied music at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He started as a double-bass player of classi ...

– SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Filip Šijanec (Slovenia) – WDR Filmscore Award * Artur Khayrullin (Russia) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Rosanna Zünd (Switzerland) – Peer Raben Music Award * Kidd Life (Denmark) – See The Sound Music Documentary Award * Laurence Owen (Great Britain) – Früh Kölsch Audience Award for the Best Music in a Short Film

Award Winners 2014

* Eberhard Schoener – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Marianna Liik (Estonia) – WDR Filmscore Award * Friso Hoekstra (The Netherlands) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Denise Barth (Germany) – Peer Raben Music Award * ''Europe in 8 Bits'' (Spain) – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2015

Enjott Schneider Enjott Schneider (born Norbert Jürgen Schneider 25 May 1950 in Weil am Rhein) is a German businessman, composer, musicologist, and music educator. He is best known as the chairman of the board of the German collecting society GEMA. As a compos ...

– SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Damian Scholl (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award * Armin Badde (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Stanislav Makovsky (Russia) – Peer Raben Music Award * The Case of the Three Sided Dream (USA) – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2016

Cliff Martinez Cliff Robert 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, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Since th ...

– SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Daniel Herget (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award * Jérémy Bocquet (France) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Filip Sijanec (Slovenia) – Peer Raben Music Award * I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott – See The Sound Music Documentary Award * zdf@bauhaus - Award for the Best German Live Music TV-Show

Award Winners 2017

Bruce Broughton Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many ...

– SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Thomas Chabalier (France) – WDR Filmscore Award * Martin B. Janssen (France) – Peer Raben Music Award * Liberation Day – See The Sound Music Documentary Award * Berlin live - Award for the Best German Live Music TV-Show

Award Winners 2018

* Craig Armstrong – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Ben Winkler (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award * Celia Ruiz Artacho (Spain) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Mateja Starič (Slovenia) – Peer Raben Music Award * Silvana – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2019

Klaus Doldinger Klaus Doldinger (; born 12 May 1936) is a German saxophonist known for his work in jazz and as a film music composer. He was the recipient of the 1997's Bavarian Film Awards. He is also a frequent collaborator of German filmmaker Wolfgang Pet ...

– SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Leon Maximilian Brückner (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award * Paul Clímaco Müller Reyes (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Mateo Ojeda (Colombia) – Peer Raben Music Award * BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2020

* Don Davis – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Fabian Zeidler (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award * Sinan Varis (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Alex Symcox (USA) – Peer Raben Music Award * Everybody's Everything – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2021

* Rachel Portman – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Ludwig Peter Müller (Germany) – WDR Filmscore Award * Maximilian Sattler (Germany) – European Talent Award: Best Sound Design * Paulo Gallo – Peer Raben Music Award * Shut up Sona – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2022

* Walter Murch – SoundTrack Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award * Lorenzo Gioelli (Italy) – WDR Filmscore Award * David Kamp (Germany) – Peer Raben Music Award * Anonymous Club – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Award Winners 2023

* Mychael Danna – Lifetime Achievement Award * Johann Grillenbeck (Deutschland) – WDR Filmscore Award * Pavel Sitnikov (Russland) – European Talent Award: Best Sounddesign * Jan Willem de With (Deutschland/Niederlande) – Peer Raben Music Award * And Still I Sing – See The Sound Music Documentary Award

Speakers at SoundTrack Cologne (selection)

* Petri Alanko (games composer

Quantum Break ''Quantum Break'' is a 2016 action-adventure third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios for Windows and Xbox One. The game centers on Jack Joyce ( Shawn Ashmore), granted time manipulat ...

Alan Wake ''Alan Wake'' is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game was released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, with a Windows version following in February 2012 and a remastered ve ...

) * '' Ali N. Askin'' (

Lola Lola may refer to: Places * Lolá, a or subdistrict of Panama * Lola Township, Cherokee County, Kansas, United States * Lola Prefecture, Guinea * Lola, Guinea, a town in Lola Prefecture * Lola Island, in the Solomon Islands People * Lol ...

-Award Winner; composer '' Leroy,'' Lost Children) *

Lesley Barber Lesley Barber (born 1962) is a Canadian composer of music for film, theatre, chamber and orchestral ensembles and she is also a conductor, pianist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Barber is best known for composing the film scores for '' Ma ...

(composer

Manchester by the Sea (film) ''Manchester by the Sea'' is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan that stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. Revolving around the themes of depression, guilt, grief, respons ...

) * '' Marcel Barsotti'' (composer) * '' Gerd Baumann'' (Lola-Award winner; composer) * ''

Marco Beltrami Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror ('' Scream'', ''Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, Carrie, A Quiet Place'' ...

'' (

Oscar Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People and fictional and mythical characters * Oscar (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters named Oscar, Óscar or Oskar * Oscar (footballer, born 1954), Brazilian footballer ...

-nominated; composer ''

I, Robot ''I, Robot'' is a fixup collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines '' Super Science Stories'' and ''Astounding Science Fiction'' between 1940 and 1950 ...

,'' ''

Hellboy Hellboy is a superhero created by Mike Mignola and appearing in comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. The character first appeared in ''San Diego Comic-Con Comics'' #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various miniseries, one-shots ...

,'' '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,'' '' Scream'') * ''

Jean-Michel Bernard Jean-Michel Bernard (born 23 November 1961) is a French pianist, composer, educator, Orchestration, orchestrator, and music producer. He is well known for regularly writing, performing, and scoring for films, such as ''The Science of Sleep'', ' ...

'' (composer

The Science of Sleep ''The Science of Sleep'' (French: , literally ''The Science of Dreams'') is a 2006 surrealistic science fantasy comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry. Starring Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou and Alain Chabat, t ...

) * Volker Bertelmann (

-nominated

Lion (2016 film) ''Lion'' is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 nonfiction book '' A Long Way Home'' by Saroo Brierley. The film stars Dev Pate ...

) * ''

Steve Blame Steve Blame is a British television presenter and screenwriter. He was the news editor and presenter between 1987 and 1994 for the television channel MTV. Education Blame received a Combined Honours Degree: Mathematics and Physics from Exeter ...

'' (

Screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

) *

(composer

Dallas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

Silverado (film) ''Silverado'' is a 1985 American Western film that was produced and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, and written by Kasdan and his brother Mark. It stars Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and Kevin Costner. The supporting cast features Bri ...

Tombstone (film) ''Tombstone'' is a 1993 American Western film directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre (who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production), and starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliott, Bill ...

) * '' Christian Bruhn'' (composer ''

Captain Future Captain Future is a Pulp magazine, pulp science fiction hero – a space-traveling scientist and adventurer – originally published in the United States in Captain Future (magazine), his namesake pulp magazine from 1940 to 1944. The character w ...

'') * '' Björn Dixgård'' (singer and composer of

Mando Diao Mando Diao is an alternative rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album '' Hurricane Bar''. Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. Band members are Björn ...

) * ''

'' (composer

Das Boot (; ) is a 1981 West Germany, West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. An Film adaptation, adaptation of Lothar-Günthe ...

, The NeverEnding Story (film),

Tatort ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...

) * ''

Patrick Doyle Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television and theatre, he has composed the scores for over 60 feature films. A longtime collaborato ...

'' (composer

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Mike Newell from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 2000 novel ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to '' Harry Pott ...

'','' ''

Thor Thor (from ) is a prominent list of thunder gods, god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred g ...

'') * ''

Greg Edmonson Greg Edmonson is an American music composer for television and movies. He is primarily known for composing the soundtrack to the television series ''Firefly''. He is also the composer for the first three games in the ''Uncharted'' video game se ...

'' (composer for film and TV ''

King of the Hill ''King of the Hill'' is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that initially aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from January 12, 1997, to September 13, 2009, with four more episodes airing in First-run syndicati ...

'' (1997–2009), and the video game series ''

Uncharted ''Uncharted'' is an action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Sony Interactive Entertainment and developed by Naughty Dog. Created by Amy Hennig, the ''Uncharted'' franchise follows a group of treasure hunters who trav ...

'' 1–3) * ''

John Frizzell John Frizzell may refer to: * John Frizzell (screenwriter), Canadian screenwriter * John Frizzell (composer) (born 1966), American composer {{hndis, Frizzell, John ...

'' (composer ''

Alien Resurrection ''Alien Resurrection'' is a 1997 American science fiction horror film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Joss Whedon, and starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder. It is the fourth installment of the ''Alien'' franchise, and was fi ...

,'' ''

Ghost Ship A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a ship, vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the ''Flying Dutchman'', or a physical Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict, derelict found adrift with its cre ...

'', '' The Reaping'') *

Yoav Goren Yoav Goren () is an Israeli-American musician, composer, and record producer specializing in soundtracks and trailer music for films and television series. He was one of the founders of Immediate Music, 1 Revolution Music, and Imperativa Records. ...

(Emmy Award Winner, music producer, film composer (i. a.

Cloud Atlas (film) ''Cloud Atlas'' is a 2012 epic film, epic science fiction film written and directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Based on the Cloud Atlas (novel), 2004 novel by David Mitchell (author), David Mitchell, it has multiple plots occurring during ...

'','' ''

Spider-Man 2 ''Spider-Man 2'' is a 2004 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of Spider-Man. Directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story conceived by Michael Chabon and the writing team of Alfred Gough and Miles ...

'',

The Da Vinci Code (film) ''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 novel of the same name. The first in the ''Robert Langdon'' film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey T ...

'','' ''

Iron Man 3 ''Iron Man 3'' is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'' (2008) an ...

,''

The Lord of the Rings (film series) ''The Lord of the Rings'' is a trilogy of epic film, epic fantasy film, fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel ''The Lord of the Rings'' by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are titled identically to the ...

)) * ''

Jason Graves Jason Graves is an American television, film, and video game music Video game music (VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound ge ...

'' (BAFTA-Award Winner and composer, i. a. for the video game series

Dead Space (2008 video game) ''Dead Space'' is a 2008 survival horror game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows as the debut entry in the ''Dead Space'' series. Set on a minin ...

'','' ''

Heroes of Might and Magic ''Heroes of Might and Magic'' (commonly abbreviated ''HoMM''), known as ''Might & Magic Heroes'' in 2011–2024, is a series of video games created and developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing. As part of the ''Might and Magic ...

,'' ''

Silent Hunter Silent Hunter may refer to: * Silent Hunter (video game) * Silent Hunter (laser weapon) {{disambig ...

'' or ''

Tomb Raider ''Tomb Raider'', known as ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game series created by British video game developer Core Design. The franchise i ...

'') * ''

Chris Hülsbeck Christopher Hülsbeck (born 2 March 1968), known internationally as Chris Huelsbeck, is a German video game music composer. He gained popularity for his work on game soundtracks for '' The Great Giana Sisters'' and the ''Turrican'' series. Caree ...

'' (games composer, ''

Turrican ''Turrican'' is a 1990 video game developed by Manfred Trenz. It was developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, and was Video game port, ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz programmed ' ...

,'' ''

The Great Giana Sisters ''The Great Giana Sisters'' is a platform game developed by the West German company Time Warp and published by Rainbow Arts in 1987 for home computers such as the Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST. Players control Giana (or her sister Maria in t ...

'') * ''

Jan A. P. Kaczmarek Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek (; 29 April 1953 – 21 May 2024) was a Polish composer. He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including '' Finding Neverland'' (2004), for which he won an Oscar and a National Board of ...

'' (Oscar-Winner & composer,

Finding Neverland (film) ''Finding Neverland'' is a 2004 biographical fantasy film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Magee, based on the 1998 play '' The Man Who Was Peter Pan'' by Allan Knee. The film stars Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Rad ...

, Hachi: A Dog's Tale) *

Johnny Klimek Johnny Klimek (born 18 August 1962) is an Australian musician, music producer, and composer, best known for his innovative work in the underground electronica music scene and for his film scores. Life and career Klimek was born in Melbourne, ...

(composer

Run Lola Run ''Run Lola Run'' (, ) is a 1998 German experimental thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer. The story follows a woman named Lola ( Franka Potente) who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutsche Mark in twenty minutes to save the life of her boy ...

, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)) * ''

Harald Kloser Harald Kloser (born 9 July 1956) is an Austrian film composer, producer and screenwriter. Since his critical and commercial breakthrough in 2005, in which he won the BMI Film Music Award for both of his scores for '' Alien vs. Predator'' and '' ...

'' (composer ''

The Day After Tomorrow ''The Day After Tomorrow'' is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book '' The Coming Global Superstorm'' by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and ...

'') * '' Antoni Łazarkiewicz'' (composer Winter Journey (2006 film)) * ''

Nils Petter Molvær Nils Petter Molvær (), also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960), is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most ...

'' (trumpet player & composer ''Stratosphere Girl'') * ''

John Ottman John Ottman (born July 6, 1964) is an American film composer, director, and editor. He is best known for collaborating with director Bryan Singer, composing and/or editing many of his films, including '' Public Access'' (1993), ''The Usual Suspec ...

'' (composer & editor

The Usual Suspects ''The Usual Suspects'' is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin S ...

X-Men (film series) ''X-Men'' is an American Superhero film, superhero film series based on the Marvel Comics X-Men, superhero team of the same name. It was produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment from 2000 to 2020. Fox obtained the film rights to t ...

) * ''

Owen Pallett Michael James Owen Pallett-Plowright (born September 7, 1979), known professionally as Owen Pallett, is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music P ...

'' (Oscar-nominated, violinist, singer Her (film)) * ''

Rachel Portman Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman (born 11 December 1960)), a collection of original pieces for piano, violin and cello, with Portman playing the piano. In 2023 she released a second album ''Beyond the Screen – Film Works on Piano'' which features ...

'' (composer, Oscar-Winner

Emma (1996 theatrical film) ''Emma'' is a 1996 period romantic comedy film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, and produced by Patrick Cassavetti and Steven Haft, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow as the eponym ...

) * ''

Niki Reiser Niki Reiser (born 12 May 1958) is a Swiss film score composer and flautist. He is considered one of the most outstanding film composers of the German-speaking countries, winning the German Film Award five times. His debut was in 1986 the score for ...

'' (Lola-Winner and composer Nowhere in Africa) * '' Michael Riessler'' (composer Home from Home (2013 film)) * '' Jeff Rona'' (composer

Traffic (2000 film) ''Traffic'' is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from several perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers. Their stories are edited ...

God of War (franchise) ''God of War'' is an action-adventure game franchise created by David Jaffe and developed by Sony's Santa Monica Studio. It began in 2005 on the PlayStation 2 (PS2) video game console and has become a flagship series for PlayStation, consistin ...

) * '' Marius Ruhland'' (composer ''

Heaven Heaven, or the Heavens, is a common Religious cosmology, religious cosmological or supernatural place where beings such as deity, deities, angels, souls, saints, or Veneration of the dead, venerated ancestors are said to originate, be throne, ...

'') * ''

Stefan Ruzowitzky Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. Early life and education Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna. He studied drama and history at the University of Vienna and started directing music videos, for example for 'N Sync, an ...

'' (Oscar-Winner; director The Counterfeiters) * '' Dieter Schleip'' (composer) * ''

Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff (; born 31 March 1939) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He ha ...

'' (director ''

The Tin Drum ''The Tin Drum'' (, ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. To "beat a ti ...

'') * ''

'' (composer '' Can,'' '' Palermo Shooting'') * ''

Garry Schyman Garry Schyman is an American film, television, and video game music composer. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in music composition in 1978, and began work in the television industry, writing music for such te ...

'' (games composer ''

BioShock ''BioShock'' is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K. The first game in the ''BioShock'' series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 ...

)'' * '' Peter Thomas'' (composer '' Raumpatrouille'') * '' Annette Focks'' (composer '' Krabat'') * '' Andreas Weidinger'' (composer) * '' Matthias Weber'' (Lola-Winner, composer, ''

Baywatch ''Baywatch'' is an American Drama (film and television), drama television series about lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, and Hawaii, starring David Hasselhoff. It was created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz ...

)'' * '' Ralf Wengenmayr'' (composer '' Lissi und der wilde Kaiser,'' ''

Der Schuh des Manitu () is a 2001 German Western parody film. Directed by Michael Herbig, it is a film adaptation of the Winnetou sketches from his ProSieben television show '' Bullyparade''. With earnings of about ($70 million) and 11.7 million visitors in cine ...

'') * '' Bernd Wefelmeyer'' (conductor (1993 to 1995 ''

Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (also known as ''Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg'' or DFOB in German) is a symphony orchestra and music studio based in Potsdam, Germany. History It was founded in 1918 as Ufa-Sinfonieorchester. Following W ...

'') and composer) * ''

Bert Wrede Bert or BERT may refer to: Persons, characters, or animals known as Bert *Bert (name), commonly an abbreviated forename and sometimes a surname *Bert, a character in the poem "Bert the Wombat" by The Wiggles; from their 1992 album ''Here Comes a ...

'' (composer) * ''

Gabriel Yared Gabriel Yared (; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films '' Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claudel''. He later worked on Eng ...

'' (Oscar-Winner; composer

The Lives of Others ''The Lives of Others'' (, ) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film directorial debut. The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, Ea ...

) * '' Helmut Zerlett'' (composer, Lessons of a Dream) * ''

Inon Zur Inon Zur (, ) is an Israeli-born American composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video games. He has composed soundtracks for over 80 video games, which include '' Dragon Age'', '' EverQuest'', '' Fallout'', '' Prince of Persia'', ''S ...

'' (games composer, ''

Crysis ''Crysis'' is a first-person shooter video game series created by Crytek. The series revolves around a group of military protagonists with " nanosuits", technologically advanced suits of armor that give them enhanced physical strength, speed, ...

'', '' Fallout: New Vegas'')

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Soundtrack Cologne Music festivals in Germany Film festivals in Germany Festivals in Cologne