Mark Mancina

Mark Mancina (born March 9, 1957) is an American film composer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures, Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including Speed, Bad Boys, Twister, Tarzan, Training Day, Brother Bear, Criminal Minds, Blood+, Planes, and Moana. He has also composed music for the PlayStation 3 game Sorcery.

He has made several collaborations with The Walt Disney Company, and has won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Annie Award for Brother Bear. For his work on the Disney Theatrical Productions adaptation of The Lion King, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score in a Musical and won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

Career

Mancina has worked primarily as a composer for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Nick Glennie-Smith and Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He composed the score for the thriller Twister (1996) and the action films Speed (1994) and Bad Boys (1995). Mancina co-wrote several songs for Hanna-Barbera's 1990 animated film Jetsons: The Movie.

Mancina collaborated with John Van Tongeren to write the theme to the 1995 revival of The Outer Limits. They both scored ten episodes for the first season of the show. He collaborated with Phil Collins on two Disney animated feature films, Tarzan (for which soundtrack he and Collins received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album) and Brother Bear. Mancina wrote and composed the arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 2006 to 2022 for the previous Walt Disney Pictures logo and was co-arranged with and orchestrated by David Metzger. Furthermore, he composed the music of the Disneynature logo, as well as co-composing the music of the 2013 DisneyToon Studios logo with Metzger.

Mancina composed the music for the 2005–06 anime television series Blood+, which had music produced by Hans Zimmer. Additionally in television, he composed score for Criminal Minds and Soldier Of Fortune, Inc.

Mancina has contributed to a number of progressive rock projects. He toured with Trevor Rabin in support of Can't Look Away and went on to produce tracks on the Yes album Union in 1991. He worked with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, as he coproduced their 1992 album, Black Moon, and he also wrote one song Burning Bridges on this record.

With playwright Glen Berger, Mancina has written a musical based on the film August Rush, for which he had written the score. Mancina and Berger cowrote the lyrics for the musical, with Mancina writing the music and Berger writing the book. Under the direction of John Doyle, it received its world premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois in May 2019.

Although he did not participate in the 2020 film Bad Boys for Life, his original theme for Bad Boys is used heavily throughout the film as well as the end credits.

Personal life Mancina is of Italian heritage. He resides in Carmel, California, with his wife and daughter. Trained as a classical guitarist, he is an avid guitar player and rare instrument collector.

Discography

Film

1980s Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes 1987 Mankillers David A. Prior Action International PicturesSony Pictures Entertainment Composed with Tim James and Steven McClintock Code Name VengeanceDavid Winters Action International Pictures 1988 Death ChaseDavid A. Prior Night Wars Space MutinyDavid WintersNeal Sundstrom 1989 Hell on the BattlegroundDavid A. Prior Future ForceComposed with Steven McClintock

1990s Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children SpeedJan de Bont The Mark Gordon Company20th Century Fox 1995 Man of the House James Orr Walt Disney PicturesAll Girl ProductionsOrr & Cruickshank Productions Bad Boys Michael Bay Columbia PicturesDon Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Assassins Richard Donner Silver PicturesDonner/Shuler-Donner ProductionsWarner Bros. Fair Game Andrew Sipes Silver PicturesWarner Bros. Pictures Money Train Joseph Ruben Columbia PicturesPeters Entertainment1996 TwisterJan de Bont Warner Bros. (North America)Universal Pictures (International)Amblin Entertainment Moll Flanders Pen Densham Trilogy Entertainment Group Spelling FilmsMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1997 Con Air Simon West Touchstone PicturesJerry Bruckheimer Films Composed with Trevor Rabin Speed 2: Cruise Control Jan de Bont Blue Tulip Productions20th Century Fox 1998 Return to Paradise Joseph Ruben Propaganda FilmsPolyGram Filmed Entertainment 1999 Tarzan Kevin LimaChris Buck Walt Disney PicturesWalt Disney Feature Animation Composed with Phil Collins Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

First score for an animated film

2000s Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes 2000 Auggie Rose Matthew Tabak Franchise PicturesRoxie Releasing20th Century Fox Home Video Composed with Don L. Harper BaitAntoine Fuqua Warner Bros. PicturesCastle Rock Entertainment 2001 Training Day Warner Bros. PicturesVillage Roadshow PicturesOutlaw Productions Domestic Disturbance Harold Becker Paramount Pictures 2003 Brother Bear Aaron BlaiseRobert Walker Walt Disney PicturesWalt Disney Feature Animation Composed with Phil Collins Nominated- Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature Production The Haunted Mansion Rob Minkoff Walt Disney Pictures 2004 The Reckoning Paul McGuigan KanzamanM.D.A. Films S.L.Renaissance FilmsColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (Spain)Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom) Composed with Adrian Lee 2005 Asylum David Mackenzie Momentum Pictures Tarzan II Brian Smith Walt Disney Home Entertainment Composed with Phil Collins & David Metzger; Direct-to-video 2007 Shooter Antoine Fuqua Paramount Picturesdi Bonaventura Pictures August Rush Kirsten Sheridan Southpaw EntertainmentCJ EntertainmentWarner Bros. Pictures (North America)Odyssey Entertainment (International)Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Music 2008 Camille Gregory Mackenzie A-Mark EntertainmentRuddy Morgan ProductionsNational Entertainment Media 2009 Imagine That Karey Kirkpatrick Paramount PicturesNickelodeon MoviesDi Bonaventura PicturesGoldcrest PicturesInternationale Filmproduktion Stella-del-Sud III GmbH Ko. Hurricane Season Tim Story Dimension FilmsThe Weinstein Company

2010s Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes 2013 Penthouse NorthJoseph Ruben Dimension Films (United States)Lionsgate (International)Demarest FilmsTAJJ MediaBunk 11 PicturesKilburn Media Planes Klay Hall Walt Disney PicturesDisneytoon StudiosNominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film 2014 Planes: Fire & Rescue Bobs Gannaway 2016 Moana John MuskerRon Clements Walt Disney PicturesWalt Disney Animation Studios Composed with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i of Te Vaka Nominated- Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual MediaNominated- Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Animated FilmNominated- Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in an Animated FilmNominated- International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film

2020s Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes 2020 Bad Boys for Life Columbia Pictures2.0 EntertainmentDon Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer FilmsOverbrook Entertainment Credited as composer of original Bad Boys theme 2021 Cry Macho Clint Eastwood Malpaso ProductionsWarner Bros. Pictures 2022 The Sea Beast Chris Williams NetflixNetflix Animation 2024 Juror No. 2 Clint Eastwood Warner Bros. PicturesDichotomy FilmsGotham GroupMalpaso Productions Moana 2 Jason HandDana Ledoux MillerDavid Derrick Jr. Walt Disney PicturesWalt Disney Animation Studios Composed score & songs with Opetaia Foa'i, Abigail Barlow & Emily Bear 2026 Moana Thomas Kail Walt Disney PicturesSeven Bucks Productions Composed score & songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda

Television

Theatre Year Title Notes1997–present The Lion KingComposed with Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice, Elton John, Lebo M, Jay Rifkin & Julie Taymor Won: Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Nominated: Tony Award for Best Original Score

Video games