John Ottman

John Ottman
John Ottman in 2011 photograph
Background information
Born	(1964-07-06) July 6, 1964 San Diego, California, USA
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	Composer and film editor
Years active	1993–present
Website	www.johnottman.com

John Ottman (born July 6, 1964) is an American film composer and editor. He is best known for his collaborations with film director Bryan Singer, acting as editor and composer for his films The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil, X2: X-Men United, Superman Returns (including adapting themes originally composed by John Williams), Valkyrie, Jack the Giant Slayer and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Other notable films he worked on as composer are Snow White: A Tale of Terror, the 2005 remake of House of Wax, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Fantastic Four and its sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Invasion, and Astro Boy.

He also directed (in addition to editing and scoring) the 2000 horror film Urban Legends: Final Cut. He won a BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Usual Suspects, as well as two Saturn Awards for Best Music for The Usual Suspects and Superman Returns.

Ottman graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California in 1988.^[1] One of his first assignments was to provide original music for the computer game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. In 2007, Ottman appeared in the documentary Finding Kraftland for his agent Richard Kraft.

Filmography

Composer

Discography
Feature films
Year	Title	Director	Notes	Distributed by
1993	Public Access	Bryan Singer
1995	The Usual Suspects	Bryan Singer		Spelling Films International Gramercy Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
	Night Train	John Coven	Short film
	The Antelope Chess Game	Lance Tracy
1996	The Cable Guy	Ben Stiller		Columbia Pictures
1997	Snow White: A Tale of Terror	Michael Cohn		PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Interscope Communications
1997	Incognito	John Badham		Warner Bros. Pictures
1998	Goodbye Lover	Roland Joffé		Warner Bros. Pictures
	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Steve Miner	Themes by: John Carpenter	Miramax Films
	Apt Pupil	Bryan Singer		TriStar Pictures
1999	Lake Placid	Steve Miner		20th Century Fox
2000	Urban Legends: Final Cut	Himself	Also director	Columbia Pictures
2001	Bubble Boy	Blair Hayes		Buena Vista Pictures
2002	Pumpkin	Anthony Abrams Adam Larson Broder
	Brother's Keeper	John Badham
	Eight Legged Freaks	Ellory Elkayem		Warner Bros. Pictures
	Point of Origin	Newton Thomas Sigel		HBO
	Trapped	Luis Mandoki		Columbia Pictures
2003	X2	Bryan Singer		20th Century Fox
2003	Gothika	Mathieu Kassovitz	Composed with: Lior Rosner	Warner Bros. Pictures Columbia Pictures
2004	Cellular	David R. Ellis		New Line Cinema
2004	Lonely Place	Kevin Ackerman	Short film
2005	Hide and Seek	John Polson		20th Century Fox
	House of Wax	Jaume Collet-Serra		Warner Bros. Pictures
	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Shane Black		Warner Bros. Pictures
	Fantastic Four	Tim Story		20th Century Fox
2006	Superman Returns	Bryan Singer	Themes by: John Williams	Warner Bros. Pictures
2007	Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer	Tim Story		20th Century Fox
2007	The Invasion	Oliver Hirschbiegel James McTeigue		Warner Bros. Pictures
2008	Valkyrie	Bryan Singer		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
2009	Orphan	Jaume Collet-Serra		Warner Bros. Pictures
2009	Astro Boy	David Bowers		Summit Entertainment
2010	The RRF in New Recruit		Short film
	Astro Boy vs. The Junkyard Pirates		Short film
	The Losers	Sylvain White		Warner Bros. Pictures
	Halloween: The Night He Came Back	Eric Iyoob Darla Rae	Short film
2011	The Resident	Antti Jokinen
2011	Unknown	Jaume Collet-Serra	Composed with: Alexander Rudd	Warner Bros. Pictures Optimum Releasing
2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	Bryan Singer		Warner Bros. Pictures
2014	Non-Stop	Jaume Collet-Serra		Universal Pictures
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Bryan Singer		20th Century Fox
2016	The Nice Guys	Shane Black		Warner Bros. Pictures
2016
X-Men: Apocalypse	Bryan Singer		20th Century Fox
Documentaries
Year	Title	Director	Notes	Distributed by
2002	Round Up: Deposing The Usual Suspects
2003	Evolution in the Details: The Design of X2		Short
2003	The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2004	Celling Out	Jeffrey Schwarz	Short
2004	Dialing Up Cellular	Jeffrey Schwarz	Short
Television
Year	Title	Director	Notes	Distributed by
1998	Fantasy Island	Michael Dinner	TV series theme and pilot score	Columbia TriStar Television
2002	Point of Origin	Newton Thomas Sigel		HBO Films
Video games
Year	Title	Director	Notes	Distributed by
1995	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	David Mullich

Other credits

Editor
Year	Title	Director	Notes
1988	Lion's Den	Bryan Singer
1993	Public Access
1995	The Usual Suspects
1998	Apt Pupil
2000	Urban Legends: Final Cut	Himself	Edited with: Rob Kobrin
2003	X2	Bryan Singer	Edited with: Elliot Graham
2006	Superman Returns		Edited with: Elliot Graham
2008	Valkyrie
2013	Jack the Giant Slayer		Edited with: Bob Ducsay
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past
2015	X-Men: Apocalypse
Director
Year	Title	Director	Notes
2000	Urban Legends: Final Cut	Himself	Also composer
Co-Producer
Year	Title	Director	Notes
2015	X-Men: Apocalypse	Bryan Singer

Television

Actor
Year	Title	Director	Notes
2011	Dark Dreamers		Episode: “Richard Band”

References

↑ "Notable Alumni", webpage of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, retrieved April 15, 2008.

External links

Awards for John Ottman

BAFTA Award for Best Editing

Sam O'Steen (1968)
Hugh A. Robertson (1969)
John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer (1970)
Richard Marden (1971)
Gerald B. Greenberg (1972)
Ralph Kemplen (1973)
Walter Murch and Richard Chew (1974)
Dede Allen (1975)
Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman, and Sheldon Kahn (1976)
Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont (1977)
Gerry Hambling (1978)
Peter Zinner (1979)
Alan Heim (1980)
Thelma Schoonmaker (1981)
Françoise Bonnot (1982)
Bud S. Smith and Walt Mulconery (1983)
Jim Clark (1984)
Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler (1985)
Jim Clark (1986)
Claire Simpson (1987)
Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger (1988)
Gerry Hambling (1989)
Thelma Schoonmaker (1990)
Gerry Hambling (1991)
Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1992)
Michael Kahn (1993)
John Wright (1994)
John Ottman (1995)
Walter Murch (1996)
Peter Honess (1997)
David Gamble (1998)
Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury (1999)
Pietro Scalia (2000)
Mary Sweeney (2001)
Daniel Rezende (2002)
Sarah Flack (2003)
Valdís Óskarsdóttir (2004)
Claire Simpson (2005)
Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, and Rick Pearson (2006)
Christopher Rouse (2007)
Chris Dickens (2008)
Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010)
Gregers Sall and Chris King (2011)
William Goldenberg (2012)
Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (2013)
Tom Cross (2014)
Margaret Sixel (2015)

Saturn Award for Best Music

Bernard Herrmann (1973) Miklós Rózsa (1974/75) David Raksin (1976) John Williams/John Williams (1977) John Williams (1978) Miklós Rózsa (1979) John Barry (1980) John Williams (1981) John Williams (1982) James Horner (1983) Jerry Goldsmith (1984) Bruce Broughton (1985) Alan Menken (1986) Alan Silvestri (1987) Christopher Young (1988) Alan Silvestri (1989/90) Loek Dikker (1991) Angelo Badalamenti (1992) Danny Elfman (1993) Howard Shore (1994) John Ottman (1995) Danny Elfman (1996) Danny Elfman (1997) John Carpenter (1998) Danny Elfman (1999) James Horner (2000) John Williams (2001) Danny Elfman (2002) Howard Shore (2003) Alan Silvestri (2004) John Williams (2005) John Ottman (2006) Alan Menken (2007) James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer (2008) James Horner (2009) Hans Zimmer (2010) Michael Giacchino (2011) Danny Elfman (2012) Frank Ilfman (2013) Hans Zimmer (2014) John Williams (2015)

Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.

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