John Ottman | |
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| File:John Ottman 2.jpg Ottman in 2011 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | July 6, 1964 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer and film editor |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Website | www |
John Ottman (born July 6, 1964) is an American film composer 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 Suspects (1995), Superman Returns (2006), Valkyrie (2008) and Jack the Giant Slayer (2013), as well as the X-Men film series. For his work on Singer's 2018 Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Ottman won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Life and career[]
Ottman was born in San Diego, California. He attended De Anza College and then transfer the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California, where he graduated in 1988.[1][2] 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.
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, 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. In 2019, he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Editing and won the ACE Eddie Award and the Academy Award his work on Bohemian Rhapsody. Upon Bohemian Rhapsody getting nominated for, and winning, its Best Editing awards, several clips from the film went viral online and were criticized for their poor editing styles and continuity errors. Ottoman, aware of the quality of the clips, explained that they were the result of mixing Singer and Dexter Fletcher shot scenes and in response to the producers' and test audiences' desires for dialogue and pacing, and he wished he could have handled them differently.[3]
Filmography[]
Composer[]
| Discography | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature films | ||||
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
| Public Access | Bryan Singer | Occidental Studios Cinemabeam | ||
| The Usual Suspects | Spelling Films International Gramercy Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment | |||
| Night Train | John Coven | Short film | ||
| The Antelope Chess Game | Lance Tracy | |||
| The Cable Guy | Ben Stiller | Columbia Pictures | ||
| Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Michael Cohn | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Interscope Communications | ||
| Incognito | John Badham | Warner Bros. Pictures | ||
| Goodbye Lover | Roland Joffé | |||
| Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Steve Miner | Themes by: | Miramax Films | |
| Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | TriStar Pictures | ||
| Lake Placid | Steve Miner | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Urban Legends: Final Cut | Himself | Also director | Columbia Pictures | |
| Bubble Boy | Blair Hayes | Buena Vista Pictures | ||
| Pumpkin | Anthony Abrams Adam Larson Broder |
United Artists | ||
| Brother's Keeper | John Badham | USA Network | ||
| Eight Legged Freaks | Ellory Elkayem | Warner Bros. Pictures | ||
| Point of Origin | Newton Thomas Sigel | HBO | ||
| Trapped | Luis Mandoki | Columbia Pictures | ||
| X2 | Bryan Singer | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Gothika | Mathieu Kassovitz | Composed with:
|
Warner Bros. Pictures Columbia Pictures | |
| Cellular | David R. Ellis | New Line Cinema | ||
| Imaginary Heroes | Dan Harris | Main theme only | Sony Pictures Classics | |
| Lonely Place | Kevin Ackerman | Short film | ||
| Hide and Seek | John Polson | 20th Century Fox | ||
| House of Wax | Jaume Collet-Serra | Warner Bros. Pictures | ||
| Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Shane Black | |||
| Fantastic Four | Tim Story | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Superman Returns | Bryan Singer | Themes by: | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Tim Story | 20th Century Fox | ||
| The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel James McTeigue |
Warner Bros. Pictures | ||
| Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | ||
| Orphan | Jaume Collet-Serra | Warner Bros. Pictures | ||
| Astro Boy | David Bowers | Summit Entertainment | ||
| The RRF in New Recruit | Short film | |||
| Astro Boy vs. The Junkyard Pirates | ||||
| The Losers | Sylvain White | Warner Bros. Pictures | ||
| Halloween: The Night He Came Back | Eric Iyoob Darla Rae |
Short film | Film It Productions | |
| The Resident | Antti Jokinen | Image Entertainment | ||
| Unknown | Jaume Collet-Serra | Composed with:
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Warner Bros. Pictures Optimum Releasing | |
| Jack the Giant Slayer | Bryan Singer | Warner Bros. Pictures | ||
| Non-Stop | Jaume Collet-Serra | Universal Pictures | ||
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bryan Singer | 20th Century Fox | ||
| The Nice Guys | Shane Black | Composed with: | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| X-Men: Apocalypse | Bryan Singer | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Documentaries | ||||
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
| Round Up: Deposing The Usual Suspects | MGM Home Entertainment | |||
| Evolution in the Details: The Design of X2 | Short | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | ||
| The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 | ||||
| Celling Out | Jeffrey Schwarz | Short | New Line Home Entertainment | |
| Dialing Up Cellular | Short | |||
| Television | ||||
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
| Fantasy Island | Michael Dinner | TV series theme and pilot score | Columbia TriStar Television | |
| Point of Origin | Newton Thomas Sigel | HBO Films | ||
| Battle Creek | Bryan Singer | Episode: "The Battle Creek Way" | CBS Television Studios Sony Pictures Television | |
| The Gifted | Bryan Singer | 20th Television | ||
| Video games | ||||
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
| I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | David Mullich | Cyberdreams
MGM Interactive | ||
Other credits[]
| Editor | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| Lion's Den | Bryan Singer | ||
| Public Access | |||
| The Usual Suspects | |||
| Apt Pupil | |||
| Urban Legends: Final Cut | Himself | With Rob Kobrin | |
| X2 | Bryan Singer | With Elliot Graham | |
| Superman Returns | |||
| Valkyrie | |||
| Jack the Giant Slayer | With Bob Ducsay | ||
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | |||
| X-Men: Apocalypse | With Michael Louis Hill | ||
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Academy Award Winner - Best Film Editing / BAFTA Award Nomination - Best Editing | ||
| Director | |||
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| Lion's Den | Himself | Directed with:
| |
| Urban Legends: Final Cut | Also composer | ||
| Producer | |||
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | Associate producer | |
| Valkyrie | Executive producer | ||
| Jack the Giant Slayer | Associate producer | ||
| X-Men: Apocalypse | Co-producer | ||
See also[]
- List of film director and editor collaborations
References[]
- ↑ "Notable Alumni" Archived 2009-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, webpage of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, retrieved April 15, 2008.
- ↑ http://www.deanza.edu/news/2019/ottman.html
- ↑ "'Bohemian Rhapsody' Editor is as Embarrassed About that One Scene as You Are". /Film. March 20, 2019. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
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External links[]
- John Ottman at the Internet Movie Database
- John Ottman's Official Website
- John Ottman's Official Facebook Profile
- Interview with John Ottman (July 2006)
- Interviews with John Ottman at FilmMusicSite
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