COMPOSER

Carter Burwell

1954 - Today

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Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films. He has also scored films by other directors such as Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Spike Jonze, Martin McDonagh, James Foley, Brian Helgeland, and John Lee Hancock. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carter Burwell has received more than 1,135,696 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Carter Burwell is the 1,084th most popular composer (up from 1,093rd in 2019), the 5,926th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,087th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Carter Burwells by language

Over the past year Carter Burwell has had the most page views in the with 107,048 views, followed by German (11,405), and French (8,133). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (180.46%), Southern Azerbaijani (55.38%), and Georgian (30.51%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Carter Burwell ranks 1,084 out of 1,451. Before him are Sylvano Bussotti, Jean Langlais, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Henri Pousseur, Toivo Kuula, and Semen Hulak-Artemovsky. After him are Johann Nicolaus Bach, Raymond Scott, Julius Rietz, Jaromír Weinberger, Heinrich Schenker, and Shivkumar Sharma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Carter Burwell ranks 267. Before him are Jonathan Pollard, Pankaj Kapur, Vladimir Drinfeld, Anatoly Chukanov, Antón Lamazares, and Ross the Boss. After him are Larry Van Kriedt, David Keith, Dai Sijie, Don Wilson, Amparo Muñoz, and Mario Testino.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carter Burwell ranks 5,926 out of 20,380. Before him are Armie Hammer (1986), Darlanne Fluegel (1953), Ross the Boss (1954), Johnny Knoxville (1971), Thomas Horsfield (1773), and Kaley Cuoco (1985). After him are Larry Van Kriedt (1954), Ned Block (1942), Colleen Camp (1953), George O. Abell (1927), Lou Rawls (1933), and John du Pont (1938).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Carter Burwell ranks 59. Before him are Harold Arlen (1905), Michael Giacchino (1967), Kevin MacLeod (1972), Frederic Rzewski (1938), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), and Leonard Rosenman (1924). After him are Raymond Scott (1908), W. C. Handy (1873), Harry Partch (1901), Morton Gould (1913), Roger Sessions (1896), and Frank Churchill (1901).

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