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{{Short description|German composer}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Klaus Badelt
| image            = KBadelt.jpg
| caption          = Klaus Badelt, 2007
| image_size       = 
| background       = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name       = 
| alias            = 
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1967|06|12|df=y}}<ref name=KBIMDB>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046004/|title=Klaus Badelt|website=IMDb|access-date=13 February 2022}}</ref>
| birth_place      = [[Frankfurt]], [[West Germany]]
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| origin           = Frankfurt, West Germany
| genre            = [[Film score]]
| occupation       = [[Composer]], [[Record producer|producer]], [[Arrangement|Arranger]]
| instrument       = 
| years_active     = 1990s-present
| label            = 
| associated_acts  = [[Hans Zimmer]], [[Ian Honeyman]], Christopher Carmichael, Andrew Reiher
| website          = {{URL|http://klausbadelt.com/}}
}}

'''Klaus Badelt''' (born 12 June 1967) is a German [[film composer|composer]], [[Record producer|producer]], and [[arranger]] of film scores. He is known for his collaborations with [[Hans Zimmer]], helping to write scores for dozens of critically acclaimed films including ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]'', ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', and ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]''. Independently, he is known for his work on Hollywood blockbuster films such as ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]], [[Equilibrium (film)|Equilibrium]], [[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]], [[K-19: The Widowmaker]], [[Basic (film)|Basic]],'' and ''[[TMNT (film)|TMNT]],'' and for his work in French and Chinese cinema as well as a number of films by [[Werner Herzog]].

==Life and career==
Badelt was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. He started his musical career composing for movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998, [[Academy Award|Oscar-winning]] film composer [[Hans Zimmer]] invited Badelt to work at [[Media Ventures]] in [[Santa Monica, California]], his studio co-owned by [[Jay Rifkin]]. Since then, Badelt has been working on a number of his own film and television projects such as ''[[The Time Machine (2002 film)|The Time Machine]]'' and ''[[K-19: The Widowmaker]]''. He also collaborated with other Media Ventures composers, such as [[Harry Gregson-Williams]], [[John Powell (composer)|John Powell]], and Zimmer; and mentored several others like [[Ramin Djawadi]] and [[Daniel Rojas (film composer)|Daniel Rojas]].

While collaborating with Zimmer, Badelt contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]'' and ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', and wrote music for many well known directors and producers including [[Ridley Scott]], [[Tony Scott]], [[Terrence Malick]], [[John Woo]], [[Kathryn Bigelow]], [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]], [[Werner Herzog]], [[Sean Penn]], [[Gore Verbinski]], [[Michael Bay]] and [[Steven Spielberg]].

Badelt co-wrote and co-produced the score to [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] box office hit ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'', directed by Ridley Scott, along with Zimmer and singer/composer [[Lisa Gerrard]]. Having contributed music to ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'', ''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]'' and [[Michael Kamen]]'s score for ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'', Badelt was involved in the three most successful movies in 2000. Badelt also collaborated with Zimmer on other successful films, such as ''[[The Pledge (film)|The Pledge]]'', and 2001 blockbusters ''[[Hannibal (2001 film)|Hannibal]]'' and ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]''. One of his more famous and popular scores was for the 2003 film ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hans-zimmer.com/fr/newsite.php?rub=detail&id=522|title=Hans-Zimmer.com|website=hans-zimmer.com}}</ref>

In 2004, Badelt founded his own film music company, Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica. Since then, he has scored films such as ''[[Constantine (film)|Constantine]]'', ''[[Poseidon (film)|Poseidon]]'', ''[[Rescue Dawn]]'', ''[[Premonition (2007 film)|Premonition]]'', and ''[[TMNT (film)|TMNT]]''.

Among Badelt's most critically celebrated scores are the Chinese fantasy film ''[[The Promise (2005 film)|The Promise]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/promise.html |title=The Promise (Klaus Badelt) |publisher=Filmtracks |date=2006-05-16 |access-date=2011-12-05}}</ref><ref>[http://www.moviemusicuk.us/promisekbcd.htm THE PROMISE- KLAUS BADELT] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102225702/http://www.moviemusicuk.us/promisekbcd.htm|date=January 2, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Other reviews by Mike Brennan |url=http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/?id=3972 |title=The Promise (2006) Soundtrack Album |publisher=Soundtrack.Net |date=2006-02-08 |access-date=2011-12-05}}</ref> and [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]]' remake of ''[[The Time Machine (2002 film)|The Time Machine]]'', the latter of which earned him the Discovery of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards 2003. He also wrote the music for the closing ceremonies at the ''[[2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony|Beijing Olympics]]'' in 2008, and was commissioned to write an opera about China's First Emperor, to be premiered in 2015.{{update inline|date=May 2014}}

Badelt worked on the soundtrack for ''The Promise'' for almost 6 months. The song which can be heard in the movie's end credits is an ancient folk song in China, and very few people can still sing it. For that, Badelt traveled almost two weeks in China to find someone who was able to sing the whole folk song in order to rearrange it for the score.

Badelt founded the digital film distribution startup [[Filmhub]] to create a platform for content creators to list their titles and get deals with global streaming services. Under the leadership of Badelt and CEO Alan d'Escragnolle, Filmhub now enables thousands of filmmakers to directly distribute to more than 100 streaming channels such as IMDb TV, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, and Plex. In 2021, Filmhub was recognized by Variety <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/film-news-may-10-1234969953/|title=Producers Guild Announces 'PGA Create' Immersive Lab for Underrepresented Producers — Film News in Brief|date=11 May 2021}}</ref> as "a dynamic disruptor in the distribution space."

==Filmography==

===Film===

==== As score composer ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
!Director
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1998
|''[[The Polar Bear]]''
|[[Til Schweiger]]<br>Granz Henman
|Composed with [[Henning Lohner]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2001
|[[Invincible (2001 drama film)|''Invincible'']]
|[[Werner Herzog]]
| rowspan="2" |Composed with [[Hans Zimmer]]
|-
|[[The Pledge (film)|''The Pledge'']]
|[[Sean Penn]]
|-
|''[[Extreme Days]]''
|Eric Hannah
|Composed with [[TobyMac]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |2002
|[[The Time Machine (2002 film)|''The Time Machine'']]
|[[Simon Wells]]
|[[World Soundtrack Awards|World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year]]
|-
|''[[K-19: The Widowmaker]]''
|[[Kathryn Bigelow]]
|
|-
|''[[Teknolust]]''
|[[Lynn Hershman Leeson]]
|Composed with [[Ramin Djawadi]]
|-
|[[Equilibrium (film)|''Equilibrium'']]
|[[Kurt Wimmer]]
|
|-
| rowspan="6" | 2003
|''[[The Recruit (film)|The Recruit]]''
|[[Roger Donaldson]]
| 
|-
|[[Ned Kelly (2003 film)|''Ned Kelly'']]
|[[Gregor Jordan]]
|Composed with [[Bernard Fanning]]
|-
|[[Basic (film)|''Basic'']]
|[[John McTiernan]]
|
|-
|[[The In-Laws (2003 film)|''The In-Laws'']]
|[[Andrew Fleming]]
|Composed with [[James S. Levine]]
|-
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''
|[[Gore Verbinski]]
|Replaced [[Alan Silvestri]]
[[ASCAP|ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film]]<br>Nominated- [[Saturn Award for Best Music]]<br>Nominated- [[Online Film Critics Society|Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated- [[World Soundtrack Awards|World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year]]
|-
|''[[Beat the Drum]]''
|David Hickson
|Composed with [[Ramin Djawadi]]
|-
| 2004
|[[Catwoman (film)|''Catwoman'']]
|[[Pitof]]
|Replaced [[Graeme Revell]]
Nominated- [[Stinkers Bad Movie Awards|Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Most Intrusive Musical Score]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2005
|[[Constantine (film)|''Constantine'']]
|[[Francis Lawrence]]
|Composed with [[Brian Tyler]]
[[ASCAP|ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film]]<br>Nominated- [[International Film Music Critics Association|IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film]]
|-
|[[The Promise (2005 film)|''The Promise'']]
|[[Chen Kaige]]
|
|-
| rowspan="4" | 2006
|''[[16 Blocks]]''
|[[Richard Donner]]
|
|-
|[[Ultraviolet (film)|''Ultraviolet'']]
|[[Kurt Wimmer]]
|
|-
|[[Poseidon (film)|''Poseidon'']]
|[[Wolfgang Petersen]]
|
|-
|''[[Rescue Dawn]]''
|[[Werner Herzog]]
|Composed with [[Ernst Reijseger]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |2007
|[[Premonition (2007 film)|''Premonition'']]
|[[Mennan Yapo]]
|
|-
|[[Redline (2007 film)|''Redline'']]
|[[Andy Cheng]]
|Composed with [[Ian Honeyman]] & Andrew Raiher
|-
|[[TMNT (film)|''TMNT'']]
|[[Kevin Munroe]]
|Replaced [[Marco Beltrami]]
|-
|''Skid Row''
|Ross Clarke<br>Niva Dorell<br>Marshall Tyler
|Documentary film <br>Composed with [[Kane (American band)|Craig Eastman]]
|-
| rowspan="5" |2008
|[[Dragon Hunters (film)|''Dragon Hunters'']]
|Guillaume Ivernel<br>[[Arthur Qwak]]
|
|-
|''[[Starship Troopers 3: Marauder]]''
|[[Edward Neumeier]]
|Themes by [[Basil Poledouris]]
|-
|''[[The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior]]''
|[[Russell Mulcahy]]
|
|-
|''[[Anything for Her]]''
|[[Fred Cavayé]]
|
|-
|[[Killshot (film)|''Killshot'']]
|[[John Madden (director)|John Madden]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2009
|[[Solomon Kane (film)|''Solomon Kane'']]
|[[Michael J. Bassett|M.J. Bassett]]
|
|-
|''[[Little Nicholas]]''
|[[Laurent Tirard]]
|
|-
| rowspan="10" |2010
|[[Heartbreaker (2010 film)|''Heartbreaker'']]
|[[Pascal Chaumeil]]
| 
|-
|[[The Extra Man (film)|''The Extra Man'']]
|[[Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini|Shari Springer Berman]]<br>[[Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini|Robert Pulcini]]
|
|-
|''[[22 Bullets]]''
|[[Richard Berry (actor)|Richard Berry]]
|
|-
|''Among Wolves''
|[[Gerardo Olivares]]
|Composed with Andrew Raiher
|-
|[[Shanghai (2010 film)|''Shanghai'']]
|[[Mikael Håfström]]
|
|-
|[[Point Blank (2010 film)|''Point Blank'']]
|[[Fred Cavayé]]
|
|-
|[[Small World (2010 film)|''Small World'']]
|Bruno Chiche
|Composed with Jean-Michel Bernard
|-
| align="left" |''[[Waking Madison]]''
|[[Katherine Brooks]]
|
|-
|''[[Dylan Dog: Dead of Night]]''
|[[Kevin Munroe]]
|
|-
|''[[Happy People: A Year in the Taiga]]''
|Dmitry Vasyukov<br>[[Werner Herzog]]
|Documentary film
|-
| rowspan="7" |2011
|[[The Prodigies (film)|''The Prodigies'']]
|Antoine Charreyron
| 
|-
|''The Floating Shadow''
|Jia Dongshuo
|
|-
|''[[Jock the Hero Dog]]''
|Duncan MacNeillie
|Composed with [[Ian Honeyman]]
|-
|''[[Seven Days in Utopia]]''
|Matt Russell
|Composed with Christopher Carmichael
|-
|[[Rebellion (2011 film)|''Rebellion'']]
|[[Mathieu Kassovitz]]
|
|-
|[[The Oranges (film)|''The Oranges'']]
|[[Julian Farino]]
|Composed with Andrew Raiher
|-
|''War of the Buttons''
|[[Yann Samuell]]
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |2012
|''30° couleur''
|[[Lucien Jean-Baptiste]]<br>Philippe Larue
|
|-
|''[[Shanghai Calling]]''
|[[Daniel Hsia]]
|Composed with Christopher Carmichael
|-
|''[[Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia]]''
|[[Laurent Tirard]]
|
|-
|''[[A Perfect Plan]]''
|[[Pascal Chaumeil]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |2014
|''[[Supercondriaque]]''
|[[Dany Boon]]
|
|-
|''[[The Identical]]''
|Dustin Marcellino
|Composed with Christopher Carmichael
|-
|''[[Le Père Noël]]''
|Alexandre Coffre
|
|-
|2015
|[[Queen of the Desert (film)|''Queen of the Desert'']]
|[[Werner Herzog]]
| 
|-
| rowspan="2" |2016
|''[[Radin!]]''
|[[Fred Cavayé]]
|
|-
|''[[The Warriors Gate]]''
|[[Matthias Hoene]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2017
|''[[Ballerina (2016 film)|Leap!]]''
|Éric Summer<br>Éric Warin
|
|-
|''[[Legend of the Demon Cat]]''
|[[Chen Kaige]]
|Composed with [[Misha Segal]]
|-
|}

==== As composer of additional music ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
!Director
!Composer
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" |1998
|''[[The Prince of Egypt]]''
|[[Brenda Chapman]]<br>[[Steve Hickner]]<br>[[Simon Wells]]
|[[Hans Zimmer]]<br>[[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]]
|
|-
|[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|''The Thin Red Line'']]
|[[Terrence Malick]]
|[[Hans Zimmer]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1999
|[[Chill Factor (film)|''Chill Factor'']]
|[[Hugh Johnson (cinematographer)|Hugh Johnson]]
|[[Hans Zimmer]]<br>[[John Powell (film composer)|John Powell]]
|
|-
|''The Devil and Ms. D''
|[[Bernd Eichinger]]
|[[Henning Lohner]]
|
|-
| rowspan="6" |2000
|''[[The Tigger Movie]]''
|[[Jun Falkenstein]]
|[[Harry Gregson-Williams]]
|
|-
|''[[The Road to El Dorado]]''
|[[Bibo Bergeron]]<br>Don Paul
|[[Hans Zimmer]]<br>[[John Powell (film composer)|John Powell]]
|
|-
|[[Gladiator (2000 film)|''Gladiator'']]
|[[Ridley Scott]]
|[[Hans Zimmer]]<br>[[Lisa Gerrard]]
|
|-
|''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]''
|[[John Woo]]
|[[Hans Zimmer]]
|
|-
|''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]''
|[[Bryan Singer]]
|[[Michael Kamen]]
|
|-
|[[King of the Jungle (2000 film)|''King of the Jungle'']]
|[[Seth Zvi Rosenfeld]]
|[[Harry Gregson-Williams]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2001
|[[Hannibal (2001 film)|''Hannibal'']]
|[[Ridley Scott]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Hans Zimmer]]
|
|-
|[[Pearl Harbor (film)|''Pearl Harbor'']]
|[[Michael Bay]]
|
|-
|2004
|[[Wimbledon (film)|''Wimbledon'']]
|[[Richard Loncraine]]
|[[Edward Shearmur]]
|
|-
|2006
|''[[Miami Vice (film)|Miami Vice]]''
|[[Michael Mann]]
|[[John Murphy (composer)|John Murphy]]
|
|-
|2009
|''[[Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book]]''
|[[Stefan Ruzowitzky]]
|[[Ian Honeyman]]
|
|-
| 2015
|''Help, I Shrunk My Teacher''
|Sven Unterwaldt, Jr.
|Leland Cox<br>Karim Sebastian Elias
|
|-
|2017
|''Lilly's Bewitched Christmas''
|Wolfgang Groos
|Anne-Kathrin Dern
|
|-
|}

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1994-95
|''[[Peter Strohm]]''
|10 episodes
|-
|1997-98
|''[[Tatort]]''
|16 episodes
|-
|2000
|[[The Others (TV series)|''The Others'']]
|Theme music;<br>13 episodes
|-
|2004
|''[[Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King]]''
|[[Television film]]
|-
|2007
|''[[Random! Cartoons]]''
|Episode: "Kyle + Rosemary"
|-
| 2008
|''{{Ill|The Charlemagne Code|de|Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen}}''
| rowspan="2" |[[Television film]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2010
|''{{ill|Spear of Destiny (film)|de|Die Jagd nach der Heiligen Lanze|lt=Spear of Destiny}}''
|-
|''[[Ein Haus voller Töchter]]''
|35 episodes
|-
|''[[Tatort Internet]]''
|10 episodes
|-
|2011
|''Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis''
|[[Television film]]
|-
|2013-14
|''[[Lanfeust Quest]]''
| 26 episodes
|-
|2014
|''[[Halo: Nightfall]]''
|[[Miniseries]]
|-
|2018
|''BaseBoys''
|2 episodes
|-
|}

=== Other ===

*[[2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony|Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony]]

=== Video Games ===
*''[[MotorStorm: Apocalypse]]'' (video game)
*''[[Lords Mobile]]'' (video game)

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable" style="border:2px #aaa solid; font-size:90%;"
|-  style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"'''
! Year
! Category
! Project
! width=50 | Result
|-
|2001
|[[Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score]]
|''[[Gladiator (2000 soundtrack)|Gladiator]]''
|{{nom}}
|-
|2002
|[[World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year]]
|''[[The Time Machine (soundtrack)|The Time Machine]]''
|{{won}}
|-
|2004
|[[ASCAP]] Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (soundtrack)|Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''
|{{won}}
|-
|2004
|[[Saturn Award for Best Music|Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Best Music]]
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (soundtrack)|Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''
|{{nom}}
|-
|2004
|[[Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score]]
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (soundtrack)|Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''
|{{nom}}
|-
|2004
|[[World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year]]
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (soundtrack)|Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''
|{{nom}}
|-
|2005
|[[International Film Music Critics Association]]: Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film
|''[[Constantine (film)|Constantine]]''
|{{nom}}
|-
|2006
|[[ASCAP]] Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films
|''[[Constantine (film)|Constantine]]''
|{{won}}
|-
|2008
|German Television Awards Best Music
|''[[Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen]]''
|{{nom}}
|-
|2009
|[[Rhode Island International Film Festival]] Crystal Image Award
|N/A
|{{won}}
|-
|-<ref name=KBIMDB/>
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Klaus Badelt}}
* {{Official website|http://klausbadelt.com/}}
* {{IMDb name|46004}}
* {{AllMusic|class=artist|q105145}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110622184949/http://www.stumpedmagazine.com/interviews/klaus-badelt.html Interview with Stumped Magazine]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080209033501/http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/mv/rcprod.php?numid=2 Remote Control Fan Site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090131075532/http://scorenotes.com/interviews.html ScoreNotes Interview]

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