Marcello De Francisci – has composed-produced the music for an array of motion picture soundtrack scores including the piece ‘Drums of Victory’ for Alexander Payne’s five-time Academy Award-nominated film ‘Nebraska’, Natalie Portman’s first Western genre film ‘Jane Got A Gun’ and the anticipated sequel to the feature documentary ‘Baraka’ better known as ‘Samsara’. Marcello joined forces with world-renowned singer Lisa Gerrard (‘Dead Can Dance’ band member – Golden Globe winner for ‘Gladiator’ alongside Hans Zimmer) and both co-composed the music for numerous film projects, in addition, worked on two-solo albums the first titled ‘Departum’, and upcoming successor ‘Exaudia’, scheduled for release on Aug. 26th, 2022. He is a recipient of the prestigious “Best Soundtrack of the Year G.A.N.G. Award” for Sony Computer Entertainment’s first ‘God of War’ game, as well as, has won two Australian Film Critic’s Awards for his scores to the highly acclaimed films ‘Balibo’, and ‘Oranges & Sunshine’. His music has licensed on a wide variety of motion picture & television trailer ad campaigns, which include J.J. Abrams ‘Mission Impossible III’, Yi-Mou Zhang’s ‘Hero’, Conrad Vernon & Rob Letterman’s ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’, John Moore’s ‘Flight of the Phoenix’, Mike Newell’s ‘Prince of Persia’, the Russo Brother’s ‘Avengers-Endgame’, Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’, James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’, Jerry Bruckheimer’s ‘National Treasure’, Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Hellboy’ and Netflix’s series trailer for ‘Rise of Empires – Ottoman’.
