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name: "Alexander Janko"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alexander-janko"
fi1m_id: "alexander-janko"
imdb_id: "nm0417724"
tmdb_id: 54653
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T02:36:57.158448+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alexander Janko

## Identity

Alexander Janko

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alexander-janko
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alexander-janko
- **IMDb ID:** nm0417724
- **TMDB ID:** 54653
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417724/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54653

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417724/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54653

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*My Big Fat Greek Wedding*](https://film.one/film/my-big-fat-greek-wedding.md) (70)

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## Biography

Alexander Janko is a composer, orchestrator, director and writer. Classically trained as a cellist, he graduated from Princeton University and moved to Hollywood, where he has worked on more than 65 major motion pictures.

He began his film career as an orchestrator for David Newman on *Tommy Boy* (1995) and *Anastasia* (1997). He arranged and conducted music for R.E.M. on *Man on the Moon* (1999). Janko composed the score for *My Big Fat Greek Wedding* (2002), the highest-grossing romantic comedy of its time; the RIAA-certified soundtrack won a BMI Film Music award.

His directorial debut, *Year by the Sea* (2016), which he also wrote and scored, won 16 festival awards including Best Film and Best Screenplay.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmmusic.com, filmscoremonthly.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Big Fat Greek Wedding* (2002), Fi1m 70, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/my-big-fat-greek-wedding.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Year by the Sea* (2016), Writer, Director
- *Mosquito-Man* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *My Big Fat Greek Wedding* (2002), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/my-big-fat-greek-wedding.md)
- *Brokedown Palace* (1999), Orchestrator
- *A Night at the Roxbury* (1998), Orchestrator
- *The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue* (1997), Original Music Composer, Conductor

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