---
name: "Joseph Trapanese"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joseph-trapanese"
fi1m_id: "joseph-trapanese"
imdb_id: "nm2468967"
tmdb_id: 1098740
wikidata_id: "Q6287481"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "7 August 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-25T09:54:54.957039+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."
---

# Joseph Trapanese

## Identity

Joseph Trapanese

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joseph-trapanese
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joseph-trapanese
- **IMDb ID:** nm2468967
- **TMDB ID:** 1098740
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6287481
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Trapanese, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6287481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2468967/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1098740

Composer. Born 7 August 1984 in New Jersey, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 7 August 1984, New Jersey, USA
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Also known as:** Joe Trapanese
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (6), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 67 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Action 2, Adventure 2, History 2, Action & Adventure 1, Animation 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,630m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Trapanese, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6287481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2468967/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1098740

## Coming up

- *Animal Friends* (2027-01-21), Original Music Composer

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Straight Outta Compton*](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md) (76), [*The Witcher*](https://film.one/tv/the-witcher.md) (61), [*David*](https://film.one/film/david.md) (58)
- **Disney+:** [*The Raid*](https://film.one/film/the-raid.md) (83)
- **Hulu:** [*Arctic*](https://film.one/film/arctic.md) (75)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Wolf Warrior 2*](https://film.one/film/wolf-warrior-2.md) (71)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Greatest Showman*](https://film.one/film/the-greatest-showman.md) (54)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joseph Trapanese is an American composer, conductor, arranger and music producer. Born in New Jersey in 1984, he studied composition at the Manhattan School of Music and earned an M.A. in music for visual media at UCLA, where he taught electronic music and composition from 2008 to 2011.

Trapanese began his film work collaborating with Daft Punk on the score for *Tron: Legacy* (2010). He has since composed for *The Raid* (2012, with Mike Shinoda), *The Raid 2* (2014), *Oblivion* (2013, with M83), *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), for which he received a Black Reel Award, and *The Greatest Showman* (2017, with John Debney). His television credits include *The Witcher* and *Shadow and Bone*. He is also credited on the forthcoming film *Whalefall* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, allmusic.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *David* (2025), Fi1m 58, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/david.md)
- *The Witcher* (2019), Fi1m 61, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-witcher.md)
- *Arctic* (2018), Fi1m 75, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/arctic.md)
- *The Greatest Showman* (2017), Fi1m 54, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-greatest-showman.md)
- *Wolf Warrior 2* (2017), Fi1m 71, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-warrior-2.md)
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), Fi1m 76, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *The Raid* (2012), Fi1m 83, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-raid.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

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

- *Animal Friends* (2027), Original Music Composer
- *Whalefall* (2026), Original Music Composer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/whalefall.md)
- *He Bled Neon* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *David* (2025), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/david.md)
- *The Ritual* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *G20* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep* (2025), Original Music Composer, Songs
- *Brilliant Minds* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *Scott Pilgrim Takes Off* (2023), series, Original Music Composer
- *No One Will Save You* (2023), Conductor, Original Music Composer
- *Skull Island* (2023), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Machine* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *America the Beautiful* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Spiderhead* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *To What Remains* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *8-Bit Christmas* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Prisoners of the Ghostland* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Shadow and Bone* (2021), series, Original Music Composer
- *Awaken* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Happily* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Myth: A Frozen Tale* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Finding ʻOhana* (2021), Music
- *Spontaneous* (2020), Music
- *Project Power* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Coffee & Kareem* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *The Witcher* (2019), series, as Announcer · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-witcher.md)
- *Lady and the Tramp* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Stuber* (2019), Conductor, Original Music Composer
- *Arctic* (2018), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/arctic.md)
- *Robin Hood* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Crossmaglen* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *My Pretty Pony* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Greatest Showman* (2017), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-greatest-showman.md)
- *Imbroglio* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Only the Brave* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Wolf Warrior 2* (2017), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-warrior-2.md)
- *Shimmer Lake* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Siege of Jadotville* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Jean-Claude Van Johnson* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *Dead of Summer* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *Allegiant* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Quantico* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *Daft Punk Unchained* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Insurgent* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Earth to Echo* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Raid 2* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Wonder Woman* (2013), series, Original Music Composer
- *Oblivion* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *She Said, She Said* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Tependris Rising* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *TRON: Uprising* (2012), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Raid* (2012), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-raid.md)
- *Heart* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Countdown: Armageddon* (2009), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
- *Cooped Up*, Music

## Gallery

- ![Trapanese conducting his score for Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" (2019) at Sony Scoring Stage.](https://film.one/media/person/96043/gallery-3fe20c53dc15.jpg) Trapanese conducting his score for Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" (2019) at Sony Scoring Stage. — Bluebonsai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Joseph_Trapanese_2019.jpg/1280px-Joseph_Trapanese_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joseph Trapanese](https://film.one/media/person/96043/gallery-7ab1cb6299c0.jpg) Joseph Trapanese — Bluebonsai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Joseph_Trapanese_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Joseph_Trapanese_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Trapanese conducting his score for Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" (2019) at Sony Scoring Stage.](https://film.one/media/person/96043/gallery-4dbf1a4a6b82.jpg) Trapanese conducting his score for Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" (2019) at Sony Scoring Stage. — Bluebonsai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Joseph_Trapanese_2019_%28cropped%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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