---
name: "Leo Birenberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/leo-birenberg"
fi1m_id: "leo-birenberg"
imdb_id: "nm3681192"
tmdb_id: 1272997
wikidata_id: "Q36745238"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 60
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-22T02:52:09.285315+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."
---

# Leo Birenberg

## Identity

Leo Birenberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/leo-birenberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** leo-birenberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm3681192
- **TMDB ID:** 1272997
- **Wikidata ID:** Q36745238
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36745238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3681192/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1272997

Composer. Born 1 January 1988 in Kentucky, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1988, Kentucky, USA
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Zach Robinson](https://film.one/person/zach-robinson.md), [Alyssa Forleiter](https://film.one/person/alyssa-forleiter.md), [Elizabeth Banks](https://film.one/person/elizabeth-banks.md), [Eric Appel](https://film.one/person/eric-appel.md), [Michael Jonathan Smith](https://film.one/person/michael-jonathan-smith.md), Kitao Sakurai
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 58 (3), 2020s 62 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 60 to 58 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 6, Action & Adventure 1, Drama 1, Family 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $66m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36745238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3681192/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1272997

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Weird: The Al Yankovic Story*](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md) (77), [*Movie 43*](https://film.one/film/movie-43.md) (24)
- **Hulu:** [*PEN15*](https://film.one/tv/pen15.md) (80)
- **Netflix:** [*Cobra Kai*](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md) (70)

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## Biography

Leo Birenberg is an American composer and orchestrator for film and television. Born in Kentucky and raised in Chicago, he studied composition at New York University and the University of Southern California.

After graduating, a chance encounter with composer Christophe Beck led to work as score coordinator on projects including *The Muppets* (2011) and *Frozen* (2013). He later contributed additional music to films such as *Edge of Tomorrow* (2014) and *Ant-Man* (2015). Birenberg has composed original scores for *Movie 43* (2013), *Bottoms* (2023) with Charli XCX, and *The Breadwinner* (2026) with Zach Robinson. His television work includes *Cobra Kai* (2018–) and *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022). He has received Emmy nominations and ASCAP awards for his scores.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- *The Breadwinner* (2026), Fi1m 35, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-breadwinner.md)
- *Bottoms* (2023), Fi1m 73, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md)
- *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022), Fi1m 77, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md)
- *PEN15* (2019), Fi1m 80, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/pen15.md)
- *Cobra Kai* (2018), Fi1m 70, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md)
- *Movie 43* (2013), Fi1m 24, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/movie-43.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

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

- *Never Stop Chasing* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Super Troopers 3* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *The Breadwinner* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 35, [page](https://film.one/film/the-breadwinner.md)
- *Pizza Movie* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *The Man Who Saves the World?* (2025), Music
- *Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man* (2025), series, Original Music Composer
- *How to Rob a Bank* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Jurassic World: Chaos Theory* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *Obliterated* (2023), series, Original Music Composer
- *Every Part Of You* (2023), Music
- *Bottoms* (2023), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md)
- *Twisted Metal* (2023), series, Original Music Composer
- *Butcher's Crossing* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Interrupting Chicken* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md)
- *Mack & Rita* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Anything's Possible* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Secret Society of Second-Born Royals* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *Helter Skelter: An American Myth* (2020), series, Music
- *Die Hart* (2020), series, Music
- *Central Park* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *Red Penguins* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Plus One* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *PEN15* (2019), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/pen15.md)
- *Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *Cobra Kai* (2018), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md)
- *F the Prom* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Blimp-Maker* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *The Peanuts Movie* (2015), Additional Music
- *Ant-Man* (2015), Additional Music — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/ant-man.md)
- *Red Army* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Edge of Tomorrow* (2014), Music Score Producer, Additional Music — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/edge-of-tomorrow.md)
- *Mysteries of the Jules Rimet Trophy* (2014), Music
- *Movie 43* (2013), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 24, [page](https://film.one/film/movie-43.md)

## Gallery

- ![Leo Birenberg](https://film.one/media/person/15611/gallery-8f56ad6cfba2.jpg) Leo Birenberg — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Leo_Birenberg_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Leo_Birenberg_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Leo Birenberg](https://film.one/media/person/15611/gallery-e14bb61fff76.jpg) Leo Birenberg — Image via TMDB
- ![Leo Birenberg](https://film.one/media/person/15611/gallery-32ff40bae966.jpg) Leo Birenberg — Image via TMDB

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