---
name: "Paul Buckmaster"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-buckmaster"
fi1m_id: "paul-buckmaster"
imdb_id: "nm0118729"
tmdb_id: 1020074
wikidata_id: "Q374682"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "13 June 1946"
died: "7 November 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:04:39.897384+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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# Paul Buckmaster

## Identity

Paul Buckmaster

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-buckmaster
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-buckmaster
- **IMDb ID:** nm0118729
- **TMDB ID:** 1020074
- **Wikidata ID:** Q374682
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Buckmaster, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374682, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1020074

Composer. Born 13 June 1946 in London, England, UK. Died 7 November 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 13 June 1946, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 7 November 2017
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Buckmaster, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374682, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1020074

## Biography

Paul Buckmaster (1946–2017) was a British cellist, arranger, conductor and composer. Born in London, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and began his career in classical music before moving into popular music and film.

He is best known for his orchestral arrangements on recordings by David Bowie, Elton John, the Rolling Stones and many others. His film work includes the original score for *Twelve Monkeys* (1995), for which he also served as conductor and orchestrator, and the score for *Most Wanted* (1997). He also contributed to the soundtrack for Roman Polanski’s *Macbeth* (1971). Buckmaster won a Grammy Award in 2002 for his arrangement of Train’s “Drops of Jupiter”.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Twelve Monkeys* (1995), Fi1m 82, Music, Orchestrator, Conductor, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/twelve-monkeys.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Elton John: Never Too Late* (2024), as Voice - Organiser
- *Mean Streak* (1999), Music
- *Most Wanted* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *The Maker* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Murder in Mind* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *The Rainbow Warrior* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Twelve Monkeys* (1995), Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/twelve-monkeys.md)
- *The Last Word* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Out-of-Sync* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Love and Curses... and All That Jazz* (1991), Music
- *Eerie, Indiana* (1991), series, Original Music Composer
- *İki Başlı Dev* (1990), Music
- *Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue* (1990), Music
- *Midnight Crossing* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Mt. Fuji* (1984), Music
- *Son of Dracula* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Macbeth* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Elton John In Concert BBC 1970* (1970), Sound

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals 2001: Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals (won), for *Drops of Jupiter*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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