---
name: "T Bone Burnett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/t-bone-burnett"
fi1m_id: "t-bone-burnett"
imdb_id: "nm0122439"
tmdb_id: 1483
wikidata_id: "Q1225141"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "14 January 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-01T20:34:40.902936+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."
---

# T Bone Burnett

## Identity

T Bone Burnett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/t-bone-burnett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** t-bone-burnett
- **IMDb ID:** nm0122439
- **TMDB ID:** 1483
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1225141
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Bone_Burnett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225141, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122439/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1483

Producer. Born 14 January 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 14 January 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Active:** 1980–2014
- **Also known as:** T-Bone Burnett, Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III, Joseph Henry Burnett III
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 acting, 3 producing, 2 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Colin Farrell](https://film.one/person/colin-farrell.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 79 (1), 2000s 77 (3), 2010s 84 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 73 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Music 2, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $306m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Bone_Burnett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225141, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122439/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1483

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*True Detective*](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md) (80), [*Walk the Line*](https://film.one/film/walk-the-line.md) (78)

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## Biography

T Bone Burnett is an American composer, record producer, musician and songwriter. Born Joseph Henry Burnett III on 14 January 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, he grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He played guitar in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour in the mid-1970s.

Burnett is known for his work on film soundtracks, including as music producer and composer for *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), for which he won multiple Grammy Awards. He also contributed to *Walk the Line* (2005), *Crazy Heart* (2009) and *Cold Mountain* (2003). He won an Academy Award for the song “The Weary Kind” from *Crazy Heart*. Other credits include music for *True Detective* (2014) and *The Hunger Games* (2012).

He produced the album *Raising Sand* (2007) by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year. Burnett has been married to screenwriter and producer Callie Khouri since 2006.

*Sources: imdb.com, britannica.com, cbsnews.com, tboneburnett.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (1)

- *Heaven's Gate* (1980), Fi1m 79, as Heaven's Gate Band — [page](https://film.one/film/heavens-gate.md)

### Produced (3) — the average rests on these

- *Crazy Heart* (2009), Fi1m 71, Producer, Music, Original Music Composer, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/crazy-heart.md)
- *Walk the Line* (2005), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer, Executive Music Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/walk-the-line.md)
- *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music, Music Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)

### Crew (2)

- *True Detective* (2014), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)
- *Inside Llewyn Davis* (2013), Fi1m 87, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/inside-llewyn-davis.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Ringo & Friends at the Ryman* (2025), Producer
- *Downtown Owl* (2023), Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
- *The Old Man* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind* (2022), Producer
- *Top Gun: Maverick* (2022), Music Consultant — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/top-gun-maverick.md)
- *American Epic* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30* (2017), Director
- *The Way of Folk* (2016), Thanks
- *Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones* (2015), Actor
- *Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued* (2014), Music
- *True Detective* (2014), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)
- *Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'* (2013), Producer
- *Inside Llewyn Davis* (2013), Executive Music Producer, Songs — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/inside-llewyn-davis.md)
- *A Place at the Table* (2012), as Compositor, Songs
- *The Hunger Games* (2012), Executive Music Producer, Additional Music, Songs — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games.md)
- *Crazy Heart* (2009), Producer, Original Music Composer, Songs — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/crazy-heart.md)
- *Walk the Line* (2005), Original Music Composer, Executive Music Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/walk-the-line.md)
- *Don't Come Knocking* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Cold Mountain* (2003), as Songs — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/cold-mountain.md)
- *Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Bob* (2001), as Bob
- *Down from the Mountain* (2001), Executive Producer
- *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), Original Music Composer, Music Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/o-brother-where-art-thou.md)
- *The Larry Sanders Show* (1992), series, as T Bone Burnett — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-larry-sanders-show.md)
- *In 'N Out* (1984), Music
- *Heaven's Gate* (1980), as Heaven's Gate Band — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/heavens-gate.md)
- *Renaldo and Clara* (1978), as The Inner Voice
- *Grendel*, as The Shaper, Songs

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 2010: Best Original Song (won), for *The Weary Kind*
- 2004: Best Original Song (nominated), for *The Scarlet Tide*

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

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