Brandon Moore (composer)
Brandon Moore (born November 25, 1976) is an American film composer from Arlington, Texas. He is best known for scoring Universal’s Aliens Ate My Homework (2018) and its sequel Aliens Stole My Body (2020), which feature William Shatner and George Takei. He also scored the Hulu comedy-horror series Killer Sisters’ Midnight Hour (2012) and the drama The Year I Did Nothing (2019), which won Best Drama at the IFS Festival.
Moore has been a musician since childhood and developed a love for film music early on. He started with piano and viola, then played trombone in high school. His father, John Moore, was an architect, and his mother, Cheryl Ford-Mente, worked in nonprofit communications and participated in community theater. He credits his dad for inspiring his interest in film scores, recalling soundtracks by John Williams from a young age.
He earned a Bachelor of Music in music theory and composition from Texas Christian University in 1999, then moved to Los Angeles to study film scoring at USC’s Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program, studying with Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin, and Christopher Young. Since 2000 he has written scores for a wide range of films and festival projects worldwide. His honors include the 2024 Hollywood Blood Horror Festival Best Original Score for Don’t Raise The Dead (The Board Game); a 2018 Audio Verse Awards finalist honor for The Current (Earbud Theater); and a 2012 Park City Film Music Festival nomination for The Table.
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