Carter Burwell was born on November 18, 1954 in New York City. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored 15 of their films. Burwell has scored three of Todd Haynes' films, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for Haynes' Carol (2015). He has also scored all the films of director Martin McDonagh with In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Other notable films scores include the Spike Jonze films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002) and Where the Wild Things Are (2009), David O. Russell's Three Kings (1999), Olive Kitteridge (2014) and Anomalisa (2015).