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Stephen McLaughlin(I)

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Stephen McLaughlin
Grammy Award winning producer Steve McLaughlin has produced, recorded and mixed the scores for more than a hundred and fifty major feature films, including the Die Hard series, the Lethal Weapon series, and the Academy Award nominated scores for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Michael Collins (1996) Steve began his career in film in 1987, when he was approached by composer Michael Kamen to work on the score for Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me (1987). Kamen and McLaughlin worked together for the next 15 years. In 1991 Steve produced, with Kamen and co-producer Chris Brooks, the classic score for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) The soundtrack album went on to sell over 3.5 million copies. 1995 saw Steve win a Grammy Award for his work on Tom Petty's Wildflowers album. Between 1995 - 1998 Steve received two Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, and two Nominations, for Best Scoring Mixer. In 2001/2, Steve produced Badly Drawn Boy aka Badly Drawn Boy's critically acclaimed score for the Weitz Brothers' About a Boy (2002). Layer Cake (2004) led to a collaboration with director Matthew Vaughn and composer Ilan Eshkeri, through Stardust (2007) and Kick-Ass (2010) Recent work includes further collaboration with Eshkeri and director Ralph Fiennes, on Coriolanus (2011) and The Invisible Woman (2013).
BornOctober 25, 1960
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

    Known for

    Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult in About a Boy (2002)
    About a Boy
    7.1
    • Music Department(as Steve McLaughlin)
    • 2002
    Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988)
    Die Hard
    8.2
    • Music Department(as Stephen E. McLaughlin)
    • 1988
    Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
    6.9
    • Music Department(uncredited)
    • 1991
    Leaving Neverland (2019)
    Leaving Neverland
    7.0
    TV Mini Series
    • Music Department(as Steve McLaughlin)
    • 2019

    Credits

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    Music Department



    • As Deep as the Grave
      • music producer
      • Post-production
      • 2026



    • Emily Fairn, Fionn O'Shea, James Norton, Anthony Boyle, and Louis Partridge in House of Guinness (2025)
      House of Guinness
      7.4
      TV Series
      • music mixer
      • 2025
    • Star Wars Outlaws (2024)
      Star Wars Outlaws
      7.1
      Video Game
      • recording engineer (as Steve McLaughlin)
      • 2024
    • Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Leslie Bibb, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Kristen Wiig, Kaia Gerber, and Amber Chardae Robinson in Palm Royale (2024)
      Palm Royale
      6.8
      TV Series
      • score supervisor
      • 2024
    • Christopher Reeve in Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
      Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
      8.0
      • original score recorded & mixed by
      • 2024
    • Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 3 (2023)
      The Equalizer 3
      6.8
      • music mixer (as senior recording engineer)
      • 2023
    • Jennifer Lopez in The Mother (2023)
      The Mother
      5.7
      • recording engineer
      • 2023
    • Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)
      The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
      6.9
      • music producer
      • 2023
    • Gemma Arterton in Funny Woman (2022)
      Funny Woman
      7.5
      TV Series
      • music consultant (as Steve McLaughlin)
      • 2022–2023
    • Will Smith in Emancipation (2022)
      Emancipation
      6.3
      • music producer
      • 2022
    • Doug Cockle, Griff Rhys Jones, Nicole Faraday, Catriona Knox, Adele Congreve, and Arran Kemp in Future TX (2022)
      Future TX
      6.0
      • score supervisor (as Steve McLaughlin)
      • 2022
    • Nicola Walker in Annika (2021)
      Annika
      7.3
      TV Series
      • music score supervisor
      • 2021
    • Antonio Banderas, Morgan Freeman, Salma Hayek, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ryan Reynolds in Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
      Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
      6.1
      • music mixer
      • 2021
    • The Sims 4 Bust the Dust Kit (2021)
      The Sims 4 Bust the Dust Kit
      3.2
      Video Game
      • music producer
      • 2021
    • Tom & Jerry (2021)
      Tom & Jerry
      5.3
      • score recorded by (as Steve McLaughlin)
      • 2021
    • A Perfect Planet (2021)
      A Perfect Planet
      9.0
      TV Mini Series
      • music producer
      • 2021

    Sound Department



    • Metallica: S&M (2000)
      Metallica: S&M
      8.8
      TV Special
      • sound mixer
      • symphony recorder
      • 2000
    • Jon Bon Jovi, Anna Galiena, and Thandiwe Newton in The Leading Man (1996)
      The Leading Man
      5.6
      • sound recording mixer (as Steve McLaughlin)
      • 1996
    • Christopher Eccleston in Let Him Have It (1991)
      Let Him Have It
      7.1
      • sound engineer
      • 1991
    • The Wall: Live in Berlin (1990)
      The Wall: Live in Berlin
      8.5
      Video
      • assistant sound engineer
      • 1990

    Composer



    • Chaos (2002)
      Chaos
      3.7
      • Composer (as Steve McLaughlin)
      • 2002
    • Redemption Road (2001)
      Redemption Road
      6.8
      • Composer
      • 2001
    • County Kilburn (2000)
      County Kilburn
      6.8
      • Composer
      • 2000
    • Pat Condell: Stand and Deliver
      6.9
      TV Special
      • Composer
      • 1998

    Personal details

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    • Alternative names
      • Gohl/McLaughlin
    • Born
      • October 25, 1960
      • Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

    Did you know

    • Trivia
      Began his musical career as the drummer in the late '70s punk group The Cubs, which was a part of the literary art-punk scene centered around a pub near an art college in Edinburgh. His fellow art-punkers in this scene included The Fire Engines, The Scars, and the most popular of the set, Josef K.

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