Biography

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).
- IMDb mini biography by: Steve McLaughlin

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.

Later moved on to join up with Scars (who had since dropped the "The" from their name and recorded several singles) in 1980, when their original drummer left the group. As a member of the band, he participated in the recording of the band's sole LP, and performed two songs with them on the UK music program "The Old Grey Whistle Test". The band disbanded in 1982. In late 2006, he oversaw the remastering process as the LP, entitled Author! Author!, was finally released onto CD.