Biography
Mychael Danna is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He was born on 20 September 1958 in Winnipeg and studied music composition at the University of Toronto, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award in 1985.
Danna began scoring feature films in 1987 with Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing and has since collaborated extensively with Egoyan on titles including The Sweet Hereafter (1997). His other notable scores include The Ice Storm (1997), (500) Days of Summer (2009), Life of Pi (2012) and No Hard Feelings (2023). He won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Score for Life of Pi and an Emmy Award for his work on the miniseries World Without End.
