Christopher Lennertz

Christopher Lennertz
Birth name	Christopher Joseph Lennertz
Born	January 2, 1972 Methuen, Massachusetts, United States
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor
Instruments	Piano, orchestra
Years active	1998–present

Christopher Joseph Lennertz (born January 2, 1972) is an American musical composer for films, television shows, and video games. He is perhaps best known for his musical score for the 2007 film Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hop, Think Like A Man, and Warner Bros. comedy Horrible Bosses as well as the video game series Medal of Honor created by Steven Spielberg. He composed the score for Supernatural and more recently Revolution, two television series created by Eric Kripke. He also scored Galavant with Alan Menken and Marvel's Agent Carter.

Life and career

Lennertz was born in Methuen, Massachusetts. He attended Easton Area High School in Easton, Pennsylvania and then the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he studied with Academy Award-winner Elmer Bernstein.

Lennertz has written music for a variety of comedies such as Horrible Bosses, Ride Along, as well as Identity Thief, and Think Like A Man. He has also worked on hit family films including Hop, and Alvin and the Chipmunks and critically acclaimed dramas Adam and Thanks For Sharing.

He has worked with artists including Basil Poledouris, Michael Kamen, Ozomatli, Dave Grusin, Alan Menken, The RZA, Five For Fighting, and Alien Ant Farm. His collaboration with Ozomatli on their record Street Signs garnered a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock Album.

He was named best new composer in 2002 for his score to Clive Barker's Saint Sinner. He won several awards for his 2003 soundtrack to Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, the first of three Medal of Honor games composed by Lennertz. In 2006 he was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Musical Composition in a Series for his score for the pilot of the television series Supernatural, and he is the first recipient of the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for an Independent Feature Film for Tortilla Heaven.

Credits

Films

2000s

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2002	Saint Sinner	Joshua Butler	Syfy	Television film
2004	Soul Plane	Jessy Terrero	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	N/A
2006	Dr. Dolittle 3	Rich Thorne	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment	Direct-to-video film
	Shark Bait	Howard E. Baker John Fox	CJ Entertainment The Weinstein Company	N/A
2007	Tortilla Heaven	Judy Hecht Dumontet	Archangel Releasing	N/A
	The Comebacks	Tom Brady	Fox Atomic	N/A
	The Perfect Holiday	Lance Rivera	Destination Films Yari Film Group	N/A
	Alvin and the Chipmunks	Tim Hill	20th Century Fox	N/A
2008	Meet The Spartans	Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer	20th Century Fox	N/A
	Disaster Movie	Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer	Lionsgate	N/A
2009	Adam	Max Mayer	Fox Searchlight Pictures	N/A
	The Open Road	Michael Meredith	Anchor Bay Entertainment	N/A

2010s

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2010	To Save a Life	Brian Baugh	Samuel Goldwyn Films	N/A
	Marmaduke	Tom Dey	20th Century Fox	N/A
	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore	Brad Peyton	Warner Bros. Pictures	N/A
	La Horde	Benjamin Rocher Yannick Dahan	Canal+	N/A
	Vampires Suck	Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer	20th Century Fox	N/A
	Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam	Paul Hoen	Disney Channel	Television film
2011	Hop	Tim Hill	Universal Pictures Illumination Entertainment	N/A
	Lemonade Mouth	Patricia Riggen	Disney Channel	Television film
	Horrible Bosses	Seth Gordon	Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema	N/A
2012	Think Like a Man	Tim Story	Screen Gems	N/A
	Gimme Shelter	Patricia Riggen	Lionsgate Pantelion Films	N/A
2013	Identity Thief	Seth Gordon	Universal Pictures	N/A
	Remember Sunday	Jeff Bleckner	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Television film
	As Cool As I Am	Max Moyer	IFC Films	N/A
	Agent Carter	Louis D'Esposito	Marvel Studios	Marvel One-Shot film that inspired the TV series of the same name. Short film
	Battle of the Year	Benson Lee	Screen Gems	N/A
	Thanks for Sharing	Stuart Blumberg	Lionsgate	N/A
2014	Ride Along	Tim Story	Universal Pictures	N/A
	Think Like a Man Too	Tim Story	Screen Gems	N/A
	Horrible Bosses 2	Sean Anders	Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema	N/A
2015	The Wedding Ringer	Jeremy Garelick	Screen Gems Miramax Films	N/A
2016	The Boss	Ben Falcone	Universal Pictures	N/A
	Sausage Party[1]	Greg Tiernan Conrad Vernon	Columbia Pictures	R-rated animated film composed with Alan Menken
2017	Smurfs: The Lost Village[2]	Kelly Asbury	Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Animation Kerner Entertainment Company	N/A
	Baywatch	Seth Gordon	Paramount Pictures	N/A

Television

• Brimstone (1999)
• The Strip (2000)
• Supernatural (2005–present)
• Revolution (2012)^[3]
• Galavant (2015–2016) (with Alan Menken; song lyrics by Glenn Slater)
• Agent Carter (2015–2016)

Video games

• Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003)
• Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004)
• Medal of Honor: European Assault (2005)
• From Russia with Love (2005)
• Gun (2005)
• The Simpsons Game (2007) (with Timothy Michael Wynn, Mark Mothersbaugh, Albert Fox, John Enroth, Duff Gorman, Sid Cuttles, "DJ Poochie Pants", and Silas Hite)
• Warhawk (2007) (with Timothy Michael Wynn)
• Quantum of Solace (2008)
• The Godfather II (2009)
• Mass Effect 2: Overlord (2010)
• Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker (2010)
• The Sims 3: Pets (2011)
• Mass Effect 3 (2012)
• Starhawk (2012)
• Madden NFL 25 (2013)
• Scalebound (2017)

References

1. "Christopher Lennertz Scoring 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2'". Film Music Reporter. Film Music Reporter. February 15, 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
2. "Christopher Lennertz to score Smurfs: The Lost Village". filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
3. "Christopher Lennertz to Score Eric Kripke's & J.J. Abrams' 'Revolution'".

External links

• Official website
• Christopher Lennertz at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview at Tracksounds