
Curt Sobel, MPSE
Credits: Ray, Ghostbusters: Afterlife
CURT SOBEL is a Supervising Music Editor, Music Supervisor, songwriter, composer, and music producer.
His film credits include Ray, The Revenant, An Officer, and a Gentleman, Risky Business, Detroit, The Insider, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Way Back, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Gypsy, Heat, and the upcoming, 13: The Musical.
Directors and Producers he has worked with include Taylor Hackford, Michael Mann, Alejandro Inarritu, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Barry Levinson, Gavin O’Connor, Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, and both Ivan and Jason Reitman.
Artists Curt has worked with include Prince, Ray Charles, Mick Jagger, Donald Fagen, Keith Richards, Cher, Bette Midler, The Blue Man Group, Jamie Foxx, and Santana.
Composers he has worked with include Tom Newman, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Dave Grusin, Bruce Broughton, Marco Beltrami, and Rob Simonsen.
As a songwriter, Curt won an Emmy for HBO’s Cast a Deadly Spell and co-wrote the theme song for Netflix’s Benji with Stephen Bishop.
As a film composer, Curt has scored numerous films including Alien Nation, A Cool, Dry Place, The Flamingo Kid, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – Transylvania episode as well as several ILM amusement park rides.
Curt has been nominated for 7 MPSE Awards winning twice for Ray and Get On Up.
Curt has served on the AMPAS’s Music Branch Executive committee for over 35 years and is a long-time member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.