Nathan W. Barr (born February 9, 1973; also known as Nate Barr) is an American film and television composer and musician. His television scores include True Blood, The Americans, Carnival Row, and The Great. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2020 for his work on the miniseries Hollywood.
Early life
Barr started studying music in Tokyo, Japan at the age of four. He studied cello and English literature at Skidmore College.
Career In 1996, Barr moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in composing film and television scores. One of his first jobs was working under the tutelage of Hans Zimmer on the films As Good as It Gets and The Prince of Egypt. After 8 months with Zimmer, Barr landed an agent and branched out on his own. Since then, Barr has scored a large array of feature films and TV series, including all episodes of HBO's series True Blood.
In 2009, Barr co-wrote and produced a song with Pete Townshend for FX's The Americans called "It Must Be Done" and in 2005 Barr hired Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top to play guitar on his score for The Dukes Of Hazzard.
Filmography Film Year Title Director Notes 1998 Hairshirt Dean Paras Traveling Companion Paula Goldberg Short film 1999 Beyond the Mat Barry W. Blaustein Documentary film From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter P. J. Pesce Direct-to-video film 2000 The Virginian Bill Pullman Television film Red Dirt Tag Purvis 2001 Venus and Mars Harry Mastrogeorge Going Greek Justin Zackham Big Time Jerry Heiss 2002 Cabin Fever Eli Roth 2003 Briar Patch Zev Berman 2005 2001 Maniacs Tim Sullivan The Dukes of Hazzard Jay Chandrasekhar Hostel Eli Roth 2007 Grindhouse Thanksgiving segment Rise: Blood Hunter Sebastian Gutierrez Watching the Detectives Paul Soter Hostel: Part II Eli Roth 2008 Shutter Masayuki Ochiai Lost Boys: The Tribe P. J. Pesce 2009 The Slammin' Salmon Kevin Heffernan 2010 Open House Andrew Paquin The Last Exorcism Daniel Stamm 2011 The Ledge Matthew Chapman 2013 The Big Wedding Justin Zackham 2015 The Boy Next Door Rob Cohen Composed with Randy Edelman featuring vocal by Lisbeth Scott Hollywood Adventures Timothy Kendall 2017 Flatliners Niels Arden Oplev 2018 The Domestics Mike P. Nelson Additional Music by Stephen Lukach The House with a Clock in Its Walls Eli Roth The Parting GlassStephen Moyer 2020 The Turning Floria Sigismondi Additional Music by Justin Caine Burnett The Hunt Craig Zobel Additional Music By Justin Caine Burnett & Stephen Lukach Uncle Frank Alan Ball 2021 Kate Cedric Nicolas-Troyan 2022 Prey for the Devil Daniel Stamm 2023 The Beanie Bubble Kristin GoreDamian Kulash Composed with Damian Kulash 2024 A Bit of Light Stephen Moyer 'Salem's Lot Gary Dauberman Composed with Lisbeth Scott
Television series Year Title Notes 2000 Fear 2001 Kate Brasher 2008–14 True Blood 2013–15 Hemlock Grove Composed with Todd Haberman 2013–18 The Americans 2014 Tumble Leaf 2015–17 Sneaky Pete Composed with Stephen Lukach 2016 Greenleaf 2017 The Son 2019 Fosse/Verdon The Rook Additional music by Justin Caine Burnett Carnival Row 2020The GreatIncludes Bird on a Wire by Simone Istwa Hollywood 2022–25The Tiny Chef Show Theme song composer 2023The Diplomat Composed with Dimitri Smith
Awards 2010 BMI Award for Original Score for True Blood Season 2 (HBO) 2009 Hollywood Media in Music Award for Best Score for True Blood (HBO) 2009 BMI Award for Original Score for True Blood (HBO) 2006 BMI Award for Music for Film: The Dukes of Hazzard
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| | rowspan="6"| Primetime Emmy Award | rowspan="4"| Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music | The Americans | |rowspan="2"| |- | Hemlock Grove
! scope="row" rowspan="3"| | Carnival Row | | rowspan="4"| |- | rowspan="2"| Hollywood
| rowspan="2"|Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special
! scope="row" rowspan="1"| | A Very British Scandal: Episode 1
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