One of the film industry's top talents in the field of Film Music Supervision best known for his work with Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone. Budd has applied his expertise to every Sto ...Show More
One of the film industry's top talents in the field of Film Music Supervision best known for his work with Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone. Budd has applied his expertise to every Stone film since Salvador, including, Platoon, JFK, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, and Savages. He has supervised over 80 films and worked with many renowned directors in addition to Stone including Michael Mann, James Cameron, Terry George, Norman Jewison, Mike Newell and Tate Taylor.Budd began his professional career as a music agent with the national talent agencies CMA, IFA and ICM, representing acts including The Cream, James Taylor, Bob Seger, Carole King, Crosby-Stills-Nash and Young, and Eric Clapton. Launching his own management company in 1980 he handled the careers of multi-platinum acts Kansas, Captain & Tennille, Heatwave, Asia and Slaughter.He served as a Film Consultant / Head of Music for Peter Guber's Mandalay Pictures at both Sony Pictures and Paramount Films, and as the Senior Film Music Supervisor for EMI Music Publishing, Windswept Pacific, and Overture Films.Budd continues to work as a producer and music supervisor for motion pictures, television and soundtracks. He has produced many soundtrack albums including; Natural Born Killers, the critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated film Hotel Rwanda as well as the soundtracks for the award winning Showtime TV series Californication starring David Duchovony. As a film producer Budd is developing a slate of music documentaries, the first of which Miracles Out of Nowhere celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the rock group Kansas. It will be released by Sony in 2015.He was nominated for the 2010 Hollywood Music & Media Award for Outstanding Music Supervision in Film for his work on Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps and he received the Hollywood Music & Media Award for Outstanding Music Supervision Television with Nora Felder for their work on the Showtime Series "Californication."Budd's 2014 projects included Get On Up the James Brown biopic staring Chadwick Boseman directed by Academy Award nominated director Tate Taylor produced by Brian Grazer and Mick Jagger, Lullaby staring Garrett Hedlund, Amy Adams, Terrance Howard, Richard Jenkins, Jennifer Hudson and Oliver Stone's Showtime documentary series The Untold History of the United States.He is a member Executive Committee of the City of Hope's Music, Film and Entertainment Industry Group and on the Advisory Board for California State University Entertainment Studies Program. He has served on the Board of Governors for The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and is the founder and Co-Chairman of the Grammy Foundation's Film Music Scoring Program. Hide
