Giovinazzo, Rick

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GIOVINAZZO, Rick

(Ricky Giovinazzo)

PERSONAL

Brother of Buddy Giovinazzo (an actor, director, and writer); cousin of Carmine Giovinazzo (an actor).

Career: Music orchestrator and composer. Work includes orchestrations for audio recordings, including Painted from Memory.

CREDITS

Film Music Orchestrator:

(Uncredited) Trojan War (also known as Rescue Me), 1997.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (also known as Mortal Kombat 2), 1997.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (also known as Austin Powers—Das schaerfste, was ihre majestaet zu bieten hat), 1997.

Beverly Hills Ninja, TriStar, 1997.

Black Dog, 1998.

Wild Things (also known as Wildthings), 1998.

One Man's Hero (also known as El batallon de san patricio, Heroes sin patria, and Herois sense patria), 1999.

The Astronaut's Wife, 1999.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (also known as Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me), New Line Cinema, 1999.

Isn't She Great (also known as Ist sie nicht grossartig?), MCA/Universal, 2000.

Ready to Rumble, Warner Bros., 2000.

Urban Legends: Final Cut (also known as Legendes urbaines: la suite, Legendas urbaines 2, and Leyendas urbanas: corte final), Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2000.

Get Carter, Warner Bros., 2000.

Speaking of Sex, Europa Filmes, 2001.

Kingdom Come, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001.

3000 Miles to Graceland, Warner Bros., 2001.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2001.

Scary Movie 2 (also known as Scarier Movie), Miramax/Dimension Films, 2001.

Joe Somebody, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001.

The Scoundrel's Wife (also known as The Home Front and Homefront), Miracle Entertainment, 2002.

Austin Powers in Goldmember (also known as Austin Powers: Goldmember), New Line Cinema, 2002.

The Santa Clause 2 (also known as The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause and SC2), Buena Vista, 2002.

X2 (also known as X-Men 2, X-Men 2: X-Men United, and X2 X-Men United), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2003.

The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Digi-Flicks International/Plaster City Productions, 2004.

The Big Bounce, Warner Bros., 2004.

Catch That Kid (also known as Mission Without Permission), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2004.

Dawn of the Dead, Universal, 2004.

New York Minute, Warner Bros., 2004.

The Bourne Supremacy (also known as Die Bourne verschwoerung), Universal, 2004.

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (also known as Anacondas 2: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid), Sony Pictures Releasing, 2004.

Team America: World Police, Paramount, 2004.

Spanglish, Columbia, 2004.

Hide and Seek, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2005.

Aliens of the Deep (documentary), Buena Vista, 2005.

The Island, DreamWorks, 2005.

Additional orchestrations, Fantastic Four, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2005.

Film Appearances:

(As Ricky Giovinazzo) Frankie Dunlan, Combat Shock, Troma, 1986.

Television Music Orchestrator; Movies:

Final Descent, 1997.

Miracle in the Woods, 1997.

Carriers (also known as Virus X—Die toedliche falle), 1998.

A Lesson Before Dying, HBO, 1999.

Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle (also known as Thumb Wars), 1999.

See You in My Dreams, CBS, 2000.

Amy & Isabelle (also known as Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle), ABC, 2001.

The Seventh Stream, CBS, 2001.

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, CBS, 2002.

Martin and Lewis, CBS, 2002.

Wilder Days, TNT, 2003.

Fallen Angel, CBS, 2003.

A Very Married Christmas, CBS, 2004.

Plainsong, CBS, 2004.

Television Music Orchestrator; Other:

Runway, 2000.

Polizeiruf 110-tiefe wunden, 2003.

Tatort-dreimal schwarzer kater, 2003.

WRITINGS

Film Scores:

Combat Shock, Troma, 1986.

The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Alma-Kino-Filmverleih, 1995.

No Way Home, Live Film and Mediaworks, 1996.

Everybody Dies (also known as The Unscarred), 1999.

Fallen Arches, 2000.

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