

Director William Friedkin, impressed with Tyler's work on Frailty, engaged him to compose for The Hunted (2003), which earned Tyler a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 for Best New Film Composer of the Year. His work on Last Call (2002) earned him an induction into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Tyler's breakthrough came in the early 2000s, after composing for Frailty (2001). The following year, he and Red Elvises composed the score for Six-String Samurai (1998). Tyler's first film score was for the independent film Bartender (1997), directed by Gabe Torres. Robert Kraft, who was impressed with Tyler's music, encouraged him to pursue a career in film scoring. Tyler began scoring features shortly after graduating from Harvard. Growing up, he taught himself to play dozens of musical instruments, including drums, piano, guitar, bass, cello, world percussion, synthesizer, charango and bouzouki. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a master's from Harvard University. One of his first major influences was his pianist grandmother.

His grandfather was art director Walter H.

Tyler was born and raised in Orange County, California. As of November 2017, his films have grossed $12 billion worldwide, putting him in the top 10 highest-grossing film composers of all time. His composition for the film Last Call earned him the first of three Emmy nominations, a gold record, and induction into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For his work as a film composer, he won the IFMCA Awards 2014 Composer of the Year. He is also behind the soundtrack of many television series including Yellowstone.

He composed the NFL Sunday Countdown Theme for ESPN and the Formula One theme (also used in Formula 2 and Formula 3). He also composed and re-arranged the current fanfare of the Universal Pictures logo, originally composed by Jerry Goldsmith, for Universal Pictures' 100th anniversary, which debuted with The Lorax (2012), and composed the 2013–2016 Marvel Studios logo, which debuted with Thor: The Dark World (2013), which he also composed the film's score. In his 24-year career, Tyler has scored seven installments of the Fast & Furious franchise, Rambo, Eagle Eye, The Expendables trilogy, Iron Man 3, Now You See Me, Avengers: Age of Ultron with Danny Elfman, Crazy Rich Asians and The Super Mario Bros. Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, and record producer, best known for his film, television, and video game scores.
