Alex Wurman (born October 5, 1966) is an American composer hailing from Chicago. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. Wurman has written many film scores, including those for Hollywood Homicide, Criminal, Anchorman, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, March of the Penguins, What Doesn't Kill You, The Nines, Hero, and Temple Grandin, The Switch.
Alex Wurman won the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score), for his work on Temple Grandin.
Wurman was also a judge for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.
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“My smiling child
Named for a noble ancestor
Great hunter or warrior
You will be one day.
Which will give your papa pride
But always I will remember you thus.”
—African Lullaby. As quoted in Roots, by Alex Haley (1976)