Film Music
Fitzpatrick has created the soundtracks for over two-dozen films including: Disney's teen hit Jump In!, the animated The Proud Family Movie, Anne Rice penned Queen of the Damned, David Zucker's record-breaking Scary Movie 3, the Bill Gates-Steve Jobs' docu-drama Pirates of Silicon Valley, George Harrison's British comedy Nuns on the Run, Miramax's In Too Deep, and Ice Cube's & Chris Tucker's Hip Hop classic Friday.
Fitzpatrick was named one of the "Top Music Supervisors of the Decade" (1990's) by Variety Magazine. He has contributed to the sale of over 6 million soundtrack albums. He has recorded his own music with orchestras around the world including the China National Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra National de Venezuela.
In 2009, Fitzpatrick brought together a group of like-minded artists - including Grammy Award winner Van Hunt, New Orleans born rapper Supervision, Buku Wise and singers from the original Hidden Faces - to create the featured song "Be On Our Way" for Tim Story's film Hurricane Season, featuring Forest Whitaker.
In 2010, Frank Fitzpatrick's song Soul Music, performed by Anthony Hamilton, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. The song was the title track for the motion picture Soul Men (Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac and Sharon Leal).
Fitzpatrick produced the original soundtrack for the film Beat The World, released in 2011 featuring collaborations between KRS-One and K'Naan, Talib Kweli and Sway, Nneka and Ziggy Marley, and Les Nubians and MV Bill.
In 2011, Fitzpatrick composed the score and created an original soundtrack for the film Urban Roots, a documentary from Tree Media following the urban farming phenomenon in his hometown, Detroit.
Fitzpatrick composed the original score and theme songs, as well as produced the soundtrack, featuring Arturo Sandoval and Alpha Diallo, for the Canadian period drama High Chicago, making its debut at the 2012 Pan African Film Festival. He recorded the original score for Amazing, a partnership between Shanghai Film Group and the National Basketball Association (NBA), with the China National Symphony Orchestra featuring lead soprano Ying Huang. His title song from the film, The Kiss (also featuring singer Huang) was performed live as the opening number for the 2012 Shanghai International Film Festival and is expected to be released in the Fall of 2012.
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