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Biography
Pinar Toprak (Pınar Toprak in Turkish) is a Turkish-American composer for film, television and video games. She has won two International Film Music Critics Association Awards for The Lightkeepers (2009) and The Wind Gods (2013).
Toprak was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, where she began her classical musical education at the age of five. After studying composition and multiple instruments at the conservatory, she moved to Chicago to study jazz, then Boston. She joined the music production company Media Ventures International (now known as Remote Control), home of film composer Hans Zimmer.
Toprak most recently scored Captain Marvel (2019), the Superman prequel series Krypton, the Pixar animated shortPurl., the HBO documentary series McMillions, and the DC series Stargirl.
Discography
 | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Hold The Rice | Alfonso Pineda Ulloa | Short film |
| Headbreaker | |||
| 2005 | When All Else Fails | David Ellison | |
| 2006 | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | James Dodson | |
| 2007 | Daydreamer | Brahman Turner | |
| Sinner | Marc Benardout | ||
| Fall Down Dead | Jon Keeyes | ||
| In the Name of the Son | Harun Mehmedinović | Short film | |
| Say It in Russian | Jeff Celentano | ||
| 2008 | Ocean of Pearls | Sarab Singh Neelam | with Karsh Kale & Snatam Kaur |
| 2009 | The Crimson Mask | Elias Plagianos | |
| Breaking Point | Jeff Celentano | ||
| The Lightkeepers | Daniel Adams | ||
| 2011 | Last Will | Brent Huff | |
| The River Murders | Rich Cowan | ||
| Girls! Girls! Girls! | Shana Betz Beth Grant Tracie Laymon Jennifer Lynch Barbara Stepansky America Young | with Heather Schmidt | |
| 2012 | Vamperifica | Bruce Ornstein | |
| How to Have a Happy Marriage | Jennifer Lynch | ||
| Restos | Alfonso Pineda Ulloa | Short film | |
| 2013 | The Wind Gods | Fritz Mitchell | Documentary film |
| 2015 | The Challenger | Kent Moran | |
| The Curse of Downers Grove | Derick Martini | ||
| In Utero | Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal | Documentary film | |
| 2017 | The Monster Project | Victor Mathieu | with Emir Işılay |
| Justice League | Zack Snyder | Additional music Main score by Danny Elfman | |
| 2018 | The Angel | Ariel Vromen | |
| 2019 | Purl | Kristen Lester | Short film |
| Captain Marvel | Anna Boden Ryan Fleck | ||
| Skyfire | Simon West | |
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Beyond Loch Ness | Television film |
| Ogre | ||
| Ba'al | ||
| 2009 | Wyvern | |
| 2010 | Mongolian Death Worm | |
| Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf | ||
| 2016 | Falling Water | 4 episodes |
| 2018-2019 | Krypton | 20 episodes |
| 2020-present | Stargirl | |
| 2020 | McMillions | 6 episodes |
Video games
- Ninety-Nine Nights (2006)
- Fortnite (2017) (additional music)
Other work
- Christina Aguilera: The Xperience Las Vegas Residency (2019) (residency intro)