Stephen McLaughlin
An image from The Impossible, one of the productions that also features Stephen McLaughlin.
Stephen McLaughlin

Stephen McLaughlin

October 25, 1960 — Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

Grammy Award winning producer Steve McLaughlin has produced, recorded and mixed the scores for more than a hundred and fifty major feature films, including "Robin Hood", "Prince of Thieves", the "Die Hard" series, the "Lethal Weapon" series, "The Closer", "Kick Ass", the Academy Award nominated scores for "Interview With The Vampire" and "Michael Collins", and many more.

Steve has collaborated with directors including Francis Coppolla, Robert Altman, Michael Mann, Brad Bird and Ridley Scott. Notable films Steve has mixed include Michael Mann’s "Heat", "Don Juan De Marco", "Batman Forever", Brad Bird’s "The Iron Giant" (winner of an Annie award for Best Music), "X-Men".

A specialist in helping composers who are new to the film scoring genre and adapting rock music into underscore, Steve was the architect and producer of Badly Drawn Boy’s highly regarded score for Chris and Paul Weitz’s "About A Boy".

Began his musical career as the drummer in the late 1970s punk group The Cubs. His fellow art-punkers in this scene included The Fire Engines, The Scars, and the most popular of the set, Josef K. Later moved on to join up with Scars in 1980, when their original drummer left the group. As a member of the band, he participated in the recording of the band's sole LP, and performed two songs with them on the UK music program "The Old Grey Whistle Test". The band disbanded in 1982. In late 2006, he oversaw the remastering process as the LP, entitled Author! Author!, was finally released onto CD.

Die Hard

Die Hard

1988

Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass

2010

X-Men

X-Men

2000

Heat

Heat

1995

The Impossible

The Impossible

2012

The Iron Giant

The Iron Giant

1999

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1995

Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire

1994