Lee Sanders


Lee Sanders is an American composer who began his composing career in 2001 with his scores for New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings website and CBS's reality-competition show The Amazing Race. Lee has won six BMI Film and Television Awards for his work, as well as the 2008 Film and Television Music Award for Outstanding Reality Show Score. His credits span dozens of television programs, films and works for theatre, video games and new media such as the 300th episode of Skeptoid with Brian Dunning.

Work

Sanders has scored hundreds of episodes of network television, including music for nine-time Emmy award-winner The Amazing Race, The Bachelor, Project Runway and many others. Lee has taught film scoring for UCLA Extension, and is a frequent lecturer for emerging composers and filmmakers at both USC and UCLA. He also serves as a member of the Music Peer Group Executive Committee of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
As a conductor, orchestrator and additional music composer, Sanders has also contributed to shows such as Family Guy, Charmed, Fairly Oddparents, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and Disney’s House of Mouse.

Filmography

This is a partial list of works Sanders has created or been involved with.