Three-time Emmy-winning composer Gary Lionelli received a 2017 Primetime Emmy nomination for his score for the 2017 Academy Award-winning film O.J.: Made in America, directed by Ezra Edelman, depicting the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson from football legend to murder suspect.

He also scored Rory Kennedy’s 2015 Academy Award-nominated film Last Days in Vietnam and HBO’s dramatic series Luck, helmed by Michael Mann and David Milch and starring Dustin Hoffman, and the forthcoming romantic comedy Poor Greg Drowning, for director Jeffrey Scott Collins. Most recently he scored Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, for Brian Grazer and Ron Howard at Imagine Entertainment, directed by Rory Kennedy. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Gary’s other work has included the HBO films Foster, by Academy Award-winning filmmakers Deborah Oppenheimer and Mark Jonathan Harris, and A Choice of Weapons, directed by John Maggio. Recent credits also include The Clinton Affair by filmmakers Blair Foster and Alex Gibney, and Nuclear Family, for director Ry Russo-Young.

As an addition to working with orchestra, Gary performs on many of the instruments heard in his scores. These include many strange and unusual instruments from all over the globe such as a glass euphone, dulcitone, guitar-viol, and many more.

Gary currently lives in Los Angeles, California.