Randall Poster is an American music supervisor and a long-term collaborator with Wes Anderson.[1] He worked on the films Skyfall (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The Irishman (2019),[2] as well as the TV series Vinyl (2016).[3]
Passionate about music and film, he started in music supervision sourcing songs for a script he co-wrote with a friend at the Sundance Institute.[4] In 2011, Poster's work on the Boardwalk Empire soundtrack earned him a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack.[5]
The Guardian defined Randall's soundtracks as "simply great jukeboxes."[6] He is the founder of the music supervision company Search Party[7] sourcing music for film, TV, advertisement and branded content. In advertising, his credits include Prada,[8] Jimmy Choo and Calvin Klein.
In addition, Poster co-wrote the screenplay for A Matter of Degrees, a film set in and around a college radio station, directed by W.T. Morgan and released in 1991.