Editing Nick Cave (section)

==== Film scores and theatre music ====
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| quote   = "When Cave makes a brief appearance in the film's waning minutes—playing a grungy troubadour, of course, strolling the length of a bar as he growls the oft-sung folk tribute to [[Jesse James]]—you almost get the feeling that in some ways it's been Cave, by way of his score, telling the story all along."
|source  = {{mdash}} ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' reviewing [[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (soundtrack)|the soundtrack]] for ''[[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]]'' (2007)<ref>Klein, Joshua (1 February 2008). [https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11121-the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/ "Nick Cave / Warren Ellis: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"], ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''. Retrieved 22 March 2021.</ref>
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Cave creates original film scores with fellow Bad Seeds band member [[Warren Ellis (musician)|Warren Ellis]]—they first teamed up in 2005 to work on Hillcoat's [[bushranger]] film ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'', for which Cave also wrote the screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.infilm.com.au/?p=87&_r=true |access-date=15 October 2012 |title=Archived copy |archive-date=13 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113010207/http://www.infilm.com.au/?p=87&_r=true |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2007, Cave and Ellis composed the music for [[Andrew Dominik]]'s adaptation of [[Ron Hansen (novelist)|Ron Hansen]]'s ''[[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11121-the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/|title=Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford|website=Pitchfork.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> By the time Dominik's film was released, Hillcoat was preparing his next project, ''[[The Road (2009 film)|The Road]]'', an adaptation of [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s [[The Road|novel]] about a father and son struggling to survive in a [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] world. Cave and Ellis wrote and recorded the score for the film, which was released in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r25c|title=Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Road Review|website=[[BBC]]|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> In 2011, Cave and Ellis reunited with Hillcoat to score his latest picture, ''[[Lawless (film)|Lawless]]''. Cave also authored this screenplay based on [[Matt Bondurant]]'s novel ''[[The Wettest County in the World]]'' (2008). Set in Depression-era [[Franklin County, Virginia]], the film was released in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-nick-cave-interview|title=Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth'|author=Sean O'Hagan|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref>

In 2016, Cave and Ellis scored the neo-Western film ''[[Hell or High Water (film)|Hell or High Water]]'', directed by [[David Mackenzie (director)|David Mackenzie]]. The following year, they scored [[Taylor Sheridan]]'s neo-Western ''[[Wind River (film)|Wind River]]'', as well as Australian director [[David Michôd]]'s ''[[War Machine (2017 film)|War Machine]]''.

Cave and Ellis have also scored a number of documentary films, including ''[[The English Surgeon]]'' (2007), ''[[West of Memphis]]'' (2012), ''[[Prophet's Prey]]'' (2015) and ''[[The Velvet Queen]]'' (2021). Cave and Ellis created music for the Icelandic theatre group [[Vesturport]] productions ''[[Woyzeck]]'', ''[[The Metamorphosis]]'' and ''[[Faust]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faust inspired by Goeth|url=http://vesturport.com/theater/faust/|website=[[Vesturport]]|date=13 November 2009|access-date=6 December 2013}}</ref>