Who composed the musical score for the 2000 film X-Men?

Michael Kamen composed the musical score for the 2000 film X-Men.

Kamen was an English composer, conductor, and songwriter whose work covered film, television, classical music, and rock collaborations. For X-Men, he created an orchestral score that helped establish the film’s serious, dramatic tone rather than treating the superhero material as pure comedy.

The score is sometimes confused with the music from later X-Men films. John Ottman composed X2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past, while John Powell scored X-Men: The Last Stand. Those films belong to the same series but have different composers.

X-Men was directed by Bryan Singer and released in 2000. Its success helped demonstrate that a major comic-book ensemble could support a commercially successful modern film franchise. Kamen’s score was one part of the film’s effort to balance spectacular powers with themes of prejudice, identity, and social conflict.