Curt Elliot Sobel, born on October 26, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American composer, and music editor. In 1992 Sobel won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (shared with lyricist Dennis Spiegel) for the song "Why Do I Lie?" from the HBO film Cast a Deadly Spell.His film scores include The Flamingo Kid (1984), Alien Nation (1988), Catchfire (1990), Defenseless (1991), A Cool, Dry Place (1998), Body Count (1998), and Tiptoes (2003). Sobel is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Berklee College of Music.