Carter has scored a number of feature films, including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Being John Malkovich, Before Night Falls, Adaptation, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Burn After Reading, Where The Wild Things Are, Twilight, The Kids Are All Right, True Grit, Seven Psychopaths, Carol and Anomalisa while teaching and continuing to compose for dance (The Return of Lot's Wife), theatre (Cara Lucia, Theater of the New Ear) and other work.

He has contributed to the following Raven albums: