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Biography
Other peopleBLP IMDB refimprove|date=April 2008Infobox musical artist| image = John_Powell.jpg| image_size =| background = non_performing_personnel| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1963|9|18|df=y| death_date =| origin = London , England , United Kingdom | genre = Film scores | occupation = Composer , Conductor (music)|Conductor , Music producer | instrument = Piano , Violin | years_active = 1990-present| label =| associated_acts =| website = John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English People|English composer , best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, in addition to his live-action collaborations with directors Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass . His 2010 score for the film How to Train Your Dragon earned him his first Academy Award for Best Original Score|Academy Award nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards . He was a member of Hans Zimmer 's music studio, Remote Control Productions , and collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams and Zimmer himself.
Life and career
Powell was born in London . He originally trained as a violinist as a child, before studying at London's Trinity College of Music . He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band the Fabulistics. On leaving college, he composed music for commercials, which led to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film)|Much Ado About Nothing .
In 1995, he co-founded the London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music, which produced scores for more than 100 British and French commercials and independent films.
Powell's first film score was for the 1990 film Stay Lucky (film)|Stay Lucky . He moved to the United States|U.S. in 1997, and scored his first major film, Antz in 1998, the first film produced by DreamWorks Animation which he co-scored with fellow British composer Harry Gregson-Williams . Two years later the two collaborated again to compose the score to Chicken Run , and again the following year on Shrek , which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . All subsequent Shrek films however, have been scored solely by Gregson-Williams. During 2001 he also scored Evolution (film)|Evolution , I Am Sam , Just Visiting (film)|Just Visiting , and Rat Race (film)|Rat Race .
In 2002 Powell was hired to score The Bourne Identity (2002 film)|The Bourne Identity , after Carter Burwell left the project, and has gone on to score all of director Doug Liman 's subsequent films. He also returned to score the other two films in the series; The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum , which were both directed by British director Paul Greengrass .
Following the Bourne films, Powell collaborated with Liman again to score the 2005 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith . That year, he also scored Robots (film)|Robots .
In 2006, he scored Greengrass' United 93 (film)|United 93 . He also composed music for Ice Age: The Meltdown , following David Newman (composer)|David Newman , who scored the first Ice Age (film)|Ice Age film, as well as X-Men: The Last Stand , and Happy Feet , for which he won a Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for an Animated Feature Film. The following year he scored The Bourne Ultimatum . In 2008 he collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer to score Kung Fu Panda , and also wrote music that year for Jumper (film)|Jumper , Hancock (film)|Hancock , and Bolt (2008 film)|Bolt . In 2009 he scored the third, and to date, most popular installment in the Ice Age series; Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs|Dawn of the Dinosaurs .
In 2010, Powell composed the score to How To Train Your Dragon . This was his sixth score for a DreamWorks Animation film, although the first where he composed the whole score himself. It also became his first work to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score . That year, he has also scored Greengrass' Green Zone (film)|Green Zone , and Knight and Day .
1998 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Face/Off
1999 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Antz (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2001 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Chicken Run (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2001 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music Score an Animated Feature Production - Shrek (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2002 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Shrek (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2003 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - The Bourne Identity (2002 film)|The Bourne Identity
2004 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - The Italian Job
2005 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - The Bourne Supremacy
2006 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2006 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Robots
2009 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - Kung Fu Panda (with Hans Zimmer )
2009 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form - Secrets of the Furious Five|Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (with Henry Jackman and Hans Zimmer )
2011 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture|How To Train Your Dragon
2011 International Film Music Critics Association|IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for an Animated Feature - How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture|How To Train Your Dragon
2011 International Film Music Critics Association|IFMCA Award for Film Score of the Year - How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture|How To Train Your Dragon
Nominations
1998 Saturn Award for Best Music - Face/Off
1999 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production - Antz (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2000 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production - The Road to El Dorado (with Hans Zimmer , Elton John and Tim Rice )
2001 Saturn Award for Best Music - The Road to El Dorado (with Hans Zimmer )
2001 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Original Score - Chicken Run (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2002 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music|BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - Shrek (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2002 Saturn Award for Best Music - Shrek (with Harry Gregson-Williams )
2005 Golden Satellite Award for Best Original Score - Alfie (2004 film)|Alfie (with David A. Stewart and Mick Jagger )
2007 Saturn Award for Best Music - X-Men: The Last Stand
2007 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - Ice Age: The Meltdown
2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music|BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - Happy Feet
2008 Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - Happy Feet
2008 Satellite Award for Best Original Score - Horton Hears a Who& #33; (film)|Horton Hears a Who!
2008 Saturn Award for Best Music - The Bourne Ultimatum
2009 Saturn Award for Best Music - Jumper (film)|Jumper
2009 Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production - Horton Hears a Who& #33; (film)|Horton Hears a Who!
2010 Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2011 Saturn Award for Best Music - How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture|How To Train Your Dragon
2011 BAFTA Award for Best Original Music - How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture|How To Train Your Dragon
2011 Academy Award for Best Original Score - How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture|How To Train Your Dragon
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External links
IMDb name|694173
http://www.soundtrack.net/composers/database/? id=171 SoundtrackNet - John Powell Biography
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