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cleanup-linkrot|date=August 2011Infobox musical artist | name = Nicholas Hooper| image =| caption =| image_size =| alias =| genre = Film scores | occupation = Composer | instrument =| years_active = 1985-present| label =| associated_acts =| website =| background=non_performing_personnel Nicholas Hooper is a England|British film and television composer. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon , as well as the TV movies The Girl in the Café and My Family and Other Animals among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award for Original Score in 2004 for The Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for Prime Suspect (UK TV series)|Prime Suspect: The Final Act : starring Helen Mirren .cite web|url= http://www.coolmusicltd.com/Composers/Nicholas-Hooper/Nicholas-Hooper.html|title=Nicholas Hooper|publisher=COOL Music Limited|accessdate=2007-01-16
His highest-profile score is for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix reuniting with old friend director David Yates with whom he had worked before on The Tichborne Claimant (film)|The Tichborne Claimant , The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial)|The Way We Live Now , State of Play (TV serial)|State of Play , The Young Visiters and The Girl in the Café . This was Hooper's first work on a blockbuster movie.cite web|author=Mikael Carlsson|url= http://www.filmmusicweekly.com/issues/FM_Weekly_050807.pdf|title=Hooper writes new themes for Potter film|publisher=Film Music Weekly|date=2007-05-08|accessdate=2008-04-28 Hooper was chosen again by Yates for the following Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award|Grammy . http://www.grammy.com/grammy_Awards/52nd_show/list.aspx dead link|date=February 2012 However, he chose not to return for the final two installments.cite news|url= http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/2716 Hooper moved on to score the soundtrack to the Disney documentary African Cats , which was chosen as one of the 97 Original Scores eligible for a nomination at the 84th Academy Awards in 2011.cite web|url= http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2011/20111222.html |title=97 Original Scores in 2011 Oscar® Race & #124; Press Release & #124; The Academy |publisher=Oscars.org |date= |accessdate=2012-02-22
Works
Land of the Tiger (1985)
''The Weaver's Wife (1991)
Good Looks (1992)
The Time Traveller (1993)
Punch (1996)
The Tichborne Claimant (film)|The Tichborne Claimant (1998)
The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial)|The Way We Live Now (2001) BAFTA Nomination
The Secret (2002)
The Heart of Me (2003)
The Future is Wild (2003)
Loving You (2003)
State of Play (TV serial)|State of Play (2003) BAFTA Nomination
The Young Visiters#Adaptations|The Young Visiters (2003) BAFTA Winner
Persondata | NAME = Hooper, Nicholas | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Hooper, Nicholas Category:English film score composers Category:British television composers Category:Living people Category:Harry Potter music
