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John Powell (b. 1963)

Birthplace:
London, England

Born:
September 18, 1963

Biography from TheMovieDB

John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores in films. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over seventy feature films. Powell is best known for composing and/or co-composing scores for animated films, such as Antz (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Chicken Run (2000), Shrek (2001), Robots (2005), the second through fourth Ice Age films (2006–2012), the Happy Feet films (2006–2011), Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Bolt (2008), the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy (2010–2019), the Rio films (2011–2014), Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012), and Ferdinand (2017).  His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him 3 Grammy nominations. He was nominated for an Academy Award for How to Train Your Dragon.  Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams on Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek and Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to El Dorado, and the first two Kung Fu Panda films.  Description above from the Wikipedia article John Powell (film composer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Additional Music:
1998  The Thin Red Line

Compositors:
1998  The Thin Red Line
1998  With Friends Like These...

Conductor:
1998  The Thin Red Line
1998  With Friends Like These...
2022  Don't Worry Darling

Music Director:
1998  The Thin Red Line
1998  With Friends Like These...
2022  Don't Worry Darling
2024  Wicked
2025  Wicked: Part Two

Original Music Composer:
1996  I Am Your Punishment
1997  Face/Off
1998  Antz
1998  Human Bomb
1998  The Thin Red Line
1998  With Friends Like These...
1999  Chill Factor
1999  Endurance
1999  Forces of Nature
2000  Chicken Run
2000  The Road to El Dorado
2001  Evolution
2001  I Am Sam
2001  Just Visiting
2001  Man and Cat
2001  Rat Race
2001  Shrek
2002  D-Tox
2002  Drumline
2002  The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002  The Bourne Identity
2002  Two Weeks Notice
2003  Agent Cody Banks
2003  Gigli
2003  Paycheck
2003  Stealing Sinatra
2003  The Italian Job
2004  Alfie
2004  Mr. 3000
2004  The Bourne Supremacy
2005  Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty
2005  Be Cool
2005  Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005  Robots
2006  Happy Feet
2006  Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006  United 93
2006  X-Men: The Last Stand
2007  P.S. I Love You
2007  The Bourne Ultimatum
2008  Bolt
2008  Hancock
2008  Horton Hears a Who!
2008  Jumper
2008  Kung Fu Panda
2008  Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
2008  Stop-Loss
2009  Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009  Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009  Super Rhino
2010  Fair Game
2010  Green Zone
2010  How to Train Your Dragon
2010  Knight and Day
2010  Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010  Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2011  Book of Dragons
2011  Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2011  Happy Feet Two
2011  Kung Fu Panda 2
2011  Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
2011  Mars Needs Moms
2011  Rio
2012  Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012  The Lorax
2013  Moshi Monsters: The Movie
2014  How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014  Rio 2
2015  Pan
2016  Jason Bourne
2017  Ferdinand
2018  Solo: A Star Wars Story
2019  How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2020  The Call of the Wild
2021  Locked Down
2022  Don't Worry Darling
2023  Migration
2023  STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2024  That Christmas
2024  Thelma the Unicorn
2024  Wicked
2025  How to Train Your Dragon
2025  Wicked: Part Two

Songs:
1996  I Am Your Punishment
1997  Face/Off
1998  Antz
1998  Human Bomb
1998  The Thin Red Line
1998  With Friends Like These...
1999  Chill Factor
1999  Endurance
1999  Forces of Nature
2000  Chicken Run
2000  The Road to El Dorado
2001  Evolution
2001  I Am Sam
2001  Just Visiting
2001  Man and Cat
2001  Rat Race
2001  Shrek
2002  D-Tox
2002  Drumline
2002  The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002  The Bourne Identity
2002  Two Weeks Notice
2003  Agent Cody Banks
2003  Gigli
2003  Paycheck
2003  Stealing Sinatra
2003  The Italian Job
2004  Alfie
2004  Mr. 3000
2004  The Bourne Supremacy
2005  Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty
2005  Be Cool
2005  Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005  Robots
2006  Happy Feet
2006  Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006  United 93
2006  X-Men: The Last Stand
2007  P.S. I Love You
2007  The Bourne Ultimatum
2008  Bolt
2008  Hancock
2008  Horton Hears a Who!
2008  Jumper
2008  Kung Fu Panda
2008  Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
2008  Stop-Loss
2009  Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009  Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009  Super Rhino
2010  Fair Game
2010  Green Zone
2010  How to Train Your Dragon
2010  Knight and Day
2010  Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010  Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2011  Book of Dragons
2011  Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2011  Happy Feet Two
2011  Kung Fu Panda 2
2011  Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
2011  Mars Needs Moms
2011  Rio
2012  Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012  The Lorax
2013  Moshi Monsters: The Movie
2014  How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014  Rio 2
2015  Pan
2016  Jason Bourne
2017  Ferdinand
2018  Solo: A Star Wars Story
2019  How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2020  The Call of the Wild
2021  Locked Down
2022  Don't Worry Darling
2023  Migration
2023  STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2024  That Christmas
2024  Thelma the Unicorn
2024  Wicked
2025  How to Train Your Dragon
2025  Wicked: Part Two

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TV Production

Original Music Composer:
2022  Ice Age: Scrat Tales

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