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John Powell
London, England
John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films. He is best kno…
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John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films. He is best known for composing scores for films, including Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wicked and its sequel, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, The Call of the Wild, Bolt, eight Blue Sky Studios films, and nine DreamWorks Animation films. His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand, and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him three 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. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Carlos Saldanha, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Benjamin Renner, Chris Renaud, George Miller, John Woo, Ron Underwood, Doug Liman, Charles Stone III, Simon Otto, Jared Hess, and Paul Greengrass. 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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2027
Shrek 5
Movie Original Music Composer
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2026
Minions & Monsters
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
Wicked: For Good
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks
TV show Himself
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2025
How to Train Your Dragon
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2025
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2024
That Christmas
Movie Original Music Composer
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2024
Wicked
Movie Original Music Composer
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2024
Thelma the Unicorn
Movie Original Music Composer
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2024
The Last Ranger
Movie Music
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2023
Migration
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Movie Original Music Composer
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2022
Don't Worry Darling
Movie Conductor
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2022
Ice Age: Scrat Tales
TV show Original Music Composer
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2021
Locked Down
Movie Original Music Composer
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2020
The Call of the Wild
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Movie Original Music Composer
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2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Ferdinand
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Movie Self
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2016
Jason Bourne
Movie Original Music Composer
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2015
Pan
Movie Original Music Composer
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2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Movie Original Music Composer
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2014
Rio 2
Movie Original Music Composer
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2012
Serenade
Movie Additional Music
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2012
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Movie Original Music Composer
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2012
The Lorax
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Happy Feet Two
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Book of Dragons
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Kung Fu Panda 2
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Rio
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Mars Needs Moms
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
Knight and Day
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
Fair Game
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
How to Train Your Dragon
Movie Original Music Composer
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2010
Green Zone
Movie Original Music Composer
