Craig Armstrong

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Craig Armstrong, OBE (born 29 April 1959), is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica, and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981 and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta.Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's Composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic Ray. His other feature film scoring credits include Love Actually, Oliver Stone's World Trade Centre, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Incredible Hulk. Armstrong was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Armstrong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2024
The Critic
Movie Original Music Composer
2023
The Great Escaper
Movie Original Music Composer
2021
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Movie Original Music Composer
2020
Dirt Music
Movie Original Music Composer
2020
The One and Only Ivan
Movie Original Music Composer
2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Movie Original Music Composer
2019
Mrs Lowry & Son
Movie Original Music Composer
2019
Orphans Reunited
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2016
Snowden
Movie Original Music Composer
2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
Movie Original Music Composer
2016
Me Before You
Movie Original Music Composer
2015
Victor Frankenstein
Movie Original Music Composer
2015
Far from the Madding Crowd
Movie Original Music Composer
2013
The Great Gatsby
Movie Original Music Composer
2012
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
TV show Original Music Composer
2011
In Time
Movie Original Music Composer