John Powell
Sign in to saveEnglish composer of film scores (born 1963)
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- Born
- 1925
- Works
- 104
Top works
- Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?
- Ironbridge Gorge Through Time
- Return To The Garden City
- Solving the riddle of self
- A theology of the apostolate of the church
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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,…
Known for
- Soaring to Life: The Making of How to Train Your Dragon — Self2025
- Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks — Himself2025
- Score: A Film Music Documentary — Self2017
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John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), Robots, Happy Feet (and its sequel), three Ice Age sequels, Rio, and the How to Train Your Dragon film series, for which he was nominated for an
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,366x
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Key dates
- Born
- 18 September 1963
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Powell
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film score
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