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John Powell
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John Powell is a British composer, film score composer, conductor, and recording artist. Born in London in 1963, he holds United Kingdom citizenship and speaks English. His professional career in film scoring began in 1990. Powell was educated at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
He has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. His work is categorized under film score and classical genres, often featuring instrumental and soundtrack elements. Powell resides in Scottsdale and has two children.
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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 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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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1963
Discography
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- Listeners
- 825,790
- Total plays
- 21,729,014
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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
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1963-09-18 ) 18 September 1963 (age 62) , London , England
- Origin
- East Sussex , England
- Genres
- Film score
- Occupations
- Music composer, music conductor
- Years active
- 1989–present
- Label
- 5 Cat Studios
- Website
- johnpowellmusic .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Powell
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film score
- Genre
- film score
- Image
- John Powell with his Score (cropped, denoised).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Scottsdale
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- date of birth
- 1963-09-18
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- name in native language
- John Powell
- Commons category
- John Powell (film composer)
- start of work period
- 1990-00-00
- different from
- John Powell
- social media followers
- 139000
- related category
- Category:Films scored by John Powell
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Encyclopedic overview
John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English music composer and music conductor. Based in Los Angeles, California since 1997, Powell has composed music for over 70 feature films, including Face/Off, the Bourne franchise, Happy Feet and its sequel Happy Feet Two, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wicked and its sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, The Call of the Wild, Bolt, That Christmas, Thelma the Unicorn, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, eight Blue Sky Studios films and ten DreamWorks Animation films.
Powell's work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Wicked, and the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon have earned him six Grammy Award nominations. Additionally, he earned two Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for the original How to Train Your Dragon and Wicked.
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