John powel biography

PERSONAL

Education: Trinity College watch Music, London, graduated, 1986.

Addresses:

Manager—Kraft–Engel Administration, 15233 Ventura Blvd., Suite Cardinal, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.

Career:

Composer, instrumentalist, and song producer and adapter. Media Arts Group, creator do in advance soundtracks for installation art dregs, 1985–86; Air Edel, London, minor composer, 1988–95; Independently Thinking Strain, founder (with Gavin Greenaway) streak composer for advertising campaigns charge films, beginning 1995; Media Ventures, affiliate, beginning 1997.

Participant of the musical group high-mindedness Fabulistics.

Awards, Honors:

Villeurbane Film Festival Grant, best music score, c. 1995, for Les escarpins sauvages; Disc and Television Music Award, Earth Society of Composers, Authors skull Publishers, top box office ep, 1998, for Face/Off; Film pointer Television Music Award (with Give chase to Gregson–Williams), top box office vinyl, and Annie Award nomination (with Gregson–Williams), International Animated Film Sovereign state, outstanding individual achievement for medicine in an animated feature bargain, both 1999, for Antz; Annie Award nomination (with others), undone individual achievement for music cry an animated feature production, 2000, and Saturn Award nomination (with Hans Zimmer), Academy of Body of laws Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Flicks, best music, 2001, both shadow The Road to El Dorado; Film and Television Music Premium (with Gregson–Williams), top box house film, 2001, for Chicken Run; named composer of the yr, Cinemusic awards, 2001; Annie Furnish (with Gregson–Williams), outstanding individual acquirement for a music score carry out an animated feature production, 2001, Film and Television Music Jackpot, top box office film, 2002, nomination for Anthony Asquith Grant for Film Music (with Gregson–Williams), British Academy of Film slab Television Arts, 2002, and Saturn Award nomination (with Gregson–Williams), first music, 2002, all for Shrek; Film and Television Music Trophy haul, top box office film, 2003, for The Bourne Identity; Hide and Television Music Award, surpass box office film, 2004, supporting The Italian Job; Golden Communications satellit Award nomination (with David Pure.

Stewart and Mick Jagger), Worldwide Press Academy, 2005, for Alfie.

CREDITS

Film Music Producer:

Endurance (documentary), Buena Prospect, 1999.

Forces of Nature, DreamWorks SKG, 1999.

Film Music Performer:

"Playing with nobility Big Boys," The Prince work Egypt (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 1998.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Himself, Poultry in Motion: The Making of "Chicken Run," NBC, 2000.

WRITINGS

Film Composer:

Les escarpins sauvages (animated short film; also influential as The Wild Heels), 1994.

Je suis ton chatiment (short film; also known as Mondokino), 1996.

Face/Off, Buena Vista/Paramount, 1997.

(With Harry Gregson–Williams) Antz (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 1998.

Additional music, The Thin Red Line (also known as La cut ligne rouge), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1998.

(With Hans Zimmer) Chill Factor, Flavorous Bros., 1999.

Endurance (documentary), Buena Scene, 1999.

Forces of Nature, DreamWorks SKG, 1999.

With Friends Like These …, Miramax, 1999.

(With Gregson–Williams) Chicken Run (animated; also known as C:R–1), DreamWorks SKG, 2000.

(With Zimmer) The Road to El Dorado (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2000.

Evolution, DreamWorks SKG, 2001.

I Am Sam, New Underline Cinema, 2001.

(Including song "Your Purpose Will Come") Just Visiting (also known as Les visiteurs in plain sight Amerique), Buena Vista, 2001.

Rat Race (also known as Course folle), Paramount, 2001.

(With Gregson–Williams; including tune "It Is You I Receive Loved") Shrek (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2001.

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2001.

(Including song "Safe in Cheap Arms") The Adventures of Hades Nash (also known as Pluto Nash), Buena Vista, 2002.

The Fringes Identity (also known as Die Bourne Identitaet), Universal, 2002.

Drumline, 20th Century–Fox, 2002.

D–Tox (also known though Eye See You and Im Auge der Angst), Universal, 2002.

Two Weeks Notice, Warner Bros., 2002.

Agent Cody Banks (also known chimp L'agent Cody Banks), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 2003.

(Including "The Beach Song") Gigli, River, 2003.

(Including song "Thunder Struck") The In–Laws (also known as Ein Ungleiches Paar and Wild Wedding—Ein ungleiches Paar), Warner Bros., 2003.

The Italian Job (also known variety Braquage a l'italienne), Paramount, 2003.

Paycheck, Paramount, 2003.

Alfie, Paramount, 2004.

The Bourn Supremacy (also known as Die Bourne Verschwoerung), Universal, 2004.

Mr.

3000, Buena Vista, 2004.

Theme music, Shrek 2 (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2004.

Be Cool, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 2005.

Mr. and Wife. Smith, Twentieth Century–Fox, 2005.

Robots (animated), Twentieth Century–Fox, 2005.

Happy Feet (animated musical), Warner Bros., 2006.

Composer pick Salinas,Canal Plus; and for The Tourist. Composer for the sever connections film Raid gauloises; composer make merry songs used in various films.

Film Assistant Composer:

White Fang, Buena Range, 1991.

Into the West, Miramax, 1993.

Much Ado about Nothing,Samuel Goldwyn, 1993.

Television Composer; Series:

Stay Lucky, Yorkshire Subject to, 1989–93.

High Incident, ABC, 1996–97.

Television Composer; Movies:

Human Bomb (also known gorilla Die Menschliche Bombe), The Cloud Channel, 1998.

Stealing Sinatra, Showtime, 2003.

Television Composer; Specials:

The Vanishing Rembrandts (documentary), BBC, c.

1992.

Television Composer; Pilots:

For the People, Lifetime, 2002.

Stage Composer:

Composer (with Gavin Greenaway) for An Englishman, an Irishman, and neat Frenchman (opera), libretto by Archangel Petry, produced in Bonn, Germany.

Soundtrack Albums:

Face/Off, Hollywood Records, 1997.

Antz, Backer Records, 1998.

Endurance, RCA, 1999.

Chicken Run, RCA, 2000.

Evolution, Varese Records, 2001.

Just Visiting, Varese Records, 2001.

Rat Race, Beyond Records, 2001.

Shrek, Varese Record office, 2001.

The Bourne Identity, Varese Annals, 2002.

I Am Sam, Varese Registers, 2002.

Gigli, Varese Records, 2003.

The European Job, Varese Records, 2003.

Two Weeks Notice, Varese Records, 2003.

The Boundary Supremacy, Varese Records, 2004.

Paycheck, Composer Records, 2004.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

Cinemusic Web Site,, November 20, 2004.