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John Powell was born on 18 September, 1963 in London, England, is an English film composer (born 1963). Discover John Powell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Occupation Composer, conductor, producer
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 18 September 1963
Birthday 18 September
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1963

John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer best known for his film scores.

John Powell was born on 18 September 1963 in London.

As a child, he played the violin and viola.

His skill in the violin allowed him to study at Trinity College of Music, central London (now the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, London).

There, he met John Ashton Thomas, who orchestrated many of Powell's scores.

Powell played for "Faboulistics", an amateur rock and roll band.

After finishing college, he composed music for commercials, which led to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including Much Ado About Nothing.

1995

In 1995, Powell co-founded the London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music with Gavin Greenaway, which produced scores for more than 100 British and French commercials and independent films.

Powell's first score was for the Season 4 of the TV series Stay Lucky.

1997

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 score for films, including Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, 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 moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and scored his first major film, Face/Off.

1998

It was followed by Antz in 1998, the first film produced by DreamWorks Animation, which he co-scored with fellow British composer Harry Gregson-Williams, which also marked the duo's first score for an animated film.

Two years later, Powell collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer on the score for The Road to El Dorado.

Later that year, he collaborated with Gregson-Williams again on the score to Chicken Run; they collaborated again the following year on Shrek.

Gregson-Williams composed all the subsequent Shrek films himself.

2001

In 2001 he also scored Evolution, I Am Sam, Just Visiting and Rat Race.

2002

In 2002 Powell was hired to score The Bourne Identity after Carter Burwell left the project, and has gone on to score all of director Doug Liman's subsequent films.

He also returned to score the series' other two films, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, under British director Paul Greengrass.

2005

Powell collaborated with Liman again to score Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).

2006

In 2006, he scored Greengrass' United 93.

He also composed music for his second Blue Sky film Ice Age: The Meltdown, following David Newman, who scored the first Ice Age film; as well as X-Men: The Last Stand and Happy Feet, for which he won a Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for an Animated Feature Film.

The next year he scored The Bourne Ultimatum.

2008

In 2008 he reunited with Hans Zimmer and returned to DreamWorks Animation to score Kung Fu Panda, and also wrote music for Jumper, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, Hancock, and Bolt.

2009

In 2009 he scored the third film of Ice Age series; Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

2010

In 2010, Powell composed the score to How to Train Your Dragon, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

It was his sixth DreamWorks Animation film, although the first where he composed the whole score himself.

That year he also scored Greengrass's Green Zone and Knight and Day.

2013

In 2013, Powell took a sabbatical year from film scoring.

2016

In April 2014, after completing his scores to sequels Rio 2 and How to Train Your Dragon 2, he announced he would take another break to compose concert music, including a 45-minute oratorio to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of World War I. The piece, "A Prussian Requiem", with a libretto by Michael Petry, premiered on 6 March 2016 at The Royal Festival Hall, London with José Serebrier conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.

2017

That year he also scored Robots for Blue Sky Studios, and went on to score many of the studio's subsequent films until 2017's Ferdinand.

2018

Powell composed the score for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), collaborating with John Williams, who wrote Han Solo's theme.

2019

In 2019, Powell scored How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the final film in the How to Train Your Dragon series.

In January 2024, it was announced that Powell will return to compose the score for the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon.