John Powell
John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores in films. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over seventy feature films. Powell is best known for composing and/or co-composing scores for animated films, such as Antz (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Chicken Run (2000), Shrek (2001), Robots (2005), the second through fourth Ice Age films (2006–2012), the Happy Feet films (2006–2011), Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Bolt (2008), the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy (2010–2019), the Rio films (2011–2014), Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012), and Ferdinand (2017).
His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him 3 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.
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His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him 3 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.
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Known for
Wicked Part Two
How to Train Your Dragon
Wicked
Thelma the Unicorn
Migration
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Don't Worry Darling
Ice Age: Scrat Tales
Locked Down
The Call of the Wild
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Ferdinand
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Jason Bourne
Pan
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Rio 2
Moshi Monsters: The Movie
Ice Age: Continental Drift
The Lorax
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Happy Feet Two
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Kung Fu Panda 2
Rio
Mars Needs Moms
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
Knight and Day
Fair Game
How to Train Your Dragon
Green Zone
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Super Rhino
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Hancock
Kung Fu Panda
Stop-Loss
Horton Hears a Who!
Jumper
P.S. I Love You
The Bourne Ultimatum
Happy Feet
X-Men: The Last Stand
United 93
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Robots
Be Cool
Alfie
The Bourne Supremacy
Mr. 3000
Paycheck
Gigli
The Italian Job
Agent Cody Banks
Stealing Sinatra
Two Weeks Notice
Drumline
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Bourne Identity
D-Tox
I Am Sam
Rat Race
Evolution
Shrek
Just Visiting
Chicken Run
The Road to El Dorado
Chill Factor
Endurance
Forces of Nature
The Thin Red Line
Antz
Human Bomb
Face/Off
I Am Your Punishment