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Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams
British composer
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David Buckley
David Buckley
British composer
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Geoff Zanelli
Geoff Zanelli
American film score composer
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William Ross
William Ross
composer
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Steve Jablonsky
Steve Jablonsky
American composer
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Grant Kirkhope
Grant Kirkhope
Scottish video game composer
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Klaus Badelt
Klaus Badelt
German composer
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Stephen Barton
Stephen Barton
British composer
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Carter Burwell
Carter Burwell
American film score composer
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Randy Edelman
Randy Edelman
American musician, producer, and composer for film and television (born 1947)
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Rupert Gregson-Williams
Rupert Gregson-Williams
British composer
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Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle
Scottish composer
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Martin Tillman
Martin Tillman
Swiss composer
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Mark Mancina
Mark Mancina
American film score composer, musician, arranger, and producer
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Justin Burnett
Justin Burnett
American film and video game music composer (born 1973)
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Stanley Myers
Stanley Myers
British film composer
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Brian Tyler
Brian Tyler
American composer, producer, conductor, and film producer
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Junkie XL
Junkie XL
Dutch DJ
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Martin Phipps
Martin Phipps
British composer
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James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard
American composer, conductor, and music producer
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Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer
German film composer and music producer
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Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino
American composer of music for films, television and video games
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Henry Jackman
Henry Jackman
British film composer
John Powell
English composer of film scores

John Powell

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English composer of film scores
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Nominated For
Academy Award for Best Original Score

John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores in motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty 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 and third Ice Age films (2006-2012), the Happy Feet films (2006-2011), Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008), the first two Kung Fu Panda films (2008–2011), 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.