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46 wins & 78 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2011 Nominee Oscar. Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score. How to Train Your Dragon. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. 2015 Nominee Saturn Award. Best Music. How to Train Your Dragon 2. 2011 Nominee Saturn Award. Best Music.
- September 18, 1963
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.
John Powell is an LA-based British composer best known for his brilliant movie scores, including the Oscar-nominated How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity (plus the second, third and fifth Bourne films), and many more.
Aug 25, 2017 · Oscar-nominated composer John Powell composed the music for 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, stepping into a lineage evolving from the John Williams foundation.
John Powell is an Academy Award-nominated British composer and conductor, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films.
Jul 5, 2017 · The first one netted you an Oscar nomination so I wondered if that was a watershed moment for you? Well, I think I’d come to terms with the fact that I wasn’t doing ‘Oscar’ films.
May 31, 2014 · In 2011, Powell earned his first Oscar nomination for the Viking-themed fantasy How to Train Your Dragon. His most recent project was How to Train Your Dragon 2, released next month.
