John Powell
Known for: Sound
Born: September 18, 1963
Place of birth: London, England
John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. 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 scores for films, including Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wicked and its sequel, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, 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 has also collaborated with film directors such as Carlos Saldanha, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Benjamin Renner, Chris Renaud, George Miller, John Woo, Ron Underwood, Doug Liman, Charles Stone III, Simon Otto, Jared Hess, and Paul Greengrass. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Powell (film composer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
89 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
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Shrek 5
2027
7.6
Minions & Monsters
2026
6.6
Wicked: For Good
2025
8.0
Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks
2025
7.0
Soaring to Life: The Making of How to Train Your Dragon
2025
7.9
How to Train Your Dragon
2025
7.1
That Christmas
2024
6.9
Wicked
2024
6.9
Thelma the Unicorn
2024
7.0
The Last Ranger
2024
7.4
Migration
2023
7.8
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023
6.8
Don't Worry Darling
2022
7.3
Ice Age: Scrat Tales
2022
5.2
Locked Down
2021
7.5
The Call of the Wild
2020
7.8
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
6.6
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
7.2
Ferdinand
2017
7.2
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017
6.4
Jason Bourne
2016
6.0
Pan
2015
7.7
How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014
6.5
Rio 2
2014
6.4
Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012
6.5
The Lorax
2012
6.5
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
2011
6.2
Happy Feet Two
2011
7.3
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2011
6.8
Book of Dragons
2011
7.1
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011
6.8
Rio
2011
6.0
Mars Needs Moms
2011
7.0
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010
7.1
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2010
6.2
Knight and Day
2010
6.5
Fair Game
2010
7.9
How to Train Your Dragon
2010
6.5
Green Zone
2010
10.0
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
6.8
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009
6.0
Super Rhino
2009
6.6
Bolt
2008
6.8
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
2008
6.4
Hancock
2008
7.3
Kung Fu Panda
2008
6.1
Stop-Loss
2008
6.5
Horton Hears a Who!
2008
6.2
Jumper
2008
7.2
P.S. I Love You
2007NR
The Light and The Dark: The Making of Face/Off
2007
7.4
The Bourne Ultimatum
20076.6
United 93: The Families and the Film
2006
6.2
Happy Feet
2006
6.4
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
7.1
United 93
2006
6.7
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006
5.3
Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty
2005
6.7
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
6.5
Robots
2005
5.5
Be Cool
2005
5.9
Alfie
2004
7.3
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
5.3
Mr. 3000
2004
6.2
Paycheck
2003
4.0
Gigli
2003
6.8
The Italian Job
2003
5.5
Agent Cody Banks
2003
5.5
Stealing Sinatra
2003
6.4
Two Weeks Notice
2002
7.0
Drumline
2002
4.4
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002
7.5
The Bourne Identity
2002
5.6
D-Tox
2002
7.6
I Am Sam
20017.0
Man and Cat
2001
6.3
Rat Race
2001
6.1
Evolution
2001
7.8
Shrek
2001
4.8
Just Visiting
2001
6.9
Chicken Run
2000
7.3
The Road to El Dorado
2000
4.9
Chill Factor
1999
6.4
Endurance
1999
5.5
Forces of Nature
1999
7.4
The Thin Red Line
1998
6.2
Antz
1998
6.5
With Friends Like These
1998
4.5
Human Bomb
1998
7.1
Face/Off
1997
7.0
I Am Your Punishment
1996