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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 the scores for films such as Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wicked and its upcoming sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax ...
Pages in category "John Powell (film composer) soundtracks" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack album composed by John Powell for the film of the same name and released by Varèse Sarabande on March 23, 2010. The score earned Powell his first Academy Award nomination and his third BAFTA nomination, which he lost to The Social Network and The King's Speech, respectively.
Unlike his previous films, John used a full orchestra for this film, which consisted of 98 musicians, eight ethnic-music soloists and a 60-member vocal choir. Grammy -winning choral composer-arranger Eric Whitacre , whom Powell worked on Kung Fu Panda (2008), conducted the choir in various texts and translated them into Gaelic and Latin.
The original score was composed by John Powell, marking his second collaboration with Illumination following The Lorax (2012). Director Benjamin Renner wanted a creative and fun score for the film. Powell heavily used string instruments and human vocals in the score and tried emulating 1960s music.
The Bourne Supremacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official soundtrack release to The Bourne Supremacy.It features selections of music by composer John Powell and Moby's "Extreme Ways", which was again featured over the film's closing credits as for The Bourne Identity, though the track was omitted from that film's soundtrack album release.
The album features over an hour of score by Powell; with additional music by Anthony Willis and Paul Mounsey, as well as the two original songs written by Powell and Jónsi. [16] Rybak's song "Into a Fantasy" was released separately as a single on June 9, before the album release. [9] The vinyl edition of the soundtrack was released in August 2014.
Composer John Powell returned as the Bourne composer, having created the scores for the two previous films. Also included is a brand-new version of Moby's "Extreme Ways", titled "Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum)". Unlike the other two albums of the Hollywood Bourne series, the tracks in this album are not chronologically in order the way they ...