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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 score for films, including Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, 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. Early life and education As a child, he played the violin and viola. His skill in the violin allowed him to study at Trinity College of Music, central London (now the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, London). There, he met John Ashton Thomas, who orchestrated many of Powell's scores. Powell played for "Faboulistics", an amateur rock and roll band. After finishing college, he composed music for commercials, which led to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including Much Ado About Nothing. In 1995, Powell co-founded the London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music with Gavin Greenaway, which produced scores for more than 100 British and French commercials and independent films. Career Powell's first score was for the Season 4 of the TV series Stay Lucky. He moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and scored his first major film, Face/Off. It was followed by Antz in 1998, the first film produced by DreamWorks Animation, which he co-scored with fellow British composer Harry Gregson-Williams, which also marked the duo's first score for an animated film. Two years later, Powell collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer on the score for The Road to El Dorado. Later that year, he collaborated with Gregson-Williams again on the score to Chicken Run; they collaborated again the following year on Shrek. Gregson-Williams composed all the subsequent Shrek films himself. In 2001 he also scored Evolution, I Am Sam, Just Visiting and Rat Race. In 2002 Powell was hired to score The Bourne Identity after Carter Burwell left the project, and has gone on to score all of director Doug Liman's subsequent films. He also returned to score the series' other two films, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, under British director Paul Greengrass. Powell collaborated with Liman again to score Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). That year he also scored Robots for Blue Sky Studios, and went on to score many of the studio's subsequent films until 2017's Ferdinand. In 2006, he scored Greengrass' United 93. He also composed music for his second Blue Sky film Ice Age: The Meltdown, following David Newman, who scored the first Ice Age film; as well as X-Men: The Last Stand and Happy Feet, for which he won a Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for an Animated Feature Film. The next year he scored The Bourne Ultimatum. In 2008 he reunited with Hans Zimmer and returned to DreamWorks Animation to score Kung Fu Panda, and also wrote music for Jumper, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, Hancock, and Bolt. In 2009 he scored the third film of Ice Age series; Dawn of the Dinosaurs. 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. In 2013, Powell took a sabbatical year from film scoring. In April 2014, after completing his scores to sequels Rio 2 and How to Train Your Dragon 2, he announced he would take another break to compose concert music, including a 45-minute oratorio to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of World War I. The piece, "A Prussian Requiem", with a libretto by Michael Petry, premiered on 6 March 2016 at The Royal Festival Hall, London with José Serebrier conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. Powell composed the score for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), collaborating with John Williams, who wrote Han Solo's theme. In 2019, Powell scored How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the final film in the How to Train Your Dragon series. In January 2024, it was announced that Powell will return to compose the score for the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon. Filmography Television Film 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Studio Albums Archival soundtrack albums See also Music of Star Wars References External links John Powell – official site John Powell discography at Discogs John Powell at IMDb John Powell biography at SoundtrackNet. Discover the John Powell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Powell books.
Best Seller John Powell Books of 2024
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A Canyon Voyage
Frederick DellenbaughIn 1871, seventeenyearold Frederick Dellenbaugh began a great adventure when he joined Major John Wesley Powell and a crew of scientists on Powell's second exploration trip down th...
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Kim
Rudyard KiplingIn a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't until Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama that his l...
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Down the Great Unknown
Edward DolnickDrawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a onearmed Civi...
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The Book of Barbers Vol. 1 With How to Fade
John D. BarberThe Book Of Barbers is a complete guide to becoming a successful barber. Everything from school, licensing, setting up a barber station, tools, clippers, products, building a clien...
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Sergei Eisenstein
Ronald BerganNow back in print, this acclaimed biography reassesses a titan of early cinema based on new material released after the fall of the Soviet Union. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Confl...
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How to Lead
David M. RubensteinThe New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerThe essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bade...
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David and Goliath
Brendan Powell SmithThe Philistine army has gathered for a vicious war against King Saul and the Israelites. With great suspense, a Philistine giant named Goliath boldly approaches the Israelites pres...
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A River Running West
Donald WorsterIf the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedica...
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The Peking Express
James M ZimmermanThe thrilling true story of trainrobbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republi...
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Annotated On Liberty with English Grammar Exercises
John Stuart MillOn Liberty (Annotated) to help you with grammar with additional exercises.
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Lessee of William A. Powell, And Others v. John Harman
United States Supreme CourtThe question now referred to this Court differs from that which was decided in Patton's lessee vs. Easton, 1 Wheat. 476, in this, that the defendant who sets up a possession of sev...
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Works of John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell8 works of John Wesley Powell U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West (18341902) This ebook presents a collection of 8 works of John Wesley Powell. A dynamic table o...
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War Letters
Andrew CarrollIn 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over...
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Meltdown
Mike ChinoyWhen George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea's nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea possesses as many as te...
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People State New York v. William Powell and John Pilgrim
Supreme Court of New YorkIn our opinion, the trial court committed prejudicial error when it summarily overruled, without a hearing, the defendants' challenge to the jury panel, despite the absence of any ...
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Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell
William Morris DavisThis work concisely details the life and adventures of John Wesley Powell, the pioneer of the Grand Canyon, solider, and western explorer. Though not an Arizona native, he is impor...
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Come Play with Me
Dr H. John PowellEssentially this becomes a family story with love and marriage. A serious problem occurs when her trust in her husband's fidelity hangs in the balance. That being happily resolved ...
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Embers of War
Gareth L. PowellFrom BSFA Award winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic scifi trilogy exploring the legacies of warThe sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, ye...
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The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois
Robert E HartleyWinner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017Many people are unaware that from 1945 to 1975, downstate lawmakers dominated the Illinois political arena. In The Dealma...
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The Modern Library
Carmen Callil & Colm ToibinFor Colm Toíbín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their sele...
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John Albert Powell v. Time Insurance
Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals3. W.Va. Code, 3367 (1957), provides that "misrepresentations, omissions, concealments of facts, and incorrect statements shall not prevent a recovery under the policy unless. . . ...
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They Were Soldiers
Joseph L. Galloway & Marvin J. WolfThey Were Soldiers showcases the inspiring true stories of 49 Vietnam veterans who returned home from the "lost war" to enrich America's present and future...
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon
John F. Ross“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”The Wall Street Journal"A bold study of an ecovisionary at a watershed moment in US history."NatureA timely,...
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American Editor in Early Revolutionary China
Neil O'BrienThis is a study of SinoAmerican relations and the editorial policy of the China Weekly Review / China Monthly Review , published in Shanghai by John William Powell during the Chine...
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Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route
Mike BezemekThe John Wesley Powell Route offers some of the most adventurous paddling in the United States. Across six Southwestern states, paddlers will find trips for all abilities and timef...
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Vision and Place
Jason Robison, Daniel McCool & Thomas MinckleyThe Colorado River Basin’s importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears ...
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Seeing Things Whole
William deBuys & John Wesley PowellJohn Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation’s great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social...
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Annotated Second Treatise of Government with English Grammar Exercises
John LockSecond Treatise of Government (Annotated) to help you with grammar with additional exercises.
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The Powell Expedition
Don Lago“The Powell Expedition is a thoughtprovoking, nuanced work that reads at times like a detective story, and it should offer much fodder for historians.”The Wall Street Jou...
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
Wallace StegnerFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West...
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The Search for John Lennon
Lesley-Ann JonesPulling back the many hidden layers of John Lennon’s life, LesleyAnnJones closely tracks the events and personality traits that led to the rock star living in selfimposed exile in ...
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
Wallace StegnerFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West...