John Powell

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

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Migration

(2023) Original Music Composer

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Thelma the Unicorn

(2024) Original Music Composer

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Shrek

(2001) Original Music Composer

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Kung Fu Panda

(2008) Original Music Composer

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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

(2019) Original Music Composer

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The Lorax

(2012) Songs

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Rio

(2011) Original Music Composer

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How to Train Your Dragon

(2010) Original Music Composer

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2017	Self	Score: A Film Music Documentary 2017-03-16 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2025	Original Music Composer	Wicked Part Two 2025-11-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	How to Train Your Dragon 2025-06-12 Movie
2024	Original Music Composer	Wicked 2024-11-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Thelma the Unicorn 2024-05-17 Movie
2023	Original Music Composer	Migration 2023-12-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie 2023-01-20 Movie
2022	Original Music Composer	Don't Worry Darling 2022-09-21 Movie
	Conductor	Don't Worry Darling 2022-09-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ice Age: Scrat Tales 2022-04-13 TV Show
2021	Original Music Composer	Locked Down 2021-02-25 Movie
2020	Original Music Composer	The Call of the Wild 2020-02-19 Movie
2019	Original Music Composer	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019-01-03 Movie
2018	Original Music Composer	Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018-05-15 Movie
2017	Original Music Composer	Ferdinand 2017-12-09 Movie
2016	Original Music Composer	Jason Bourne 2016-07-27 Movie
2015	Original Music Composer	Pan 2015-09-24 Movie
2014	Original Music Composer	How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014-06-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rio 2 2014-03-19 Movie
2013	Original Music Composer	Moshi Monsters: The Movie 2013-12-20 Movie
2012	Original Music Composer	Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012-06-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lorax 2012-03-01 Movie
	Songs	The Lorax 2012-03-01 Movie
2011	Original Music Composer	Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters 2011-12-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Happy Feet Two 2011-11-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Book of Dragons 2011-11-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury 2011-11-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kung Fu Panda 2 2011-05-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rio 2011-04-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mars Needs Moms 2011-03-09 Movie
2010	Original Music Composer	Kung Fu Panda Holiday 2010-11-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon 2010-10-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Knight and Day 2010-06-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fair Game 2010-05-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	How to Train Your Dragon 2010-03-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Green Zone 2010-03-11 Movie
2009	Original Music Composer	Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants 2009-07-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 2009-06-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Super Rhino 2009-03-21 Movie
2008	Original Music Composer	Bolt 2008-11-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five 2008-11-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hancock 2008-07-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kung Fu Panda 2008-06-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Stop-Loss 2008-03-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Horton Hears a Who! 2008-03-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Jumper 2008-02-13 Movie
2007	Original Music Composer	P.S. I Love You 2007-11-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Bourne Ultimatum 2007-08-03 Movie
2006	Original Music Composer	Happy Feet 2006-11-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	X-Men: The Last Stand 2006-05-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	United 93 2006-04-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ice Age: The Meltdown 2006-03-29 Movie
2005	Original Music Composer	Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty 2005-09-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005-06-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Robots 2005-03-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Be Cool 2005-03-04 Movie
2004	Original Music Composer	Alfie 2004-10-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Bourne Supremacy 2004-07-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mr. 3000 2004-06-15 Movie
2003	Original Music Composer	Paycheck 2003-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gigli 2003-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Italian Job 2003-05-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Agent Cody Banks 2003-03-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Stealing Sinatra 2003-01-24 Movie
2002	Original Music Composer	Two Weeks Notice 2002-12-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Drumline 2002-12-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002-08-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Bourne Identity 2002-06-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	D-Tox 2002-01-04 Movie
2001	Original Music Composer	I Am Sam 2001-12-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Man and Cat 2001-11-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rat Race 2001-08-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Evolution 2001-06-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Shrek 2001-05-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Just Visiting 2001-04-06 Movie
2000	Original Music Composer	Chicken Run 2000-06-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Road to El Dorado 2000-03-31 Movie
1999	Original Music Composer	Chill Factor 1999-09-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Endurance 1999-05-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Forces of Nature 1999-03-12 Movie
1998	Original Music Composer	Antz 1998-10-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	With Friends Like These... 1998-09-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Human Bomb 1998-05-26 Movie
1997	Original Music Composer	Face/Off 1997-06-27 Movie
1996	Original Music Composer	I Am Your Punishment 1996-10-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	That Christmas Movie
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Crew

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1998	Additional Music	The Thin Red Line 1998-12-23 Movie
	Compositors	With Friends Like These... 1998-09-10 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv