John Powell

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 FaceOff the Bourne film series the Happy Feet films United 93 XMen 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 Zimmers music studio Remote Control Productions and has collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio including Harry GregsonWilliams 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia