John Powell Biography ((?)-)
Addresses: Manager: Kraft-Engel Management, 15233 Ventura Blvd., Suite200, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Composer, musician, song producer and arranger
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Music Producer
- Endurance (documentary), Buena Vista, 1999
- Forces of Nature, DreamWorks SKG, 1999
- Film Music Performer
- "Playing with the Big Boys," The Prince of Egypt (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 1998
- Television Appearances
- Specials
- Himself, Poultry in Motion: The Making of "Chicken Run," NBC, 2000
- WRITINGS
- Film Composer
- Les escarpins sauvages (animated short film; also known as TheWild Heels), 1994
- Je suis ton chatiment (short film; also known as Mondokino), 1996
- Face/Off, Buena Vista/Paramount, 1997
- (With Harry Gregson-Williams) Antz (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 1998
- Additional music, The Thin Red Line (also known as La mince ligne rouge), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
- (With Hans Zimmer) Chill Factor, Warner Bros., 1999
- Endurance (documentary), Buena Vista, 1999
- Forces of Nature, DreamWorks SKG, 1999
- With Friends Like These ... , Miramax, 1999
- (With Gregson-Williams) Chicken Run (animated; also known as C:R-1), DreamWorks SKG, 2000
- (With Zimmer) The Road to El Dorado (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2000
- Evolution, DreamWorks SKG, 2001
- I Am Sam, New Line Cinema, 2001
- (Including song "Your Time Will Come") Just Visiting (also known as Les visiteurs en Amerique), Buena Vista, 2001
- Rat Race (also known as Course folle), Paramount, 2001
- (With Gregson-Williams; including song "It Is You I Have Loved") Shrek (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2001
- Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party (animated), DreamWorks SKG,2001
- (Including song "Safe in My Arms") The Adventures of Pluto Nash (also known as Pluto Nash), Buena Vista, 2002
- The Bourne Identity (also known as Die Bourne Identitaet),Universal, 2002
- Drumline, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002
- D-Tox (also known as Eye See You and Im Auge der Angst), Universal, 2002
- Two Weeks Notice, Warner Bros., 2002
- Agent Cody Banks (also known as L'agent Cody Banks), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003
- (Including "The Beach Song") Gigli, Columbia, 2003
- (Including song "Thunder Struck") The In-Laws (also known as Ein Ungleiches Paar and Wild Wedding--Ein ungleiches Paar), Warner Bros., 2003
- The Italian Job (also known as Braquage a l'italienne), Paramount, 2003
- Paycheck, Paramount, 2003
- Alfie, Paramount, 2004
- The Bourne Supremacy (also known as Die Bourne Verschwoerung), Universal, 2004
- Mr. 3000, Buena Vista, 2004
- Theme music, Shrek 2 (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2004
- Be Cool, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2005
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2005
- Robots (animated), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2005
- Happy Feet (animated musical), Warner Bros., 2006
- Composer for Salinas, Canal Plus; and for The Tourist. Composer for the short film Raid gauloises; composer of songs used in various films.
- Film Assistant Composer
- White Fang, Buena Vista, 1991
- Into the West, Miramax, 1993
- Much Ado about Nothing, Samuel Goldwyn, 1993
- Television Composer
- Series
- Stay Lucky, Yorkshire Television, 1989-93
- High Incident, ABC, 1996-97
- Movies
- Human Bomb (also known as Die Menschliche Bombe), The MovieChannel, 1998
- Stealing Sinatra, Showtime, 2003
- Specials
- The Vanishing Rembrandts (documentary), BBC, c. 1992
- Pilots
- For the People, Lifetime, 2002
- Stage Composer
- Composer (with Gavin Greenaway) for An Englishman, an Irishman, and aFrenchman (opera), libretto by Michael Petry, produced in Bonn, Germany.
- Soundtrack Albums
- Face/Off, Hollywood Records, 1997
- Antz, Angel Records, 1998
- Endurance, RCA, 1999
- Chicken Run, RCA, 2000
- Evolution, Varese Records, 2001
- Just Visiting, Varese Records, 2001
- Rat Race, Beyond Records, 2001
- Shrek, Varese Records, 2001
- The Bourne Identity, Varese Records, 2002
- I Am Sam, Varese Records, 2002
- Gigli, Varese Records, 2003
- The Italian Job, Varese Records, 2003
- Two Weeks Notice, Varese Records, 2003
- The Bourne Supremacy, Varese Records, 2004
- Paycheck, Varese Records, 2004
Further Reference
OTHER SOURCES
- Cinemusic Web Site, http://www.cinemusic.net, November 20, 2004