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Nicholas Hooper Genres Film scores Occupations Composer Years active 1985-present Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon, as well as the TV movies The Girl in the Café and My Family and Other Animals among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award for Original Score in 2004 for The Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for Prime Suspect: The Final Act : starring Helen Mirren.[1]
His highest-profile score is for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix reuniting with old friend director David Yates with whom he had worked before on The Tichborne Claimant, The Way We Live Now, State of Play, The Young Visiters and The Girl in the Café. This was Hooper's first work on a blockbuster movie.[2] Hooper was chosen again by Yates for the following Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, for which he was nominated for a Grammy.[3] However, he chose not to return for the final two installments.[4]
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Works
- Land of the Tiger (1985)
- The Weaver's Wife (1991)
- Good Looks (1992)
- The Time Traveller (1993)
- Punch (1996)
- The Tichborne Claimant (1998)
- The Way We Live Now (2001) BAFTA Nomination
- The Secret (2002)
- The Heart of Me (2003)
- The Future is Wild (2003)
- Loving You (2003)
- State of Play (2003) BAFTA Nomination
- The Young Visiters (2003) BAFTA Winner
- Messiah III: The Promise (2004)
- Blue Murder (2004)
- Nature (1996–2005)
- The Girl in the Café (2005) BAFTA Nomination
- The Chatterley Affair (2006)
- Prime Suspect: The Final Act (2006) BAFTA Winner
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
- Einstein and Eddington (2008)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) Grammy Nomination
- Enid (2009)
- Yes, Virginia (2009)
- 10 Minute Tales (2009)
- DCI Banks: Aftermath (2010)
- African Cats (2011)[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Nicholas Hooper". COOL Music Limited. http://www.coolmusicltd.com/Composers/Nicholas-Hooper/Nicholas-Hooper.html. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ Mikael Carlsson (2007-05-08). "Hooper writes new themes for Potter film". Film Music Weekly. http://www.filmmusicweekly.com/issues/FM_Weekly_050807.pdf. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- ^ http://www.grammy.com/grammy_Awards/52nd_show/list.aspx
- ^ . http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/2716.
- ^ . http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393781/#Composer.
External links
- Nicholas Hooper at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Nicholas Hooper
- http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/order_phoenix.html
- http://www.harrypotterorderofthephoenix.com/
- http://harrypotter.warnerbros.co.uk/site/index.html
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