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Won the IFMCA Awards for Score of the Year and Best Score for an Animated Feature for his score to How To Train Your Dragon (2010). See more trivia »

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2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (pre-production)
 
2014 The Good Dinosaur (filming)
 
2013 The Smurfs 2 (filming)
 
2013 Captain Phillips (filming)
 
2012 Ice Age: Continental Drift (completed)
 
2012 The City
 
2012 Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
 
2011 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (video short)
 
2011 Happy Feet Two
 
2011 Book of Dragons (video short) (music score)
 
2011 Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (video short)
 
2011 Kung Fu Panda 2
 
2011 Rio
 
2011 Mars Needs Moms
 
2010 Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (TV short)
 
2010 The Last Shot 2 (short)
 
2010 Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (TV short)
 
2010 Knight and Day
 
2010/I Fair Game
 
2010 How to Train Your Dragon
 
2010 Green Zone
 
2009 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
 
2009 Super Rhino (video)
 
2008 Bolt
 
2008 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (video short)
 
2008 Hancock
 
2008 Kung Fu Panda
 
2008 Stop-Loss
 
2008 Horton Hears a Who!
 
2008 Jumper
 
2007 P.S. I Love You
 
2007 The Bourne Ultimatum
 
2006 Happy Feet
 
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
 
2006 United 93
 
2006 Ice Age: The Meltdown
 
2005 Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty (video short)
 
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
 
2005 Robots
 
2005 Be Cool
 
2004 Alfie
 
2004 Mr 3000
 
2004 The Bourne Supremacy
 
2003 Paycheck
 
2003 Gigli
 
2003 The Italian Job
 
2003 Agent Cody Banks
 
2003 Stealing Sinatra
 
2002 Two Weeks Notice
 
2002 The Adventures of Pluto Nash
 
2002 Drumline
 
2002 The Bourne Identity
 
2002 D-Tox
 
2001 I Am Sam
 
2001 Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party (video short)
 
2001 Rat Race
 
2001 Evolution
 
2001 Shrek
 
2001 Just Visiting (music composed by)
 
2000 Chicken Run
 
2000 The Road to El Dorado
 
1999 Chill Factor
 
1999 Forces of Nature
 
1999 Endurance
 
1998 Antz
 
1998 With Friends Like These...
 
1998 Human Bomb (TV movie)
 
1997 Face/Off
 
1996 High Incident (TV series)
 
1996 Je suis ton châtiment (short)
 
1994 The Wild Heels (short)
 
1989 Stay Lucky (TV series)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (26 titles)
2012 Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (writer: "Thneedville", "These Trees", "Everybody Needs a Thneed", "How Bad Can I Be?", "Let It Grow", "Let It Grow Celebrate the World", "This Is the Place Tricky Version", "You Need a Thneed")
 
2011 Happy Feet Two (writer: "The Mighty Sven")
 
2011 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)
– Episode #11.3 (2011) (writer: "It Is You I Have Loved" - uncredited)
 
2011 Rio (writer: "Real In Rio", "Pretty Bird", "Favo de Mel Real In Rio")
 
2010/I Red (writer: "Emergency")
 
2009 Public Enemies (writer: "Beam" / performer: "Beam")
 
2009 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)
– Round Ten: Final Results (2009) (writer: "Assassin's Tango" - uncredited)
– Round Three (2009) ("Assassin's Tango" - uncredited)
 
2008 So You Think You Can Dance (TV series)
– The Top 12 Perform (2008) (music: "Assassin's Tango")
 
2008 Street Kings (writer: "Victory Quest" / performer: "Victory Quest")
 
2007 I Am Legend (writer: "Flying Talking Donkey")
 
2007 BBC Proms (TV series)
– Prom 2: Music from Great British Films (2007) ("Theme from Chicken Run 2000")
 
2007 Sicko (documentary) (writer: "Beam")
 
2007 Knocked Up (writer: "Helicopter" / performer: "Helicopter")
 
2006 Happy Feet (writer: "Adelie Rap/Adelie Bridge" / producer: "Tell Me Something Good", "Somebody To Love", "I Wish", "Everything I Own", "My Way", "Kiss", "Boogie Wonderland", "Heartbreak Hotel", "The Message", "No Scrubs", "The Joker")
 
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith ("Mondo Bongo")
 
2005 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (writer: "George's Speech", "Emergency", Excerpts from tt0120630 Score, "Rita")
 
2005 Be Cool (writer: "Moving On", "Heistus Interruptus" / music: "Moving On", "Heistus Interruptus" / producer: "Moving On", "Heistus Interruptus" / arranger: "Moving On", "Heistus Interruptus")
 
2005/I Hitch (writer: "Emergency" / as John James Powell / performer: "Emergency")
 
2003 Gigli (writer: "The Beach Song" / producer: "The Beach Song")
 
2003/I The In-Laws (writer: "Thunder Struck")
 
2002 The Adventures of Pluto Nash (writer: "Safe in My Arms" / arranger: "They're Moving Father's Grave")
 
2001 Shrek (music: "It Is You I Have Loved" 2001)
 
2001 Rat Race (producer: "Rat Race Choir Version")
 
2001 Just Visiting (writer: "Your Time Will Come")
 
1998 The Prince of Egypt (producer: "Playing with the Big Boys")
 
1989 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (writer: "Strike")
 
Show ShowMusic Department (11 titles)
2012 Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (musician: guitar, songs: music by)
 
2008 Stop-Loss (conductor, musician: solo guitar)
 
2007 P.S. I Love You (musician: guitar)
 
2006 Happy Feet (music arranger: songs, music producer: songs)
 
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (conductor)
 
2004 The Bourne Supremacy (conductor)
 
2004 Shrek 2 (composer: original themes from Shrek)
 
2000 Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1999 Endurance (music producer)
 
1998 The Thin Red Line (composer: additional music)
 
1998 With Friends Like These... (conductor)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2011 Land of Higher Peace (documentary) (special thanks)
 
2007 3 Américas (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (3 titles)
2011 Hollywood in Vienna 2011 (TV movie)
Himself
 
2011 Boom-Boom Tish-Tish: The Sounds of Rio (video short)
Himself
 
2000 Poultry in Motion: The Making of 'Chicken Run' (TV documentary)
 

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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Won the IFMCA Awards for Score of the Year and Best Score for an Animated Feature for his score to How To Train Your Dragon (2010). See more »

Trademark:

Use of live percusions, especially the Indian Conga drum, which he first used in The Bourne Supremacy. See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo