George Fenton

British film composer (born 1949)

George Fenton CBE
Fenton in 1969
Background information
Birth name	George Richard Ian Howe
Born	(1949-10-19) 19 October 1949 (age 74) Bromley, Kent, England

Website	https://georgefenton.com/

Musical artist

George Richard Ian Howe CBE (born 19 October 1949^[1]), known professionally as George Fenton, is an English composer. Best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, he has received five Academy Award nominations, several Ivor Novello, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and BMI Awards, and a Classic BRIT. He is one of 18 songwriters and composers to have been made a Fellow of the Ivors Academy (formally BASCA).

He has frequently collaborated with the directors Richard Attenborough, Nora Ephron, Alastair Fothergill, Stephen Frears, Nicholas Hytner, Ken Loach, Andy Tennant, Neil Jordan and Terry Gilliam.

Early life and career

George Fenton was born in 1949 in Bromley, Kent,^[2] one of five siblings. He was educated at Carn Brea School and St Edward's School, Oxford. He began learning the guitar at the age of 8 and at St Edwards studied the organ with Peter Whitehouse.^[3] He did not attend music college but continued to study with Pete Whitehouse and subsequently with the ethnomusicologist and composer, John Leach.

In 1968 he appeared in Alan Bennett's first West End play Forty Years On.^[4]^[5] The following year he was offered a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama but had by then decided to continue with his music and had a record contract with MCA Records. For the next few years, he continued to work in theatre playing small parts and playing and writing music.

Theatre

In 1974, Fenton received his first major commission, as composer and musical director for Peter Gill's theatre production of Twelfth Night by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.^[6]

Throughout the rest of the 1970s and early 1980s, Fenton worked frequently as a composer for theatre productions.^[7]^[8] He continued to collaborate regularly with Peter Gill (composing for 9 of his productions) and also worked in regional theatre as well as for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre.

Other theatre includes The Judas Kiss, Last Cigarette, Untold Stories, Allelujah!, Mrs Henderson Presents, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Talking Heads,^[9] Beat The Devil and Racing Demon.

In 1992, George Fenton was credited with the Sound Track to the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Disneyland, Paris.

Television drama

Fenton wrote his first television score in 1976.^[10] This was a continuation of his collaboration with Peter Gill and it was for Gill's production of Hitting Town written by Stephen Poliakoff.

By the late 1970s, Fenton was working regularly in television. His television work has included the regular role of soldier Martin Gimbel in Emmerdale Farm (1975-1976), LWT's Six Plays by Alan Bennett, Objects Of Affection, An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads (2003), Bloody Kids, Going Gently, Walter, Saigon: Year of The Cat, Fox, Out, Telling Tales, The History Man (TV series), Shoestring (TV series), The Monocled Mutineer and the multi BAFTA winning The Jewel In The Crown.

Wildlife television documentaries

Fenton has composed for a number of notable wildlife television programmes, often collaborating with the wildlife broadcaster David Attenborough and the nature documentary filmmaker Alastair Fothergill. He started on the BBC's long-running series Wildlife on One and Natural World.

Since 1990, he has written the music for a number of wildlife series including The Trials of Life, Life in the Freezer, The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, and Frozen Planet. Other documentaries include Beyond The Clouds, Shanghai Vice and Between Clouds and Dreams (for Director Phil Agland).

In 2003, he composed and conducted the music for the feature documentary film, Deep Blue. It was performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – the first film score the orchestra had recorded in its history. In 2007 they repeated the collaboration for the feature documentary film, Earth.

In 2022 George partnered up with Alastair Fothergill and David Attenborough again, this time for BBC One’s Wild Isles series.

Television and radio themes

Fenton has composed the jingles or theme music to dozens of British television and radio programs,^[6] including Shoestring, Bergerac, One O'Clock News, Six O'Clock News and Nine O'Clock News, Newsnight and Newsnight Review, On the Record, Omnibus, BBC Breakfast Time, BBC World News, Reporting Scotland, London Plus, Telly Addicts, Daily Politics, and BBC Radio 4's PM programme.^[11]

Feature films

Fenton has written the music for over one hundred feature films.

His first major break came in 1982 ^[12] with Richard Attenborough's biopic Gandhi, for which he was nominated—with his collaborator, Ravi Shankar for the Academy Award for Original Music Score. Fenton wrote another four film scores for Attenborough's films: Cry Freedom, Shadowlands, In Love and War and Grey Owl.

He has also frequently worked with the theatre and film director Nicholas Hytner, writing the score for all six of the movies that Hytner has directed. These are The Madness of King George, The Crucible, The Object of My Affection, Center Stage, The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. The latter three of these allowed Fenton to collaborate again with their writer Alan Bennett. Although Fenton composed the original music of five of these films, for The Madness of King George he instead adapted and arranged the music of Handel.^[13]

Fenton's long-standing collaboration with Stephen Frears has not been limited to television productions. Fenton has scored four of Frear's feature films: Dangerous Liaisons, Hero, Mary Reilly and Mrs Henderson Presents. He also worked with the director Neil Jordan, scoring The Company of Wolves, High Spirits and We're No Angels.

Fenton has scored more feature films for Ken Loach than for any other filmmaker, by 2023, a total of 18. This started in 1994 with Ladybird, Ladybird followed by Land and Freedom, Carla's Song, My Name Is Joe, Bread and Roses, The Navigators, Sweet Sixteen, Ae Fond Kiss..., The Wind That Shakes the Barley which won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, It's a Free World..., Looking for Eric, The Angels' Share, the documentary film The Spirit of '45, Jimmy's Hall, I, Daniel Blake and, most recently, Sorry We Missed You and the forthcoming The Old Oak.

Fenton has developed other long-standing collaborations with filmmakers, scoring several films each for directors as diverse as Harold Ramis, Nora Ephron, Phil Joanou and Andy Tennant, including Multiplicity, Groundhog Day, Mixed Nuts, You've Got Mail, Final Analysis, The Fisher King, Heaven's Prisoners, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Sweet Home Alabama (film), Anna and the King, Hitch, Bewitched and The Secret: Dare to Dream and Andy Tennant's new thriller Unit 234.

Live

Fenton won an Ivor Novello Award, BAFTA and Emmy Award for Best Television Score for The Blue Planet and, in October 2002, he created "The Blue Planet in Concert" which was premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He subsequently created Planet Earth In Concert and Frozen Planet In Concert and took these concerts to venues such as Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House, Wembley Arena and the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam.

In 2003, he scored and conducted the music for the documentary film Deep Blue, which was performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the first film score the orchestra had recorded in its history. In 2007, they repeated the collaboration for the documentary film, Earth. With the producer Jane Carter, Fenton turned each of the scores into concert works. His live film scores continue to be performed by orchestras worldwide.^[14]

Honours

Fenton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to music.^[15]

Discography

Films

Year	Title	Director	Studio(s)	Notes
1971	Private Road	Barney Platts-Mills
1977	A Lustful Lady	Hal E. Woode		Short film
1978	Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf	Stephen Frears		Television film
	Doris and Doreen	Stephen Frears		Television film
	The Waterloo Bridge Handicap	Ross Cramer		Short film
1979	Afternoon Off	Stephen Frears		Television film
1980	Bloody Kids	Stephen Frears
	Hussy	Matthew Chapman	First Run Features
	Rain on the Roof	Alan Bridges	Pennies From Heaven Ltd.	Television film
	The Tumour Principle	Arthur Ellis	NFTS	Short film
	Dead End	Alan Birkinshaw		Short film
1981	No Country for Old Men	Tristram Powell		Television film
1982	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough	Columbia Pictures
	Walter	Stephen Frears		Television film
	Parole	Michael Tuchner
1983	Walter and June	Stephen Frears
	Runners	Charles Sturridge
	Saigon: Year of the Cat	Stephen Frears		Television film
	An Englishman Abroad	John Schlesinger		Television film
1984	The Company of Wolves	Neil Jordan	ITC Entertainment
1985	Past Caring	Richard Eyre		Television film
1986	Clockwise	Christopher Morahan	Universal Pictures
1987	84 Charing Cross Road	David Jones	Columbia Pictures
	Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire	Alan Clarke	ITC Entertainment
	Cry Freedom	Richard Attenborough	Universal Pictures
	White Mischief	Michael Radford	Columbia Pictures
1988	A Handful of Dust	Charkes Sturridge	New Line Cinema
	High Spirits	Neil Jordan	Palace Pictures
	Dangerous Liaisons	Stephen Frears	Warner Bros. Pictures
	The Dressmaker	Jim O'Brien	Euro American Pictures
1989	We're No Angels	Neil Jordan	Paramount Pictures
1990	Memphis Belle	Michael Caton-Jones	Warner Bros. Pictures
	The Long Walk Home	Richard Pearce	Miramax Films
	White Palace	Luis Mandoki	Universal Pictures
1991	The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam	TriStar Pictures
1992	Final Analysis	Phil Joanou	Warner Bros. Pictures
1992	Hero	Stephen Frears	Columbia Pictures
1993	Groundhog Day	Harold Ramis	Columbia Pictures
	Born Yesterday	Luis Mandoki	Hollywood Pictures
	Shadowlands	Richard Attenborough	Savoy Pictures
1994	China Moon	John Mailey	Orion Pictures
	Ladybird, Ladybird	Ken Loach	Samuel Goldwyn Company
	Mixed Nuts	Nora Ephron	TriStar Pictures
1995	Land and Freedom	Ken Loach	Gramercy Pictures
1996	Mary Reilly	Stephen Frears	TriStar Pictures
	Heaven's Prisoners	Phil Joanou	New Line Cinema
	Multiplicity	Harold Ramis	Columbia Pictures
	Carla's Song	Ken Loach	Universal Pictures
	The Crucible	Nicholas Hytner	20th Century Fox
	In Love and War	Richard Attenborough	New Line Cinema
1997	The Woodlanders	Phil Agland
1998	Dangerous Beauty	Marshall Herskovitz	Warner Bros. Pictures 20th Century Fox
	The Object of My Affection	Nicholas Hytner	20th Century Fox
	My Name Is Joe	Ken Loach	Artisan Entertainment
	Ever After	Andy Tennant	20th Century Fox
	Living Out Loud	Richard LaGravenese	New Line Cinema
	You've Got Mail	Nora Ephron	Warner Bros. Pictures
1999	Entropy	Phil Joanou	Warner Bros. Pictures
	Grey Owl	Richard Attenborough	20th Century Fox
	Anna and the King	Andy Tennant	20th Century Fox
2000	Bread and Roses	Ken Loach	Lionsgate
	Center Stage	Nicholas Hytner	Columbia Pictures
	Lucky Numbers	Nora Ephron	Paramount Pictures
2001	Summer Catch	Mike Tollin	Warner Bros. Pictures
2001	The Navigators	Ken Loach
2002	Sweet Sixteen	Ken Loach	Icon Film Distribution
2002	Sweet Home Alabama	Andy Tennant	Touchstone Pictures
2003	Imagining Argentina	Christopher Hampton	Arenas Entertainment
2003	Deep Blue	Alastair Fothergill Andy Byatt	Miramax Films
2004	Ae Fond Kiss...	Ken Loach	Icon Film Distribution
2004	Stage Beauty	Richard Eyre	Lionsgate
2005	Hitch	Andy Tennant	Columbia Pictures
	Tickets	Ermanno Olmi Abbas Kiarostami Ken Loach
	Valiant	Gary Chapman	Buena Vista Pictures
	Bewitched	Nora Ephron	Columbia Pictures
	Mrs Henderson Presents	Stephen Frears	Pathé The Weinstein Company
2006	Last Holiday	Wayne Wang	Paramount Pictures
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Ken Loach	Pathé IFC First Take
	The History Boys	Nicholas Hytner	Fox Searchlight Pictures
2007	Earth	Alastair Fothergill Mark Linfield	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
2007	It's a Free World...	Ken Loach
2008	Fool's Gold	Andy Tennant	Warner Bros. Pictures
2009	Looking for Eric	Ken Loach	Icon Film Distribution
2010	The Bounty Hunter	Andy Tennant	Columbia Pictures
2011	One Life	Michael Gunton Martha Holmes	Magic Light Pictures
2012	The Angels' Share	Ken Loach	Entertainment One
2013	The Spirit of '45	Ken Loach
	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	Stephen Frears	HBO Films
	The Zero Theorem	Terry Gilliam	Stage 6 Films
2014	Bears	Alastair Fothergill Keith Scholey	Disneynature
2014	Jimmy's Hall	Ken Loach	Entertainment One
2015	Absolutely Anything	Terry Jones	Lionsgate
2015	The Lady in the Van	Nicholas Hytner	TriStar Pictures
2016	I, Daniel Blake	Ken Loach	eOne Films
2016	Wild Oats	Andy Tennant	The Weinstein Company RADiUS-TWC
2017	Woman Walks Ahead	Susanna White	A24 DirecTV Cinema
2018	Red Joan	Trevor Nunn	Lionsgate
2019	Cold Pursuit	Hans Petter Moland	Summit Entertainment
2019	Sorry We Missed You	Ken Loach
2020	The Secret: Dare to Dream	Andy Tennant
2021	The United Way	Mat Hodgson	Ad Hoc Films Cantilever Media Embankment Films Ingenious Media Maddem Films
2021	The Duke	Roger Michell	Pathé Ingenious Media Neon Films Screen Yorkshire
2022	Allelujah	Richard Eyre	Pathé Ingenious Media BBC Films DJ Films Redstart Media
2022	Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts	Roger Michell	Ingenious Media Free Range Films
2023	The Old Oak	Ken Loach	Le Pacte StudioCanal

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

1983 Nominated Best Original Score for Gandhi (shared with Ravi Shankar)
1988 Nominated Best Original Score and Best Original Song both for Cry Freedom (both shared with Jonas Gwangwa)
1989 Nominated Best Original Score for Dangerous Liaisons
1992 Nominated Best Original Score for The Fisher King

BAFTA Awards

1981 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for Shoestring (Also for: Bloody Kids, Fox)
1982 Won BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for Bergerac (also for The History Man, Going Gently, the BBC News theme)
1983 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Score for Gandhi
1985 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for The Jewel in the Crown
1987 Won BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for The Monocled Mutineer
1988 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Score for Cry Freedom
1989 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for Talking Heads
1990 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Original Film Score for Dangerous Liaisons
1991 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Original Film Score for Memphis Belle
1991 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for The Trials of Life
1994 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for Life in the Freezer
1996 Nominated Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music for The Madness of King George
2002 Won BAFTA TV Award Best Original Television Music for The Blue Planet
2006 Nominated Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music for Mrs Henderson Presents
2007 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Original TV Music for Planet Earth
2012 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Original Tv Music for Frozen Planet

Emmy Awards

2002 Won Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for The Blue Planet - Seas of Life: Ocean World
2005 Nominated Primetime Emmy Outstanding Music Composition for Pride
2007 Won Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for Planet Earth – From Pole to Pole

Golden Globes

1988 Nominated Golden Globe Best Original Score – Motion Picture for Cry Freedom (shared with Jonas Gwangwa)
2000 Nominated Golden Globe Best Original Score – Motion Picture for Anna and the King
2000 Nominated Golden Globe Best Original Song – Motion Picture for Anna and the King

Grammy Awards

1984 Nominated Grammy Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for Gandhi (shared with Ravi Shankar)
1989 Nominated Grammy Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television for Cry Freedom (shared with Jonas Gwangwa)

Ivor Novello Awards

1980 Nominated Best Best Theme from A TV or Radio production for Shoestring
1981 Nominated Best Best Theme from A TV or Radio production for Fox
1983 Nominated Best Best Theme from A TV or Radio production for Omnibus
1983 Won Best Film Theme or Song for Gandhi (shared with Ravi Shankar)
1985 Won Best Theme from A TV or Radio production for The Jewel in the Crown
1985 Nominated Best Theme or Song for The Company of Wolves
1987 Won Best Best Theme from A TV or Radio production for The Monocled Mutineer
1988. Won Best Film Score for Cry Freedom (shared with Jonas Gwangwa)
1993 Nominated Best Film Theme or Song for Final Analysis
1995 Nominated for Best Theme from A TV or Radio production for Beyond The Clouds
1995 Won Best Film Score for Shadowlands
1999 Nominated Best Film Score for Ever After
2000 Nominated Best Film Score for Anna and the King
2002 Nominated Best Original TV Music for The Blue Planet
2005 Nominated Best Original Film Score for Deep Blue
2010 Nominated Best TV Soundtrack for Life

Classical Brit Awards

2007 Winner Best Soundtrack for Planet Earth

EFA Awards (European Film Awards)

2012 Nominated European Composer for The Angels' Share

IFMCA Awards (Film Music Critics)

1998 Nominated Film Score of the Year for Dangerous Beauty
1998 Nominated Best Original Score for a Drama Film for Dangerous Beauty
1998 Nominated Film Composer of the Year
1998 Nominated Best Original Score for a Drama Film for Ever After: A Cinderella Story
1999 Nominated Film Composer of The Year
2007 Winner Best Original Score for Television for Planet Earth
2008 Winner Best Original Score for a Documentary for Earth
2009 Nominated Best Original Score for a Comedy Film for Fool’s Gold
2010 Nominated Best Original Score for a Television Series for Life
2012 Nominated Best Original Score for a Documentary for Frozen Planet
2015 Nominated Best Original Score for a Documentary for Bears
2016 Nominated Best Original Score for a Comedy Film for The Lady in the Van

World Soundtrack Awards

2015 Winner Lifetime Achievement

BMI Awards

1994 Winner Film Music for Groundhog Day
1999 Winner Film Music for You’ve Got Mail
2003 Winner Film Music for Sweet Home Alabama
2005 Winner Film Music for Hitch
2010 Winner Film Music for The Bounty Hunter

Other work

Fenton founded the Association of Professional Composers which later amalgamated with the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and with the Composers' Guild of Great Britain to become the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music and the University of Nottingham.

In 2020, he and Simon Chamberlain released the album, The Piano Framed. Available digitally and on CD and vinyl, it has solo piano arrangements by Chamberlain of many of Fenton's scores including The Blue Planet, Dangerous Liaisons, The Lady in the Van and Groundhog Day.

References

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^ "George Fenton official website biography". Retrieved 1 October 2018.
^ "St Edward's Oxford - Governors".
^ "Hymn". National Theatre. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
^ "George Fenton, Desert Island Discs - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b George Fenton, Desert Island Discs – BBC Radio 4, BBC, retrieved 16 December 2015
^ Recordings :: George Fenton, George Fenton Music, retrieved 18 December 2015
^ Eaton Music – George Fenton, Theatre Credits, Eaton Music, retrieved 18 December 2015
^ "Talking Heads Live". Bridge Theatre. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "Stephen Poliakoff on Hitting Town". Bleeding Cool. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
^ "How writing PM theme made composer 'very nervous'". BBC. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
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^ "The Madness of King George (1994)". IMDb. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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Awards for George Fenton
v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
1960s	Laurence Rosenthal (1966) No Award (1967) Earle Hagen (1968) John Williams (1969)
1970s	Morton Stevens (1970) David Rose (1971) Pete Rugolo (1972) Charles Fox (1973) Morton Stevens (1974) Billy Goldenberg (1975) Alex North (1976) Quincy Jones and Gerald Fried (1977) Billy Goldenberg (1978) David Rose (1979)
1980s	Patrick Williams (1980) Bruce Broughton (1981) David Rose (1982) Bruce Broughton (1983) Bruce Broughton (1984) John Addison (1985) Arthur B. Rubinstein (1986) Joel Rosenbaum (1987) Lee Holdridge (1988) Joel Rosenbaum (1989)
1990s	Don Davis (1990) John Debney (1991) Bruce Babcock (1992) Joel McNeely (1993) Laurence Rosenthal (1994) Don Davis (1995) Hummie Mann (1996) John Debney and Louis Febre (1997) Christophe Beck (1998) Carl Johnson (1999)
2000s	Joseph LoDuca (2000) Jay Chattaway (2001) George Fenton (2002) Sean Callery (2003) Velton Ray Bunch (2004) Michael Giacchino (2005) Sean Callery (2006) George Fenton (2007) James Dooley (2008) Joseph LoDuca (2009)
2010s	Sean Callery (2010) Garth Neustadter (2011) John Lunn (2012) John Lunn (2013) Alan Silvestri (2014) Jeff Beal (2015) Mac Quayle (2016) Jeff Beal (2017) Ramin Djawadi (2018) Ramin Djawadi (2019)
2020s	Ludwig Göransson (2020) Ludwig Göransson (2021) Theodore Shapiro (2022) Cristobal Tapia de Veer (2023)

v t e International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary
George Fenton (2007) Danny Elfman (2008) Armand Amar (2009) Bruno Coulais (2010) Pinar Toprak (2011) Panu Aaltio (2012) Conrad Pope (2013) Danny Elfman (2014) Steven Price (2015) Panu Aaltio (2016) Benjamin Wallfisch (2017) Pinar Toprak (2018) Steven Price (2019) Steven Price (2020) Panu Aaltio (2021)

v t e International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for Television
Steve Bartek / Danny Elfman (2004) Michael Giacchino (2005) George Fenton (2006) Joe Hisaishi (2007) Robert Lane and Joseph Vitarelli (2008) Bear McCreary (2009) Bear McCreary (2010) Arnau Bataller (2011) Murray Gold (2012) Federico Jusid (2013) Federico Jusid (2014) Federico Jusid (2015) Ramin Djawadi (2016) Bruce Broughton, John Debney, Joel McNeely and Andrew Cottee (2017) Christopher Lennertz (2018) Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019) Carlos Rafael Rivera (2020) Bear McCreary (2021)

International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for Television

Steve Bartek / Danny Elfman (2004)
Michael Giacchino (2005)
George Fenton (2006)
Joe Hisaishi (2007)
Robert Lane and Joseph Vitarelli (2008)
Bear McCreary (2009)
Bear McCreary (2010)
Arnau Bataller (2011)
Murray Gold (2012)
Federico Jusid (2013)
Federico Jusid (2014)
Federico Jusid (2015)
Ramin Djawadi (2016)
Bruce Broughton, John Debney, Joel McNeely and Andrew Cottee (2017)
Christopher Lennertz (2018)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
Carlos Rafael Rivera (2020)
Bear McCreary (2021)

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