Harry Gregson Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is an English composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer. He has regularly written for television and films, such as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Martian, and the Shrek franchise. He is the brother of composer Rupert Gregson-Williams.

Contents

• Harry gregson williams composing process interview
• A conversation with harry gregson williams
• Education
• Awards
• Nominations
• References

Gregson-Williams has also composed music for several video games, having notably helped score every main entry in the Metal Gear series since Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Education

Harry Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College at the University of Cambridge at the age of seven, where he was a child chorister, and later attended Stowe School, a boarding independent school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar, followed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Awards

1999 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Antz (with John Powell)

1999 BMI Film & TV Awards - Antz (with John Powell)

1999 BMI Film & TV Awards - Enemy of the State (with Trevor Rabin)

2001 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films - Chicken Run (with John Powell)

2001 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music Score an Animated Feature Production - Shrek (with John Powell)

2001 BMI Film & TV Awards - Chicken Run (with John Powell)

2002 BMI Film & TV Awards - Shrek (with John Powell)

2005 BMI Film & TV Awards - Shrek 2

2005 BMI Film & TV Awards - Man on Fire

2005 Hollywood Film Award for Composer of the Year

2006 BMI Film & TV Awards - BMI Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement

2005 Satellite Award for Outstanding Original Score - Kingdom of Heaven

2009 BMI Film & TV Awards - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

2009 BMI Film & TV Awards - Eleventh Hour (with Graeme Revell and David E. Russo)

2009 Brooklyn International Film Festival Certificate of Excellence - Em (with Jim Jermanok, Jesse Biltz and Britt Napier)

Nominations

1997 Saturn Award for Best Music - The Rock (with Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer)

1999 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production - Antz (with John Powell)

2001 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score - Chicken Run (with John Powell)

2002 Saturn Award for Best Music - Shrek (with John Powell)

2002 Golden Satellite Award for Best Original Score - Spy Game

2002 BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - Shrek (with John Powell)

2004 Annie Award for Outstanding Music in an Animated Feature Production - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

2004 World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the Year - Shrek 2

2004 World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year - Shrek 2

2005 Annie Award for Music in an Animated Feature Production - Shrek 2

2006 Golden Globe for Best Original Score - Motion Picture - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2006 World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written for Film - "Can't Take It In" from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (with Imogen Heap)

2007 Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2007 World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year - Shrek the Third

2007 World Soundtrack Award for Film Composer of the Year - Déjà Vu, Shrek the Third, The Number 23 and Flushed Away