Nicholas Hooper is one of Europe’s leading composers, having written and produced music for over 250 films, dramas and documentaries since 1990. He has developed a reputation for producing music that is original, inspiring and always colourful.
His scores have received several major accolades. He’s won two BAFTAs for Best Original Score, one in 2007 for ITV’s Prime Suspect VII and another in 2004 for The Young Visiters (as well as being nominated for State of Play in the same year). He was nominated for a 2006 BAFTA for his score to The Girl In The Café, and prior to this was BAFTA nominated for The Way We Live Now. In 1998 he won the coveted Golden Panda Award for Land of the Tiger, a major BBC documentary series on India. The following year he won again (having been nominated for three separate scores), making him the first composer to win the award consecutively. He has received many other accolades for his feature films including the period feature The Heart Of Me, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Williams, and The Tichbourne Claimant (a quote from Variety: “Nicholas Hooper’s alert symphonic score rates a major bow, adding shape and atmosphere to the labyrinthine tale”).
Nicholas scored Philip Martin’s feature, Einstein and Eddington, starring David Tennant as Sir Arthur Eddington and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein for Company Pictures/HBO, and Belonging for BBC Wales Drama. He also scored Enid for Carnival/BBC, Mo for C4, and Yes Virginia, a CBS animated film for Christmas 2009.
Nicholas has received great critical acclaim for his stunning scores to both Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for Warner Bros, (“Let there be no doubt – Hooper’s reputation is cemented with this work, and his career just shifted gears.” Daniel Champion, Music from the Movies, July 2007), and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, nominated for a 2010 Grammy for Best Film Score. He most recently completed recording two wonderful scores to the Walt Disney Pictures feature releases, African Cats and Chimpanzee.
Credits
| JANE EYRE | Ruby Films Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga Producers: Alison Owen, Paul Trijbits Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Jamie Bell, Sally Hawkins |
| LIFE IN A DAY | You Tube/Hanway Films Director: Kevin Macdonald Producers: Liza Marshall |
| EAT PRAY LOVE | Columbia Pictures Director: Ryan Murphy Producers: Dede Gardner Starring: Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, James Franco |
| ROBIN HOOD | Universal Pictures Director: Ridley Scott Producers: Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Maz Von Sydow, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Danny Huston |
| EVERYBODY’S FINE | Miramax Director: Kirk Jones Producers: Vittorio Checci Gori, Ted Field, Glynnis Murray, Gianni Nunari Starring: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell |
| DOGHOUSE | Carnaby International Director: Jake West Producers: Mike Loveday Starring: Noel Clarke, Danny Dyer |
| MUTANT CHRONICLES | Edward R Pressman Films Director: Simon Hunter Producers: Stephen Belafonte, Tim Dennison, Peter La Terriere, Pras, Edward R Pressman Starring: Ron Perlman, Sean Pertwee, Jon Malkovitch |
| AGORA | Mod Productions Director: Alejandro Amenabar Producers: Alvaro Augustin, Fernando Boveira Starring: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella |
| THE SOLOIST | Dreamworks SKG Director: Joe Wright Producer: Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff Starring: Robert Downey Jnr, Jamie Foxx |
| THE BRAVE ONE | Warner Bros Pictures Director: Neil Jordan Producer: Susan Downey, Joel Silver Starring: Jodie Foster |
| ATONEMENT | Universal Pictures Director: Joe Wright Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn, James McAvoy. Kiera Knightley |
| GOODBYE BAFANA | Banana Films Director: Bille August Producers: Bille August, Bob Graham Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Diane Kruger |
| SHROOMS | Capital Films Director: Paddy Breathnach Producers: Paddy Macdonald, Robert Walpole Starring: Jack Huston |
| ERAGON | Fox 2000 Pictures Director: Stefan Fangmeier Producers: Jon Davies, Wyck Godfrey Starring: Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Robert Carlyle, Ed Speeler |
| MISS POTTER | Phoenix Pictures Director: Chris Noonan Producers: David Kirschner, Mike Medavoy, Arnold W Messer, Cory Sienega, David Thwaites Starring: Renee Zellwegger, Ewan Macgregor, Emily Watson, Bill Paterson |
| THE RETURN | Roset Film Productions Director: Asif Kapadia Producers: Aaron Ryder, Jeffrey Silver Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar |
| COPYING BEETHOVEN | Sidney Kimmel Ents Director: Agniezska Holland Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Michael Taylor Starring: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger |
| V FOR VENDETTA | Warner Bros Pictures Director: James McTeigue Producers: Grant Hill, Lorne Orleans, Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving |
| OPAL DREAM | Academy Features Director: Peter Cattaneo Producers: Lizzie Gower, Nick Morris, Emile Sherman |
| NANNY MCPHEE | Universal Pictures Director: Kirk Jones Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lindsay Doran Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth |
| THE BROTHERS GRIMM | Miramax Director: Terry Gilliam Producers: Daniel Bobker, Charles Rovin Starring: Heath Ledger, Matt Damon |
| PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | Focus features Director: Joe Wright Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster Starring: Kiera Knightley, Tallulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Macfayden |
| BEYOND THE GATES | Crossday Director: Mochael Caton Jones Producers: David Belton, Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer Starring: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy |
| SONS OF THE WIND (Les Fils Du Vent) | Dan Films Director: Julien Seri Producer: Yves Marmion |
| CHASING LIBERTY | Alcon Ents Director: Anton Cadiff Producers: Broderick Johnson, Andrew A Kosove, David Parfitt Starring: Mandy Moore, Jeremy Piven |