John Powell

John Powell is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), Robots, Happy Feet (and its sequel), three Ice Age sequels, two Kung Fu Panda, Rio, How to Train Your Dragon, for which he was nominated for Academy Award, and its 2014 sequel.

Animated films
He started his work with Harry Gregson-Williams on Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek. He dropped out of Shrek 2 in 2004 to score the film Robots.

In 2006, he composed Ice Age The Meltdown and Happy Feet. He composed with Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard and Mark Mancina to work on Journey to Atlantis in 2007. In 2008, he composed four animated films including Horton Hears a Who!, Kung Fu Panda with Hans Zimmer, two Disney films including Bambi and the Magic Forest with Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard and Mark Mancina and Bolt.

Animated movies and Family films

 * Antz (1998).
 * Chicken Run (2000).
 * Shrek (2001).
 * Robots (2005).