Daniel Pemberton

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Daniel Pemberton
Born (1977-11-03) 3 November 1977 (age 43)
United Kingdom
GenresFilm score
Ambient music
Occupation(s)Composer
InstrumentsPiano, Synthesizer, keyboards, Guitar
Websitedanielpemberton.com

Daniel Pemberton (born 3 November 1977) is a British composer.[1][2]

Life and career[]

In 1994, at the age of 16, Pemberton recorded his debut album, Bedroom, on a multitrack cassette recorder, which caught the attention of ambient musician Pete Namlook and was released on the latter’s Fax label as part of its sub-label series.

In 2013, Pemberton completed his breakthrough score of director Ridley Scott's film The Counselor. The score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.[3] He has also scored films for other prominent directors including Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs and Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E..

In 2014, Pemberton was named the "Discovery of the Year" at the World Soundtrack Awards.[4] and nominated as "Film Composer of the Year" in 2016.[5]

In 2021, he was named "Film Composer Of The Year" by the International Film Music Critics Association.[6]

Pemberton has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe award. In 2016 his score for Steve Jobs was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.[7] In 2017 he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song[8] for the song Gold from the film of the same name which he co-wrote with Iggy Pop, Danger Mouse and the director Stephen Gaghan. In 2019 his score for Motherless Brooklyn was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.[9] In 2021 he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song[10] for the song Hear My Voice from the film The Trial of the Chicago 7 which was performed and co-written with Celeste.

Pemberton's works include the Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman; The Palme d'Or nominated French film Mal De Pierres starring Marion Cotillard and directed by Nicole Garcia; Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, starring Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba; The Weinstein Company film Gold starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by Stephen Gaghan; , a political thriller based on the Watergate affair starring Liam Neeson, directed by Peter Landesman and produced by Ridley Scott and Tom Hanks, and the latest film from Guy Ritchie, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Earlier work includes The Awakening starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West and directed by Nick Murphy; Cuban Fury a British comedy from the producers of Shaun of the Dead starring Nick Frost; the live action short Ghost Recon: Alpha directed by Oscar-winners Francois Alaux and Herve De Crecy and edited by Oscar-winner Pietro Scalia; Blood starring Paul Bettany and Mark Strong, directed by Nick Murphy and produced by Sam Mendes; Film4 feature In Fear starring Alice Englert, directed by Jeremy Lovering and Complicit starring David Oyelowo and directed by Niall MacCormick. Pemberton also scored director Gareth Edwards' breakthrough sci-fi short film Factory Farmed.[11]

He has also composed title tunes and incidental music for several award-winning television series including The Game, Prey, Ambassadors, Peep Show, Desperate Romantics, Space Dive, Occupation, Prisoners' Wives, Black Mirror, My Mad Fat Diary, Suburban Shootout, Hell's Kitchen, Great British Menu, Hiroshima, Bad Lads' Army, George Orwell: A Life in Pictures, The Yellow House, Monster Moves, Dirk Gently, Napoleon[12] and the first series of the 2010 revival of Upstairs Downstairs. He also has composed music for video games such as LittleBigPlanet, Kinect Adventures, LittleBigPlanet 2, The Movies and Trackmania Turbo. Using the alias The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra, some of his television themes were released on the album TVPOPMUZIK in 2007, while his video game work—primarily that from LittleBigPlanet—was released on the album LittleBIGMusic.

For the 2020 Paralympics documentary film Rising Phoenix as well as working with disabled musicians on the score Pemberton also collaborated with disabled rappers Toni Hickman, Georgetragic and Keith Jones to create the end credits song "Rising Phoenix".[13]

Film scores[]

Film[]

Year Title Director(s) Notes
2009 Enemies of the People Rob Lemkin
Thet Sambath
2011 The Awakening Nick Murphy
2012 Blood
2013 In Fear Jeremy Lovering
Complicit Niall MacCormick
The Counselor Ridley Scott
2014 Cuban Fury James Griffiths
2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Guy Ritchie
Steve Jobs Danny Boyle Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
2016 From the Land of the Moon Nicole Garcia
Gold Stephen Gaghan Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
2017 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Guy Ritchie
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House Peter Landesman
Molly's Game Aaron Sorkin
All the Money in the World Ridley Scott
2018 Ocean's 8 Gary Ross
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Bob Persichetti
Peter Ramsey
Rodney Rothman
2019 Yesterday Danny Boyle
Motherless Brooklyn Edward Norton Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
2020 Birds of Prey Cathy Yan
Enola Holmes Harry Bradbeer
The Trial of the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Nominated – Academy Award for Best Original Song
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Rising Phoenix Ian Bonhote
Peter Ettedgui
2021 The Rescue Amanda Lipitz
2022 The Bad Guys[14] Pierre Perifel
Untitled Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel Joaquim Dos Santos
Kemp Powers
Justin K. Thompson

Television[]

Year Title Notes
2003–2015 Peep Show Broadcast on Channel 4
2006 Prehistoric Park Broadcast on ITV
2010–2012 Dirk Gently Broadcast on BBC 4
2017 Black Mirror Episode: "USS Callister"
2019 Brexit: The Uncivil War TV movie, broadcast on Channel 4 and HBO
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Netflix miniseries, co-composer with Samuel Sim
Original Dark Crystal theme by Trevor Jones

Short film[]

Year Title Director
2008 Factory Farmed Gareth Edwards
2012 Ghost Recon: Alpha Francois Alaux
Herve de Crecy

Video games[]

Year Title Developer(s)
2005 The Movies Lionhead Studios
2008 LittleBigPlanet Media Molecule
2010 Kinect Adventures! Xbox Game Studios
2011 LittleBigPlanet 2 Media Molecule
2019 Knights and Bikes Foam Sword
Double Fine Productions

Discography[]

Soundtrack releases[]

  • Cries in the Wind ( the daniel pemberton TV orchestra ) ( little big planet October 21, 2008 / little big planet 2 January 18, 2011
  • Yesterday (Universal Music & Capitol Records, 2019)
  • Molly's Game (Sony Classical, 2018)
  • All The Money In The World (Sony Classical, 2017)
  • Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House (Filmtrax Ltd., 2017)
  • King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (WaterTower Music, 2017)
  • Gold (BMG, Original Score, 2017)
  • From The Land Of The Moon (Mal De Pierres) (Les Productions Du Tresor, 2017)
  • Steve Jobs (Backlot Music, 2015)
  • The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Watertower, 2015)
  • The Game (Moviescore Media, 2015)
  • Cuban Fury (Decca Records, 2014)
  • The Counselor (Milan Records, 2013)
  • Blood (Moviescore Media, 2013)
  • Space Dive (1812 Recordings, 2012)
  • Dirk Gently (Moviescore Media, 2012)
  • Space Dive (1812 Recordings, 2012)
  • The Awakening (Moviescore Media/Screamworks, 2012)
  • Desperate Romantics (1812 Recordings, 2012)
  • LittleBIGMusic (1812 Recordings, 2011)
  • The Haunted Airman (1812 Recordings, 2011)
  • Upstairs Downstairs (1812 Recordings, 2010)
  • Kinect Adventures (1812 Recordings, 2010)
  • Monster Moves: Songs + Sounds (1812 Recordings, 2009)
  • Heroes and Villains: Attila the Hun / Napoleon (Moviescore Media, 2009)
  • TVPOPMUZIK (1812 Recordings, 2007)
  • Prehistoric Park (1812 Recordings, 2006)

References[]

  1. ^ "Official website biography". Danielpemberton.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Daniel Pemberton". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Daniel Pemberton Scoring Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor' – Film Music Reporter". Filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Daniel Pemberton Named Discovery of the Year by World Soundtrack Academy". ascap.com. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  5. ^ "World Soundtrack Awards 2016".
  6. ^ http://filmmusiccritics.org/2021/02/ifmca-award-winners-2020. Retrieved 22 February 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ "Daniel Pemberton". goldenglobes.com. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Best Original Song 2016".
  9. ^ https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/2020/all#category-67. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ "Best Original Song 2020".
  11. ^ FACTORY FARMED. Retrieved 28 September 2014 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ "Danielpemberton.com". Danielpemberton.com. Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  13. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/01/rising-phoenix-krip-hop-stars-soundtrack-paralympics-film. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ @DANIELPEMBERTON (22 June 2021). "The news is now out there so this is probably a good time as any to say I've been working away for quite a while on a super fun big new animation feature from ⁦@Dreamworks and ⁦@UniversalPics:- "THE BAD GUYS" -" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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