Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams
Background information
Born	(1961-12-13) 13 December 1961 (age 59)
Origin	Sussex, England
Genres	Film score, video game music
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor, music producer
Instruments	Keyboards, drums
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Wavecrest Music
Associated acts	Rupert Gregson-Williams (brother) John Powell Nick Glennie-Smith Hans Zimmer David Buckley Atticus Ross Halli Cauthery Marc Streitenfeld Trevor Rabin Alberto Iglesias Audiomachine Leopold Ross Hybrid Stephanie Economou

Harry David Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961)^[1] is an English composer, conductor, orchestrator, and music producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the Metal Gear series, Spy Game, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Déjà Vu, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Martian, Antz, Chicken Run, the Shrek franchise, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, Early Man, and Catch-22. He is the older brother of composer Rupert Gregson-Williams.

Education[]

Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College School in Cambridge at the age of seven. He was a child chorister at the school and later attended Stowe School, a boarding independent school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar. He next went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.^[2]

He learned to play the piano as a child on a Broadwood piano which his father had bought with the winnings from a hundred-to-one bet during the Grand National.^[3]

Discography[]

Film[]

1990s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
1990	Revenge	Tony Scott	Rastar	additional music, director's cut
1991	Cold Heaven	Nicolas Roeg	Hemdale	music associate
1994	White Angel	Chris Jones	Living Spirit Pictures	N/A
	Broken Heart	Matt McConaghy	ITV Yorkshire	Short film
1995	Hotel Paradise	Nicolas Roeg	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	Short film
	Three Miles Up	Lesley Manning	TV movie	N/A
	Full Body Massage	Nicolas Roeg	Paramount Television Showtime Networks	TV movie
1996	The Whole Wide World	Dan Ireland	Sony Pictures Classics	with Hans Zimmer
	Witness Against Hitler	Betsan Morris Evans	BBC	TV movie
	The Rock	Michael Bay	Hollywood Pictures	Music producer with Hans Zimmer Score composed by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith
1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Bille August	Det Danske Filminstitut Bavaria Film Constantin Film Fox Searchlight Pictures (US)	with Hans Zimmer
	Deceiver	Jonas Pate Josh Pate	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	N/A
	The Borrowers	Peter Hewitt	Working Title Films PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Gramercy Pictures	N/A
1998	The Replacement Killers	Antoine Fuqua	Brillstein Entertainment Partners Columbia Pictures	First collaboration with Antonie Fuqua
	Antz	Eric Darnell Tim Johnson	Pacific Data Images DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures	with John Powell First collaboration with Tim Johnson
	Enemy of the State	Tony Scott	Jerry Bruckheimer Films Scott Free Productions Touchstone Pictures	with Trevor Rabin
1999	Swing Vote	David Anspaugh	Columbia TriStar Television ABC	TV movie
	The Match	Mick Davis	Gramercy Pictures	N/A
	Light It Up	Craig Bolotin	20th Century Fox	N/A
	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?	Peter Hewitt	Intermedia	N/A

2000s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2000	The Tigger Movie	Jun Falkenstein	DisneyToon Studios Walt Disney Pictures	N/A
		Tony Barbieri		N/A
	Chicken Run	Peter Lord Nick Park	Aardman Animations DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures (International) Pathé (Europe)	With John Powell First collaboration with Nick Park
	King of the Jungle	Seth Zvi Rosenfeld		N/A
2001	Spy Kids	Robert Rodriguez	Troublemaker Studios Dimension Films	with John Debney, Danny Elfman, Los Lobos, Robert Rodriguez, Heitor Pereira, and Gavin Greenaway
	Shrek	Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson	Pacific Data Images DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures	with John Powell First collaboration with Andrew Adamson
	The Hire	Alejandro González Iñárritu	BMW Films	Segment: "Powder Keg"
	Spy Game	Tony Scott	Beacon Pictures Universal Pictures	N/A
2002	Passionada	Dan Ireland	Samuel Goldwyn Films	N/A
	Phone Booth	Joel Schumacher	Zucker/Netter 20th Century Fox	N/A
	The Hire	Tony Scott	BMW Films	Segment: "Beat the Devil"
2003	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	Tim Johnson Patrick Gilmore	DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures	Second collaboration with Tim Johnson
	Veronica Guerin	Joel Schumacher	Jerry Bruckheimer Films Touchstone Pictures	N/A
	The Rundown	Peter Berg	Strike Entertainment WWE Films Universal Pictures (North America & Japan) Columbia Pictures (International)	N/A
2004	Man on Fire	Tony Scott	Scott Free Productions Regency Enterprises 20th Century Fox	with Lisa Gerrard
	Shrek 2	Andrew Adamson Kelly Asbury Conrad Vernon	Pacific Data Images DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures	Second collaboration with Andrew Adamson
	Return to Sender	Bille August	DEJ Productions	N/A
	Team America: World Police	Trey Parker	Paramount Pictures	N/A
	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason	Beeban Kidron	StudioCanal Working Title Films Miramax Films Universal Pictures	N/A
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Ridley Scott	Studio Babelsberg Scott Free Productions 20th Century Fox	As Composer & Conductor
	Domino	Tony Scott	Scott Free Productions Davis Films New Line Cinema	N/A
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Andrew Adamson	Walden Media Walt Disney Pictures	Third collaboration with Andrew Adamson
2006	The Uninvited	Louise Runge	Logo TV	Short film
	Seraphim Falls	David Von Ancken	Icon Productions Samuel Goldwyn Films Destination Films	N/A
	Flushed Away	Sam Fell David Bowers	Aardman Animations DreamWorks Animation Paramount Pictures	N/A
	Déjà Vu	Tony Scott	Jerry Bruckheimer Films Scott Free Productions Touchstone Pictures	N/A
2007	The Number 23	Joel Schumacher	New Line Cinema	N/A
	Shrek the Third	Chris Miller Raman Hui	Pacific Data Images DreamWorks Animation Paramount Pictures	N/A
	Gone Baby Gone	Ben Affleck	The Ladd Company Miramax Films	N/A
	Slipstream	Anthony Hopkins	Strand Releasing Destination Films	Music Producer Score composed by Anthony Hopkins
2008	Em	Tony Barbieri	SnagFilms Vanguard Cinema	N/A
	The Forbidden Kingdom	Rob Minkoff	Lionsgate Relativity Media Casey Silver Productions Huayi Brothers	Score Producer Score composed by David Buckley
	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	Andrew Adamson	Walden Media Walt Disney Pictures	Fourth collaboration with Andrew Adamson
	Jolene	Dan Ireland	E1 Entertainment	Also music producer
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Gavin Hood	Seed Productions Marvel Entertainment 20th Century Fox	As Composer & Conductor Additional Music By Hybrid & Halli Cauthery
	The Taking of Pelham 123	Tony Scott	Escape Artists Scott Free Productions Relativity Media Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures	Additional Music By Hybrid

2010s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2010	Twelve	Joel Schumacher	Radar Pictures Hannover House Gaumont	N/A
	Shrek Forever After	Mike Mitchell	DreamWorks Animation Paramount Pictures	N/A
	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Mike Newell	Jerry Bruckheimer Films Walt Disney Pictures	Additional Music By Halli Cauthery & David Buckley As composer & conductor
	The Town	Ben Affleck	GK Films Legendary Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures	with David Buckley
	Unstoppable	Tony Scott	Scott Free Productions Dune Entertainment 20th Century Fox	Additional Music By Justin Caine Burnett
2011	Life in a Day	Kevin Macdonald	National Geographic Films	N/A
	Cowboys & Aliens	Jon Favreau	Platinum Studios Fairview Entertainment Imagine Entertainment DreamWorks Pictures Universal Pictures (North America) Paramount Pictures (International)	Additional Music By Halli Cauthery Hybrid provided sound design textures[4]
	Arthur Christmas	Sarah Smith	Aardman Animations Sony Pictures Animation Columbia Pictures	Replaced Michael Giacchino and Adam Cohen
2012	Prometheus	Ridley Scott	Scott Free Productions Brandywine Productions Dune Entertainment 20th Century Fox	Two tracks ("Life" and "We Were Right") Main score by Marc Streitenfeld
	I Am Bad	David Rackoff	OneZero Productions	N/A
	Total Recall	Len Wiseman	Original Film Columbia Pictures	Additional Music By Hybrid As composer & Music producer Orchestra Conducted By Gavin Greenaway
2013	The East	Zal Batmanglij	Scott Free Productions Fox Searchlight Pictures	Themes Main score by Halli Cauthery
	Mr. Pip	Andrew Adamson	Olympus Pictures	Fifth collaboration with Andrew Adamson
2014	Hate from a Distance	Dan Ireland	Privarte Pictures	Co-composed with Tom Howe
	The Equalizer	Antoine Fuqua	Escape Artists Village Roadshow Pictures Columbia Pictures	Additional Music By Hybrid Second collaboration with Antoine Fuqua
2015	Blackhat	Michael Mann	Legendary Pictures Universal Pictures	with Atticus Ross, Ryan Amon, & Leo Ross
	Monkey Kingdom	Mark Linfield Alastair Fothergill	Disneynature	N/A
	The Martian	Ridley Scott	Genre Films TSG Entertainment Scott Free Productions 20th Century Fox	as composer & conductor
	Miss You Already	Catherine Hardwicke	Lionsgate (US) Entertainment One (UK)	N/A
2016	Confirmation	Rick Famuyiwa	HBO	TV movie, Additional Music By Stephanie Economou
	Live by Night	Ben Affleck	Warner Bros. Pictures Appian Way Productions Pearl Street Films	Additional Music By Stephanie Economou As composer & conductor
2017	The Zookeeper's Wife	Niki Caro	Focus Features	Additional Music By Stephanie Economou As composer & conductor First collaboration with Niki Caro
	Breath	Simon Baker		Additional Music By Stephanie Economou
2018	Early Man	Nick Park	StudioCanal Aardman Animations	with Tom Howe Additional Music By Paul Mounsey Orchestra Conducted By Harry Gregson-Williams & Gavin Greenaway Second collaboration with Nick Park
	The Equalizer 2	Antoine Fuqua	Columbia Pictures Escape Artists	Additional Music By Stephanie Economou Third collaboration with Antoine Fuqua
	The Meg	Jon Turteltaub	Warner Bros. Pictures	Additional Music By Stephanie Economou As composer & conductor
2019	Penguins	Alastair Fothergill Jeff Wilson	Disneynature	N/A

2020s[]

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2020	Mulan	Niki Caro	Walt Disney Pictures	Themes by Jerry Goldsmith Additional Music By Stephanie Economou & Tom Howe Second collaboration with Niki Caro
2021	Infinite	Antoine Fuqua	Paramount+	N/A
	The Last Duel	Ridley Scott	20th Century Studios	N/A
	House of Gucci		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative United Artists Releasing	N/A

Television[]

Year	Title	Notes
1991	G.B.H.	2 episodes music coordinator
1992	Champion Children
1999	The Hunger	Episode: "Sanctuary"
2002	AFP: American Fighter Pilot
2004	Father of the Pride	3 episodes
2007–2008	The Riches
2007	Shrek the Halls	TV special
2017–present	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2019	Whiskey Cavalier
2019	Catch-22	Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams
2020	Manhunt	Composed season 2 with Stephanie Economou
2020	Amazing Stories	Episode: "Signs of Life"

Video games[]

Year	Title	Notes
2001	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty	With Norihiko Hibino
2004	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater	With Norihiko Hibino
2007	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare	Main theme only and music producer With Stephen Barton
2008	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots	With various others
2014	Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes	With Ludvig Forssell
2014	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare	Main title and themes only With audiomachine (Paul Dinletir and Kevin Rix)
2015	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain	Music producer Score composed by Ludvig Forsell, Justin Burnett and Daniel James

Rides[]

Year	Title	Notes
2001	Shrek 4-D	At various theme parks around the world. Based on the Shrek film franchise.

Awards and nominations[]

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 )
• 2009 Brooklyn International Film Festival – (with , and )

Nominations[]

• 1997 Saturn Award for Best Music – The Rock (with 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 – 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

References[]

External links[]

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• Harry Gregson-Williams at IMDb
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• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
• Harry Gregson-Williams discography at MusicBrainz
• An interview with Harry Gregson-Williams
• Epicenter Games Interviews Harry Gregson-Williams, an interview with Harry Gregson-Williams regarding Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, from EpicenterGames
• Harry Gregson-Williams at Scorereviews.com