John Powell

John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores in motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. Powell is best known for composing or co-composing scores for animated films, such as Antz (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Chicken Run (2000), Shrek (2001), Henry (2001), Rifters (2002), Rainfall (2003), Exitium (2004), Robots (2005), Thy Fools (2005), the second three Ice Age films (2006-2012), the Happy Feet films (2006-2011), Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008), the first two Kung Fu Panda films (2008–2011), Bolt (2008), the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy (2010–2019), the Rio films (2011-2014), Ice Cold (2012), Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012), Red-Haired Flame (2015), The Mercenary (2015), Ferdinand (2017), Hanazuki: Full of Treasures (2019), The Secret of Kells: Crom's Revenge (2022), Earth to Luna: The Movie (2022), Flappatron (2022), The Spiderfly (2023), Little Einsteins: The Movie (2025), Bubble Guppies: The Movie (2025), Rusty Rivets: The Movie (2025), Avems (2027), Spirit Ninjas (2027), Shimmer and Shine: The Movie (2028) and Blue's Clues: The Movie (2030).