Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli is an Italian film composer, known for his frequent collaborations with director Joe Wright.
Career
Marianelli was born in Pisa, Italy. He came from a musically inclined family and learned the piano at a young age, before moving into other musical instruments. He studied piano and composition in Florence and London. After a year as a postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music, he took up a 3-year post-graduate program at the National Film and Television School in London, from which he graduated in 1997. During his time there, he undertook small projects, composing for concerts and theatre productions. Marianelli then received film projects such as Ailsa and Pandaemonium which caught the eye of director Joe Wright who would later contact Marianelli to score his 2005 film Pride & Prejudice. The duo would then go on to work on Wright's subsequent films which includes Atonement, The Soloist, Anna Karenina, and Darkest Hour.In 2008, Marianelli won both the Academy Award for Original Music Score and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for his score on Atonement. His other Academy Award nominations are for Pride & Prejudice and Anna Karenina.
In 2018, Marianelli composed the score for Bumblebee, the sixth installment in the Transformers film series. This was his second score with director Travis Knight after Kubo and the Two Strings.
In a 2019 article concerning film composing, Marianelli said: "Writing music professionally is a hard occupation, and writing for media definitely not for the fainthearted. One has to be able to enjoy the pain, in order to be able to carry on successfully. I think one of the hardest things to deal with, working as a composer involved in media, is the anxiety that comes from being in quite a vulnerable position."
Film scores
| Year | Film | Director | Awards & nominations |
| 1994 | Ailsa | Paddy Breathnach | |
| 1995 | The Long Way Home | Paddy Breathnach | |
| 1997 | The Sheep Thief | Asif Kapadia | |
| 1997 | I Went Down | Paddy Breathnach | |
| 1999 | Preserve | Victoria Harwood | |
| 1999 | The Funeral of the Last Gypsy King | Jane Rogoyska | |
| 1999 | Southpaw: The Francis Barrett Story | Liam McGrath | |
| 2000 | Being Considered | Jonathan Newman | |
| 2000 | Pandaemonium | Julien Temple | |
| 2001 | Happy Now? | Philippa Cousins | |
| 2001 | The Man Who Bought Mustique | Joseph Bullman | |
| 2001 | The Warrior | Asif Kapadia | |
| 2002 | The Visitor | Victoria Harwood | |
| 2002 | Blood Strangers | Jon Jones | |
| 2002 | In This World | Michael Winterbottom | |
| 2003 | I Capture the Castle | Tim Fywell | |
| 2003 | This Little Life | Sarah Gavron | |
| 2003 | September | Max Färberböck | |
| 2003 | The Bypass | Amit Kumar | |
| 2003 | Cheeky | David Thewlis | |
| 2004 | Passer By | David Morrissey | |
| 2005 | The Brothers Grimm | Terry Gilliam | |
| 2005 | Burnt Out | Fabienne Godet | |
| 2005 | Pride & Prejudice | Joe Wright | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated — World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year Nominated — World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year Nominated — European Film Award for Best Composer |
| 2005 | Shooting Dogs | Michael Caton-Jones | |
| 2005 | V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | Replaced Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard |
| 2006 | The Return | Asif Kapadia | |
| 2006 | Opal Dream | Peter Cattaneo | |
| 2006 | We Are Together | Paul Taylor | |
| 2007 | Atonement | Joe Wright | Academy Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score International Film Music Critics Award for Score of the Year Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Original Score Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Film Music |
| 2007 | Far North | Asif Kapadia | |
| 2007 | Goodbye Bafana | Bille August | |
| 2007 | Shrooms | Paddy Breathnach | |
| 2007 | The Brave One | Neil Jordan | |
| 2009 | The Soloist | Joe Wright | |
| 2009 | Everybody's Fine | Kirk Jones | |
| 2009 | Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | Nominated — Goya Awards for Best Original Score |
| 2010 | Eat Pray Love | Ryan Murphy | |
| 2011 | Jane Eyre | Cary Joji Fukunaga | |
| 2011 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Lasse Hallström | |
| 2012 | Anna Karenina | Joe Wright | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Original Score. Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Original Score |
| 2012 | Quartet | Dustin Hoffman | |
| 2013 | Hummingbird | Steven Knight | |
| 2013 | Third Person | Paul Haggis | |
| 2014 | A Long Way Down | Pascal Chaumeil | |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Graham Annable Anthony Stacchi | |
| 2015 | Wild Card | Simon West | |
| 2015 | Everest | Baltasar Kormákur | |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Travis Knight | |
| 2016 | Ali and Nino | Asif Kapadia | |
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | Joe Wright | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Original Score |
| 2017 | Paddington 2 | Paul King | Nominated - International Film Music Critics Association for Best Original Score for a Comedy Film |
| 2018 | Bumblebee | Travis Knight | |
| 2019 | Pinocchio | Matteo Garrone | |
| 2020 | The Secret Garden | Marc Munden | |
| TBA | A Boy Called Christmas | Gil Kenan |