Dario Marianelli

Dario Marianelli is an Italian composer.

Dario Marianelli
Born	Pisa, Italy
Genres	Film score, ballet, theatre, concert musics
Occupations	Composer music producer
Years active	1994–present

Early life

Marianelli was born in Pisa, Italy. He studied in Florence with David Kimball (himself a pupil of Rosario Scalero), and in 1990 he moved to London. After a year as a postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music studying with Francis Shaw he took up a three-year postgraduate program at the National Film and Television School in London, from which he graduated in 1997. While there, he also undertook diverse projects, composing for concerts, contemporary ballet and theatre productions.

Career

Marianelli had already written scores for several films and TV projects, including movies such as Ailsa and Pandaemonium, when director Joe Wright contacted him about scoring his 2005 film Pride & Prejudice.^[1] He subsequently composed for Wright's films Atonement, The Soloist, Anna Karenina and Darkest Hour.^[2]

Awards and recognitions

In 2008 Marianelli won the Academy Award for Original Music Score and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Atonement. He has also been nominated for Academy Awards for Pride & Prejudice and Anna Karenina.

In 2018 he composed the score for Bumblebee, the sixth installment in the Transformers film series. It was his second score for director Travis Knight, after Kubo and the Two Strings.

Marianelli has continued to write concert, theatre and ballet music.

Film scores

Year	Film	Director	Awards & nominations
1994	Ailsa	Paddy Breathnach
1995	The Long Way Home
1997	The Sheep Thief	Asif Kapadia
	I Went Down	Paddy Breathnach
1999	Preserve	Victoria Harwood
	The Funeral of the Last Gypsy King	Jane Rogoyska
	Southpaw: The Francis Barrett Story	Liam McGrath
2000	Being Considered	Jonathan Newman
	Pandaemonium	Julien Temple
2001	Happy Now?	Philippa Cousins
	The Man Who Bought Mustique	Joseph Bullman
	The Warrior	Asif Kapadia
2002	The Visitor	Victoria Harwood
	Blood Strangers	Jon Jones
	In This World	Michael Winterbottom
2003	I Capture the Castle	Tim Fywell
	This Little Life	Sarah Gavron
	September	Max Färberböck
	The Bypass	Amit Kumar
	Cheeky	David Thewlis
2004	Passer By	David Morrissey
2005	The Brothers Grimm	Terry Gilliam
	Burnt Out	Fabienne Godet
	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
	Shooting Dogs	Michael Caton-Jones
2006	V for Vendetta	James McTeigue
	The Return	Asif Kapadia
	Opal Dream	Peter Cattaneo
	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
	Far North	Asif Kapadia
	Goodbye Bafana	Bille August
	Shrooms	Paddy Breathnach
	The Brave One	Neil Jordan
2009	The Soloist	Joe Wright
	Everybody's Fine	Kirk Jones
	Agora	Alejandro Amenábar	Nominated — Goya Awards for Best Original Score (Spain)
2010	Tick Tock Tale	Dean Wellins
	Eat Pray Love	Ryan Murphy
2011	Jane Eyre	Cary Joji Fukunaga
	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.[3] Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Original Score
	Quartet	Dustin Hoffman
2013	Hummingbird	Steven Knight
	Third Person	Paul Haggis
2014	A Long Way Down	Pascal Chaumeil
	The Boxtrolls[4]	Graham Annable Anthony Stacchi	Marianelli's first score for an animated film.
2015	Wild Card	Simon West
	Everest	Baltasar Kormákur
2016	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight
	Ali and Nino	Asif Kapadia
2017	Darkest Hour	Joe Wright	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Original Score
	Paddington 2	Paul King	Nominated - International Film Music Critics Association for Best Original Score for a Comedy Film
2018	Bumblebee	Travis Knight
	A Woman's Name	Marco Tullio Giordana
2019	Pinocchio	Matteo Garrone
2020	The Secret Garden	Marc Munden
2021	A Boy Called Christmas	Gil Kenan
2024	Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
	Federer: Twelve Final Days	Asif Kapadia Joe Sabia
	The Life Apart	Marco Tullio Giordana
	Paddington in Peru[5]	Dougal Wilson
2026	Wildwood	Travis Knight

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Project	Outcome	Ref.
Academy Award	2006	Best Original Score	Pride & Prejudice	Nominated	[6]
	2008		Atonement	Won	[7]
	2013		Anna Karenina	Nominated	[8]
BAFTA Award	2008	Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music	Atonement	Nominated	[9]
	2013		Anna Karenina	Nominated	[10]
	2018		Darkest Hour	Nominated	[11]
Golden Globe Award	2008	Best Original Score - Motion Picture	Atonement	Won	[12]
	2013		Anna Karenina	Nominated
Satellite Awards	2007	Best Original Score	Atonement	Nominated	[13]
	2012		Anna Karenina	Nominated	[14]
	2017		Darkest Hour	Nominated	[15]
World Soundtrack Awards	2006	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year	Pride & Prejudice	Nominated	[16]
		Soundtrack Composer of the Year	Pride & Prejudice	Nominated	[17]
	2008	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year	Atonement	Won	[16]
		Soundtrack Composer of the Year	Atonement	Nominated	[17]
	2013	Best Original Film Score of the Year	Anna Karenina	Nominated	[16]

See also

• Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer
• Chicago Film Critics Association