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Craig Armstrong

Profession
Sound
Born
April 29, 1959 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Biography

Craig Armstrong, OBE (born 29 April 1959), is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica, and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981 and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta.Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's Composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic Ray. His other feature film scoring credits include Love Actually, Oliver Stone's World Trade Centre, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Incredible Hulk. Armstrong was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Armstrong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Me Before You poster
Me Before You
Film · 2016 · ★ 7.9
The Incredible Hulk poster
The Incredible Hulk
Film · 2008 · ★ 6.3
The Great Gatsby poster
The Great Gatsby
Film · 2013 · ★ 7.3
In Time poster
In Time
Film · 2011 · ★ 7.0
Love Actually poster
Love Actually
Film · 2003 · ★ 7.1
Romeo + Juliet poster
Romeo + Juliet
Film · 1996 · ★ 6.8
Moulin Rouge! poster
Moulin Rouge!
Film · 2001 · ★ 7.5
Snowden poster
Snowden
Film · 2016 · ★ 7.1
The Bone Collector poster
The Bone Collector
Film · 1999 · ★ 6.8
Bridget Jones's Baby poster
Bridget Jones's Baby
Film · 2016 · ★ 6.4
Victor Frankenstein poster
Victor Frankenstein
Film · 2015 · ★ 6.0
Ray poster
Ray
Film · 2004 · ★ 7.5

Filmography