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Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1 June 1974) is an English composer. He composed music for films such as Kong: Skull Island, X-Men: First Class, Puss in Boots, Monsters vs. Aliens, Captain Phillips, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, Wreck-It Ralph, Turbo, Big Hero 6, Pixels, Ron's Gone Wrong, The Interview, and Detective Pikachu, as well as the video games Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Disney Infinity 2.0. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Don Hall, Stephen J. Anderson, Rob Letterman, Matthew Vaughn, Raman Hui, Russo brothers, Jake Kasdan, Sam Hargrave and Rich Moore.

Life and career

Jackman was born in Hillingdon, London. He studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College, Framlingham College and New College, Oxford, University of Oxford.

Jackman has done programming and production work with artists including Mike Oldfield (Voyager), Sally Oldfield (Flaming Star), Trevor Horn/Art of Noise (The Seduction of Claude Debussy), Elton John and Gary Barlow. He co-produced Seal's unreleased 2001 album Togetherland. "This Could Be Heaven", released from the album, was also co-written by Jackman and used on the movie The Family Man and included on the deluxe edition of Seal's compilation album Hits.

Jackman has released three albums, Utopia (2003), Transfiguration (2005), and Acoustica (2007; with Augustus Isadore).

Jackman had various minor roles on film scores since 2006, generally working with mentor Hans Zimmer, including for The Da Vinci Code (music programmer), The Dark Knight (music arranger) and additional music for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, At World's End, The Simpsons Movie, Kung Fu Panda and Hancock. In 2009, Jackman, Zimmer and John Powell won the 2008 Annie Award for Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form for their work on DreamWorks Animation's Secrets of the Furious Five (a sequel to Kung Fu Panda). He has since composed soundtracks for Monsters vs. Aliens, Henri IV, Gulliver's Travels, X-Men: First Class, Winnie the Pooh, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Wreck-It Ralph, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Civil War. His first major video game score was Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.

In March 2022, Reservoir Media acquired the rights to Jackman's catalog.

Family

Henry Jackman is the son of keyboardist and arranger Andrew Pryce Jackman, who was a member of The Syn and worked for many years with Chris Squire of Yes. His uncle Gregg Jackman is a sound engineer and producer who has worked with the King's Singers and Barclay James Harvest; Henry and his uncle both worked on Moa's 1999 album Universal. His grandfather, Bill Jackman, played clarinet on "When I'm Sixty-Four" on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Discography

Singles

• Mike Oldfield, "Women of Ireland" (1997): co-produced, programming
• Elton John & LeAnn Rimes, "Written in the Stars" (1999): programming
• Jocelyn Brown, "I Believe" (1999): programming, mixing
• Seal, "This Could Be Heaven" (2000): co-written, co-produced, programming

Albums

• Mike Oldfield, Voyager (1996): co-produced, programming
• Sally Oldfield, Flaming Star
• Conner Reeves, Earthbound (1998): programming
• Michael Gordon, Weather (1998): production, sound design
• Art of Noise, The Seduction of Claude Debussy (1999): "Born on a Sunday" co-produced, co-written
• Moa, Universal (1999): writing, producing, mixing
• Maryanna Matiss, Time to Fly (2001): writing, producing, mixing
• Seal, Togetherland (2001/unreleased): producing, programming
• Hans Zimmer, The Holiday OST (2006): co-writing
• Vantage Point OST (2008): co-writing
• various artists, Monsters vs. Aliens OST (2009): writing

Solo albums

• Utopia (WestOneMusic, 2003)
• Transfiguration (KPM Music, 2005)
• Acoustica (KPM Music, 2007)

Filmography

Main composer

Other

Television scores

Video game scores

Awards and nominations

See also

• Music of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

References

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20. "Winners List for the British Academy Games Awards in 2017". Bafta.org. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
21. "NAVGTR Awards (2016)". National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers.

External links

• Henry Jackman on Myspace
• Henry Jackman at IMDb
• Interview Henry Jackman at FilmMusicSite

• 1974 births
• Alumni of the University of Oxford
• Animated film score composers
• Annie Award winners
• DreamWorks Animation people
• English film score composers
• English keyboardists
• English male film score composers
• English male television composers
• English television composers
• English video game composers
• Living people
• People from Hillingdon
• Pixar people
• Skydance Media people
• Walt Disney Animation Studios people