Dario Marianelli

Academy Award-winning Italian-born composer Dario Marianelli has established himself on the A-list of film composers internationally with audience and critic pleasing music for films such as Joe Wright's Atonement, for which he won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe and a World Soundtrack Award in 2008. He scored two 2017 hit films, Darkest Hour and Paddington 2. Born in Pisa (May 25, 1963), he studied music in Florence and London including a period at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and he graduated after a three-year course from the National Film and Television School. Director Paddy Breathnach gave him his first film work on Ailsa (1994), The Long Way Home (1995) and I Went Down (1997) and he has written regularly for film and television ever since. Titles include Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005) James McTeigue's V for Vendetta (2005), Baltasar Kormákur's Everest (2015) and Travis Knight's animation Kubo and the Two Strings. Marianelli has scored the feature films of British director Joe Wright since Pride and Prejudice in 2005 including The Soloist (2009), Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2013), Pan (2015) and Darkest Hour (2017). The composer followed with Paul King's Paddington 2 (2017), Marco Tulio Giordana's A Woman's Name (2018) and The Life Apart (2024), Matteo Garone's Pinocchio (2019), Marc Munden's The Secret Garden (2020), and Gil Kenan's A Boy Called Christmas and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).