Craig Armstrong
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- April 29, 1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- 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
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Filmography
The Critic
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Great Escaper
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dirt Music
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Movie · Original Music Composer
The One and Only Ivan
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mrs Lowry & Son
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bridget Jones's Baby
Movie · Original Music Composer
Snowden
Movie · Original Music Composer
Me Before You
Movie · Original Music Composer
Far from the Madding Crowd
Movie · Original Music Composer
Victor Frankenstein
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Great Gatsby
Movie · Original Music Composer
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
TV · Original Music Composer · 10 eps
In Time
Movie · Original Music Composer
Neds
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Day After Peace
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Incredible Hulk
Movie · Original Music Composer
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Movie · Original Music Composer
World Trade Center
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Fever Pitch
Movie · Original Music Composer
Must Love Dogs
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Clearing
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ray
Movie · Original Music Composer
Love Actually
Movie · Original Music Composer, Musician, Orchestrator
The Magdalene Sisters
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Quiet American
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rosso Fango
Movie · Sound
Moulin Rouge!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Kiss of the Dragon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Plunkett & Macleane
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Bone Collector
Movie · Original Music Composer
Best Laid Plans
Movie · Original Music Composer
Orphans
Movie · Original Music Composer
Romeo + Juliet
Movie · Original Music Composer
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Movie · Music