Rachel Portman

Sound

Born: 1960-12-11

From: Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK

Gender: Female

Popularity: 0.4

Biography

Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE (born 11 December 1960) is an English composer who is best known for scoring films. Portman's career in music began with writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Mike Leigh's Four Days in July and Jim Henson's Storyteller series. Since then, Portman has written over 100 scores for film, television and theatre. Her other works include a children's opera, The Little Prince (which was later adapted for television) and Little House on the Prairie, a musical based upon the Laura Ingalls Wilder books Little House on the Prairie (2008). Portman was commissioned to write a piece of choral music for the BBC Proms series in August 2007 called The Water Diviner's Tale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Portman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & Nominations3 won · 15 nominated

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)

Bessie

2015

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics

Grey Gardens

2009

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award

The Little Prince

2005

Nominated

Grammy Awards

Chocolat

2002

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

2001

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Chocolat

2001

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Chocolat

2001

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Score

The Legend of Bagger Vance

2001

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Cider House Rules

2000

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Score

Beloved

1999

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Emma

1997

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

Emma

1997

Nominated

AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score

Sirens

1994

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

Rebecca's Daughters

1993

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

1991

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

The Woman in Black

1990

Nominated

BBC Young Composer

1988

🏆 Won

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Rachel Portman

Biography

Awards & Nominations3 won · 15 nominated

Acting3 titles

Score: A Film Music Documentary

Lights, Action, Music

The Oscars

Sound100 titles

The Widowmaker

Young Charlie Chaplin

Last Day of Summer

Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity

The Falklands War: The Untold Story

The Storyteller

Sometime in August

Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

The Street

A Little Princess

A Dog's Purpose

1914 All Out

Still Life

Privileged

Precious Bane

We Were the Lucky Ones

One Day

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Race

Living with Dinosaurs

Smoke

The Vow

Experience Preferred... But Not Essential

Ratcatcher

The Joy Luck Club

Belle

The Cider House Rules

Chocolat

The Lake House

The Duchess

Dolphin Tale 2

Life Is Sweet

Benny & Joon

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

The Cloning of Joanna May

Sharma and Beyond

Girl Rising

Shoot to Kill

Never Let Me Go

The Woman in Black

Mona Lisa Smile

Nicholas Nickleby

War of the Buttons

Oliver Twist

The Emperor's New Clothes

Grey Gardens

Marvin's Room

Monster Maker

Only You

Godmothered

Nice Work

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Emma

Their Finest

Private Peaceful

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Four Days in July

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Infamous

The Manchurian Candidate

Because of Winn-Dixie

The Return

Rebecca's Daughters

His Way

Bessie

The Short & Curlies

Hart's War

The Other Sister

Mimi and the Mountain Dragon

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Addicted to Love

Julia