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George Fenton

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George Fenton has written scores for over 100 films and dozens of plays & TV programmes and documentaries. He has received 5 Oscar nominations and won multiple Ivor Novello, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and BMI Awards and a Classical Brit.

First nominated for an Academy Award in 1982 with Ravi Shankar for the score to Richard Attenborough's biopic Gandhi, George went on to score another 4 films for Attenborough including 'Cry Freedom' and 'Shadowlands'. Just some of the other films scores include 'Dangerous Liaisons', 'The Fisher King', 'Groundhog Day', 'You've Got Mail', 'The Lady In the Van', Ken Loach's 'I Daniel Blake', Sorry We Missed You' and his forthcoming 'The Old Oak' (totalling 18 films to date for Ken Loach). Other recent films include Andy Tennant's 'The Secret: Dare To Dream', 'Allelujah' & Roger Michelle's 'The Duke' and 'Elizabeth: A Portrait In Parts'.

George composed the scores for the BBC Natural History series, 'Trials of Life', which led to him scoring the BBCs original 'Blue Planet', 'Planet Earth' and 'Frozen Planet'. He toured these live across the world including The Hollywood Bowl and London's Wembley Arena. In 2022 George partnered up with Alastair Fothergill and David Attenborough again, this time for BBC1’s ‘Wild Isles’ series.

George wrote the music for the BBC’s 2020 Talking Heads, both for television and theatre. This was followed swiftly by more theatre productions - ‘Beat The Devil’, ‘Bach & Sons’ and ‘Straight Line Crazy’.

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