MUSIC

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AWARDS

BRitish Independent Film Awards

Jack won Best Music at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards for his work on Wild Rose as score composer, musical director and music producer.

Royal Television Society

Jack was nominated for Best Score at the 2012 Royal Television Society Craft Awards for Holy Flying Circus.

Guild of Music Supervisors

Jack was nominated alongside music supervisor Karen Elliott at the 10th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in L.A. in Feb 2020 for his work on Wild Rose.

PRESENTING A HOMMAGE TO THE FILM MUSIC OF THE 1930’s AND 40’s - THE FARCES, THE NOIRE, THE ROMANCE (AND THE COCKTAILS) - AND ALL THE WONDERFUL INVENTION AND MAGIC OF THE GREAT FILM COMPOSERS OF THE TIME, WITH MY OWN BOOZY TWIST.

I COMPLETED THIS MUSIC DURING LOCKDOWN WHEN, LIKE FOR MANY MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS, THE WORLD SEEMED TO FALL SILENT. I SPENT MANY MONTHS BEING UNPRODUCTIVE AND FEELING UNINSPIRED, BUT TOWARDS THE END OF 2020 I FOUND MYSELF WANTING TO BE IN MY STUDIO AGAIN, DRIVEN PARTLY BY USING ALL THE ENFORCED FREE TIME TO WATCH AS MANY FILMS AS POSSIBLE - ALL THE GREATS FROM EVERY ERA.

I HOPE IT WILL MAKE YOU SMILE!

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Biography

Jack Arnold is BIFA-winning and RTS-nominated composer and producer working in feature film, television drama and documentary on a wide range of award-winning work.

Recent work includes The Marilyn Conspiracy at the Park Theatre, Lewis Capaldi - How I’m Feeling Now for Netflix, the critically acclaimed feature film, and BAFTA Scotland 2019’s Best Picture Wild Rose, directed by Tom Harper, and starring Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters, for which he won the 2019 BIFA for Best Music, and the featured song Glasgow (No Place Like Home), which Jack produced, was shortlisted for Best Song at the 2020 Academy Awards, and won several other major industry awards; The Level, a thriller series for ITV1; and comedy drama series Loaded for C4/AMC. Another career highlight was Holy Flying Circus, a BAFTA-nominated comedy film written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris about the events surrounding the 1979 release of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian", for which he received an RTS Award nomination for Best Score in 2012.

Jack writes in many styles, his music variously described as beautiful, magical, muscular, sensitive, visceral and terrifying. He prefers to think of scoring as filmmaking, rather than composing.  The picture leads, and the composer’s job is to follow the clues and find the right sound, tone and style so that the score feels like a very keyed-in and integral part of the production.

His collaboration with Tom Harper is a long one, beginning with several short films, and then Tom’s debut feature, critically acclaimed The Scouting Book for Boys in 2009, written by Jack Thorne;  2014's War Book followed that, also penned by Thorne, a track composed for 2015's The Woman In Black: Angel of Death; additional music for the BBC’s 2016 adaptation of War and Peace; and most recently on-set music composition and direction for 2019’s The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones.

Other work includes Niall MacCormick’s debut feature film Albatross, starring Felicity Jones and Jessica Brown Findlay; legal drama series Striking Out for RTÉ; and The Beckoning Silence for C4/Discovery.

See Jack’s IMDB page here