
Age: 62
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Dario Marianelli (born 21 June 1963) is an Italian composer known for his frequent collaborations with director Joe Wright. Marianelli had already written scores for several films and TV projects, including movies such as Ailsa and Pandaemonium, when director Joe Wright contacted him about scoring his 2005 film Pride & Prejudice. He subsequently composed for Wright's films Atonement, The Soloist, Anna Karenina and Darkest Hour. In 2008 Marianelli won the Academy Award for Original Music Score and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Atonement. He has also been nominated for Academy Awards for Pride & Prejudice and Anna Karenina. In 2018 he composed the score for Bumblebee, the sixth installment in the Transformers film series. It was his second score for director Travis Knight, after Kubo and the Two Strings. Marianelli has continued to write concert, theatre and ballet music. In a 2019 article on film composing, he said: "Writing music professionally is a hard occupation, and writing for media definitely not for the fainthearted. One has to be able to enjoy the pain, in order to be able to carry on successfully. I think one of the hardest things to deal with, working as a composer involved in media, is the anxiety that comes from being in quite a vulnerable position." Description above from the Wikipedia article Dario Marianelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

PERCY GLOOM is all about the trouble we get into when we live in fear. When in a state of fear we'll all too easily follow the strongest-seeming leader, rather than think for ourselves. The title character is by all appearances a weak little fellow, but over the course of the story he finds he's much stronger than he realized. Eventually he has to confront the town bully who's got everyone cowering under her reign of terror. (The words of the Author's website)

