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Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television, and theatre, he has composed the scores for over 60 feature films. A long-time collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work on films such as Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Carlito's Way, Quest for Camelot, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Brave, Cinderella, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile. He has scored the films of many renowned directors, including Robert Altman, Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell, Brian De Palma, Chen Kaige, Amma Asante, Régis Wargnier, and Kenneth Branagh. Doyle has been nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and two Caesars, and he won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Theme for 'Henry V.'. He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the World Soundtrack Awards and Scottish BAFTA, the PRS Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Music, and received the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award for "outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of film and television music." Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Doyle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Patrick Doyle

Composer
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The film follows at story heart is Caesar a chimpanzee who gains humanlike intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug raised like a child by the drug’s creator Will Rodman and a primatologist Caroline Aranha and has good neighbors James and Naomi Jackson and their kids Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno seeking justice for his fellow inmates Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited he then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever