David Arnold

David Arnold
Arnold at the BMI Awards in May 2011
Arnold at the BMI Awards in May 2011
Background information
Born (1962-01-23) 23 January 1962 (age 62)
Luton, England
GenresFilm score
OccupationComposer
Instruments
  • Clarinet
  • guitar
  • piano
Years active1993–present

David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films (1997-2008), as well as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Shaft (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Four Brothers (2005), Hot Fuzz (2007), and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock. For Independence Day, he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television, and for Sherlock, he and co-composer Michael Price won a Creative Arts Emmy[1] for the score of "His Last Vow", the final episode in the third series. Arnold scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series Good Omens (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett.[2] Arnold is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

  1. ^ "66th Emmy Award – press release" (PDF). Emmys. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. ^ "David Arnold to Score Amazon's 'Good Omens'". Film Music Reporter. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.