David Arnold

For other people named David Arnold, see David Arnold (disambiguation).

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.