Craig Armstrong

Known for SoundBorn 1959-04-29 (age 67)Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Craig Armstrong, OBE (born 29 April 1959), is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica, and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981 and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta.Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's Composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic Ray. His other feature film scoring credits include Love Actually, Oliver Stone's World Trade Centre, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Incredible Hulk. Armstrong was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Armstrong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Me Before You

Piano Works - The Film

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

The One and Only Ivan

Moulin Rouge!

Ray

The Great Gatsby

The Magdalene Sisters

Snowden

One Day in September

Far from the Madding Crowd

Love Actually

In Time

Rosso Fango

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Kiss of the Dragon

Neds

The Great Escaper

The Bone Collector

The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Romeo + Juliet

Mrs Lowry & Son

The Quiet American

Bridget Jones's Baby

Orphans

Dirt Music

The Incredible Hulk

Fever Pitch

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

World Trade Center

Plunkett & Macleane

Victor Frankenstein

The Critic

Must Love Dogs

The Burnt Orange Heresy

The Clearing

Best Laid Plans

The Day After Peace

Orphans Reunited

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting