Dominic Lewis

Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is a British film and television composer. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with Free Birds. His other credits includes The Man in the High Castle, DuckTales and Peter Rabbit.

Dominic Lewis
Lewis in 2016
Background information
Birth nameDominic Alexander Charles Lewis
Born (1985-01-29) January 29, 1985
London, England
GenresFilm scores, television soundtracks
Occupation(s)Composer
InstrumentsCello
Years active2004–present

Life and career

Lewis was born and raised in London, England. Both his parents are musicians and he began learning the cello at age three. He also played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influences as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.[1][2]

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was classically trained in cello and music composition. During his time there, he was under the mentorship of film composer, Rupert Gregson-Williams.[3] In 2009, Lewis relocated to Los Angeles, California to join Remote Control Productions. He served in the music departments of various major studio films under composers Henry Jackman, John Powell and Ramin Djawadi, usually in the capacity of providing additional music.[4]

In 2014, Lewis was nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production for his work on the 2013 film Free Birds. In 2015, he was nominated for the World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year for the 2015 film Spooks: The Greater Good.[5] In 2016, he scored Jodie Foster's film Money Monster in under three weeks.[6][7][8]

Lewis's close collaboration with Henry Jackman, led to the pair scoring Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. Both Lewis and Jackman co-scored the first season, while the second, third and fourth were scored by Lewis alone. Speaking about the project, Lewis employed an orchestral method but infused it with various traditional and ethnic instruments. He also developed character themes and assigned instruments like the cello for Juliana Crain and the french horn for Joe Blake.[9][10][11]

In 2018, Lewis was hired to score the animated comedy film, Peter Rabbit directed by Will Gluck.[12] He will reunite with Gluck on the sequel, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.

Filmography

Main composer
Year Title Notes
2011 Gift of the Night Fury Composed with John Powell
2013 Free Birds Nominated — Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production (2014)
2015 The DUFF First collaboration with Ari Sandel
Spooks: The Greater Good Nominated — World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year (2015)
Also known as MI-5
2016 Open Season: Scared Silly Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams
Money Monster Music produced by Henry Jackman
2017 Fist Fight
Rough Night
2018 Peter Rabbit
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Second collaboration with Ari Sandel
2020 My Spy
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
2021 The King's Man Composed with Matthew Margeson

Other credits
Year Title Role Composer(s)
2010 Clash of the Titans Additional music Ramin Djawadi
How to Train Your Dragon Additional music arranger, programmer and orchestrator John Powell
2011 Rio Additional music
Kung Fu Panda 2 Hans Zimmer
John Powell
X-Men: First Class Henry Jackman
Puss in Boots
2012 Wreck-It-Ralph
2013 This Is the End
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Additional music and featured vocalist
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Featured vocalist Hans Zimmer
The Magnificent Six
Big Hero 6 Additional music Henry Jackman
Kingsman: The Secret Service
2020 DuckTales Donald Duck's singing voice; Episode: "Louie's Eleven!" Himself

Television
Year Title Notes
2015 Kevin from Work 10 episodes
The Player 9 episodes
2015–2019 The Man in the High Castle 40 episodes, with Henry Jackman (Season 1)
2017–present DuckTales 24 episodes
2019—present The Rocketeer 11 episodes, with Beau Black

Awards and nominations
Year Nominee / work Award Result
2014 Free Birds Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production Nominated[13][14]
2015 Spooks: The Greater Good World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year Nominated[15][16]

References
  1. "Interview: Dominic Lewis Talks 'Ducktales', Previews 'Peter Rabbit'". Monkeys Fighting Robots. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  2. "Dominic Lewis Talks Scoring Music For Jodie Foster's Hit Film "Money Monster" - Musing on Music". Musing on Music. 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  3. "Dominic Lewis Scores 'Free Birds' Film". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  4. "Dominic Lewis – Composer | SyncSummit". syncsummit.com. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  5. "Composer Interview: Dominic Lewis - Film.Music.Media". www.filmmusicmedia.com. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  6. Galas, Marj (2016-06-16). "How 'Money Monster's' Composer Completed the Score in Less Than a Month". Variety. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  7. "Oscars: 145 Original Scores Eligible to Compete". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  8. Galas, Marjorie (2016-05-20). "Composer Dominic Lewis On His Organic Electronic Sounds In "Money Monster"". Variety 411. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  9. Galas, Marj (2016-02-11). "'The Man in the High Castle' Composer on Writing for Series' Alternate Universe". Variety. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  10. Long, Kelle (2017-02-28). "How The Man in the High Castle's Composer Set the Dystopian Tone". Where to Watch. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  11. Galas, Marjorie (2015-12-19). "Composer Dominic Lewis Reflects On "The Man In The High Castle"". Variety 411. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  12. "Dominic Lewis to Score Will Gluck's 'Peter Rabbit' | Film Music Reporter". filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  13. "Annie Awards". annieawards.org. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  14. "'Frozen,' 'Croods' Among Annie Nominees for Best Animated Feature". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  15. Chagollan, Steve (2015-09-10). "Antonio Sanchez Redeemed as Discovery Nominee for World Soundtrack Awards". Variety. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  16. "Alex Ebert & Geoff Barrow Among World Soundtrack Discovery Award Nominees: Exclusive". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
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