Craig Armstrong

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1959-04-29 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Craig Armstrong

Biography

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.

Known For

Sound

2024
The Critic

as Original Music Composer

2023
The Great Escaper

as Original Music Composer

2020
Dirt Music

as Original Music Composer

2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy

as Original Music Composer

2020
The One and Only Ivan

as Original Music Composer

2019
Mrs Lowry & Son

as Original Music Composer

2016
Me Before You

as Original Music Composer

2016
Bridget Jones's Baby

as Original Music Composer

2016
Snowden

as Original Music Composer

2015
Far from the Madding Crowd

as Original Music Composer

2015
Victor Frankenstein

as Original Music Composer

2013
The Great Gatsby

as Original Music Composer

2011
In Time

as Original Music Composer

2010
Neds

as Original Music Composer

2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

as Original Music Composer

2008
The Incredible Hulk

as Original Music Composer

2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

as Original Music Composer

2006
World Trade Center

as Original Music Composer

2006
World Trade Center

as Orchestrator

2005
Fever Pitch

as Original Music Composer

2005
Must Love Dogs

as Original Music Composer

2004
The Clearing

as Original Music Composer

2004
Ray

as Original Music Composer

2003
Love Actually

as Original Music Composer

2003
Love Actually

as Musician

2003
Love Actually

as Orchestrator

2002
The Magdalene Sisters

as Original Music Composer

2002
The Quiet American

as Original Music Composer

2001
Moulin Rouge!

as Original Music Composer

2001
Kiss of the Dragon

as Original Music Composer

1999
Plunkett & MacLeane

as Original Music Composer

1999
The Bone Collector

as Original Music Composer

1999
1999
Best Laid Plans

as Original Music Composer

1998
Orphans

as Original Music Composer

1996
Romeo + Juliet

as Original Music Composer

Crew

1999
One Day in September

as Additional Music