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Amie Doherty

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Amie Doherty
Birth nameAmie Doherty
BornBallinasloe, Ireland[1]
GenresFilm and television scores, soundtracks, jazz, rock, pop, electronic, ambient
Occupation(s)Composer, conductor, orchestrator
InstrumentsPiano, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar
Years active2010–present
Websitehttps://www.amiedoherty.com/

Amie Doherty is an Irish composer, conductor, and orchestrator for film and television. She is the first woman to score an animated feature for DreamWorks.[2]

Her most prominent works were for Spirit Untamed (2021),[3][4][5] Undone (2019), Here and Now (2018), Love You to Death (2019), The High Note (2020),[6][7] Battle at Big Rock (2019),[8] Happiest Season (2020), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022), and Blue Eye Samurai (2023).

In addition to her composing work, she has orchestrated and conducted music for numerous TV series including Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Fargo, The Umbrella Academy, and Altered Carbon;[9][3] and for musicians including Lady Gaga and 50 Cent.[2]

Career

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Before moving to Los Angeles full-time in 2013,[3] Amie lived, worked and studied in London, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and Spain.[10] She graduated magna cum laude from Berklee College of Music's Masters program in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games, where she was awarded the Howard Shore Scholarship.[11] She holds a bachelor's degree in music from Trinity College, Dublin.[3]

In 2016, Amie became a Sundance Composer Fellow,[12] having been chosen from over 500 composers to attend the intensive Sundance Institute Music & Sound Design Lab at the legendary Skywalker Ranch. Following her time at the lab, she was announced as the 2016 Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation Composer Fellow.[13] In 2013, she received the ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Award[14] after being chosen as one of 12 composers worldwide to participate in the ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop.

Her score for Spirit Untamed was nominated for the 2021 International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for an Animated Film.[15] The score has received praise from The Film Music Institute: "Soaring voices, boisterous old west orchestrations, ethnic energy, whipping dastardly villains and tips to the Morricone hat make for a mighty impressive first time in the saddle for a female composer at DreamWorks."[3]

Doherty won Best Score for an Animated Short for Marooned[16] at the 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA).[17]

In 2022 she was nominated for IFMCA (International Music Film Critics Awards) Breakthrough Composer of the Year.[18]

Works

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Film

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Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
2016 Feast of Varanasi[10] Rajan Kumar Patel[19] —
2018 Here and Now Fabien Constant Paramount Pictures —
2019 Love You to Death Alex Kalymnios Lifetime Entertainment Services Television film
2019 Battle at Big Rock Colin Trevorrow
  • Short film
  • First composition for Universal Pictures
2019 Marooned Andrew Erekson
  • Short film played before Abominable
  • Second composition for Universal Pictures
2020 The High Note Nisha Ganatra Focus Features —
2020 Happiest Season Clea DuVall
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2021 Spirit Untamed Elaine Bogan
  • First feature film composed for Universal Pictures
  • Third composition for Universal Pictures
  • First composition for an animated feature
2023 Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Paul Briganti
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Television

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Year Title Creator(s) Studio(s) Notes
2019 Undone Kate Purdy
Raphael Bob-Waksberg 		Amazon Studios
The Tornante Company
Boxer vs. Raptor
Submarine Amsterdam
Hive House Project 		—
2022 She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Jessica Gao Marvel Studios —
2023 Blue Eye Samurai Michael Green and Amber Noizumi Netflix Animation —

References

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  1. ^ "Composer Amie Doherty on The Ryan Tubridy Show". RTE. 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  2. ^ a b Neophytou, Nadia (2021-06-04). "'Spirit Untamed' Composer Amie Doherty Describes Recording Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Funny, Endearing' Singing". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Interview with Amie Doherty – Film Music Institute". Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  4. ^ Burlingame, Jon (2021-11-05). "Jonny Greenwood, Hans Zimmer Among Likely Original Score Contenders for Oscars in 2022". Variety. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  5. ^ Heckman, Chris (2021-06-21). "Fearless: Amie Doherty on Spirit Untamed". Cinesamples Magazine. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  6. ^ "Amie Doherty Scoring Nisha Ganatra's 'The High Note' | Film Music Reporter". Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  7. ^ "Music In The Air: Scoring The High Note". Focus Features. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  8. ^ Weintraub, Steve 'Frosty' (October 2, 2019). "Watch: 'Battle at Big Rock' Filmmakers Discuss Their 'Jurassic World' Short in 30-Minute Q&A". Collider. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  9. ^ "Amie Doherty | Berklee". www.berklee.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  10. ^ a b "Untold Stories By Amie Doherty". Audio Network. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  11. ^ "Berklee announces winners of Master's scholarships in Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games". Berklee Valencia Campus. 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  12. ^ "Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound Announce Film Composers and Independent Filmmakers for July Music and Sound Design Labs - sundance.org". 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  13. ^ "Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation Select 12 Fellows for 2016 Artist Support Grants - sundance.org". 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  14. ^ "The ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Film & TV Award". The ASCAP Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  15. ^ "IFMCA Award Nominations 2021". IFMCA: International Film Music Critics Association. 2022-02-03. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  16. ^ Marooned | Official Site | DreamWorks, retrieved 2022-05-20
  17. ^ "HMMA Winners". Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  18. ^ "IFMCA (International Music Film Critics Awards) Announce Nominations". Awardsdaily. 2022-02-03. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  19. ^ "BBC Asian Network - Alpa Pandya, Rajan Kumar Patel".
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