Rachel Portman

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Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman , OBE (born December 11, 1960 in Haslemere , England ) is a British composer and was the first woman who was not part of a composing team to win the Oscar for best film music .

Life

Rachel Portman played various instruments in her early childhood. She began composing at the age of 13.

She graduated from Worcester College , Oxford University with degrees in Classical Music , Composition and Orchestration . There she wrote her first film music in 1982 for the successful student film Privileged with the young Hugh Grant in the leading role. After completing her studies, she mainly worked in the television games department of BBC Channel 4.

In 1988 she won the British Film Institute's Young Composer Of The Year award . In 1991 she was nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in the Best Score category for the three-part television series Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . 1992 it made a breakthrough in Hollywood with the film Late Bloomers by Beeban Kidron . In 1997 she became the first woman to receive the Oscar for best film music in the film Emma . Since then, she has received two more Oscar nominations. But Portman doesn't just compose film music. On May 31, 2003, her opera The Little Prince, based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, premiered in Houston .

Portman prefers mechanical musical instruments such as the piano and almost completely dispenses with digital or electronic instruments such as the piano . B. Synthesizers .

Portman has been married to film producer Uberto Pasolini since 1995 and has three children (Anna, Giulia and Niky).

Filmography

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Film Music Prize: Nominees & Prize Winners 2018 . Retrieved September 29, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Portman, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Portman, Rachel M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Haslemere , England , UK