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Irish composer
Amie Doherty
Birth nameAmie Doherty
BornBallinasloe, Ireland
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/
Musical artist

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.

Her most prominent works were for Spirit Untamed (2021), Undone (2019), Here and Now (2018), Love You to Death (2019), The High Note (2020), Battle at Big Rock (2019), 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; and for musicians including Lady Gaga and 50 Cent.

Career

Before moving to Los Angeles full-time in 2013, Amie lived, worked and studied in London, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and Spain. 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. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from Trinity College, Dublin.

In 2016, Amie became a Sundance Composer Fellow, 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. In 2013, she received the ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Award 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. 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."

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

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

Works

Film

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
2016 Feast of Varanasi Rajan Kumar Patel —
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 —
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 —

Television

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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  2. ^ Neophytou, Nadia (2021-06-04). "'Spirit Untamed' Composer Amie Doherty Describes Recording Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Funny, Endearing' Singing". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  3. ^ "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. ^ "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.
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