Amie Doherty | |
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| Birth name | Amie Doherty |
| Born | 30 November 1987 Ballinasloe, Ireland [1] |
| Genres | Film and television scores, soundtracks, jazz, rock, pop, electronic, ambient |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, orchestrator |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Website | https://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]
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]
| Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 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 |
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| 2019 | Marooned | Andrew Erekson |
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| 2020 | The High Note | Nisha Ganatra | Focus Features | — |
| 2020 | Happiest Season | Clea DuVall |
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| 2021 | Spirit Untamed | Elaine Bogan |
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| 2023 | Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain | Paul Briganti | — | |
| 2025 | Freakier Friday | Nisha Ganatra | Walt Disney Pictures |
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| Year | Title | Creator(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 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 | — |