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Henry Jackman | |
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| Birth name | Henry Pryce Jackman |
| Born | 1 June 1974 Hillingdon, London, England |
| Genres | Film and television scores, video game score, EDM, big beat, synth-pop, pop rock, hard rock, classical, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, arranger |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Remote Control Productions |
Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1 June 1974) [1] is an English film and television music composer, music conductor and music arranger. He composed music for films such as Kong: Skull Island , X-Men: First Class , Puss in Boots , Monsters vs. Aliens , Captain Phillips , Kick-Ass , Kick-Ass 2 , Wreck-It Ralph , Turbo , Big Hero 6 , Pixels , Ralph Breaks the Internet , Ron's Gone Wrong , Smurfs , The Interview, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu and five Walt Disney Animation Studios films, as well as video games such as Uncharted 4: A Thief's End , Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Just Cause 3 . He has also collaborated with film directors such as Fergal Reilly, Don Hall, Chris Miller, Rob Letterman, Matthew Vaughn, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Raman Hui, Edward Zwick, Russo brothers, Jake Kasdan, Sam Hargrave and Rich Moore.
Jackman was born in Hillingdon, London. [2] He studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College, Framlingham College and New College, Oxford, University of Oxford.
Jackman has done programming and production work with artists including Mike Oldfield ( Voyager ), Sally Oldfield (Flaming Star), Trevor Horn/Art of Noise ( The Seduction of Claude Debussy ), Elton John and Gary Barlow. He co-produced Seal's unreleased 2001 album Togetherland . [3] "This Could Be Heaven", released from the album, was also co-written by Jackman and used on the movie The Family Man [4] and included on the deluxe edition of Seal's compilation album Hits .
Jackman has released three albums, Utopia (2003), Transfiguration (2005), and Acoustica (2007; with Augustus Isadore).
Jackman had various minor roles on film scores since 2006, generally working with mentor Hans Zimmer, including for The Da Vinci Code (music programmer), The Dark Knight (music arranger) and additional music for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End , The Simpsons Movie , Kung Fu Panda and Hancock . In 2009, Jackman, Zimmer and John Powell won the 2008 Annie Award for Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form for their work on DreamWorks Animation's Secrets of the Furious Five (a spin-off to Kung Fu Panda ). [5] Jackman has since composed soundtracks for films such as Monsters vs. Aliens , Henri 4 , Gulliver's Travels , X-Men: First Class , Winnie the Pooh , Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter , Wreck-It Ralph , Captain America: The Winter Soldier , Captain America: Civil War and Ron's Gone Wrong . His most successful video game scores were Uncharted 4: A Thief's End , Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Just Cause 3 .
In March 2022, Reservoir Media acquired the rights to Jackman's catalog. [6]
Henry Jackman is the son of keyboardist and arranger Andrew Pryce Jackman, who was a member of The Syn and worked for many years with Chris Squire of Yes. His uncle Gregg Jackman is a sound engineer and producer who has worked with the King's Singers and Barclay James Harvest; [7] Henry and his uncle both worked on Moa's 1999 album Universal. [8] His grandfather, Bill Jackman, played clarinet on "When I'm Sixty-Four" on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . [9]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Company credits | Note(s) |
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| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | Rob Letterman Conrad Vernon | Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Animation | Jackman's first score for an animated film. Additional Music by Marc Bonilla |
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Company credits | Note(s) | |
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| 2020 | Extraction | Sam Hargrave | Netflix AGBO Thematic Entertainment India Take One Productions T.G.I.M. Films | Co-composed with Alex Belcher Additional Music by Maverick Dugger | |
| 2021 | Cherry |
| Apple TV+ Apple Original Films The Hideaway Entertainment AGBO Endeavor Content | Additional Music by Alex Belcher & Jack Dolman | |
| Ron's Gone Wrong | Sarah Smith Jean-Philippe Vine | 20th Century Studios 20th Century Animation TSG Entertainment Locksmith Animation | Additional Music by Halli Cauthery, Alex Kovacs & Anthony Willis | ||
| 2022 | The Gray Man |
| Netflix | Additional Music by Alex Belcher & Jack Dolman | |
| Strange World | Don Hall | Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Animation Studios Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Walt Disney Animation Studios theme music composed by Wilfred Jackson Additional Music by Halli Cauthery, Antonio Di Iorio, Maverick Dugger, Evan Goldman and Alex Kovacs | ||
| 2023 | Extraction 2 | Sam Hargrave | Netflix Wild State AGBO T.G.I.M. Films | Co-composed with Alex Belcher Additional Music by Evan Goldman, Tom Hodge & Jon Monroe | |
| 2024 | Red One | Jake Kasdan | Amazon MGM Studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Seven Bucks Productions Chris Morgan Productions The Detective Agency Big Indie Pictures | Additional Music by Antonio Di Iorio, Evan Goldman, Maverick Dugger, Alex Kovacs & Anthony Willis | |
| 2025 | Smurfs | Chris Miller | Paramount Pictures Paramount Animation Marcy Media Films LAFIG Belgium Peyo Company | Additional Music by Alex Kovacs Original songs by Rihanna | replaced Alan Silvestri |
| 2027 | Godzilla x Kong: Supernova | Grant Sputore | Warner Bros. Pictures Legendary Pictures | ||
| TBA | The Bluff | Frank E. Flowers | Amazon MGM Studios AGBO Cinestar Pictures Big Indie Pictures Purple Pebble Pictures | Additional Music by Alex Kovacs |
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