Stephen Rennicks

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Stephen Rennicks
NationalityIrish
Occupation(s)Musician
Film score composer
Awards British Independent Film Award for Best Technical Achievement – Music
Irish Film & Television Award for Best Music

Stephen Rennicks is an Irish musician and film score composer based in Dublin. [1]

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Early life

As a boy, Rennicks predominantly listened to and sang what he described as "Irish Protestant Baptist gospel music, choruses and hymns", and later claimed it was an influence on his process of learning harmony. [2] During the later years of the 1980s, Rennicks was a member of a band called the Prunes, which traveled through nightclubs in France and Germany playing punk music. [3]

Film career

Rennicks worked with director Lenny Abrahamson on What Richard Did (2012). [4] For Abrahamson, he later served as music director for the 2014 film Frank , where he was tasked to write songs that were a hybrid of pop and experimental rock music. [3] Rennicks was inspired by musicians he met while in the Prunes, wrote the score and supervised the recordings of his original songs. [3] For Frank, Rennicks won the award for Best Technical Achievement – Music at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards, [5] and was nominated for Original Score at the 12th Irish Film & Television Awards. [1]

Abrahamson and Rennicks collaborated again on the 2015 film Room . As a Canadian co-production, Rennicks was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Score in January 2016. [6] In April, he then won for Original Music at the 13th Irish Film & Television Awards. [7]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef
2004 Irish Film & Television Awards Best Original ScoreAdam & PaulNominated
2008GarageNominated
2011 Maverick Movie Awards Best Original Score: ShortThe PipeWon
2013Irish Film & Television AwardsBest Original ScoreWhat Richard DidNominated
2014 British Independent Film Awards Best Technical Achievement FrankWon
Les Arcs Film FestivalBest MusicWon
Las Vegas Film Critics SocietyBest Song"I Love You All" from FrankWon
2015Seattle Film CriticsBest Original SongNominated [lower-alpha 1]
Chlotrudis Awards Best Use of Music in a FilmFrankNominated
Irish Film & Television AwardsBest Original ScoreNominated
2016 Canadian Screen Awards Achievement in Music – Original ScoreRoomNominated
Irish Film & Television AwardsBest Original ScoreWon
VivaNominated
2018MazeNominated
2020The Little StrangerNominated
RosieNominated
2021Normal PeopleNominated
2022 An Cailín Ciúin Won [8]

Notes

  1. Shared with Lenny Abrahamson.

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