Amie Doherty

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Amie Doherty
Birth nameAmie Doherty
Born Ballinasloe, Ireland [1]
Genres Film score
Occupation(s)Composer, conductor, orchestrator
Instruments Piano, guitar, violin
Years active2010–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]

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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] and Happiest Season (2020).

In addition to her composing work, she has orchestrated and conducted scores 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]

Career

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]

Works

Films

YearTitleDirectorStudio(s)Notes
2016Feast 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
  • Short film
  • First composition for Universal Pictures
2019MaroonedAndrew 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

YearTitleCreator(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 —

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