John Powell has won the Annie Award in the Music in a Feature Production category for his score for Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon at tonight’s Annie Award ceremony in Los Angeles. The other contenders in the category were Sylvain Chomet (The Illusionist), David Hirschfelder (Legend of the Guardians), Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek Forever After) and Pharrell Williams & Heitor Pereira for Despicable Me. The award is Powell’s first win as a solo composer, having previously won for his collaboration with Harry Gregson-Williams on the original Shrek and his collaboration with Hans Zimmer on Kung Fu Panda. For a recently published audio interview with the recently Oscar-nominated composer on his How to Train Your Dragon score, visit KUSC.
The winners in the Music in a Television Production category are Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nick Carr, Tuck Tucker for Nickolodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants. For a full list of the nominations, visit our previous article.
