David Arnold

David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English movie composer.

Credits

His credits include scoring

• five James Bond films
• Stargate (1994)
• Independence Day(1996)
• Godzilla (1998)
• the television series Little Britain
• Sherlock.

Arnold also scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series Good Omens (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett.

Awards

For Independence Day he had a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television. For Sherlock he, and co-composer Michael Price, won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of "His Last Vow", the final episode in the third series. Arnold is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

Influences

Arnold stated composers like Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Bernard Herrmann, Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Angelo Badalamenti and Jerry Goldsmith as influences.