Dominic Lewis

Dominic Lewis
Lewis in 2016
Background information
Birth name	Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis
Born	(1985-01-29) January 29, 1985 (age 39) London, England
Genres	Film and television scores, pop, rock, ambient, electronic, jazz
Occupation(s)	Composer, singer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar, cello
Years active	2004–present

Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is a British film and television composer and singer. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with Free Birds. His other credits includes The Man in the High Castle, DuckTales, Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, Monsters at Work, Bullet Train and The Fall Guy. He also served as the singing voice for Lurch in The Addams Family 2 and for Donald Duck in the DuckTales reboot.

Life and career

Lewis was born and raised in London, England. Both his parents are musicians and he began learning the cello at age three.^{[citation needed]} He also played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influences as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.^[1][2]

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was classically trained in cello and music composition. During his time there, he was under the mentorship of film composer, Rupert Gregson-Williams.^[3] In 2009, Lewis relocated to Los Angeles, California to join Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions. He served in the music departments of various major studio films under composers Henry Jackman, John Powell and Ramin Djawadi, usually in the capacity of providing additional music.^[4]

In 2014, Lewis was nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production for his work on the 2013 film Free Birds. In 2015, he was nominated for the World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year for the 2015 film Spooks: The Greater Good.^[5] In 2016, he scored Jodie Foster's film Money Monster in under three weeks.^[6][7][8]

Lewis's close collaboration with Henry Jackman, led to the pair scoring Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. Both Lewis and Jackman co-scored the first season, while the second, third and fourth were scored by Lewis alone. Speaking about the project, Lewis employed an orchestral method but infused it with various traditional and ethnic instruments. He also developed character themes and assigned instruments like the cello for Juliana Crain and the french horn for Joe Blake.^[9][10][11]

In 2018, Lewis was hired to score the live-action/animated comedy film Peter Rabbit directed by Will Gluck.^[12] He reunited with Gluck on the sequel, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.

In 2022, he wrote the score for the film Bullet Train, marking his first collaboration with director David Leitch.^[13] Lewis and Letich collaborated once again for the 2024 film, The Fall Guy.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Main composer

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2011	Gift of the Night Fury	Tom Owens	Short film Composed with John Powell
2013	Free Birds	Jimmy Hayward	—
2015	The DUFF	Ari Sandel	First collaboration with Ari Sandel
	Spooks: The Greater Good	Bharat Nalluri	Also known as MI-5
2016	Open Season: Scared Silly	David Feiss	Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams
	Money Monster	Jodie Foster	Replaced Michael Andrews Music produced by Henry Jackman
2017	Fist Fight	Richie Keen	—
	Rough Night	Lucia Aniello	—
2018	Peter Rabbit	Will Gluck	First collaboration with Will Gluck
	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween	Ari Sandel	Second collaboration with Ari Sandel
2020	My Spy	Peter Segal	—
2021	Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway	Will Gluck
	Jolt	Tanya Wexler	—
	The King's Man	Matthew Vaughn	Composed with Matthew Margeson
2022	Bullet Train	David Leitch	First collaboration with David Leitch
	Spirited	Sean Anders	Original songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
	Violent Night	Tommy Wirkola	—
2024	Lift	F. Gary Gray	Composed with Guillaume Roussel
	The Fall Guy	David Leitch

Other credits

Year	Title	Role	Composer(s)
2010	Clash of the Titans	Additional music	Ramin Djawadi
	Gulliver's Travels		Henry Jackman
	How to Train Your Dragon	Additional music arranger, programmer and orchestrator	John Powell
2011	Rio	Additional music
	Rango		Hans Zimmer
	Kung Fu Panda 2		Hans Zimmer John Powell
	X-Men: First Class		Henry Jackman
	Puss in Boots
2012	Wreck-It-Ralph
2013	This Is the End
2014	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Additional music and featured vocalist
	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Featured vocalist	Hans Zimmer The Magnificent Six
	Big Hero 6	Additional music	Henry Jackman
	Kingsman: The Secret Service		Henry Jackman Matthew Margeson
2020	DuckTales	Donald Duck's singing voice; Episode: "Louie's Eleven!"	Himself
2021	The Addams Family 2	Lurch's singing voice; "I Will Survive"	Mychael Danna Jeff Danna
2023	Expend4bles	Score producer	Guillaume Roussel

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2015	Kevin from Work	10 episodes
	The Player	9 episodes
2015–2019	The Man in the High Castle	40 episodes, with Henry Jackman (Season 1)
2017–2021	DuckTales	69 episodes
2019–2020	The Rocketeer	22 episodes, with Beau Black
2021	Monsters at Work	14 episodes, with Daniel Futcher (Season 2)
2022	Baymax!	6 episodes[15]
2023	Kaleidoscope	8 episodes
2023–present	My Adventures with Superman	Composed with Daniel Futcher

Awards and nominations

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2014	Free Birds	Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production	Nominated[16][17]
2015	Spooks: The Greater Good	World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year	Nominated[18][19]

References

1. "Interview: Dominic Lewis Talks 'Ducktales', Previews 'Peter Rabbit'". Monkeys Fighting Robots. 4 October 2017. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
2. "Dominic Lewis Talks Scoring Music For Jodie Foster's Hit Film "Money Monster" - Musing on Music". Musing on Music. 8 June 2016. Archived from the original on 8 June 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
3. "Dominic Lewis Scores 'Free Birds' Film". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
4. "Dominic Lewis – Composer | SyncSummit". syncsummit.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
5. "Composer Interview: Dominic Lewis - Film.Music.Media". www.filmmusicmedia.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
6. Galas, Marj (16 June 2016). "How 'Money Monster's' Composer Completed the Score in Less Than a Month". Variety. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
7. "Oscars: 145 Original Scores Eligible to Compete". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
8. Galas, Marjorie (20 May 2016). "Composer Dominic Lewis On His Organic Electronic Sounds In "Money Monster"". Variety 411. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
9. Galas, Marj (11 February 2016). "'The Man in the High Castle' Composer on Writing for Series' Alternate Universe". Variety. Archived from the original on 2 August 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
10. Long, Kelle (28 February 2017). "How The Man in the High Castle's Composer Set the Dystopian Tone". Where to Watch. Archived from the original on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
11. Galas, Marjorie (19 December 2015). "Composer Dominic Lewis Reflects On "The Man In The High Castle"". Variety 411. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
12. "Dominic Lewis to Score Will Gluck's 'Peter Rabbit' | Film Music Reporter". filmmusicreporter.com. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
13. Burlingame, Jon (5 August 2022). "The Music of 'Bullet Train' Delivers Mayhem to Match Brad Pitt Thriller". Variety. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
14. "Dominic Lewis Scoring David Leitch's 'The Fall Guy'". Film Music Reporter. 4 April 2024. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
15. "Dominic Lewis Scoring Disney+'s 'Baymax!'". Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
16. "Annie Awards". annieawards.org. Archived from the original on 10 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
17. "'Frozen,' 'Croods' Among Annie Nominees for Best Animated Feature". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
18. Chagollan, Steve (10 September 2015). "Antonio Sanchez Redeemed as Discovery Nominee for World Soundtrack Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
19. "Alex Ebert & Geoff Barrow Among World Soundtrack Discovery Award Nominees: Exclusive". Billboard. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

External links

• Dominic Lewis at IMDb
• Dominic Lewis on Twitter