Rachel Portman
Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE ( born December 11, 1960 in Haslemere, England) is a British composer and was able to win the Oscar for best film music as the first woman.
Since her early childhood played Rachel Portman different instruments. At the age of 13, she began to compose.
She graduated from the University of Oxford the degree in classical music, composition and orchestration. There she wrote in 1982 for the successful student film Privileged with the young Hugh Grant in the lead role her first film music. After her studies she worked primarily in the television dramas department of BBC Channel 4
In 1988, she won the Young Composer of the Year Award by the British Film Institute. In 1991, she was by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in the Best Score category for the television miniseries Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit nominated. In 1992, she made a breakthrough in Hollywood with the film Used People of Beeban Kidron. In 1997 she was the first woman the Oscar for best film music in the film Emma. Since then, they've got two more Oscar nominations.
Portman prefers natural musical instruments such as the piano and dispensed almost entirely on electric instruments such as synthesizers.
But Portman composed not only film music. On 31 May 2003, their opera premiered in Houston The Little Prince on the book by Antoine de Saint- Exupéry.
Portman is married to the film producer Uberto Pasolini since 1995 and has three children (Anna, Giulia and Niky ).
Filmography
Awards
- Academy Award for Best Music 1997: Won for Emma
- 2000: Nominated for The Cider Post
- 2001: nomination for Chocolat - Just one small bite
- 2001: nomination for Chocolat - Just one small bite