Composers
Rachel Portman
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Born: 1960
British composer Rachel Portman, known for her incredibly lush movie scores, was the first female composer to win an Academy Award. Her film scores include Emma (Academy Award), the current Nicholas Nickleby, Cider House Rules (Academy Award and Grammy nominations), Chocolat (Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations), The Legend of Bagger Vance, Hart’s War, Only You, Marvin’s Room, Addicted to Love, Home Fries, Beloved, The Joy Luck Club, and Benny and Joon, among others.
An Oxford University graduate, Ms. Portman first worked in film when she rescored a Channel Four film called Experience Preferred But Not Essential. More television projects followed allowing her to work with some of the best English directors and producers of our time, on Mike Leigh’s Four Days in July, Shoot to Kill, Precious Bane, Jim Henson’s Storyteller, Ethan Frome, the BAFTA award-winning Oranges are not the Only Fruit, and The Falklands War. One of Ms. Portman’s early successes was the score for Privileged, the movie that launched Hugh Grant’s career.
In 1999, she won the Flanders International Film Festival Award for Ratcatcher. In 2001, she worked with her producer husband Uberto Pasolini on the Disney film The Emperor’s New Clothes and with Jonathan Demme on the film The Truth About Charlie, which required recording in Paris, London and New York with a variety of world musicians.
Ms. Portman lives in London with her husband and three daughters.
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