Dario Marianelli

Dario Marianelli (born 21 June 1963) is an Italian composer known for his frequent collaborations with director Joe Wright.

Marianelli had already written scores for several films and TV projects, including movies such as Ailsa and Pandaemonium, when director Joe Wright contacted him about scoring his 2005 film *Pride & Prejudice*. He subsequently composed for Wright's films *Atonement*, *The Soloist*, *Anna Karenina*, and *Darkest Hour*.

In 2008 Marianelli won the Academy Award for Original Music Score and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for *Atonement*. He has also been nominated for Academy Awards for *Pride & Prejudice* and *Anna Karenina*.

In 2018 he composed the score for *Bumblebee*, the sixth installment in the *Transformers* film series. It was his second score for director Travis Knight, after *Kubo and the Two Strings*.

Marianelli has continued to write concert, theatre, and ballet music. In a 2019 article on film composing, he said: "Writing music professionally is a hard occupation, and writing for media definitely not for the fainthearted. One has to be able to enjoy the pain, in order to be able to carry on successfully. I think one of the hardest things to deal with, working as a composer involved in media, is the anxiety that comes from being in quite a vulnerable position."