Awards & Winners

Adrian Johnston

Date of Birth 1961
Place of Birth Cumbria
(United Kingdom, North West England, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Johnston, Adrian
Profession Musician, Film Score Composer
Adrian Johnston is a British musician and composer for film and TV. Born in Cumbria, England, Johnston attended Edinburgh University, reading English. He has been a drummer in various bands including Moles for Breakfast, The Waterboys and The Mike Flowers Pops. During his twenties, he travelled the world providing music accompaniment to silent films at film festivals. He later scored productions for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Johnston's first film score was for the 1996 Thomas Hardy adaptation Jude. He has also composed original scores for the 2007 film about Jane Austen, Becoming Jane, and the 2008 adaption of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. In 2008, he was awarded a BAFTA for the score of the BBC film Capturing Mary. Johnston's score for Charles Sturridge's mini-series Shackleton won a 2002 Primetime Emmy. In 2009, he scored the British science-fiction procedural TV series Paradox. He composed the theme music for the BBC detective series Zen - winner in the 2011 RTS Awards, also the World War II drama The Sinking of the Laconia, Stephen Poliakoff's acclaimed 2013 TV series Dancing on the Edge, and the drama The 7.39. Johnston currently resides in London and Samois-sur-Seine.

Awards by Adrian Johnston

Check all the awards nominated and won by Adrian Johnston.

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Original Music for a Dramatic Program, Mini-Series or TV Movie Diamonds (US)

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Gideon's Daughter
\"Natasha's Song\"

2002


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score)
Honored for : Shackleton

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score) Shackleton
Part II