How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture

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Broxton, Jonathan (27 March 2010). "HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – John Powell". Jonathan Broxton. Archived from the original on 6 February 2011 . Retrieved 17 March 2011. How to Train Your Dragon was composer John Powell's sixth collaboration with DreamWorks Animation. [3] Powell had scored many of DreamWorks' previous films, but this was the first of DreamWorks' films where Powell helmed the score on his own (on his previous efforts with DreamWorks, he had collaborated with other composers such as Harry Gregson-Williams and Hans Zimmer). Zimmer had long praised Powell's abilities, and on many occasions, asserted that he was the superior composer between them, thus firmly supporting Powell's solo animation effort. [4] I was certainly trying to get a bit more epic. I just felt the animation and the visuals were giving me a broader palette to play with. As a kid I remember watching The Vikings with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas, and I always liked that score.

IFMCA announces its 2010 Winners for scoring excellence". International Film Music Critics Association. 24 February 2011. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012 . Retrieved 6 March 2011. Sibelius was the key. I studied a lot of Sibelius as a kid, and I've always adored his music. So that, plus it was great to have Jónsi do a song at the end of the movie, because I've always liked Sigur Rós. They were an influence as well, even though that seems paradoxical. But there is that in a few cues—heavy, dark guitar textures going on at the same time as large orchestration.Broxton, Jonathan (27 March 2011). "Movie Music UK Awards 2010". Jonathan Broxton. Archived from the original on 1 April 2011 . Retrieved 29 March 2011. Annual Annie Nominations". International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 4 December 2009 . Retrieved 6 March 2011. Watt, Archie. "How To Train Your Dragon (John Powell)". Archie Watt. Archived from the original on 12 September 2011 . Retrieved 17 March 2011. Freestyle Fantastic: Valegro at Olympia in 2014". 15 February 2021. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.

Steve Pond (2011). "John Powell Goes Epic to Score 'Dragon' ". Archived from the original on 24 February 2011 . Retrieved 17 March 2011. The score was exceptionally well-received, earning universal praise from professional film score critics and fans alike. Powell earned a BAFTA nomination for his work as well as his first Oscar nomination, losing both nominations to Alexandre Desplat for his score for The King's Speech [11] and to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their score for The Social Network, respectively. [12] The music also won an Annie Award for the Best Music in a Feature Production from the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood. [13]Film Awards Winners and Nominees". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011 . Retrieved 6 March 2011.