| Amie Doherty | |
| Birth Name: | Amie Doherty |
| Birth Place: | Ballinasloe, Ireland[1] |
| Instruments: | Piano, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar |
| Occupation: | Composer, conductor, orchestrator |
| Genre: | Film and television scores, soundtracks, jazz, rock, pop, electronic, ambient |
| Years Active: | 2010–present |
| Website: | https://www.amiedoherty.com/ |
Amie Doherty is an Irish composer, conductor, and orchestrator for film and television. She is the first woman to score an animated feature for DreamWorks.[2]
Her most prominent works were for Spirit Untamed (2021),[3] [4] [5] Undone (2019), Here and Now (2018), Love You to Death (2019), The High Note (2020),[6] [7] Battle at Big Rock (2019),[8] Happiest Season (2020), (2022), and Blue Eye Samurai (2023).
In addition to her composing work, she has orchestrated and conducted music for numerous TV series including , , Fargo, The Umbrella Academy, and Altered Carbon;[9] and for musicians including Lady Gaga and 50 Cent.
Before moving to Los Angeles full-time in 2013, Amie lived, worked and studied in London, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and Spain.[10] She graduated magna cum laude from Berklee College of Music's Masters program in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games, where she was awarded the Howard Shore Scholarship.[11] She holds a bachelor's degree in music from Trinity College, Dublin.
In 2016, Amie became a Sundance Composer Fellow,[12] having been chosen from over 500 composers to attend the intensive Sundance Institute Music & Sound Design Lab at the legendary Skywalker Ranch. Following her time at the lab, she was announced as the 2016 Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation Composer Fellow.[13] In 2013, she received the ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Award[14] after being chosen as one of 12 composers worldwide to participate in the ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop.
Her score for Spirit Untamed was nominated for the 2021 International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for an Animated Film.[15] The score has received praise from The Film Music Institute: "Soaring voices, boisterous old west orchestrations, ethnic energy, whipping dastardly villains and tips to the Morricone hat make for a mighty impressive first time in the saddle for a female composer at DreamWorks."
Doherty won Best Score for an Animated Short for Marooned at the 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA).[16]
In 2022 she was nominated for IFMCA (International Music Film Critics Awards) Breakthrough Composer of the Year.[17]
| Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Feast of Varanasi | Rajan Kumar Patel[18] | |||
| 2018 | Here and Now | Fabien Constant | Paramount Pictures | ||
| 2019 | Love You to Death | Alex Kalymnios | Lifetime Entertainment Services | Television film | |
| 2019 | Battle at Big Rock | Colin Trevorrow | |||
| 2019 | Marooned | Andrew Erekson | |||
| 2020 | The High Note | Nisha Ganatra | Focus Features | ||
| 2020 | Happiest Season | Clea DuVall | |||
| 2021 | Spirit Untamed | Elaine Bogan | |||
| 2023 | Paul Briganti |
| Year | Title | Creator(s) | Studio(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Undone | Kate Purdy Raphael Bob-Waksberg | Amazon Studios The Tornante Company Boxer vs. Raptor Submarine Amsterdam Hive House Project | ||
| 2022 | Jessica Gao | Marvel Studios | |||
| 2023 | Blue Eye Samurai | Michael Green and Amber Noizumi | Netflix Animation |