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Nicholas Hooper is a Director of Photography, Sound and Cinematography British born on 1952

Nicholas Hooper

Nicholas Hooper
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1952 (72 years)

Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon, as well as the TV movies The Girl in the Café and My Family and Other Animals among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award for Original Score in 2004 for The Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for Prime Suspect: The Final Act.

His highest-profile score is for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix reuniting with old friend director David Yates with whom he had worked before on The Tichborne Claimant, The Way We Live Now, State of Play, The Young Visiters and The Girl in the Café. This was Hooper's first work on a blockbuster movie. Hooper was chosen again by Yates for the following Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, for which he was nominated for a Grammy. However, he chose not to return for the final two installments. Hooper moved on to score the soundtrack to the Disney documentary African Cats, which was chosen as one of the 97 Original Scores eligible for a nomination at the 84th Academy Awards in 2011.

Best films

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
(Original Music Composer)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
(Original Music Composer)
Chimpanzee (2012)
(Director of Photography)

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Filmography of Nicholas Hooper (13 films)

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Cameraman

Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee (2012)
, 1h18
Directed by Alastair Fothergill
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Environmental films, Films about families, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about apes, Documentary films about nature, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tim Allen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.5476953.5476953.5476953.5476953.547695
Oscar is the nickname given by the narrator (Tim Allen) to a young chimpanzee in his toddler years. He is part of a close-knit tribe of chimpanzees. They occupy a forest territory which is rich in native fruits, nuts, and figs, among other things. The chimps hunt small tree monkeys, and they also eat termites collected with primitive tools made from sticks. They also use rocks as tools to crack nuts. Oscar is tended by his mother, nicknamed Isha, and from her he begins learning many things about how to survive in the jungle. In the chaos of an attempted raid by a rival gang of chimpanzees led by 'Scar', Isha is injured and separated from the group and her son. As told by the narrator, Isha is most probably the victim of a nocturnal leopard.

Sound

Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee (2012)
, 1h18
Directed by Alastair Fothergill
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Environmental films, Films about families, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about apes, Documentary films about nature, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tim Allen
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70% 3.5476953.5476953.5476953.5476953.547695
Oscar is the nickname given by the narrator (Tim Allen) to a young chimpanzee in his toddler years. He is part of a close-knit tribe of chimpanzees. They occupy a forest territory which is rich in native fruits, nuts, and figs, among other things. The chimps hunt small tree monkeys, and they also eat termites collected with primitive tools made from sticks. They also use rocks as tools to crack nuts. Oscar is tended by his mother, nicknamed Isha, and from her he begins learning many things about how to survive in the jungle. In the chaos of an attempted raid by a rival gang of chimpanzees led by 'Scar', Isha is injured and separated from the group and her son. As told by the narrator, Isha is most probably the victim of a nocturnal leopard.
Stella Days, 1h44
Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama
Actors Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Amy Huberman, Trystan Gravelle, Tom Hickey, Hugh O'Conor
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating58% 2.910772.910772.910772.910772.91077
Dans les années 1950, Borrisokane , village reculé dans le Comté de Tipperary en Irlande, voit sa vie changer avec le retour sur ses terres du père Daniel Barry (Martin Sheen) après vingt ans passés aux États-Unis. Passionné par le cinéma, ce dernier souhaite ouvrir une salle de projection dans le village : le « Stella ». Commence alors un conflit entre l'église conservatrice et novatrice.
African Cats, 1h29
Directed by Alastair Fothergill
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Films about cats, Films about lions, Documentary films about nature, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Stewart
Roles Music
Rating74% 3.745933.745933.745933.745933.74593
African Cats, referred to as a "true life adventure," tells the true story of two animal families living in the wild by using real-life footage. The film focuses on a young lion cub named Mara raised by her mother Layla, a mother cheetah named Sita who is raising five newborns, and Fang, the leader of Mara and Layla′s pride, defending his family from a banished lion named Kali.
Mo
Mo (2010)

Directed by Philip Martin
Genres Drama
Actors Julie Walters, David Haig, Adrian Dunbar, Gary Lewis, Tony Maudsley, Lucy Boynton
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating77% 3.8608753.8608753.8608753.8608753.860875
Mo stars Julie Walters as Mo Mowlam, the controversial but popular Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2h33
Directed by David Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Harry Potter, Ghost films, Werewolves in film, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating76% 3.801393.801393.801393.801393.80139
Lord Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the wizarding and Muggle worlds and has chosen Draco Malfoy to carry out a secret mission. Severus Snape makes an Unbreakable Vow with Draco's mother, Narcissa, to protect Draco and fulfill the assignment if he fails.
Enid
Enid (2009)
, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about writers
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Travis Oliver, Ramona Marquez, Sinead Michael
Roles Music
Rating65% 3.296823.296823.296823.296823.29682
Évocation de la vie d'Enid Blyton, écrivaine britannique du XX siècle.
Einstein and Eddington, 1h29
Directed by Philip Martin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Andy Serkis, David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.5960053.5960053.5960053.5960053.596005
The prelude is set in 1919 on Eddington's expedition in Príncipe to observe the solar eclipse that year, before moving back in time to 1914. At the outbreak of the First World War Eddington is appointed chief astronomer at Cambridge by Sir Oliver Lodge and instructed to research Einstein's work and defend the Newtonian status quo, whilst Einstein is tempted back from Zurich to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in an attempt to aid the war effort by embarrassing Britain in disproving the work of its great scientist Isaac Newton. In Berlin, with his marriage already under tension, Einstein falls in love with his cousin Elsa.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2h18
Directed by David Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Harry Potter, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating75% 3.7526053.7526053.7526053.7526053.752605
Harry Potter is forced to defend himself against charges of using magic while underage, and in the presence of his Muggle cousin Dudley, after the two are attacked by Dementors. The Order of the Phoenix, a secret organisation founded by Albus Dumbledore, inform the now pending expulsion Harry that the Ministry of Magic is oblivious to Lord Voldemort's return; under the Ministry's influence, The Daily Prophet has launched a smear campaign towards Harry and Dumbledore following Harry's encounter with Voldemort at the end of the previous year. This encounter had a huge psychological effect on Harry – he has nightmares not only about what happened in the graveyard but also about the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic. While at the Order's headquarters, Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, mentions that Voldemort is after an object which he did not have last time.
The Cost of Living, 35minutes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Dance films
Rating77% 3.896243.896243.896243.896243.89624
The Girl in the Café, 1h34
Directed by David Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Bill Nighy, Kelly Macdonald, Marit Velle Kile, Anton Lesser, Paul Ritter, Ken Stott
Roles Music
Rating73% 3.6977053.6977053.6977053.6977053.697705
Un haut fonctionnaire travaillant pour le Chancelier de l'Échiquier, Lawrence, tombe amoureux de Gina, une jeune femme rencontrée par hasard dans un café de Londres. Ce dernier l'emmène à un sommet du G8 à Reykjavik, où elle confronte le Premier Ministre sur la question de la dette du tiers-monde et la pauvreté en Afrique, au grand embarras de Lawrence et à la colère de ses employeurs. Cependant, Lawrence se rend compte qu'elle a raison et essaie d'aider à persuader le chancelier et d'autres personnes au sommet de faire quelque chose pour résoudre les problèmes concernés.
My Family and Other Animals, 1h30
Directed by Sheree Folkson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Eugene Simon, Imelda Staunton, Chris Langham, Matthew Goode, Omid Djalili, Russell Tovey
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating72% 3.640933.640933.640933.640933.64093
My Family and Other Animals tells the story of the Durrell family, Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, Margaret Durrell and Gerald Durrell, as well as their mother Louisa Durrell, as they spend five years (1935–1939) on the Greek island of Corfu. The family reside in a series of villas, and spend their time indulging in their varying interests. Gerald develops his passion for wildlife, his mother spends her time cooking and worrying about everyone else; Larry writes and annoys the entire family with high-brow guests and unhelpful suggestions; Leslie develops his passion for ballistics and sailing, whilst Margo sunbathes and enchants the local young men.
The Heart of Me, 1h36
Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron, Tom Ward, Luke Newberry
Roles Music
Rating65% 3.2987853.2987853.2987853.2987853.298785
In 1934 after the death of her father, Madeleine, a proper and repressed well-off housewife, invites her free-spirited sister, Dinah, to stay with her and her husband Rickie in her elegant London home. The couple have a young son, Anthony. Madeleine has always been secretly jealous and resentful of Dinah, a raffish bohemian painter, who is the despair of her conservative sister and their mother, Mrs. Burkett. Madeleine at last contrives to get Dinah engaged to a respectable, well-off man. Dinah announces her engagement at a family dinner, but later that night Rickie, who has long harbored an attraction for her, tells her to end the engagement.
The Tichborne Claimant, 1h38
Directed by David Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Pugh, Stephen Fry, Robert Hardy, John Gielgud, Charles Gray, James Villiers
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60% 3.0033153.0033153.0033153.0033153.003315
Based on a true story, the film is set in the late 19th century. Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answers Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter successfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.

Team

Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee (2012)
, 1h18
Directed by Alastair Fothergill
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Environmental films, Films about families, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about apes, Documentary films about nature, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tim Allen
Roles Cinematography
Rating70% 3.5476953.5476953.5476953.5476953.547695
Oscar is the nickname given by the narrator (Tim Allen) to a young chimpanzee in his toddler years. He is part of a close-knit tribe of chimpanzees. They occupy a forest territory which is rich in native fruits, nuts, and figs, among other things. The chimps hunt small tree monkeys, and they also eat termites collected with primitive tools made from sticks. They also use rocks as tools to crack nuts. Oscar is tended by his mother, nicknamed Isha, and from her he begins learning many things about how to survive in the jungle. In the chaos of an attempted raid by a rival gang of chimpanzees led by 'Scar', Isha is injured and separated from the group and her son. As told by the narrator, Isha is most probably the victim of a nocturnal leopard.