New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Composer Paul Leonard-Morgan earns his first EMMY nomination for his work on the CBS series LIMITLESS. Leonard-Morgan also composed the music for the film on which the series was based.
�This is fucking amazing,� said Leonard-Morgan. �It was such a blast to get to create a new sound palette for the TV series. It�s very rare to get a chance to compose such a schizophrenic score - from hardcore electronica to full on orchestra every week. It was just such a crazy, fun creative process.�
Paul Leonard-Morgan (DREDD, BATTLEFIELD� HARDLINE) is a BAFTA award winning and Ivor Novello nominated composer and producer. His unique cinematic style (fusing orchestra with electronica) has put him in high demand, both as a producer for bands and as a soundtrack composer.
Leonard-Morgan won a BAFTA award for his first film score, PINEAPPLE, and earned both BAFTA and Ivor Novello nominations for his first television drama in the UK, FALLEN. This led to him scoring 6 series of the hit BBC/Kudos drama SPOOKS (MI5 in the USA). His groundbreaking score for LIMITLESS, a paranoia-fuelled action thriller starring Bradley
Cooper and Robert De Niro, directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist), was nominated for the prestigious World
Soundtrack Discovery Award in Ghent, after topping the box office in both the US and UK. Leonard-Morgan revisited LIMITLESS as the composer for the CBS TV series based on the film, helmed by Marc Webb (Spiderman, 500 Days of Summer).
Leonard-Morgan�s film work also includes DREDD, which would also top the UK box office in its first week of release. Variety magazine noted �the throbbing sounds of Paul Leonard-Morgan�s bass-heavy original score�. The groundbreaking soundtrack is widely recognized as launching a new generation of hybrid scores. Other scores include 2013�s thriller THE NUMBERS STATION and LEGENDARY, the latter of which opened in over 12000 screens worldwide. On the animation front, his work included three MINIONS films, released alongside Universal Studio�s all-time highest grossing film DESPICABLE ME 2, and Fox/Evergreen�s $80 million WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D. Leonard-Morgan�s first ever video game soundtrack (EA Games� flagship $180 million title BATTLEFIELD HARDLINE) was released in 2015, earning top video game sales status in the UK for the first quarter of this year.
Studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of
Music and Drama, Leonard-Morgan quickly developed a reputation as a producer and arranger on the thriving Glasgow music scene, working with bands such as Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol,
Mogwai and Texas. He has become long-term collaborator of Scottish songstress Isobel Campbell, working extensively on each of her albums, including the Mercury nominated �Ballad Of The Broken Seas� with Mark Lanegan. This led to Paul working with famed producer Phil Ramone on Sharleen Spiteri�s Gold Disc �Melody�. After working with
Mogwai on numerous previous projects (including an art installation with Turner prize-winning artist
Douglas Gordon), Leonard-Morgan collaborated with them again on their 7th studio album �Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will�. He also worked with producer Mark �Spike� Stent on No Doubt�s highly acclaimed comeback album �Push and Shove�.
