Biography

Jack Arnold is BIFA-winning and RTS-nominated composer and producer working in feature film, television drama and documentary on a wide range of award-winning work.

Recent work includes Lewis Capaldi - How I’m Feeling Now for Netflix, the critically acclaimed feature film, and BAFTA Scotland 2019’s Best Picture Wild Rose, directed by Tom Harper, and starring Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters, for which he won the 2019 BIFA for Best Music, and the featured song Glasgow (No Place Like Home), which Jack produced, was shortlisted for Best Song at the 2020 Academy Awards, and won several other major industry awards; The Level, a thriller series for ITV1; and comedy drama series Loaded for C4/AMC. Another career highlight was Holy Flying Circus, a BAFTA-nominated comedy film written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris about the events surrounding the 1979 release of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian", for which he received an RTS Award nomination for Best Score in 2012.

Jack writes in many styles, his music variously described as beautiful, magical, muscular, sensitive, visceral and terrifying. He prefers to think of scoring as filmmaking, rather than composing.  The picture leads, and the composer’s job is to follow the clues and find the right sound, tone and style so that the score feels like a very keyed-in and integral part of the production.

His collaboration with Tom Harper is a long one, beginning with several short films, and then Tom’s debut feature, critically acclaimed The Scouting Book for Boys in 2009, written by Jack Thorne;  2014's War Book followed that, also penned by Thorne, a track composed for 2015's The Woman In Black: Angel of Death; additional music for the BBC’s 2016 adaptation of War and Peace; and most recently on-set music composition and direction for 2019’s The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones.

Other work includes Niall MacCormick’s debut feature film Albatross, starring Felicity Jones and Jessica Brown Findlay; legal drama series Striking Out for RTÉ; and The Beckoning Silence for C4/Discovery.

See Jack’s IMDB page here