Dickon Hinchliffe

Dickon is a founder member of the British band Tindersticks. He began scoring films with the acclaimed French director Claire Denis for the films Nenette et Boni, Trouble Every Day and Vendredi Soir. In 2004 Dickon composed the score to Ira Sachs Forty Shades of Blue which won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He then wrote the music to the British comedy Keeping Mum before working with Ira Sachs again on the period drama Married Life.

His next films were the Golden Globe nominated Last Chance Harvey and Cold Souls, directed by Sophie Barthes. He was then involved in his first collaboration with James Marsh on C4s highly acclaimed Red Riding – 1980. In 2009 Dickon composed the score to Winters Bone, directed by Debra Granik, which was nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture. Later that year he scored Mitch Glazers Passion Play and the Michael Mann production The Texas Killing Fields directed by Ami Mann.

Dickon worked with James Marsh again on the documentary Project Nim and he scored the pilot of the HBO series Luck directed by Michael Mann, as well as Oren Movermans Rampart. Following on from this he scored James Marshs feature Shadow Dancer, and Ramin Bahranis At Any Price. Early in 2013 Dickon scored Scott Coopers second feature film Out of the Furnace, and he scored Liza Johnsons Hateship Loveship and Steven Knights Locke starring Tom Hardy.

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