Kris Bowers
Academy Award® winning, Emmy, Grammy and Oscar-nominated composer: Spider Noir, Bridgerton, The Wild Robot
Kris Bowers is an Academy Award® winning filmmaker and an Emmy, Grammy and Oscar-nominated composer and pianist. Bowers blends his classical and jazz roots to discover new frontiers in music and film. Upcoming, he co-composed the score for the highly-anticipated series, SPIDER-NOIR with Michael Dean Parsons. Starring Nicolas Cage, the live-action series will broadcast on MGM+’s linear channel on May 25 then on Prime Video on May 27. For film, he scored the Paramount/Skydance sports drama, MR. IRRELEVANT: THE JOHN TUGGLE STORY, which premieres on December 25. Bowers is also making his Broadway debut as a composer with PROOF, which opened on April 16 and is co-produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground.
Bowers won his first Academy Award® for his 2023 documentary short film THE LAST REPAIR SHOP. Co-directed with Ben Proudfoot, the Breakwater Studios produced film spotlights some of the individuals working at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s music instrument repair shop, the last to provide free instrument repairs to the city’s public school students. His 2024 score for DreamWorks Animation’s THE WILD ROBOT garnered widespread acclaim, including nominations from the Academy Awards®, Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, BAFTAs, as well as the award for Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film from the Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL).
Previously, Bowers has delivered genre-defying scores for Disney+’s television special, PUNISHER: ONE LAST KILL, Sony’s animated film GOAT, Paramount's biopic BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE, Ava DuVernay’s ORIGIN, as well as Warner Bros.’ THE COLOR PURPLE and KING RICHARD, among others. Bowers has also composed music for television series WHEN THEY SEE US, MRS. AMERICA, and in 2017 won a Daytime Emmy for his score to THE SNOWY DAY. Since 2020, Bowers has scored Netflix's hit series BRIDGERTON.