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Warren Ellis Biography

Birth Name:Warren Ellis

Birth Place:Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Profession Composer, Music department, Actor

Fast Facts

Won a 2005 AFI Award for best original music score for "The Proposition․"
Won best score at the 2010 Kermode Awards for "The Road․"
Earned his degree in Education in Music and English
After winning a scholarship to a private high school, he studied classical violin
Busked in Greece, Hungary, Scotland and Ireland and wrote music for theatre groups before starting to play with bands
Worked as a schoolteacher in regional Victoria for a brief time
Quote: "[on the Dirty Three] "When we started, having a violin but not having a singer or a bass player was enough to get you beaten up․ It was fantastic, it was so wild․""
Quote: "I've just never seen the point of working and working and working on something when you can just put something out and live with the mistakes, and learn from them and move on․"
Has collaborated with Nick Cave in multiple ways, both as a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and in composing film scores
Joined such music groups as the Dirty Three and Grinderman, playing a variety of instruments including the violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, tenor guitar and viola

Awards

1999Australian Screen Music Award-Best Original Music for a Feature Film: nominated
2000FCCA Award-Best Music Score: nominated
2005AFI Award-Best Original Music Score: winner
2005FCCA Award-Best Musical Score: winner
2005IF Award-Best Music: winner
2006World Soundtrack Award-Discovery of the Year: nominated
2007ACCA-Best Original Score: nominated
2007CFCA Award-Best Original Score: nominated
2007SLFCA Award-Best Score: nominated
2008ICS Award-Best Original Score: nominated
2008INOCA-Best Original Score: nominated
2008OFTA Film Award-Best Music, Original Score: nominated
2008OFCS Award-Best Original Score: nominated
2009Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score: nominated
2012Silver Ariel-Best Score (Mejor Música de Fondo): winner
2012Mayahuel Award-Best Original Score: winner
2012Satellite Award-Best Original Song: nominated
2013GAFCA Award-Best Original Song: nominated
2013GAFCA Award-Best Original Song: nominated
2015AACTA Award-Best Original Music Score in a Documentary: nominated
2015Australian Screen Music Award-Best Original Music for a Feature Film: nominated
2015Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score: winner
2015Public Choice Award-: nominated
2016AFCA Award-Best Score: nominated
2016César-Best Original Music (Meilleure musique originale): winner
2016HMMA Award-Best Original Score - Documentary: nominated
2016HMMA Award-Best Original Song - Documentary: nominated
2016Lumiere Award-Best Music: nominated
2016SFFCC Award-Best Original Score: nominated
2017Special Crystal Pine-Best Original Score, Feature Film: winner
2022César-Best Original Music (Meilleure musique originale): nominated
2022Lumiere Award-Best Music (Meilleure musique): nominated
2025Cinema Brazil Grand Prize-Best Music (Melhor Trilha Sonora): winner