| Birth Name: | Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis |
| Birth Date: | 29 January 1985 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Genre: | Film and television scores, pop, rock, ambient, electronic, jazz |
| Occupation: | Composer, singer |
| Instrument: | Vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar, cello |
| Years Active: | 2004–present |
Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is a British film and television composer and singer. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with Free Birds. His other credits includes The Man in the High Castle, DuckTales, Peter Rabbit, , Monsters at Work, Bullet Train and The Fall Guy. He also served as the singing voice for Lurch in The Addams Family 2 and for Donald Duck in the DuckTales reboot.
Lewis was born and raised in London, England. Both his parents are musicians and he began learning the cello at age three. He also played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influences as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.[1] [2]
He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was classically trained in cello and music composition. During his time there, he was under the mentorship of film composer, Rupert Gregson-Williams.[3] In 2009, Lewis relocated to Los Angeles, California to join Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions. He served in the music departments of various major studio films under composers Henry Jackman, John Powell and Ramin Djawadi, usually in the capacity of providing additional music.[4]
In 2014, Lewis was nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production for his work on the 2013 film Free Birds. In 2015, he was nominated for the World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year for the 2015 film .[5] In 2016, he scored Jodie Foster's film Money Monster in under three weeks.[6] [7] [8]
Lewis's close collaboration with Henry Jackman, led to the pair scoring Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. Both Lewis and Jackman co-scored the first season, while the second, third and fourth were scored by Lewis alone. Speaking about the project, Lewis employed an orchestral method but infused it with various traditional and ethnic instruments. He also developed character themes and assigned instruments like the cello for Juliana Crain and the french horn for Joe Blake.[9] [10] [11]
In 2018, Lewis was hired to score the live-action/animated comedy film Peter Rabbit directed by Will Gluck.[12] He reunited with Gluck on the sequel, .
In 2022, he wrote the score for the film Bullet Train, marking his first collaboration with director David Leitch.[13] Lewis and Letich collaborated once again for the 2024 film, The Fall Guy.[14]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Gift of the Night Fury | Tom Owens | Short film Composed with John Powell |
| 2013 | Free Birds | Jimmy Hayward | |
| 2015 | The DUFF | Ari Sandel | First collaboration with Ari Sandel |
| Spooks: The Greater Good | Bharat Nalluri | Also known as MI-5 | |
| 2016 | David Feiss | Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams | |
| Money Monster | Jodie Foster | Replaced Michael Andrews Music produced by Henry Jackman | |
| 2017 | Fist Fight | Richie Keen | |
| Rough Night | Lucia Aniello | ||
| 2018 | Peter Rabbit | Will Gluck | First collaboration with Will Gluck |
| Ari Sandel | Second collaboration with Ari Sandel | ||
| 2020 | My Spy | Peter Segal | |
| 2021 | Will Gluck | ||
| Jolt | Tanya Wexler | ||
| The King's Man | Matthew Vaughn | Composed with Matthew Margeson | |
| 2022 | Bullet Train | David Leitch | First collaboration with David Leitch |
| Spirited | Sean Anders | Original songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | |
| Violent Night | Tommy Wirkola | ||
| 2024 | Lift | F. Gary Gray | Composed with Guillaume Roussel |
| The Fall Guy | David Leitch |
| Year | Title | Role | Composer(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans | Additional music | Ramin Djawadi | |
| Gulliver's Travels | Henry Jackman | |||
| How to Train Your Dragon | Additional music arranger, programmer and orchestrator | John Powell | ||
| 2011 | Rio | Additional music | ||
| Rango | Hans Zimmer | |||
| Kung Fu Panda 2 | Hans Zimmer John Powell | |||
| Henry Jackman | ||||
| Puss in Boots | ||||
| 2012 | Wreck-It-Ralph | |||
| 2013 | This Is the End | |||
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Additional music and featured vocalist | ||
| The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Featured vocalist | Hans Zimmer The Magnificent Six | ||
| Big Hero 6 | Additional music | Henry Jackman | ||
| Kingsman: The Secret Service | Henry Jackman Matthew Margeson | |||
| 2020 | DuckTales | Donald Duck's singing voice; Episode: "Louie's Eleven!" | Himself | |
| 2021 | The Addams Family 2 | Lurch's singing voice; "I Will Survive" | Mychael Danna Jeff Danna | |
| 2024 | Expend4bles | Score producer | Guillaume Roussel |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Kevin from Work | 10 episodes |
| The Player | 9 episodes | |
| 2015–2019 | The Man in the High Castle | 40 episodes, with Henry Jackman (Season 1) |
| 2017–2021 | DuckTales | 69 episodes |
| 2019–2020 | The Rocketeer | 22 episodes, with Beau Black |
| 2021 | Monsters at Work | 14 episodes, with Daniel Futcher (Season 2) |
| 2022 | Baymax! | 6 episodes[15] |
| 2023 | Kaleidoscope | 8 episodes |
| 2023–present | My Adventures with Superman | Composed with Daniel Futcher |
|-| 2014| Free Birds| Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production| [16] [17] |-| 2015| | World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year| [18] [19] |-|}