Kris Bowers

Kris Bowers is an Academy Award® winning filmmaker and an Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-nominated composer and pianist. His 2024 score for DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot garnered widespread acclaim, including nominations from the Academy Awards®, Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, and BAFTAs, as well as the award for Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film from the Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL). 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. Following the The Last Repair Shop’s success, Bowers and Proudfoot launched a $15 million campaign, in partnership with the LAUSD Education Foundation, to support the music education of the next generation of Angelenos. Bowers blends his classical and jazz roots to discover new frontiers in music and film. Recently, Bowers has delivered genre-defying scores for Paramount's 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.