Anne Dudley (born 1956)
Anne Dudley is best known as a composer of film scores. She wrote music for The Crying Game, American History X, Monkeybone, The Walker, and Elle. She won an Academy Award for her score for The Full Monty and most recently I saw her name on the credits of Paul Verhoeven’s 2020 film Benedetta.
Anne Dudley graduated from King’s College London in 1978 with a master’s in music. She spent a number of years in the pop music industry as a session musician, arranger, and producer, and was a founding member of the band Art of Noise. Her film composing began in 1988.
This video is the 2019 premiere of Anne Dudley’s orchestral composition Hail the Superheroes, whose three movements pay homage to comic book superheroes The Defenders, Zatanna Zatara, and Quicksilver.