Stephen Rennicks is an Irish musician and

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composer based in

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Early life

As a boy, Rennicks predominantly listened to and sang what he described as "Irish Protestant Baptist gospel music, choruses and hymns", and later claimed it was an influence on his process of learning harmony. During the later years of the 1980s, Rennicks was a member of a band called the Prunes, which traveled through nightclubs in France and Germany playing punk music.

Film career

Rennicks worked with director

Lenny Abrahamson Leonard Ian Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film and television director. He is known for directing such praised independent films as ''Adam & Paul'' (2004), ''Garage'' (2007), ''What Richard Did'' (2012), and ''Frank'' (2014), an ...

on ''

What Richard Did ''What Richard Did'' is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell. The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's '' Bad Day in Blackrock'', a 2008 novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000. I ...

'' (2012). For Abrahamson, he later served as music director for the 2014 film ''

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'', where he was tasked to write songs that were a hybrid of pop and experimental rock music. Rennicks was inspired by musicians he met while in the Prunes, wrote the score and supervised the recordings of his original songs. For ''Frank'', Rennicks won the award for Best Technical Achievement – Music at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards, and was nominated for Original Score at the 12th Irish Film & Television Awards. Abrahamson and Rennicks collaborated again on the 2015 film ''

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''. As a Canadian co-production, Rennicks was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Score in January 2016. In April, he then won for Original Music at the

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Awards and nominations

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rennicks, Stephen Living people 21st-century Irish people Irish film score composers Musicians from Dublin (city) People educated at The High School, Dublin Year of birth missing (living people)