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Career

Before moving to Los Angeles full-time in 2013, Amie lived, worked and studied in London, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and Spain. She graduated magna cum laude from

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's Masters program in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games, where she was awarded the Howard Shore Scholarship. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from

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, Dublin. In 2016, Amie became a Sundance Composer Fellow, having been chosen from over 500 composers to attend the intensive Sundance Institute Music & Sound Design Lab at the legendary

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. Following her time at the lab, she was announced as the 2016 Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation Composer Fellow. In 2013, she received the ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Award after being chosen as one of 12 composers worldwide to participate in the ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop. Her score for ''

'' was nominated for the 2021 International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for an Animated Film. The score has received praise from The Film Music Institute: "Soaring voices, boisterous old west orchestrations, ethnic energy, whipping dastardly villains and tips to the Morricone hat make for a mighty impressive first time in the saddle for a female composer at DreamWorks." Doherty won Best Score for an Animated Short for ''Marooned'' at the 2019

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(HMMA). In 2022 she was nominated for IFMCA (International Music Film Critics Awards) Breakthrough Composer of the Year.

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Film

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*{{IMDb name, nm4074194, Amie Doherty {{DEFAULTSORT:Doherty, Amie Living people 21st-century Irish women musicians Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Berklee College of Music alumni Irish emigrants to the United States Irish film score composers Irish women composers American film score composers American women film score composers Women film score composers Women television composers Musicians from County Galway People from Ballinasloe Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Irish composers 21st-century Irish women composers