Who composed the music for The Emoji Movie?

Patrick Doyle composed the music for The Emoji Movie.

Doyle wrote the film’s orchestral score for the 2017 animated comedy directed by Tony Leondis. The music supports the story’s fast movement through a smartphone world, where characters travel among apps, games, and digital environments. The soundtrack also includes songs separate from Doyle’s score, including “Good Vibrations,” written and performed by Ricky Reed.

Doyle is a Scottish film composer with a long career in cinema. He first gained major attention through collaborations with director Kenneth Branagh, beginning with Henry V in 1989. His later credits include Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Thor, Brave, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

A frequent confusion is treating every piece of music in a film as its “score.” In The Emoji Movie, Doyle handled the original instrumental film score, while pop songs and other soundtrack contributions had different creators. The film itself was released by Sony Pictures Animation in 2017.