COMPOSER

Rachel Portman

1960 - Today

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Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman (born 11 December 1960) is a British composer who made history in 1996 for being the first female composer to win an Academy Award for the Best Original Score, for Emma. She was also nominated twice, for the soundtracks of The Cider House Rules (1999) and Chocolat (2000). She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2010, and is an honorary member of Worcester College, Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rachel Portman has received more than 594,388 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rachel Portman is the 1,239th most popular composer (down from 1,218th in 2019), the 4,055th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,160th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Composer.

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  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Rachel Portman ranks 1,239 out of 1,451. Before her are Frigyes Hidas, Leo Ornstein, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Enoch Sontonga, Bronius Kutavičius, and Dobri Hristov. After her are Masaaki Suzuki, Emīls Dārziņš, Wenzel Müller, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, David Diamond, and Junkie XL.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Rachel Portman ranks 302. Before her are John Schneider, Moussa Faki, Wakin Chau, Kyle Gass, Davor Jozić, and Steve Kloves. After her are Delio Rossi, Beata Poźniak, Kaz Hirai, Dmitri Vrubel, Catherine Coleman, and Karim Rashid.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rachel Portman ranks 4,055 out of 8,785. Before her are Jack Beresford (1899), Steve Coogan (1965), Mary Millar (1936), Dennis Brain (1921), Luke Foxe (1586), and Herbert Giles (1845). After her are Edward John Eyre (1815), Acker Bilk (1929), Bernard Cribbins (1928), John Sykes (1959), Paddy Considine (1973), and Sydney Parkinson (1745).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Rachel Portman ranks 64. Before her are Fred Frith (1949), Havergal Brian (1876), Arthur Bliss (1891), Nicholas Hooper (1952), Gerald Finzi (1901), and Thomas Linley the younger (1756). After her are Maurice Greene (1696), Samuel Arnold (1740), John Ireland (1879), Thomas Weelkes (1576), Gavin Bryars (1943), and Monty Norman (1928).

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