John Powell (movie composer)
Powell stated composers such as John Williams, Joel McNeely, J.A.C. Redford, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Alfred Newman, Alan Menken, Bruce Broughton, Mychael Danna, Howard Shore, Michael Kamen, James Newton Howard, Buddy Baker, Ennio Morricone, Maurice Jarre, Lalo Schifrin, David Newman, Alexandre Desplat, Patrick Doyle, Hans Zimmer, Trevor Jones, Stephen James Taylor, Oliver Wallace, George Bruns, Randy Edelman, Mychael Danna, Max Steiner, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Johan Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Joe Hisaishi, Harry Gregson-Williams, Mark Mancina, Thomas Newman, Richard Harvey, Mark Watters, Nino Rota, Basil Poledouris, Robert Folk, Alex North, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Randy Newman, Alan Silvestri and James Horner as influences.