Biography
Normand Roger (born 1949 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian composer, sound editor and sound designer. He is particularly known for his work as a composer of soundtracks for animated films, having composed more than 200 such works since 1970. He has also worked on the creation of music for documentaries, feature films, television dramas, children's series, commercials, and new technologies with 3D and virtual reality. He is the composer of many original soundtracks for Frédéric Back, Paul Driessen, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Caroline Leaf and Aleksandr Petrov. Thirteen of his works have been nominated for Academy Awards, of which six have won. He also notably wrote the theme for the PBS's Mystery!. Roger lectures throughout the world on music and sound for animation.Roger has spent nearly 40 years creating soundtracks for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in his hometown of Montreal, after first being hired for its animation department at the age of 22. His extensive NFB credits include Every Child and The Sand Castle, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.He is married to animation film director and producer Marcy Page, whom he met while working with on her film, Paradisia.
Filmography
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Movies 117
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A Bear Named Wojtek (2023)
Joy of Life (2023)
Comeback (2021)
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days (2019)
Guaxuma (2019)
Sexy Laundry (2015)
Hollow Land (2013)
The Banquet of the Concubine (2012)
Muybridge's Strings (2011)
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (2010)
The Circus (2010)
Waseteg (2010)
Missed Aches (2010)
The Spine (2009)
Land of the Heads (2009)
Retouches (2008)
Leon in Wintertime (2008)
Nightmare at School (2007)
Tzaritza (2007)
Lost In Snow (2007)
Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit (2007)
Maq and the Spirit of the Woods (2006)
Tragic Story with Happy Ending (2005)
The True Story of Sawney Beane (2005)
Tête à Tête à Tête (2005)
Through My Thick Glasses (2004)
Welcome to Kentucky (2004)
I Want a Dog (2003)
Stormy Night (2003)
Antagonia (2003)
Falling in Love Again (2003)
Stiltwalkers (2002)
The Tightrope Walker (2002)
Roses Sing on New Snow (2002)
Father and Daughter (2001)
Lights for Gita (2001)
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2000)
From Far Away (2000)
The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
The Cola Conquest (1998)
The Love Prophet and the Children of God (1998)
M.C. Escher: Sky and Water 1 (1998)
Snow Cat (1998)
How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels (1996)
Shyness (1996)
Quilt (1996)
The Legend of the Flying Canoe (1996)
The Champagne Safari (1995)
How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly (1995)
Watching TV (1994)
Passage (1994)
Automania (1994)
Overdose (1994)
Mouseology (1994)
Divine Fate (1993)
The Mighty River (1993)
No Problem (1992)
A Family For Maria (1992)
The Orange (1992)
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1992)
The Balgonie Birdman (1991)
The Wish That Changed Christmas (1991)
Alchemists (1991)
Second Début (1991)
Lord of the Sky (1991)
Sabina (1991)
The Phoenix (1990)
The Box (1989)
Rencontre de certains types (1989)
The Wanderer (1988)
The Dingles (1988)
Paradisia (1988)
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back (1988)
The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
Lucretia (1986)
Of Lives Uprooted (1986)
Giordano (1985)
Canada Vignettes: Mussel Mud (1985)
Elephantrio (1985)
Masquerade (1984)
Bounds (1984)
Opéra zéro (1984)
The Boy and the Snow Goose (1984)
Tip Top (1984)
Rectangle & Rectangles (1984)
Paradise (1984)
A Matter of Form (1984)
Listen, You'll See... (1983)
Memories of War (1983)
The Sound Collector (1982)
Luna, Luna, Luna (1981)
Five Billion Years (1981)
Top Priority (1981)
Home on the Rails (1981)
Canada Vignettes: Countdown (1981)
The Sweater (1980)
Crac (1980)
Canada Vignettes: Klondike Gold (1980)
The Treasure of the Grotoceans (1980)
A Sufi Tale (1980)
Co Hoedeman, Animator (1980)
This Is Your Museum Speaking (1979)
Elbowing (1979)
This Is Me (1979)
The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1978)
All Nothing (1978)
Entre chiens et loup (1978)
The Sand Castle (1977)
Demon and Marvels (1977)
Taratata (1976)
Ti-Dré (1976)
An Old Box (1975)
Illusion (1975)
Cat's Cradle (1974)
Climates (1974)
Dans la Vie... (1972)
Tchou-tchou (1972)
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