Winifred Phillips is an American

United States

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 music composer for video games and radio, a published fantasy author, and a radio producer and actress.

Video games

Working with music producer Winnie Waldron

Winnie Waldron

Winnie Waldron is an American music producer for video games, a producer for radio, a radio script editor / adapter and a radio host.- Radio :...

, Phillips has written music for the video games LittleBigPlanet 2

LittleBigPlanet 2

LittleBigPlanet 2 is a puzzle platformer video game, centred around user-generated content. The game is developed by Media Molecule, published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PlayStation 3 and was originally scheduled for release in November 2010 but was delayed until January 2011...

, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Spore Hero

Spore Hero

Spore Hero is the Wii spin-off of Spore, developed by Maxis, in which the players focus on creativity and evolution using the unique controls of the Wii...

, God of War

God of War (video game)

God of War is an action adventure video game for the PlayStation 2 first released by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica division in March 2005...

, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (video game)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been made into two video games: once in 1985 and also in 2005. The games are based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl.-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory :...

, The Da Vinci Code, Shrek the Third, Speed Racer, SimAnimals, and The Maw

The Maw (video game)

The Maw received above average ratings from critics. It currently averages 75 out of 100 on Metacritic for both the Xbox 360 and PC versions. GameRankings reports similar scores of 76.06% for the Xbox 360 and 73.33% for the PC. Accolades came from outlets such as Games Radar and GamePro with...

.

On October 26, 2010, the Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole video game soundtrack album was released by WaterTower Music, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment. The second track on the album, "With Hearts Sublime", is a winner of a 2010 Hollywood Music in Media Award in the category "Best Original Song - Video Game".

On January 13, 2009, the SimAnimals soundtrack album was released in digital download form by E.A.R.S. EA Recordings.

The soundtrack album of the videogame Spore Hero was released by E.A.R.S. EA Recordings on October 6, 2009.

In the credits of the videogame Borderlands

Borderlands (video game)

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, Phillips is credited along with her music producer Winnie Waldron under the Audio Special Thanks section. Also credited in the same section is the Generations Productions Choir, with which Phillips has worked for several other videogame soundtracks, including Speed Racer and The Maw.

In 2007, Phillips worked with her music producer Winnie Waldron

Winnie Waldron

Winnie Waldron is an American music producer for video games, a producer for radio, a radio script editor / adapter and a radio host.- Radio :...

 to create a cover version of the theme song from the Super Mario Bros. video game for the compilation CD entitled Best of the Best: A Tribute to Game Music, Volume I, released by GameMusicCentral.

Literature

As a fantasy author, Phillips has written short stories that have been published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine

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, and in the Sword and Sorceress XX anthology.

Radio

From 1992 to 2003, Phillips was the composer, producer and actress in a series of radio dramas, first presented on National Public Radio Playhouse under the title Generations Radio Theater Presents, and then later as Generations Radio Theater Presents: Radio Tales. This anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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. The series was described by National Public Radio as "featuring a top-to-bottom music score that is completely original and fully integrated to the text". The programs air regularly as the Radio Tales

Radio Tales

Radio Tales is an American series of radio dramas produced by Generations Productions. This series adapted classic works of American and world literature such as The War of the Worlds, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Beowulf, Gulliver's Travels, and the One Thousand and One Nights...

 series on the Sirius XM Book Radio channel of Sirius XM Satellite Radio.

Awards and nominations

• Hollywood Music in Media Award 2010: Best Original Song: Video Game - "With Hearts Sublime" (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole)
• International Film Music Critics Association Awards 2009: Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media - Spore Hero (Nomination)
• Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2009: Original Score: Video Game - Spore Hero (Nomination)
• Movie Music U.K. Music Awards 2009: Best Score: Game - Spore Hero (Honorable Mention)
• Hollywood Music Awards 2008: Original Score: Video Game - Speed Racer: The Videogame (Nomination)
• Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Interactive Achievement Award: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition (God of War)
• Game Audio Network Guild Award 2005: Music of the Year (God of War)
• Game Audio Network Guild Award 2005: Best Interactive Score (God of War)
• Game Audio Network Guild Award 2005: Best Cinematic / Cut-Scene Audio (God of War)
• Game Audio Network Guild Award 2005: Audio of the Year (God of War)
• GameSpot's Best of 2005: Best Original Music (God of War)
• PAX Gamers: Game of the Year Awards 2005: Best Sound (God of War)
• IGN PS2 Best Original Score (God of War)
• GameZone 2005 Game of the Year Awards: Best Original Score (God of War)
• American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award 2004: Best National Network Drama (Radio Tales)
• American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award 2003: Best National Network Drama (Radio Tales)
• American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award 2001: Best National Network Drama (Radio Tales)
• American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award 1998: Outstanding Achievement by an Actress ("The Yellow Wallpaper", Actress Winifred Phillips)
• The New York Festivals WorldMedal 2004: (Radio Tales)
• Golden Reel Merit Award 2001 (Radio Tales)
• The Audio Publishers Association Audie Award (Nomination)
• G4 TV G-Phoria Award Best Original Soundtrack (Nomination)
• Spike TV Video Game Awards Best Original Score (Nomination)

Video game soundtracks

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (video game)
• The Da Vinci Code (video game)
• God of War (video game)
  God of War (video game)
  God of War is an action adventure video game for the PlayStation 2 first released by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica division in March 2005...
  
  
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (video game)
• LittleBigPlanet 2 (Victoria's Lab & Eve's Asylum Levels)
  LittleBigPlanet 2
  LittleBigPlanet 2 is a puzzle platformer video game, centred around user-generated content. The game is developed by Media Molecule, published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for PlayStation 3 and was originally scheduled for release in November 2010 but was delayed until January 2011...
  
  
• The Maw (video game)
  The Maw (video game)
  The Maw received above average ratings from critics. It currently averages 75 out of 100 on Metacritic for both the Xbox 360 and PC versions. GameRankings reports similar scores of 76.06% for the Xbox 360 and 73.33% for the PC. Accolades came from outlets such as Games Radar and GamePro with...
  
  
• Shrek the Third (video game)
• SimAnimals (video game)
• Speed Racer (video game)
• Spore Hero (video game)
  Spore Hero
  Spore Hero is the Wii spin-off of Spore, developed by Maxis, in which the players focus on creativity and evolution using the unique controls of the Wii...
  
  

The Radio Tales series

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• A Matter of Prejudice
• Apocalypse
• Arabian Nights Trilogy: Aladdin and his Magical Lamp
• Arabian Nights Trilogy: Sindbad the Sailor
• Arabian Nights Trilogy: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• Asteroid
• Beowulf
• The Birthmark
• The Boarded Window
• The Canterville Ghost
• Celtic Hero
• Charles Dickens' Ghost Story
• Chicago 2065
• Chopin's Locket
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Dracula's Guest
• Edgar Allan Poe's Predicament
• Edgar Allan Poe's Valdemar
• Edith Wharton's Journey
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Feet of Clay
• Fifth Dimension
• Fortress of Doom
• Frankenstein
• The Furnished Room
• The German Student
• The Ghost of Wuthering Heights
• The Gift of the Magi
• Gulliver's Travels
• Homer's Odyssey Trilogy: Tale of the Cyclops
• Homer's Odyssey Trilogy: Voyage to the Underworld
• Homer's Odyssey Trilogy: The Voyage Home
• Hop-Frog
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• Ice Maiden
• The Invisible Man
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Jason and the Argonauts
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Laughin' in Meetin'
• The Lone Indian
• Lord of the Celts
• The Lost World
• Masque of the Red Death
• Moon Voyager
• Mrs. Manstey's View
• The Mummy
• A New England Nun
• O. Henry's Last Leaf
• O. Henry's Thanksgiving
• Otherworld
• Owl Creek Bridge
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• Revolt of Mother
• Silence, A Fable
• Sleepy Hollow
• Stephen Crane's Dark Brown Dog
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Time Machine
• Time Warp
• Voltaire's Planet Trek
• War of the Worlds
• Watchers
• The Yellow Wallpaper

External links

• Winifred Phillips' Website
• Winifred Phillips Video Interview at GameSpot.com