07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Breaking barriers in Hollywood: Composer Jon Ong worked on Paddington's score
Composer Jon Ong says his proudest work is the 2023 crime thriller The Accidental Getaway Driver. PHOTO: COURTESY OF JON ONG
SINGAPORE – It is a story often heard in Hollywood: A young graduate whose first step on the entertainment career ladder is through a job as an assistant.
After completing his education in film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston, US, in 2011, Jon Ong started as a runner in 2012 for Emmy-winning American composer William Ross, who orchestrated the scores for blockbusters Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (2023) and Avatar: The Way Of Water (2022).
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