---
name: "Nigel Westlake"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nigel-westlake"
fi1m_id: "nigel-westlake"
imdb_id: "nm0922806"
tmdb_id: 58065
wikidata_id: "Q16192988"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "6 September 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:04:46.856080+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nigel Westlake

## Identity

Nigel Westlake

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nigel-westlake
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nigel-westlake
- **IMDb ID:** nm0922806
- **TMDB ID:** 58065
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16192988
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Westlake, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16192988, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58065

Composer. Born 6 September 1958 in Perth.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 6 September 1958, Perth
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Westlake, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16192988, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58065

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Babe*](https://film.one/film/babe.md) (88)

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## Biography

Nigel Westlake is an Australian composer, conductor and musician. He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake, principal clarinettist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and left school early to pursue a performing career. He toured as a freelance clarinettist, bass clarinettist and saxophonist with orchestras, ballet companies and ensembles, later becoming a resident member of the Australia Ensemble from 1987 to 1992. He was appointed composer-in-residence for ABC Radio National in 1984 and studied composition and bass clarinet in the Netherlands.

Westlake is best known for his film scores, including *Babe* (1995), for which he won APRA and Film Critics Circle of Australia awards, its sequel *Babe: Pig in the City* (1998), *Miss Potter* (2006), *Paper Planes* (2014), *Ali's Wedding* (2017) and *Blueback* (2022). He has also scored several IMAX documentaries, such as *Antarctica* (1991), and numerous television projects. His concert works have received commissions from major Australian orchestras, and he has conducted the New York Philharmonic.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, abc.net.au.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Babe* (1995), Fi1m 88, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/babe.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Blueback* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Ali's Wedding* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Paper Planes* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Miss Potter* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Horseplay* (2003), Music, Original Music Composer
- *The Nugget* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Solarmax* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Babe: Pig in the City* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Children of the Revolution* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Wild Australia: The Edge* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Babe* (1995), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/babe.md)
- *Backsliding* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Candy Regentag* (1989), Music

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won

- Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize 2019: Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize (won)
- ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album 2017: ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album (won)
- ARIA Award for Best Classical Album 2014: ARIA Award for Best Classical Album (won)
- Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize 2013: Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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