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The Bible: a history started on Channel 4 Sunday, 24th Jan, at 7 pm and it will be on every week till mid March (7 episodes)

The Queen will start on ABC (US) early 2010

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January 10 - starting work on a 1 hour documentary for Channel 4 about the C-17 Globemaster missions in Afghanisthan

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November 09 - scoring 7 part series The Bible: a history for Channel 4, writing additional
                        music for the second BBC series of Merlin, scoring 3 part BBC documentary about the Great Ormond Street Hospital
                        and also working on The Living Artist for ABC Australia
       

August 09 - As final proof that no one reads this website anyway, Miguel has just been asked to
                    score a 7 part series for Channel 4 about the history of the Bible and a documentary for ABC network

June 09 - Miguel has been asked to score a 3 part documentary for BBC 2
                   and has now closed shop to new commissions until further notice

May 09  - Miguel started scoring a 1 hour documentary about the world oldest mums for Channel 4

April 09 - Miguel started scoring 5 part docu drama The Queen for Channel 4

March 09 - Victorian Sex Explorer wins Royal Television Society award for Best history documentary  

March 09 - Miguel started scoring a 2 hour documentary about Byron for Channel 4

January 2009 - Miguel has also started work on a new 2 part documentary for PBS NOVA (US).
The Making Of a Doctor, is an incredible 2 hour journey that follows the lives of 7 doctors, from the day
they got into Harvard Medical School in 1987 untill the present day.

October 08 - Miguel is scoring a couple of episodes of BBC one's new drama Merlin and has also been
comissioned to score a series of 4 documentaries for BBC two.

20th June - SOLSTICE art installation opens in London -  Classic FM interview

June 08 - Miguel is scoring a BBC documentary about the hair trade and has been comissioned to write the
score for another Ch4 doc (First Cut strand)

May 08 - Miguel has just scored The Victorian Sex Explorer, a documentary for Channel 4
presented by Rupert Everett, about British Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton

February 08 - Miguel is presently score producing and orchestrating the soundtrack for Michael Winterbottom's
latest feature film, Genova.

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"one of the most inventive and creative horror scores I have heard in a long while"
"this is a real winner and
the boundless creativity exhibited by Miguel d’Oliveira never fails to impress me each time I listen"

Michael Beek in Music From The Movies

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For The Love OF God wins best student animated short at  Palm Springs International ShortFest

For The Love Of God wins BEST ANIMATION at Santa Barbara Film Festival

For The Love Of God wins the SILVER HUGO at Chicago International Film Festival

For The Love Of God wins the GRAND PRIZE at Rhode Island International Film Festival

For The Love Of God selected for Sundance 2008 , AFI Fest 2007 , Brief Encounters 2007,
Austin Film Festival 2007 and Cinanima 2007

The Toybox selected for Full Moon Horror Film Festival, USA 2007

For The Love Of God selected for Telluride Film Festival 2007

Immeasurable selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival

For The Love Of God nominated for the Cinefondation award at Cannes Film Festival 2007