Discover all 2023 World Soundtrack Awards nominees!

Dascha Dauenhauer has been working as a film composer since 2015, collaborating on numerous feature films, such as Jibril by Henrika Kull, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018, along with Burhan Qurbani’s celebrated work, Berlin Alexanderplatz in 2020. Dauenhauer also scored the music for Evolution by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2021.

Dascha Dauenhauer won numerous awards, including in 2022 the prestigious Best Music Award for the series Souls at the Cannes International Series Festival. Most recently, Dascha composed the music for the series The Swarm, which premiered in February 2023 at the Berlin International Film Festival as well as the film Golda, starring Helen Mirren, directed by Guy Nattiv.

Simon Franglen's many music contributions include being a top line session musician and record producer in Los Angeles and has worked with artists including Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Quincy Jones, and Celine Dion. He created the gritty electronica for Howard Shore's score to David Fincher's Se7en and David Cronenberg's Crash, produced the vocals for Moulin Rouge, and programmed for The Bodyguard soundtrack.

He is well-known for his long-time collaboration with James Horner as arranger and score producer on films such as Avatar, The Amazing Spider-Man and Titanic. Simon Franglen also produced and further composed the music throughout Pandora - The World of Avatar which opened at Walt Disney World in Florida in May 2017, taking over duties from James Horner after his tragic death.

Formed in 2001, Japanese four piece band RADWIMPS made their major label debut in 2005. Soon after, they garnered a broad fan base, with the younger generation at the core. The band has released nine studio albums thus far. They have created the music for Makoto Shinkai’s record-breaking animated feature films Your Name and Weathering with You, which led to recognition at the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Original Score.

Most recently, RADWIMPS have also teamed up with highly acclaimed film music composer Kazuma Jinnouchi to create the perfect soundtrack and score for award winning auteur director Makoto Shinkai’s latest film Suzume. The soundtrack by RADWIMPS and Kazuma Jinnouchi recently received Best Music at 46th Japan Academy Award. Their musical activities go far beyond Japan, including touring extensively around the world.

Kazuma Jinnouchi is known for his creative and innovative approach to music composition and his portfolio includes a diverse range of titles, spanning across multiple genres and platforms. He has worked on several notable video game titles, including the critically acclaimed Halo 5: Guardians, for which he was nominated for BAFTA Games Awards’ Best Music category, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and most recently, Marvel’s IronMan VR.

Despite his success in the gaming industry, Jinnouchi's talents extend beyond the world of video games. He has also composed music for several films, including the Japanese animated fantasy adventure Suzume, which won Best Music at The 46th Japan Academy Film Prize Awards, Disney+’s Star Wars Visions: the Ninth Jedi, Netflix’s Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 and ULTRAMAN.

Herdís Stefánsdóttir is a composer of music for multimedia, a songwriter, and an electronic musician. Her compositional endeavors - installations in museums, dance, theater, and a successful electronic music duet she is a part of - are establishing her as an expansive artist.

Herdís Stefánsdóttir graduated with an MA in film scoring from New York University in 2017. Since graduation she has scored three feature films, the most recent one is M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at The Cabin. She won the 2022 Icelandic Music Award for her score to the FX series Y: the Last Man. Other Scoring work includes Apple TV+’s The Essex Serpent, co-scored with Dustin O’Halloran, starring Claire Daines and Tom Hiddleston. Herdís releases and produces her solo work under artist name Kongulo, she is currently working on her first record.

Colin Stetson’s recorded output, not to mention studio and live collaborations - with, among others, Lou Reed, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Chemical Brothers and Bon Iver - has proven as prolific as its praiseworthy. Since the 21st century's early years, he’s gained a well-deserved reputation as an exceptional musician. Known for assertive, powerhouse performances on the saxophone, chiefly bass and alto, but also soprano, tenor and baritone, he’s similarly at home on clarinet, flute, French Horn and cornet.

He made contributions to other artists’ recordings, not least Tom Waits’, but it wasn’t until 2007 that his breakthrough album, New History Warfare Vol. 1, was released. His striking and diverse contributions to film, TV and game scores include 2018’s Hereditary and 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Menu.

Michelino Bisceglia is a renowned Belgian composer of Italian origin. Born in 1970, Bisceglia has a diverse musical background and has been associated with a range of musical genres, from jazz to film soundtracks. He scored the Netflix series Thieves of the Wood. In addition, Bisceglia has composed the music for several exhibitions, including the highly acclaimed Claude Monet Immersive Experience.

He has won several awards for his work in film music, including the World Soundtrack Award Public Choice in 2014 for Marina by Stijn Coninx. He was nominated for another World Soundtrack Award in 2022 for the animation drama Charlotte, which starred Keira Knightly. Bisceglia is set to score the upcoming film Sleep by Jan-Willem van Ewijk.

Neo-classical composer Amelia Warner is known for her work on Mary Shelley, Wild Mountain Thyme, for which she was nominated for a World Soundtrack Award, and the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer produced film Young Woman and the Sea, starring Daisy Ridley. In 2022, she wrote a contemporary classical score for the period romantic comedy Mr. Malcolm’s List.

Her first career was as an actress, following in her mother Annette Ekblom’s footsteps, but quickly realized she was on the wrong side of filmmaking. Her debut major scoring project was the short film Mam which won several awards and led to her first feature-film composition, for 2016's Mum’s List, starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox.

Daniel Pemberton is een Academy Award-genomineerde en Emmy-winnende componist die in 2021 werd uitgeroepen tot Film Composer of the Year door zowel de World Soundtrack Awards als de internationale filmmuziekrecensentenvereniging IFMCA. Zijn werk omvat zowel bekroonde blockbuster-films als Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Birds of Prey, Enola Holmes en Ocean's Eight als veelgeprezen documentaires zoals The Rescue en de krachtige Paralympics documentaire Rising Phoenix. Hij werd genomineerd voor een BAFTA voor zijn score voor Aaron Sorkins Being The Ricardos.

Recent werk omvat de Dreamworks-animatiefilm The Bad Guys, Brian And Charles van Focus Features en de Apple TV-serie Slow Horses, waarvoor hij ook samen met de legendarische Mick Jagger het titelthema "Strange Game" schreef.

Fabrizio Mancinelli is an Italian-American composer, songwriter, and conductor. His impressive list of clients and collaborators includes The Walt Disney Studios, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and NBC. He has written the score for notable titles like Disney’s Growing Up with Nine Old Men, Universal’s The Snow Queen 4: Mirrorlands, and the feature thriller Coyote Lake.

He has conducted, for colleague Kris Bowers, the orchestral recordings for Green Book, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Space Jam 2 and King Richard. Most recently, Fabrizio wrote original music and lyrics for the musical feature film The Land of Dreams, which features an extensive orchestral score and ten original songs, for which he provided both music and lyrics.

Mark Smythe is a New Zealand-born, LA-based composer, pianist and guitarist. His score for the Hulu shark hit The Reef: Stalked was nominated in the 2023 SCL Awards. He frequently collaborates with horror master Chris Sun (Boar, Charlie's Farm), most recently on 2021's The Possessed.

Mark Smythe balances film work with contemporary classical projects, and has composed commissioned works for harpist Helen Webby, chamber ensemble Baroque Voices and Nikau Harp Trio. He's written several innovative pieces for Choir and Electric Guitar, including "Alone (A Demon in My View)", premiered by LA Choral Lab in April 2023. Mark made his concert conducting debut with Bulgaria’s Rousse Philharmonic in 2017. He's currently part-time Faculty at CSUN Department of Music.

Narayana Johnson is Audio Director at Massive Monster. He scored and produced the award winning music for Cult Of the Lamb along with working on voice overs, atmospheres and many of the SFX. He also has a background in pop music as one half of Willow Beats. He has toured Australia multiple times and played festivals such as Splendour in the Grass and Falls Festival. He has played support for Tash Sultana, Flume, Alison Wonderland and more.

Maclaine Diemer is a Los Angeles based composer for interactive and traditional media. With fifteen years of experience in games, he has worked on some of the highest profile titles across multiple game console generations as well as PC. An insatiably curious musician and multi-instrumentalist, he works in a wide variety of styles. Whether performing stripped down arrangements of his Guild Wars 2 score at the first Twitchcon or conducting a full orchestra in Boca del Rio, Mexico, Maclaine lives to carry the torch for game music all over the world. Notable credits include Firmament from Cyan Worlds, Harmonix’s Rock Band franchises, Riot Games’ League of Legends and Amazon Game Studios’ first major original title Crucible.

Following a degree in Maths and studying sound for film, Nainita began her career as a sound designer on feature films for directors including Werner Herzog and Bertolucci, as well as assistant music engineering for Peter Gabriel.

Her recent projects include the hit Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, Oscar winning feature The Deepest Breath, the Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning documentary For Sama, The Reason I Jump, an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity, and the iconic Call of Duty video game franchise for Activision. Upcoming projects include crime drama The Tower for Apple TV+ as well as premium shows for James Cameron / National Geographic and a video game for EA Originals.

Greg Nicolett has scored four Disney animated series, including Pupstruction. His work with Disney drew the ear of Aryo Jati Darmawan, who sought a Pixar-inspired aesthetic for the video game Potionomics. The resulting score is Greg Nicolett’s most ambitious to date, featuring over 80 musicians and soloists performing more than two hours of music across multiple genres.

His past projects include a neo-noir score for the mobster feature Chicago Overcoat and additional music for Smallville. He has composed scores for over 40 short films, including the Sundance film Above and Beneath, the Ridley Scott Parallel Lines winner Porcelain Unicorn, and The New Yorker’s Adams, starring Patton Oswalt and Fred Armisen.

Grant Kirkhope is a BAFTA nominated British composer who has created the soundtrack for many video games, including Golden Eye, Donkey Kong, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Civilization: Beyond Earth, Perfect Dark and Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse.

He has worked on Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Yooka Laylee, Dropzone, Ghostbusters, and in 2020-2021 on World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and Minecraft Dungeons. He is also the composer of the infamous “Donkey Kong Rap” from the Nintendo video game Donkey Kong 64. He has recently scored the feature film The King’s Daughter starring Pierce Brosnan and William Hurt, for which he received a World Soundtrack Public Choice Award in 2022.

Dirk Brossé, an internationally acclaimed conductor and award-winning composer, is currently Music Director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Artistic Director of Prima La Musica, and music director of The World Soundtrack Academy at Film Fest Gent. He has composed some 600 works, including concert works, concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works.

He has also composed extensively for cinema, television and stage. His score for the BBC/HBO series Parade's End was nominated for an Emmy. His score for the film Knielen was nominated for Het Gouden Kalf. He wrote the scores for the musicals Prince of Africa, Daens, Tintin, Rembrandt, Ben X, Pauline & Paulette, 14-18, Scrooge and Daens 2.0. Dirk Brossé’s recent score for the documentary Onze natuur was nominated for an Ensor Award.

Hannes De Maeyer is one of Belgium's most versatile composers, best known for his collaboration with director duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Rebel, Gangsta, Black). He was awarded Best Original Score for a Belgian Production at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2020 for his impressive symphonic score to Belgian war epic Torpedo.

Other recent projects include Rafaël, the Dutch romantic drama by filmmaker Ben Sombogaart, German feature Immenhof, an immensely popular youth film by Sharonvon Wietersheim, as well as De Stig, a moving documentary about cyclist Stig Broeckx. In 2022, De Maeyer collaborated with Moroccan artist Oum & the film’s main actor and rapper Aboubakr Bensaihi on the score for Adil & Bilall’s internationally acclaimed musical tragedy Rebel.

Valentin Hadjadj collaborated for a first time with director Lukas Dhont on the short film L'Infini This highly acclaimed film was rewarded at many festivals and sealed an artistic and friendly bond between the young composer and director. They collaborated again for Dhont’s splendid film Girl, which won dozens of international prizes, including the Caméra d'Or and the prize for Best Actor (Un Certain Regard) at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and for Close, the second feature film by Lukas Dhont, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Among his most recent scores are Peter Mackie Burns' British film Rialto, and Fabienne Berthaud's Un Monde Plus Grand.

Born in 1998 in the Paris Region, Emma Kélalèche started to play violin at the age of six before she decided to take piano lessons and to write songs. After graduating from law school and obtaining her violin prize at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, she has received unanimously at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon in Gilles Alonzo’s class of film scoring. Since then, she continues to work on her artistic solo project as amour, Roma and to follow her film scoring education.

Emile Cooper Leplay is a multi-instrumentalist composer. Laureate 2019 of the Emergence challenge, he has since composed the music of short films such as Sorry For the Inconvenience by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit, Pour un zeste d’amour by Hadrien Krasker & Mathieu Boukenhove, Luciole by Lucie Pagès and Solz by Brice Vincent. He is also the singer/guitarist in the alternative rock band LIQR. He has composed the soundtrack of 30 short films and released one compilation album Construction - Music for Short Films (2014-2021).He also has released two EPs with his band LIQR: The Dawn of Orion (2020) and & Aurora (2022).

Alec Sievern is a composer for both media and the classical stage. He is best known for his additional music on hit series such as Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte, and Marvel’s Secret Invasion. He has also gained a following with his solo piano works. The most popular of which, “Prelude No.1”, marks the beginning of his most recent venture, 8 Preludes For Solo Piano. Graduating in 2017 from The University of Notre Dame with a degree in Mathematics, Sievern decided to use his extensive experience as a concert pianist to approach the world of composition instead.

In 2018, he moved to Los Angeles, where he attended USC’s Screen Scoring Program. There, he was awarded the Betty Rose Award & Scholarship. Currently, Alec Sievern works as a writer for composer Kris Bowers as he also continues his solo concert work.

Volker Bertelmann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician. In 2023 he won a BAFTA and Oscar in the Best Original Score category for All Quiet on the Western Front. His score for Lion, which he composed in collaboration with Dustin O’Halloran, was nominated for multiple awards, including Oscar for Best Original Score. He has provided music for several leading films and tv series, including for Patrick Melrose, The Old Guard, Stowaway, the episode “Red Book” from Black Mirror, and the 2020 film Ammonite, co-composed with O’Halloran, which received a spot on the Academy Awards shortlist for Best Original Score.

A uniquely innovative pianist, who in his solo work goes by the name Hauschka, Bertelmann has worked with, among others, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was the artist in residence, and the Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn.

Carter Burwell has composed the music for over 90 feature films, including Raising Arizona, Being John Malkovich, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (BAFTA Nominee), In Bruges, Carol (Nominee for Best Original Score Oscar and Golden Globe), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Oscar and Golden Globe nominated, won British Independent Film Award), The Tragedy of Macbeth and most recently Catherine Called Birdy by Lena Dunham and The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh for which he received Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Upcoming projects include Drive-Away Dolls directed by Ethan Coen, written by Coen and Tricia Cooke and starring Margaret Qualley.

For television, Burwell wrote the music for Apple’s The Morning Show. He also worked with Todd Haynes on HBO’s mini-series Mildred Pierce for which he won an Emmy.

Academy Award winning Hildur Guðnadóttir is an Icelandic composer, cello player, and singer who has been manifesting herself at the forefront of experimental pop and contemporary music. Her work for Film and Television includes Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Tom of Finland, Journey’s End, and Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix, for which she won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Alongside the critically acclaimed HBO series Chernobyl, for which she received a Primetime Emmy award and a Grammy Award.

Among others Hildur Guðnadóttir has performed live and recorded music with Skúli Sverrisson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, múm, Sunn O))), Pan Sonic, Hauschka, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, The Knife, Fever Ray and Throbbing Gristle. In 2018 Hildur was nominated for a Discovery of the Year Award in Ghent and received several other prestigious awards.

In a career spanning more than six decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music for more than one hundred films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Memoirs of a Geisha, Home Alone and The Book Thief.

His nearly 50-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan and The Post.

Daniel Pemberton is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning composer who was named Film Composer of the Year in 2021 by both the World Soundtrack Awards and the international film music critics association IFMCA. His credits include both award-winning blockbuster films such as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Birds of Prey, Enola Holmes and Ocean’s Eight as well as acclaimed documentaries such as The Rescue and the powerful Paralympics documentary Rising Phoenix. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his score to Aaron Sorkin’s Being The Ricardos.

Recent work includes the Dreamworks animation film The Bad Guys, Focus Features' Brian And Charles and the Apple TV series Slow Horses for which he also co-wrote the title theme “Strange Game” with the legendary Mick Jagger.

Composer, orchestrator and conductor, two times Academy Award winner, Alexandre Desplat, eleven-times Academy Award Nominee, with over hundred scores and numerous awards to his credit is one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters.

In 2007 he received his first Academy Award nomination for Stephen Frears’ The Queen. His other scores include Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tom Hooper’s The King's Speech for which he won a BAFTA and a Grammy and received his fourth Academy Award nomination, David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, Part 1 & 2, Terence Malik’s Tree of Life, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which earned him a BAFTA, a Grammy and his first Oscar, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women. In 2018, Alexandre Desplat won his second Academy Award, second Golden Globe and third BAFTA for Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water.

Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated composer, pianist, and producer Nicholas Britell is known for his critically-acclaimed scores, including those for Adam McKay’s 2021 Don’t Look Up, Barry Jenkins’ 2018 If Beale Street Could Talk and Jenkins’ 2017 Academy Award Best Picture winner Moonlight. He wrote the score for Adam McKay’s The Big Short, which marked the start of his collaboration with the Academy Award-winning writer-director.

He went on to win the Film Composer of the Year at the WSA in 2019. Britell’s upcoming film projects include writing the score for Jenkins’ The Lion King for Walt Disney Pictures. For television, Britell scores HBO's Succession, for which he won an Emmy in 2019. Britell’s score and main title theme have become some of the most talked about music for television.

Award-winning composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer is a classically trained musician, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist. In 2011 he scored his first mini-series, Marc Munden's The Crimson Petal and the White, which was nominated for a BAFTA. He went on to score many award-winning cult series such as Utopia, Humans, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Crazy Diamond, which earned him an Emmy-nomination. His music for the C4 mini-series National Treasure earned him a BAFTA.

His music for the season 4 finale of Netflix' dark sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror: Black Museum put him further on the international scoring map. His first feature film The Girl with all the Gifts opened the Locarno Film Festival. He won in the Best Original Music category at the 24th Festival International du Film Fantastique Gérardmer and the film also won the Public Choice Award. His outstanding tribal score for Mike White's The White Lotus (HBO), lightened up the days for audiences during the pandemic and has been widely acclaimed since. The three time Emmy-nominated composer has received awards from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada and the Royal Television Society.

Kim is a made-in-Germany musician living in Montreal, Canada. She studied classical piano and jazz harmony in Berlin, where she also became a licensed event manager in the 2000’s. As Cristóbal Tapia de Veer’s long time collaborator and second pair of ears, she has assisted him working on many of his projects such as Série Noire, Humans, Jamaica Inn, The Third Day and Hunters. The duo also teamed up for the music of the second season of The White Lotus.

Chris Bacon is a three-time Emmy nominated composer who co-composed the uniquely macabre score for the Netflix smash-hit series Wednesday. He earned one of his Emmy nomination for his underscore for Bates Motel. Other recent credits include co-composing the score for the blockbuster Men In Black: International, and two episodes of the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events. His feature film credits include Sherlock Gnomes, co-composing the score for Disney’s Gnomeo and Juliet. He has also composed the scores for several attractions in Disney theme parks around the world.

Chris first cut his teeth as a protégé of James Newton Howard – writing additional music on films like King Kong and Nanny McPhee Returns. Since then he has collaborated with Danny Elfman on films including Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Disney’s adventure remake Dumbo, David O. Russell’s Academy Award-nominated American Hustle, and Paddington.

For over 30 years, four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman has established himself as one of the most versatile and accomplished film composers in the industry. He has worked with directors such as Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, Noah Baumbach, Gus Van Sant, Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, Rob Minkoff, Guillermo del Toro, Brian De Palma, James Ponsoldt and David O' Russell. During his career, Elfman received four Oscar nominations, two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, among others. He has written music for more than 100 films, including: Milk (Oscar nominated), Good Will Hunting (Oscar nominated), Big Fish (Oscar nominated), Men in Black (Oscar nominated), Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, The Grinch, Silver Linings Playbook, and Noah Baumbach's film White Noise.

In addition to his film work, he wrote the iconic theme music for the television series The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives.

Emmy and BAFTA award-winning composer Bear McCreary began his career as a protégé of legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, before bursting onto the scene scoring the influential and revered series Battlestar Galactica in 2004. Since then, McCreary has been a four-time Emmy nominee and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme for Da Vinci’s Demons, a musical palindrome that sounds the same forwards and backwards.

Recent projects include the Amazon Original hit series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Foundation for Apple TV+, the Sony and Starz international hit series Outlander, Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Films’ 10 Cloverfield Lane, global phenomenon The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the video game Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge for Disney.

Two-Time Oscar winning multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and composer, Gustavo Santaolalla is recognized as one of the most highly acclaimed and prolific contemporary Argentine musicians. In the mid-nineties, he created his own record label Surco and has produced more than 100 albums by some of Latin-America’s most relevant alternative musicians. Santaolalla has won 2 Grammys and 19 Latin Grammys. He has written music for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros and Babel, Walter Salles’ Motorcycle Diaries, and Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, for which he received his first Oscar and a Golden Globe. He went on to work on tv series such as Jane the Virgin and Narcos: México.

In 2013, Santaolalla created the music for The Last of Us, one of the most successful video games in history. Following the release of The Last of Us II, Santaolalla was invited by Neil Druckmann to score the HBO series based on the beloved videogame.

David Fleming is an American composer who has written music for film and tv including most recently, The Last Of Us for HBO and The Night Logan Woke Up, a new miniseries by Xavier Dolan. He contributed music to major films including Divergent and the Transformers series. He composed the score for the BBC's internationally acclaimed Blue Planet II alongside Hans Zimmer, which marked the start of a collaborative relationship, encompassing scores for films such as Disney’s The Lion King (2019), Dune (2021) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022).

Through his soundtrack work, David has also collaborated with popular recording artists such as Elton John, Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams and Beyoncé, with whom he worked on the Grammy-nominated song "Spirit", for The Lion King soundtrack. David Fleming is currently composing the score for the Netflix feature Damsel, starring Millie Bobbie Brown.