Discover all the nominees for the 2024 World Soundtrack Awards!

Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg are a multi award-winning composer team. The siblings were born in Switzerland and grew up in Australia. They are a unique voice in film music with a talent to compose compelling music in different styles for different genres. They have composed original scores for numerous films such as the box office hit The Little Witch, the Oscar nominated short La femme et le TGV and the biopic The Reformer Zwingli for which they received a World Soundtrack Awards nomination for Score of the Year (Public Choice). In 2024 they were nominated for Score of the Year (Movie Music UK Awards) for their score to the US/Irish thriller/western In the Land of Saints and Sinners directed by Academy Nominee Robert Lorenz.

Jerskin Fendrix was raised in the rural county of Shropshire, England, where he learnt violin and piano. In his early twenties, he moved to London and spent two years nurturing a visceral live personality at the iconic South London venue Windmill Brixton. In 2018 he composed the music for an experimental opera UBU, performed at the V&A Museum. The Guardian called the score “brutal" and “unsettling”. He released his debut-album Winterreise in April 2020 via untitled (recs). An “unhinged collection of pop songs”, Loud & Quiet Magazine named it their 2020 Album of the Year.

In 2023, Fendrix scored the motion picture Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It is the first time the director of The Favourite and The Lobster has worked with an original composer. The score was critically acclaimed and received a range of Best Original Score nominations from the Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes and more. The pair have collaborated again on the 2024 feature film Kinds of Kindness.

Carlos Rafael Rivera is a Grammy and two-time Emmy winning composer and educator with a multifaceted career in Film, TV, and the performing arts. His work includes scores for Netflix’s Godless, for which he received a Primetime Emmy, his award-winning score for The Queen’s Gambit, for which he won his second Primetime Emmy and first Grammy Award. Carlos also earned a World Soundtrack Award for this title along with his work on HBO Max’s Hacks.

This past year, Carlos scored the Apple TV series Lessons in Chemistry, starring Brie Larson, for which he received a Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) nomination for score and won for his main title sequence; the Netflix limited series Griselda, starring Sofia Vergara; Bleecker Street's Ezra, starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, and Robert DeNiro; as well as his continued collaborations with writer/director Scott Frank on AMC Network's Monsieur Spade and the Netflix series Department Q. Carlos received a World Soundtrack Awards Television Composer of the Year nomination in 2024.

Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Caroline is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Recent projects include the score to Fleishman in Trouble, vocal work with Rosalía (MOTOMAMI), the score to Josephine Decker’s The Sky is Everywhere, music for the National Theatre’s production of The Crucible (dir. Lyndsey Turner), Justin Peck’s Partita with NY City Ballet, the premiere of Microfictions Vol. 3 for NY Philharmonic and Roomful of Teeth, a live orchestral score for Wu Tsang’s silent film Moby Dick co-composed with Andrew Yee, two albums on Nonesuch (“Evergreen” and “The Blue Hour”), and tours with So Percussion featuring songs from “Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part” (Nonesuch). She has contributed production to albums by Rosalía, Woodkid, and Nas. Her favourite colour is yellow, and her favourite smell is rosemary.

Anthony Willis is a BAFTA-nominated composer, known for his evocative scores for Emerald Fennell’s Oscars winning Promising Young Woman, Blumhouse’s Ai hit M3gan, and Fennell’s latest psychological thriller Saltburn from MGM/Amazon starring Barry Keoghan & Jacob Elordi. He was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Artisans to Watch in 2023 at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. In addition to his two BAFTA nominations, Anthony also received a SCL Award nomination for Saltburn and several World Soundtrack Awards nominations, including Film Composer of the Year in 2024. His recent projects also include Dreamworks' Animation's Annie award-winning How To Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, Seasons 6-8 of Epic's video game sensation Fortnite, and Michelle Morgan’s comedy It Happened in L.A. As a protege of Oscar-nominated composer John Powell and Henry Jackman, Anthony has also contributed additional music to many of Hollywood’s most beloved franchises including: How to Train your Dragon, Jumanji, Wreck it Ralph, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Pirates of the Caribbean and Rio.

Hans Zimmer has scored more than 500 projects across all mediums, which combined have grossed more than 28 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. Zimmer has been honoured with two Academy Awards®, three Golden Globe® Awards, five Grammy® Awards, an American Music Award, and a Tony® Award, as well as six Emmy® nominations. Most recently, Zimmer scored Denis Villeneuve’s critically acclaimed sequel, Dune: Part Two, which premiered in March 2024. The film is the follow-up to the 2021 Hollywood blockbuster Dune, which earned Zimmer his second Academy Award® in the category of Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures. He was recently nominated for three Emmy® Awards on behalf of his work on Planet Earth III and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Zimmer’s additional work highlights include No Time to Die, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, Thelma and Louise, The Last Samurai and Dunkirk, as well as recent film scores including Top Gun: Maverick, Wonder Woman 1984 and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.

Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg are a multi award-winning composer team. The siblings were born in Switzerland and grew up in Australia. They are a unique voice in film music with a talent to compose compelling music in different styles for different genres. They have composed original scores for numerous films such as the box office hit The Little Witch, the Oscar nominated short La femme et le TGV and the biopic The Reformer Zwingli for which they received a World Soundtrack Awards nomination for Score of the Year (Public Choice). In 2024 they were nominated for Score of the Year (Movie Music UK Awards) for their score to the US/Irish thriller/western In the Land of Saints and Sinners directed by Academy Nominee Robert Lorenz.

Professor at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome, composer, conductor, pianist, clarinettist, orchestrator and arranger, Umberto Scipione is a leading exponent of Italian music in the world. He has acquired a prestigious role thanks to his award-winning profession as composer of soundtracks for highly successful films, and to his acclaimed concert performances on a national and international level. He has written soundtracks for over three hundred productions including films, documentaries, short films, fiction, television broadcasts, commercials and radio dramas. He as earned four nominations for the David di Donatello Award, including Best Soundtrack for Benvenuti al Sud, Benvenuti al Nord and Sotto una Buona Stella, and Best Original Song for Benvenuti al Nord. Besides, he also received a Best Soundtrack nomination for the SIAE Music Award for Chi ha incastrato Babbo Natale.

Anthony Willis is a BAFTA-nominated composer, known for his evocative scores for Emerald Fennell’s Oscars winning Promising Young Woman, Blumhouse’s Ai hit M3gan, and Fennell’s latest psychological thriller Saltburn from MGM/Amazon starring Barry Keoghan & Jacob Elordi. He was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Artisans to Watch in 2023 at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. In addition to his two BAFTA nominations, Anthony also received a SCL Award nomination for Saltburn and several World Soundtrack Awards nominations, including Film Composer of the Year in 2024. His recent projects also include Dreamworks' Animation's Annie award-winning How To Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, Seasons 6-8 of Epic's video game sensation Fortnite, and Michelle Morgan’s comedy It Happened in L.A. As a protege of Oscar-nominated composer John Powell and Henry Jackman, Anthony has also contributed additional music to many of Hollywood’s most beloved franchises including: How to Train your Dragon, Jumanji, Wreck it Ralph, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Pirates of the Caribbean and Rio.

Composer Amelia Warner is known for her work on Mary Shelley, Wild Mountain Thyme, Mr. Malcom’s List, and the Jerry Bruckheimer produced Disney film Young Woman and the Sea, starring Daisy Ridley. Her stunning orchestral scores infused with electronic elements have led to several awards, including a Public Choice Award at the World Soundtrack Awards for Mr. Malcolm’s List, Breakthrough Composer of The Year at the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards, and further nominations at the World Soundtrack Awards, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards.

Maclaine Diemer is a Los Angeles based composer for interactive and traditional media. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music and a sixteen year veteran of the game industry, he has worked on some of the highest profile titles across PC and multiple game console generations including ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2, Firmament from legendary development studio Cyan, Inc., makers of Myst and Riven, Harmonix’s Rock Band franchise, Riot Games’ League of Legends, and Amazon Game Studios’ first major original title Crucible.

Bryan Atkinson is a composer with a diverse portfolio across games, films, and media, including the award-winning MMORPG Guild Wars 2, feature film Courageous Love, orchestral work with Youtuber CG5, and a wide range of indie games, documentaries, and other projects. He has a degree in audio production and an MA in composing for video games through the University of Chichester, England.

Bobby Brader is an LA-based composer, orchestrator, arranger, and music director. His credits include: Trolls, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Marvel’s Spider-Man for Playstation, the Guild Wars 2 franchise, and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, at Disneyland and Disney World. You can also hear his music in many Hallmark and Lifetime movies. Bobby is a freelance pianist for ballet and musical theatre.

Based in Los Angeles, Jarryd Elias is a multifaceted composer, orchestrator, conductor, and percussionist. His talents can be heard on projects such as Deadpool 2, Pearl, Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, Strays, and the video game Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure. Collaborating with renowned composers such as Tyler Bates, Tim Phillips, Dara Taylor, Robert Duncan, Timothy Williams, Joanne Higginbottom, Maclaine Deimer, Greg Tripi, and Hummie Mann, Jarryd's skills have been valued by the industry's finest.

Jaimee Jimin Park is a Los Angeles based composer and orchestrator. In 2023, was one of 10 composers selected to present at the Marche du Films, part of the Cannes Film Festival. She has worked with Pete Anthony, orchestrator for Tenet, Fantastic Beasts, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and as a freelance orchestrator for Frozen Planet II, Prehistoric Planet II and more. She has also worked in games on Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure. Jaimee has also been recognized for her work in the concert world, winning second place in the South Korean Contemporary Music Society Competition.

Bobby Rose has been working as a composer in the video game and film industry for over ten years. Based in Los Angeles, he has written music on over seventy projects that can be heard all over the world. Recent credits include Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure, DC Down, and Immuno, as well as numerous feature films.

Michael Paraskevas is a Los Angeles based composer deeply immersed in storytelling through film and visual media. His musical fingerprints can be found across a wide spectrum of genres, including projects such as Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Hawkeye, Frozen II, This World Won’t Break, and the Emmy-nominated score to WandaVision. Michael studied music composition at the University of Tulsa and film scoring at the Seattle Film Institute, where he studied with Hummie Mann. Since then, he has worked closely with distinguished composer, Christophe Beck on many of today’s biggest hits.

Composer, conductor and orchestrator George Strezov has always been passionate about film and game music - he started working when he was merely 15 years old and since then he has made the music for various projects, such as the TV series Durvoto na Zhivota (The Tree of Life) and Na Granitsata (On The Frontier), the critically acclaimed short films Lighthouse Woman and 69, the opening music for 2012's Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship, the documentary series The Path of Human Civilization, video games like Haemimmont Games' Jagged Alliance 3, Stranded: Alien Dawn and Surviving Mars, and many more. He has also written music for theatre, TV, radio, commercials and concert works.

Brandon Boone is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Coming from the world of film and audio-fiction, he began his work in video games when he joined Black Tabby Games in 2020. As resident composer he’s accompanied both Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess. His versatile style matches the diverse landscapes presented by Black Tabby Games; from classical orchestral arrangements, to pulsing industrial sounds, his music is fluid and shapes to fit any narrative.

Acclaimed with three recent Emmy nominations and a win in 2022 for The Reason I Jump, Nainita Desai is also a previous winner of the Camille Award, RTS Award and the 2021 World Soundtrack Awards for Discovery of the Year. Amongst her work on various BAFTA, Academy Award, and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s upcoming projects include the upcoming fantasy adventure series Nautilus for Amazon/Disney+ and the ITV Drama The Tower.

Nainita’s recent projects include James Cameron’s OceanXplorers, the feature film Something In The Water for Studiocanal, and the hit Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible for which she earned a Primetime Emmy nomination. In addition to this, Nainita’s work on the feature The Deepest Breath (A24, Netflix) earned her Critics Choice, HMMA, ASCAP and SCL nominations for Best Original Score. Other notable credits include the Oscar nominated and BAFTA and Cannes winning feature documentary For Sama, along with the Sundance winning film The Reason I Jump and the Emmy nominated score for Body Parts. Recent projects include the BBC action thriller Crossfire and the iconic Call of Duty video game franchise.

ASCAP award-winning and BAFTA-nominated composer Tom Salta is one of the most versatile and prolific music artists/producers working in film, television, advertising, and video games. Renowned for crafting emotionally engaging soundtracks for multimedia, Salta has received widespread industry acclaim for his world-class produced hybrid scores featured in film, television, and video games such as Red Barrels’ The Outlast Trials, Arkane Studios’ Deathloop, Machine Games’ Wolfenstein: Youngblood & Cyberpilot, Microsoft’s iconic Halo series (Best Original Soundtrack Award at Game Developers Conference), Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Red Steel (IGN Award for Best Original Score), Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and H.A.W.X series, as well as the epic theme music for the record-breaking online multiplayer game Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, which has sold more than 75 million units with over 700 million players.

Bjorn Eriksson is a Flemish musician, composer, and producer. He is known as the former guitarist of Zita Swoon and has written numerous songs for the band, such as ‘Maria’ and ‘The Bananaqueen’, together with Stef Kamil Carlens. In 1999, Eriksson collaborated with Stef Kamil Carlens, Aarich Jespers, Koen Augustijnen and Tamayo Okano of Les Ballets C de la B on Plage Tattoo, a dance and music performance that toured Europe. A few years later, in 2001, Eriksson released his first solo project under the name Blitzzega, which showed influences from his old passion for electronic music and New Beat from the late 1980s.

In 2010, Eriksson was asked by Felix Van Groeningen to compose the music for the filmThe Broken Circle Breakdown. The film was a success, and Eriksson received an Ensor for Best Music in 2013. Simultaneously, The Broken Circle Bluegrass Band was formed. The band, which included Eriksson, Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Karl Eriksson, Bert Van Bortel, Nils De Caster, and Tomas De Smet, toured in Belgium and France from 2012 to 2015. Besides The Broken Circle Bluegrass Band, he is currently part of the band Eriksson Delcroix.

Amenra emerged in 1999 from the then booming Flemish straight edge hardcore movement. Musically and thematically, however, the band takes a different approach than most of the scene and produces something that can be described as 'post metal': a style that finds its roots in heavy metal, but in terms of approach is not limited to the conventions of the genre and allows much more experimentation.

Following their first LPs in the early 2000s, they gained increasing interest from the audience with Mass III (2005). With this album Amenra took another step toward becoming a more dynamic band that not only hits the audience with heavy distorted riffs, but also offers relief with clean, healing parts. With the EP Afterlife (2009), that healing side of Amenra is further explored. For the next two albums, Mass V (2012) and Mass VI (2017), the band partnered up with American producer Billy Anderson (Swans, Sleep, Neurosis), who takes Amenra's sound to a new level.

Geert Hellings has been a professional guitar player for about twenty years, working with artists and bands such as Jim White, Stef Kamil Carlens, Guido Belcanto & BRZZVLL. He also fronts and writes the music for his own band Stanton. Hellings made the music for several theatre productions and started composing for film a couple of years ago.

In 2017 he wrote the music for the series Tytgat Chocolat (for Belgian national television channel Eén) and in 2019 he composed the soundtrack for Patrick, Tim Mielants' first feature film. For this score Hellings was nominated for an Ensor and he won the award for Best Score at the Festival International du Film d'Aubagne in 2020. His score for Mielants' second feature film Will was nominated again for an Ensor in early 2024.

Helling’s film scores are characterised by a love for melody and a strong use of thematic material. His music functions as an extra character in the picture, expressing things that are not necessarily seen on screen, always adding an extra layer of meaning to the film.

Alex Mansour is a composer, cellist and jazz pianist. His concert music has been performed by the American Youth Symphony, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the USC Thornton Symphony, among others. He has scored films featured on Netflix, Paramount Plus and Hulu, and has had work programmed at SXSW/Tribeca Film Festival. As a cellist, Alex is an active session musician in Los Angeles (credits on Black Adam, Dungeons and Dragons, The Gilded Age). As a pianist, Alex arranged and played for Arturo Sandoval’s Christmas at Notre Dame album, performing with him at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Alex graduated from USC in 2021 with a master’s in composition, and Notre Dame in 2019 with a bachelor’s in music and film.

Georg Mausolf is a composer and sound designer for audiovisual media, living and working in Berlin, Germany. His body of work spans from blockbusters and trailers for shows like Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla to video game scores and arthouse documentaries. In 2022 he finished his first feature film The Expert at the Card Table, for which he wrote a mischievous orchestral score. His work has been recorded and performed by the German Film Orchestra and the Stoklosa Collective, among others. In 2023, he was awarded second place at the renowned FMF Young Talent Award, hosted by the Krakow Film Music Festival and second place at the Four For Music Scoring Contest.

Florian van der Reijden is a composer and musician from the Netherlands. After graduating in classical piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam, he followed his passion for composition and completed a master's in film composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in collaboration with the Dutch Film Academy. In recent years, he has composed concert music as well as music for film, musicals and games. In 2024, he received the award Best Original Score at the Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille for his score for A Capella in D Minor. As a composer, he enjoys being part of collaborative projects and working with other creative artists.

Jerskin Fendrix was raised in the rural county of Shropshire, England, where he learnt violin and piano. In his early twenties, he moved to London and spent two years nurturing a visceral live personality at the iconic South London venue Windmill Brixton. In 2018 he composed the music for an experimental opera UBU, performed at the V&A Museum. The Guardian called the score “brutal" and “unsettling”. He released his debut-album Winterreise in April 2020 via untitled (recs). An “unhinged collection of pop songs”, Loud & Quiet Magazine named it their 2020 Album of the Year.

In 2023, Fendrix scored the motion picture Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It is the first time the director of The Favourite and The Lobster has worked with an original composer. The score was critically acclaimed and received a range of Best Original Score nominations from the Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes and more. The pair have collaborated again on the 2024 feature film Kinds of Kindness.

Ludwig Göransson has earned extensive global recognition in both the recording and motion picture industries as a sought-out composer and musical collaborator, having received two Academy Awards®, a Golden Globe Award®, a Critics’ Choice Award®, two Emmy® Awards, and three Grammy® Awards, amongst other nominations.

Most recently, Göransson was once again enlisted by acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan to score one of the year’s most anticipated films, Oppenheimer, which has become a box office hit. Göransson earned a 2024 Golden Globe Award® and 2024 Critics’ Choice Award® for the ever-present score, which accompanies nearly every moment of the film, immersing the viewer in sound. The score also earned a 2024 Grammy Award®. Oppenheimer served as the second collaboration for Göransson and Nolan following their work together on the 2020 film Tenet, for which Göransson received critical acclaim for his innovative ways of depicting entropy, palindromic sequences and the very human consequences of time inversion through music in his score.

Oscar nominated, five-time Emmy award winning composer Laura Karpman creates powerful, imaginative scores that push the boundaries of storytelling. Her works span film, television, theater, interactive media and live performance, reflecting an audaciously creative spirit.

2023 was perhaps her most prolific year to date, with six film and TV projects. She scored Amazon MGM's American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown, written, directed and produced by Cord Jefferson, which garnered five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and for which Karpman received her first Oscar nomination for her original score. In addition to that, she scored The Marvels (Disney), Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (HBO Max), for which Karpman was Emmy nominated, What If? (Disney+), Ms. Marvel (Disney+), and 61st Street (The CW). Karpman is a fierce champion for diversity, equity and inclusion in Hollywood, founding the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and serving as the first female Governor in the Music Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Anthony Willis is a BAFTA-nominated composer, known for his evocative scores for Emerald Fennell’s Oscars winning Promising Young Woman, Blumhouse’s Ai hit M3gan, and Fennell’s latest psychological thriller Saltburn from MGM/Amazon starring Barry Keoghan & Jacob Elordi. He was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Artisans to Watch in 2023 at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. His recent projects also include Dreamworks' Animation's Annie award-winning How To Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, Seasons 6-8 of Epic's video game sensation Fortnite, and Michelle Morgan’s comedy It Happened in L.A. As a protege of Oscar-nominated composer John Powell and Henry Jackman, Anthony has also contributed additional music to many of Hollywood’s most beloved franchises including: How to Train your Dragon, Jumanji, Wreck it Ralph, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Pirates of the Caribbean and Rio.

Hans Zimmer has scored more than 500 projects across all mediums, which combined have grossed more than 28 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. Zimmer has been honoured with two Academy Awards®, three Golden Globe® Awards, five Grammy® Awards, an American Music Award, and a Tony® Award, as well as six Emmy® nominations. Most recently, Zimmer scored Denis Villeneuve’s critically acclaimed sequel, Dune: Part Two, which premiered in March 2024. The film is the follow-up to the 2021 Hollywood blockbuster Dune, which earned Zimmer his second Academy Award® in the category of Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures. He was recently nominated for three Emmy® Awards on behalf of his work on Planet Earth III and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Zimmer’s additional work highlights include No Time to Die, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, Thelma and Louise, The Last Samurai and Dunkirk, as well as recent film scores including Top Gun: Maverick, Wonder Woman 1984 and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.

Nick Chuba is a composer living and working in Los Angeles. After studying at USC’s Thornton School of Music, he began working for Atticus Ross and has worked on numerous projects with him since 2014. Most recently, Nick composed the score for the feature film Thelma, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Festival. Other recent credits include Dr. Death (Peacock) and The Girl from Plainville (Hulu) with Leopold Ross,  Appendage (Hulu) and Operation Varsity Blues (Netflix) with Atticus Ross and Leopold Ross.

Known for his work alongside Trent Reznor both in the band Nine Inch Nails and as a film and television scoring duo, Atticus Ross has earned numerous awards and nominations including Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes, Oscars, GRAMMYs, Emmys and BAFTAs. In 2020, Nine Inch Nails was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In addition, he has been honoured by the American Film Institute and the Society of Composers and Lyricists.

Ross received the NAACP Image Award for the soundtrack to the Pixar hit Soul, alongside Reznor and Jon Batiste. Additional credits include The Book of Eli, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Love & Mercy, Gone Girl, Waves, Mank and Bones and All. He also scored Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary Before the Flood, The Vietnam War for PBS and Watchmen for HBO.

Leopold Ross is a musician, producer and composer whose scoring career began with The Hughes brothers’ 2010 film The Book Of Eli. He has gone on to create scores for acclaimed directors such as Michael Mann (Blackhat), Harmony Korine (Rebel) and John Hillcoat (Black Mirror) in his extensive film and television career. Most recently he composed the scores for Bill Pohlad’s Dreamin’ Wild, Apple’s Godzilla franchise Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and FX/Hulu’s Shōgun.

Natalie Holt is a multi-award-winning British composer, known for her two-time Emmy-nominated score for Marvel Studios’ Loki and Loki S. 2, as well as the acclaimed Lucasfilm series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Her film and television credits include the BAFTA Award-winning series Wallander (BBC), Knightfall (History Channel), the BAFTA Award-winning series Three Girls (BBC), mini-series Deadwater Fell, the Emmy Award-nominated series The Honourable Woman (HBO Max), Victoria (PBS), Saul Dibb’s World War I feature Journey's End, Netflix/Claudia Llosa’s drama feature Fever Dream, and Fox’s female super hero feature The Princess, to name just a few.

Natalie’s numerous awards nominations and wins include the Primetime Emmy Awards, World Soundtrack Awards’ “Television Composer of the Year”, BAFTA, SCL Awards, the Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award, the HMMAs, and “Best International Score” at the Beijing International Film Festival.

James Newton Howard is one of the film industry’s most versatile and honoured composers, with a career spanning over thirty years and encompassing more than 140 film and television projects. He is a nine time Oscar nominee, and Emmy and Grammy winner. Howard has also been honoured with ASCAP’s prestigious Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement and the BMI ICON Award.

After scoring his first film, Head Office, in 1985, Howard quickly knew he had found his calling. He has since created the scores for a broad range of films, recently including Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Jungle Cruise, News of the World, Raya and the Last Dragon, A Hidden Life and all four instalments of The Hunger Games franchise. In addition to his contributions to film and television music, Howard has written a number of concert works and, as a record producer, arranger, and songwriter, he has collaborated with some of pop’s biggest names including Elton John and Barbra Streisand.

Coming from a musical background (he is Benjamin Britten’s godson), Martin read drama at Manchester University and fortunately for the acting profession, he decided to concentrate his energies on writing music. Since scoring his first TV drama, Eureka Street in 2002, he has won two BAFTAs, five Ivor Novello Awards and received multiple Emmy nominations for writing music to many of the most interesting series of recent years. These include the BBC’s War and Peace, Hugo Blick’s The Honourable Woman, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror and season 3 through 6 of the acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.

Recently Martin has scored Sir Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, Ed Perkins’ The Princess, and Amazon Studios’ series Solos starring Morgan Freeman. Other film credits include Woman In Gold (scored with Hans Zimmer), starring Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren, Fox Searchlight’s The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Brown and Brighton Rock.

Carlos Rafael Rivera is a Grammy and two-time Emmy winning composer and educator with a multifaceted career in Film, TV, and the performing arts. His work includes scores for Netflix’s Godless, for which he received a Primetime Emmy, his award-winning score for The Queen’s Gambit, for which he won his second Primetime Emmy and first Grammy Award, Universal Pictures’ A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson, the hit show Hacks for HBO Max, Universal’s Chupa, as well as the global hit La reina del sur 3 for Netflix/Telemundo.

This past year, Carlos scored the Apple TV series Lessons in Chemistry, starring Brie Larson, for which he received a Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) nomination for score and won for his main title sequence; the Netflix limited series Griselda, starring Sofia Vergara; Bleecker Street's Ezra, starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, and Robert DeNiro; as well as his continued collaborations with writer/director Scott Frank on AMC Network's Monsieur Spade and the Netflix series Department Q.

Jeff Russo is an Emmy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated composer, scoring varied and compelling music for film, television and video games. Russo’s film credits include, among others, Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Rob Peace, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Bartlett Sher’s Oslo, which he co-scored with Zoë Keating and for which he received an Emmy nomination, and Paul Dektor’s American Dreamer, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. His music can also be heard on shows such as FX’s Fargo, for which Russo received an Emmy in 2017 and four additional nominations, Netflix’s limited series Ripley, Peacock’s Mrs. Davis, HBO Max’s Love and Death, Amazon Prime’s The Consultant, and many more.

In addition to composing music for film and television, Russo is a founding member, lead guitarist and co-songwriter of two-time Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling rock band Tonic. He also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Music for a Video Game for Annapurna Interactive’s What Remains of Edith Finch.

Mark Ronson is an internationally renowned DJ, OSCAR® Winner, and 8x GRAMMY-award winning producer and songwriter. Along with releasing five successful albums under his own name, Ronson’s resume includes production work for some of music’s biggest names, including Adele, Paul McCartney, Miley Cyrus, Duran Duran and more.

Most recently, Ronson served as the executive music producer of the Barbie The Album soundtrack for the 2023 motion picture Barbie. Alongside Andrew Wyatt and Barbie writer/director/executive producer, Greta Gerwig, Ronson also composed the score for the film. Ronson is currently based in New York where he operates his record label, Zelig Records. To date, Ronson has 1 Academy Award, 8 Grammy Awards, 2 Brit Awards, 1 Golden Globe Award, 1 Critics Choice Award and 1 MTV VMA Award to his name.

Dan Wilson is a Minneapolis-born, Los Angeles-based musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and visual artist. Wilson took home an Album of the Year Grammy for Adele’s 21, which featured three of his co-writes (including "Someone Like You"), landed a Song of the Year Grammy for The Chicks' "Not Ready To Make Nice," and was nominated for Best Rock Song for his song “Closing Time” he wrote for his band Semisonic. Wilson, a “songwriters songwriter,” has written with an eclectic range of collaborators including living legends Carole King and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and country artists Chris Stapleton and Tenille Townes.

Most recently, he co-wrote and produced Celine Dion’s “Love Again” from the feature film and soundtrack, as well as “It Never Went Away” from Jon Batiste’s documentary American Symphony.

Jon Batiste is a five-time Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter and composer. Batiste is the subject of Matthew Heineman’s moving documentary American Symphony, which debuted in select theatres and via Netflix in partnership with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground in November 2023.

The documentary, now shortlisted for three Academy Awards (“Documentary Feature,” “Original Song,” and “Original Score”) follows Batiste beginning in early 2022, when he finds himself celebrated with 11 Grammy nominations, including album of the year. Amid that triumph, he is immersed in his most ambitious challenge yet: composing an original symphony for a performance at the storied Carnegie Hall. However, this extraordinary trajectory is upended when his life partner, NYT bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning journalist Suleika Jaouad, learns that her long-dormant cancer has returned. Batiste penned the emotional original song “‘It Never Went Away’ to accompany the project.

Simon Farnaby is a screenwriter, actor and author. He is known for writing Paddington, Paddington 2 and the Wonka film alongside long-term collaborator Paul King. In recent years, he has also written the adaptation of the book The Phantom of the Open (co-written with Scott Murray) into a feature film of the same name, starring Mark Rylance. On the TV side, Simon is known as a long time member of the Them There theatrical production collective, starring in and writing Horrible Histories and the long-running BBC comedy Ghosts.

Neil Hannon is best known as the songwriter and driving force behind the band The Divine Comedy. Over twelve albums (and counting), his trademark orchestral pop, intelligent lyrics and legendary live shows have turned him into something of a national treasure. After two decades, the critically acclaimed album count is at twelve, with songs like “Our Mutual Friend”, “A Lady Of A Certain Age” and “To The Rescue”.

Hannon has written extensively outside of The Divine Comedy. His work for theatre includes a musical adaptation of Swallows and Amazons for the Bristol Old Vic which has since become a perennial favourite both in the UK and internationally. His classical pieces “To Our Fathers In Distress” and “As The Sun Brightens, The Shadows Deepen” were recently performed in Belfast by the Ulster Orchestra and recorded by the BBC for broadcast in 2024. He contributed songs and scores to 2022’s found-footage sci-fi film LOLA, and wrote the original songs for Warner Bros’ hit film musical Wonka (2023), starring Timothée Chalamet.