english musician, composer and record producer

melodious artist
Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross ( born 16 January 1968 ) is an english musician, songwriter, criminal record producer, composer, and audio mastermind. Along with Trent Reznor, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network in 2010. In 2013, the pair won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their soundtrack to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In 2021, aboard Jon Batiste, they won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for the soundtrack for Pixar ‘s Soul.

Ross began working with Reznor on the latter ‘s english project Tapeworm in 2002. He late worked with Reznor ‘s band Nine Inch Nails, first as a programmer and producer in 2005, and became the lone official extremity of the ring outside of Reznor in 2016 .

early life [edit ]

Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross was born in the Ladbroke Grove sphere of London on 16 January 1968, [ 1 ] the son of Roxana Lampson and Ian Ross. His father was a founder of Radio Caroline. [ 2 ] He has five siblings, including fashion model Liberty Ross and colleague musician Leopold Ross. His parental grandfather was diplomat Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, [ 3 ] his great-grandfather was italian diagnostician and bacteriologist Aldo Castellani, [ 3 ] and his uncle is British-American diarist Charles Glass. [ 2 ] Ross was educated at Eton College, where he was a few years below future UK Prime Ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson, [ 2 ] and late at the Courtauld Institute of Art. [ 4 ]

career [edit ]

music [edit ]

Ross came to notice in the mid-1990s as a programmer for Tim Simenon ‘s Bomb the Bass during the menstruation of the albums Unknown Territory and Clear. He worked on a act of production and remix projects with Simenon, angstrom well as forming a collaborative relationship with Barry Adamson. He programmed The Negro Inside Me and Oedipus Schmoedipus, and produced As Above So Below before forming his own dance band, 12 Rounds, with his wife Claudia Sarne and Adam Holden. They released two albums, Jitterjuice and My Big Hero. A third base full-length album was produced by Trent Reznor, but was ultimately never finished. [ citation needed ] Three songs from that album have since been released on the ring ‘s web site. [ 5 ] Ross moved to the United States in 2000, and as of 2002 was working aboard Reznor for his side project Tapeworm. He has been credited as a producer and/or programmer on the Nine Inch Nails albums With Teeth, Year Zero, Ghosts I–IV ( on which he was a co-writer ), The Slip, and Hesitation Marks. He has worked with Reznor in numerous other capacities, including influence with Saul Williams and Zack de la Rocha, and they co-produced tracks for a reform Jane ‘s addiction with Alan Moulder in 2009. early work has included two co-productions with Joe Barresi, the Loverman EP Human Nurture and Coheed and Cambria ‘s Year of the Black Rainbow, arsenic good as albums for Korn. He has besides produced tracks or created remixes for such artists as Grace Jones, Perry Farrell, and Telepathe. In May 2010, he appeared in a cryptic video recording [ 6 ] and was named as a member of a mysterious plan, [ 7 ] subsequently revealed to be How to Destroy Angels, a collaboration between Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 2016, Ross composed an master score titled ‘The Journey ‘ for FIFA 17 ‘s raw single-player narrative campaign mode. [ 11 ] In 2020, he co-produced and co-wrote one track on Jehnny Beth ‘s To Love Is to Live. In 2021, Ross and Reznor produced and co-wrote Halsey ‘s album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power .

Film and television scores [edit ]

Ross ‘ work in film music began in 2004 when he scored the Hughes Brothers ‘ television series Touching Evil with his wife Claudia Sarne and brother Leopold Ross. He has since provided music for two further Hughes Brothers projects : Allen Hughes ‘ sketch in the movie New York, I Love You, and Ross ‘ first sport film, The Book of Eli ( 2010 ). The latter ‘s score was released through Reprise Records on 12 January 2010. It won at the BMI Awards and earned Ross a nominating speech as “ Discovery of the year ” at the 2010 World Soundtrack Awards. On 1 July 2010, Reznor announced that he and Ross were scoring David Fincher ‘s newfangled movie The Social Network. The film ‘s soundtrack was released on 28 September 2010 and was highly praised. [ 12 ] On 16 January 2011, they won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for their score to The Social Network. [ 13 ] On 27 February, they received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network. Ross and Reznor again collaborated on the soundtrack to Fincher ‘s 2011 movie Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. In 2013, the pair won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack. Ross was slated to work on the 2013 samurai epic 47 Ronin, but was soon replaced by Javier Navarrete. [ 14 ] Ross and Reznor again teamed up with Fincher to score his 2014 movie Gone Girl. In 2016, Ross and Reznor, along with composer Gustavo Santaolalla and the band Mogwai, collaborated to create the score to the documentary film Before the Flood. [ 15 ] In June 2017, Ross, along with Reznor, Maandig, Robin Finck, Joey Castillo, and Alessandro Cortini, appeared as “ The Nine Inch Nails ” in Episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return on Showtime, performing an alternative populate rendition of the song “ She ‘s Gone Away ” which previously appeared on Nine Inch Nails ‘ 2016 EP Not the Actual Events. [ 16 ] In 2021, Reznor, Ross, and Jon Batiste won the Golden Globe for the soundtrack for Soul. [ 17 ]

personal animation [edit ]

Ross and his wife, singer Claudia Sarne, live in Los Angeles.

Works [edit ]

musical scores [edit ]

movie [edit ]

television [edit ]

Video game [edit ]

Year Title Studio(s) Notes
2016 FIFA 17 EA Sports N/A

Nine Inch Nails [edit ]

production [edit ]

Programming [edit ]

References [edit ]

Atticus Ross discography at Discogs