Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, actor, leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. Reznor left Interscope Records in 2007, and is now an independent musician. Reznor began creating music early in his life, and cites his Western Pennsylvania childhood as an early influence. After being involved with a number of synthesizer-based bands in the mid-80s, Reznor gained employment at Right Track Studios and began creating his own music during the studio's closing hours under the moniker Nine Inch Nails. Reznor's first release as Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success, and he has since released seven major studio releases. Outside of Reznor's chief project Nine Inch Nails, he has contributed to many other artists' albums, including Marilyn Manson and Saul Williams. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music." Reznor, in collaboration with Atticus Ross, composed the score for The Social Network, a 2010 theatrical film about the founding of Facebook. The duo won the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score for their collaboration. The soundtrack album was released by The Null Corporation, Reznor's own independent record label. Earlier this year, Reznor announced that the pair would once again be collaborating with David Fincher by composing the score to the US film adaptation of the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, set for release in late 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Trent Reznor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- May 17, 1965 (61)
- New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA
- Actor and composer, also producer
- 37 on MovieCove · 77 credits in all
What are Trent Reznor's films like?
Across their 26 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 22
A split, not a type: Light 7 · Serious 3 · Dark 14
A split, not a type: Grounded 9 · Stylized 7 · Heightened 8
A split, not a type: Gentle 6 · Charged 5 · Intense 13
Steady 9 · Shifting 10 · Whiplash 5
Straight-faced 17 · Some laughs 5 · Funny 2
Slow burn 8 · Even-paced 10 · Relentless 6
A split, not a type: Casual 7 · Engaged 7 · Full focus 10
A split, not a type: Easy watch 5 · Affecting 9 · Heavy 10
A split, not a type: Resolved 12 · Open-ended 8 · Ambiguous 4
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet12
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous9
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Trent Reznor's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 30 of their 37 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (8).
- Nine Inch Nails Live: Beside You in Time (2007) · actor, writer · free
- The Vietnam War (2017) · composer · free
- Citizenfour (2014) · composer · free
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) · thanks · free
- The Social Network (2010) · composer · free
- Man on Fire (2004) · music consultant · free
- Patriots Day (2016) · composer · free
- Bones and All (2022) · composer · free
Subscription and free streaming for Trent Reznor's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
77 credits, 37 with a MovieCove page; 19 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
The Adventures of Cliff Booth (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
After the Hunt(2025)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
Tron: Ares(2025)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
The Gorge(2025)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Queer(2024)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Franchise(2024)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all shows
Challengers(2024)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
The Killer(2023)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Empire of Light(2022)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
Bones and All(2022)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
The Bear(2022)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
22 vs. Earth(2021)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Pixar Popcorn(2021)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all shows
Soul(2020)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Mank(2020)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Waves(2019)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Watchmen(2019)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
Bird Box(2018)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails: Corona Capital Festival, Mexico City (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Mid90s(2018)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails: Live at Mad Cool Festival (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
The Fourth Estate(2018)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows
The Vietnam War(2017)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Nine Inch Nails: Panorama NYC Concert (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
The Black Ghiandola (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Patriots Day(2016)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Before the Flood(2016)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Visions of Harmony (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Nine Inch Nails Live: Tension 2013 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Citizenfour(2014)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Gone Girl(2014)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails - Austin City Limits (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
VEVO Presents: Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Nine Inch Nails : Budweiser Made In America Festival (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Nine Inch Nails: [2013] Reading Festival (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Nine Inch Nails: [2013] Rock 'n' Heim (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Nine Inch Nails: Lollapalooza 2013 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Nine Inch Nails - Live at Fuji Rock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Nine Inch Nails: After All is Said and Done (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
The Social Network(2010)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man(2009)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails: Another Version of the Truth - The Gift (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral Live (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Nine Inch Nails: Live at the Wiltern Theatre (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Nine Inch Nails: Nimes 2009 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Nine Inch Nails: Australia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Nine Inch Nails- Lights In The Sky Tour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Nine Inch Nails - Lights Over South America (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Nine Inch Nails: The Slip - Rehearsals (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails - Toothful Voodooland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Man on Fire(2004)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails: And All That Could Have Been (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Requiem for a Dream(2000)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails: Live At Big Day Out, Sydney 2000 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Nine Inch Nails: Fragility 1.0 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Lost Highway(1997)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails: Further Down The Spiral Tour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Nine Inch Nails Live in San Jose (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Natural Born Killers(1994)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Nine Inch Nails: Woodstock 94 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Broken (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Pigface: Glitch (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Nine Inch Nails: [1990] Live at The Video Bar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
Twin Peaks(1990)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Nine Inch Nails - Live at The Pipeline (Newark, New Jersey) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Light of Day(1987)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Celso: a portrait, a place (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Deep (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Nine Inch Nails - Full Concert - Live at Woodstock '94 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Nine Inch Nails - Live In Newark 89 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Nine Inch Nails - Self Destruct 1994 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
October (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 76 titles, 69 of them dated from 1987 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Gone Girl (2014)
Highest rated
Nine Inch Nails Live: Beside You in Time (2007)
Most popular right now
Soul (2020)
Film career
- 2025Screen debut· TRON: Ares
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
2 Oscars, a Primetime Emmy, 3 Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award and 9 other major awards from 42 major nominations, 1993–2026.
- Grammy Award, won · Best Rock Song
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Song Written for Visual Media
- Golden Globe, won · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
+2 other major bodies · 1 win and 2 nominations
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Critics Choice Award, won · Best Score
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Song
- Venice award, won · Best Soundtrack
- Grammy Award, won · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Oscar, won · Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
- Oscar, nominated · Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
- Golden Globe, won · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award, won · Original Score
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Original Score
+1 other major body · 1 win and 1 nomination
- Critics Choice Award, won · Best Score
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Score
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
+2 other major bodies · 2 nominations
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Score
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
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- Grammy Award, won · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award, nominated
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Score
- Oscar, won · Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
- Golden Globe, won · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
+1 other major body · 1 win
- Critics Choice Award, won · Best Score
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Rock Instrumental Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Hard Rock Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Hard Rock Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Metal Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Hard Rock Performance
- Grammy Award, won · Best Metal Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Rock Song
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Performance
- Grammy Award, won · Best Metal Performance
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Trent Reznor's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 86th percentile, the median of all 29; across their 24 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 84th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up23
- 50th to 74th8
- 25th to 49th6
Shape of the crowd
14 of their 37 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved14
- Crowd Pleaser14
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed8
Reviewers score the acting 76/100 in their films, across 20 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 55. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Trent Reznor's work okay for kids?
Across up to 17 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Trent Reznor work with?
People who share at least 2 of Trent Reznor's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Atticus Ross shares the most, 21.
Directors
- Luca GuadagninoShared titles: After the Hunt (2025), Challengers (2024), Queer (2024), Bones and All (2022)See all 4 shared titles with Luca Guadagnino
- David FincherShared titles: The Killer (2023), Mank (2020), Gone Girl (2014), The Social Network (2010)See all 4 shared titles with David Fincher
- Sam MendesShared titles: The Franchise (2024), Empire of Light (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Sam Mendes
Writers
- Justin KuritzkesShared titles: Challengers (2024), Queer (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Justin Kuritzkes
Actors
- Andrew GarfieldShared titles: After the Hunt (2025), The Social Network (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Andrew Garfield
- Ayo EdebiriShared titles: After the Hunt (2025), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Ayo Edebiri
- Chloë SevignyShared titles: After the Hunt (2025), Bones and All (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Chloë Sevigny
- Michael StuhlbargShared titles: After the Hunt (2025), Bones and All (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Stuhlbarg
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Atticus RossShared titles: After the Hunt (2025), The Gorge (2025), Tron: Ares (2025), Challengers (2024), Queer (2024), The Franchise (2024), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), The Killer (2023), Bones and All (2022), Empire of Light (2022), 22 vs. Earth (2021), If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (2021) and 9 moreSee newest 12 of 21 shared titles with Atticus Ross
- Marco CostaShared titles: After the Hunt (2025), Challengers (2024), Queer (2024), Bones and All (2022)See all 4 shared titles with Marco Costa
- Kirk BaxterShared titles: The Killer (2023), Mank (2020), Gone Girl (2014), The Social Network (2010)See all 4 shared titles with Kirk Baxter
- Jeff CronenwethShared titles: Tron: Ares (2025), Gone Girl (2014), The Social Network (2010)See all 3 shared titles with Jeff Cronenweth
Producers
- Ceán ChaffinShared titles: The Killer (2023), Mank (2020), Gone Girl (2014), The Social Network (2010)See all 4 shared titles with Ceán Chaffin
- Lorenzo MieliShared titles: Challengers (2024), Queer (2024), Bones and All (2022)See all 3 shared titles with Lorenzo Mieli
- Davide LuchettiShared titles: Queer (2024), Bones and All (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Davide Luchetti
- Julie PastorShared titles: The Franchise (2024), Empire of Light (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Julie Pastor
Mixed roles
- Ariel SchulmanShared titles: Queer (2024), Before the Flood (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Ariel Schulman
- Kevin NoltingShared titles: 22 vs. Earth (2021), Soul (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Kevin Nolting
- Pete DocterShared titles: Pixar Popcorn (2021), Soul (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Pete Docter
