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Atticus Ross

Atticus Ross

Composer, also producer · Born January 16, 1968 (58) · Ladbroke Grove, London, England, UK

2 Oscars · Primetime Emmy winner · 3 Golden Globes · 4 other major award bodies

Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross (born 16 January 1968) is an English musician, record producer, composer, and audio engineer. 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, alongside 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 side project Tapeworm in 2002. He later worked with Reznor's band Nine Inch Nails, first as a programmer and producer in 2005, and became the only official member of the band outside of Reznor in 2016. Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails in 2020.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
January 16, 1968 (58)
From
Ladbroke Grove, London, England, UK
Works as
Composer, also producer
Titles
48 on MovieCove · 55 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Down 42% in 30 days

What are Atticus Ross' films like?

Across their 34 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Genres

Action7 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 70th percentile
: browse their Action movies
Biography5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 75th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies
Drama5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 77th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies
Animation3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 87th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Animation movies
Crime3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 30th percentile
: browse their Crime movies
Documentary3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 90th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Documentary movies
Comedy2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 87th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies

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

share of theme weight
Self
22%
Bonds
21%
Morality
17%
Survival
14%
Power
12%
Society
9%
Ideas
5%
Identity7 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice7 titles, browse their movies with this themePurpose6 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds6 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival6 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love5 titles, browse their movies with this themeRedemption5 titles, browse their movies with this themeFriendship3 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 29 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Dark: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their dark movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 4 · Serious 4 · Dark 21

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 10 · Stylized 11 · Heightened 8

Intense: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their intense movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 3 · Charged 6 · Intense 20

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 7 · Shifting 18 · Whiplash 4

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 23 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 2

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 9 · Even-paced 15 · Relentless 5

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 4 · Engaged 14 · Full focus 11

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 2 · Affecting 11 · Heavy 16

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

A split, not a type: Resolved 12 · Open-ended 11 · Ambiguous 6

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
24
Melancholic
17
Contemplative
11
Dread
8
Hopeful
9
Other
31

How their films linger

Thought-provoking16 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful14 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet12 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteCathartic4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 7 with a twist

  • Happy4
  • Bittersweet19
  • Tragic2
  • 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 Atticus Ross' films?

As of October 24, 2026, 38 of their 48 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (10).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Atticus Ross' 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

55 credits, 48 with a MovieCove page; 6 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • The Adventures of Cliff Booth (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Composer

  • After the Hunt(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films

  • Tron: Ares(2025)

    Composer · Executive Producer · as F-35 Pilot #2

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films

  • The Gorge(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • Queer(2024)

    Composer · Songs

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films

  • The Franchise(2024)

    Show 8 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all shows

  • Challengers(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • Shōgun(2024)

    Show 10 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows

  • The Killer(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films

  • Dear Mama(2022)

    Show 5 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows

  • Empire of Light(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films

  • Bones and All(2022)

    Composer · Songs

    Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films

  • The Bear(2022)

    Show 1 episode · Composer

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows

  • If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power(2021)

    Music Producer · Producer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Dr. Death(2021)

    Show 16 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows

  • 22 vs. Earth(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Operation Varsity Blues(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Pixar Popcorn(2021)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all shows

  • Soul(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

  • Mank(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films

  • Dispatches from Elsewhere(2020)

    Show 10 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows

  • Waves(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films

  • Earthquake Bird(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films

  • Watchmen(2019)

    Show 9 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows

  • A Million Little Pieces(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Bird Box(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • Mid90s(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films

  • The Fourth Estate(2018)

    Show 4 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows

  • Corazon(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films

  • The Vietnam War(2017)

    Show 10 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Death Note(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films

  • Nine Inch Nails: Panorama NYC Concert (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    as keyboards, backing vocals

  • The Defiant Ones(2017)

    Show 4 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows

  • The Black Ghiandola (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Composer

  • Patriots Day(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • Before the Flood(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • Visions of Harmony (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Composer

  • Outcast(2016)

    Show 20 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows

  • Triple 9(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Love & Mercy(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • Almost Holy(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • Blackhat(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • Citizenfour(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films

  • Gone Girl(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

  • Broken City(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Post-Production (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Actor

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • Black Mirror(2011)

    Show 1 episode · Composer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • The Social Network(2010)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • The Book of Eli(2010)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films

  • New York, I Love You(2008)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • Nine Inch Nails: The Slip - Rehearsals (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Actor

  • Twin Peaks(1990)

    Show 1 episode · as "The" Nine Inch Nails

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • October (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Composer

Career shape

A full career of 54 titles, 52 of them dated from 1990 to 2025.

Biggest box office

Gone Girl (2014)

$371M worldwide

Highest rated

Shōgun (2024)

Midcredits 99th

Film career

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting5 of 54: 4 only acting, 1 with another roleProducing1 of 54: 0 only producing, 1 with another roleMusic50 of 54: 47 only music, 3 with another role · typical Midcredits score78thOther crew2 of 54: 0 only other crew, 2 with another role

54 titles, 3 with more than one role — music and acting overlap on 1 of them.

By decade

1990s1 · acting2000s2 · 1 acting · 1 crew2010s29 · 2 acting · 27 crew2020s20 · 1 acting · 20 crew

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 7 other major awards from 32 major nominations, 2011–2026.

WinNomination
  1. 2026
    • Grammy Award, won · Best Rock Song
    • Grammy Award, nominated · Best Song Written for Visual Media
  2. 2025
    • Golden Globe, won · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
    • +2 other major bodies · 1 win and 3 nominations
      • Grammy Award, nominated ×2 · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
      • Critics Choice Award, won · Best Score
      • Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Song
  3. 2024
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
  4. 2023
    • Venice award, won · Best Soundtrack
  5. 2022
    • Grammy Award, won · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
  6. 2021
    • 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
  7. 2020
    • Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score)
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
  8. 2015
    • 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
Show 3 earlier years
  1. 2013
    • Grammy Award, won · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
  2. 2012
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
    • BAFTA Award, nominated
    • +1 other major body · 1 nomination
      • Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Score
  3. 2011
    • 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

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 Atticus Ross' films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 75th percentile, the median of all 34; across their 29 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 72nd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

72ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 29

Approval · how many liked their films

74thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 29

Reach · how many have seen their films

96thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 29

Midcredits score across 48 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up26
  • 50th to 74th11
  • 25th to 49th10
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

19 of their 48 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved14
  • Crowd Pleaser19
  • Broadly Agreed5
  • Mixed10

Most divisive · producer, composer

If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (2021)

83rd percentile spread · 17% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · composer

Shōgun (2024)

Midcredits 99th · 94% liked

Reviewers score the sound and music 66/100 in their films, across 26 reviewed titles; fans 78, detractors 52. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.

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 Atticus Ross' work okay for kids?

Across up to 25 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, sex & nudity, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore24 titles23–89 · median 58 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity25 titles13–74 · median 48 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity25 titles34–87 · median 60 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs25 titles23–76 · median 37 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense25 titles30–81 · median 57 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

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 Atticus Ross work with?

People who share at least 2 of Atticus Ross' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Trent Reznor shares the most, 21.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers and cinematographers

Producers

Mixed roles