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Scot Blackwell Stafford

Scot Blackwell Stafford

Composer

Scot Stafford combines multiple disciplines as composer, sound supervisor, and founder and creative director for Pollen, his music, sound and audio consulting company based in San Francisco, LA and London. In each he has received multiple accolades and awards, showing his ability to go as deep as he goes broad. He is best known for his original music for animated shorts, series and now features; and his sound supervision for new immersive formats with bleeding edge tech and rich, immersive audio. Most projects require Stafford to learn something new... for "Lost Ollie" it was a fretless mountain banjo and mountain dulcimer; for the upcoming "Ultraman: Rising" it is a Nintendo NES and Commodore 64 both hacked to function as vintage 8bit synthesizers. He often works out of Pollen's "Decibelle" studio in San Francisco, which doubles as a live music recording studio and Atmos mixing stage. His score for "Lost Ollie" won a 2023 Emmy Award for Best Musical Direction and Composition. The series won a total of 6 Emmys including Best Direction (Peter Ramsey).

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Works as
Composer
Titles
6 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all
Links
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Known for

TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Down 37% in 30 days

What are Scot Blackwell Stafford's films like?

Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
48%
Self
23%
Society
14%
Morality
10%
Power
6%
Friendship2 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 3 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Light: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their light movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 1

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

Grounded 1 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 2

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

Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 1

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

Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 1

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

Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1

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

Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Joyful
3
Warm
2
Hopeful
2
Manic
1
Melancholic
1
Other
5

How their films linger

Feel-good4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 1 with a twist

  • Happy2
  • Bittersweet3
  • Ambiguous1

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 Scot Blackwell Stafford's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (3).

Subscription and free streaming for Scot Blackwell Stafford'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

10 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page.

  • Ultraman: Rising(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films

  • Lost Ollie(2022)

    Show 4 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows

  • Trash Truck(2020)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows

  • Age of Sail (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Porter (voice)

  • Sonaria (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Director

  • Son of Jaguar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Composer

  • Special Delivery (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Composer

  • Long Live the Royals(2014)

    Show 4 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all shows

  • Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • Presto(2008)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films

Career shape

A full career of 9 titles from 2008 to 2024.

Biggest box office

Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (2014)

$133K worldwide

Highest rated

Presto (2008)

Midcredits 98th

Most popular right now

Ultraman: Rising (2024)

Film career

  • 2018Screen debut· Age of Sail

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting1 of 9: 1 only acting, 0 with another roleDirecting1 of 9: 1 only directing, 0 with another roleMusic7 of 9: 7 only music, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score89th

By decade

2000s1 · crew2010s6 · 1 acting · 5 crew2020s2 · 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.

How do Scot Blackwell Stafford's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 97th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 96th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

96thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Approval · how many liked their films

96thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Reach · how many have seen their films

83rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Midcredits score across 6 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up5
  • 25th to 49th1

Shape of the crowd

3 of their 6 titles are Universally Loved.

  • Universally Loved3
  • Crowd Pleaser2
  • Mixed1

Most divisive · composer

Long Live the Royals (2014)

60th percentile spread · 20% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · composer

Presto (2008)

Midcredits 98th · 91% liked

Reviewers score the sound and music 78/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 81, detractors 30. 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.

Who does Scot Blackwell Stafford work with?

People who share at least 2 of Scot Blackwell Stafford's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Marc Haimes shares the most, 2.

Writers

Composers