Blair has composed over two hundred scores for film, theatre and television, with clients ranging from The English National Ballet and The Royal Shakespeare Company to BBC, SKY & ITV. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer with over 15 years experience, and is consistently in high demand. His work includes Class an acclaimed 8-part Doctor Who spin-off for The BBC, ITV’s international hit show McDonald & Dodds and SKY’s The Amazing Mr Blunden. He composed the score to Russell T Davies’s drama Nolly, starring Helena Bonham Carter - for which he was nominated for a BAFTA, and won the prestigious Camille Award for Best TV Score. That collaboration led on to Men Up, a BBC film exec-produced by Russell, which aired in December 2023. After The Flood, a six-part thriller from Quay St, aired to great success in early 2024 on ITV1/Britbox. Doctor Jekyll, a new Hammer Horror film starring Eddie Izzard, was released worldwide in 2024, receiving a nomination for Best Feature Film Score, in the Music & Sound Awards 2024. Classically trained from an early age, Blair has a BA (Hons) in Music from Durham University and an MA in Composition for Film and Television from Bristol University. In 2012 he was nominated for both a Creative Scotland and BAFTA Scotland Award for Best New Talent in the Scottish arts. As a musical arranger he has worked on shows such as Doctor Who and David Attenborough's Life Story. Blair is a full voting member of BAFTA and frequently judges awards such as The Ivors and BIFAs. Both McDonald & Dodds and The Amazing Mr Blunden were double-nominated for Best Original TV Score and Best Opening Titles in the Music & Sound Awards. In 2023, Nolly was also nominated for a Music & Sound Award for Best Original TV Score and won Best Soundtrack at the World Entertainment Awards.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Composer
- 13 on Motif · 32 credits in all
What are Blair Mowat's films like?
Across their 11 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 6
A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 2 · Dark 2
Grounded 5 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 3 · Charged 4 · Intense 0
Steady 6 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 6 · Heavy 0
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous6
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 Blair Mowat's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 13 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for Blair Mowat's titles on Motif; 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
32 credits, 13 with a Motif page.
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2025)
The Age of Disclosure(2025)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
The Guest(2025)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all shows
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)
Men Up(2023)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
After the Flood(2024)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all shows
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)
Doctor Jekyll(2023)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Black Dog(2023)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
Nolly(2023)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2021)
The Amazing Mr Blunden(2021)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
For Your Suffering (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2020)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
McDonald & Dodds(2020)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Martin's Close (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2019)
The Dead Room (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)
Meteorlight (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)
Sorceress (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)
Happy!(2017)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Class(2016)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all shows
The Baby Shower (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)
The Gift (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2015)
Frequencies(2013)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Magpie (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2013)
We Are Northern Lights (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2013)
In T'Vic (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2013)
The History Of Chance (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2012)
The Pub (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2012)
Night Shift (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2012)
Internet Story (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2010)
The Stork (not in the Motif catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 30 titles, 29 of them dated from 2010 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Doctor Jekyll (2023)
Highest rated
The Age of Disclosure (2025)
Most popular right now
Nolly (2023)
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 Motif, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2024, Original Music, Fiction.
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 Blair Mowat's films land?
Their typical Motif film has a Midcredits score in the 65th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th5
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 13 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the sound and music 58/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 70, detractors 35. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on Motif; 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 Motif 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 Blair Mowat work with?
People who share at least 2 of Blair Mowat's Motif titles, grouped by what they did on them; Nicola Shindler shares the most, 4.
Directors
- Ashley WayShared titles: The Guest (2025), Men Up (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Ashley Way
- Joe StephensonShared titles: Doctor Jekyll (2023), Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Joe Stephenson
Writers
- Matthew BarryShared titles: The Guest (2025), Men Up (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Matthew Barry
Actors
- Jacqueline BoatswainShared titles: After the Flood (2024), Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Jacqueline Boatswain
- Scott ChambersShared titles: Doctor Jekyll (2023), Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Scott Chambers
- Simon CallowShared titles: Doctor Jekyll (2023), The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Simon Callow
Cinematographers
- Birgit DierkenShared titles: Doctor Jekyll (2023), Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Birgit Dierken
Producers
- Nicola ShindlerShared titles: The Guest (2025), After the Flood (2024), Men Up (2023), Nolly (2023)See all 4 shared titles with Nicola Shindler
- Karen LewisShared titles: The Guest (2025), Men Up (2023), Nolly (2023)See all 3 shared titles with Karen Lewis
- Davina EarlShared titles: The Guest (2025), Men Up (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Davina Earl
- Russell T. DaviesShared titles: Men Up (2023), Nolly (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Russell T. Davies
