Atticus Ross

Ross worked across composer, record producer, film score composer, film producer and musician. The registers place that work in dark ambient. This article rests on 100 catalogued compositions, 1 published texts and 52 issued recordings drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Atticus Ross studied at Eton College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is film score. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are dark ambient. Distinctions recorded are Academy Award for Best Original Score, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

• Name — Atticus Ross • Born — 16 January 1968 • Birthplace — London, England • Years Active — 1992–present • Spouse — Claudia Sarne • Children — 3 • Occupation — * Musician • composer • record producer • audio engineer • Relatives — Leopold Ross (brother) Liberty Ross (sister) Charles Glass (uncle) Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn (grandfather) Aldo Castellani (great-grandfather) Curtis Lampson (great-great-grandfather)

Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross was born in the Ladbroke Grove area of London on 16 January 1968, the son of Roxana Rose Catherine Naila and Radio Caroline co-founder Ian Cowper Ross. His maternal grandfather was diplomat Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn (1880–1964), who was the grandson of fur merchant Curtis Lampson (1806–1885). He has five siblings, including fellow musician Leopold Ross and fashion model Liberty Ross. His great-grandfather was Italian pathologist and bacteriologist Aldo Castellani (1874–1971), while his uncle is English-American journalist Charles Glass. Ross was educated at Eton College and later at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

• Illustration — Ross (left) with Nine Inch Nails in 2018 Ross came to notice in the mid-1990s as a synthesizer programmer for Tim Simenon's Bomb the Bass during the period of the albums Unknown Territory and Clear. He worked on a number of production and remix projects with Simenon, as 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 band, 12 Rounds, with his wife Claudia Sarne and Adam Holden. They released two albums, Jitterjuice and My Big Hero. A third full-length album was produced by Trent Reznor, but was ultimately never finished. Three songs from that album have since been released on the band's website. Ross moved to the United States in 2000, and as of 2002 was working alongside 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 work with Saul Williams and Zack de la Rocha, and they co-produced tracks for a reformed Jane's Addiction with Alan Moulder in 2009. Other work has included two co-productions with Joe Barresi, the Loverman EP Human Nurture and Coheed and Cambria's Year of the Black Rainbow, as well as albums for Korn. He has also produced tracks or created remixes for such artists as Grace Jones, Perry Farrell, and Telepathe. In May 2010, he appeared in a cryptic video and was named as a member of a secret project, later revealed to be How to Destroy Angels, a collaboration between Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig. In 2016, Ross composed an original score titled 'The Journey' for FIFA 17 new single-player story campaign mode. 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.

Ross and his wife, musician and composer Claudia Sarne, split their time between London and Los Angeles.

• Year — Title — Original channel(s) — Notes • 2004 — Touching Evil — USA Network — Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne • 2015 — Fear the Walking Dead — AMC • 2016–2017 — Outcast — Cinemax — Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne • 2017 — The Defiant Ones — HBO • The Vietnam War — PBS — Composed with Trent Reznor • Black Mirror — Netflix — "Crocodile" (season 4, episode 3) Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne • 2019 — Watchmen — HBO — Composed with Trent Reznor • 2020 — Dispatches from Elsewhere — AMC — Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne • 2021 — Dr. Death — Peacock — Composed with Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba • 2024 — Shōgun — Hulu and FX

• Year — Title — Studio(s) — Notes • 2016 — FIFA 17 — EA Sports • TBA — Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet — Naughty Dog — With Trent Reznor

• With Teeth (2005) (Production and programming) • Year Zero (2007) (Production and programming) • Ghosts I–IV (2008) (Songwriter, production and programming) • The Slip (2008) (Production and programming) • Hesitation Marks (2013) (Production, programming, arranging and engineering) • Not the Actual Events (2016) (Production, performer and songwriter) • The Fragile: Deviations 1 (2016) (Production) • Add Violence (2017) (Production, performer and songwriter) • Bad Witch (2018) (Production, performer and songwriter)

• No Jahoda – Jahoda Witness • Korn – See You on the Other Side (also co-writing) • Korn – Untitled • Coheed and Cambria – Year of The Black Rainbow (with Joe Barresi) • Perry Farrell – "Go All the Way (Into the Twilight)" • Loverman – Human Nurture (with Joe Barresi) • Lil Nas X – "Old Town Road" (also co-writing) • Jehnny Beth – To Love Is to Live (also co-writing) • Halsey – If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (with Trent Reznor) • WitchGang (with David Sitek, Hudson Mohawke, and Trent Reznor, also co-writing)

• Bad Religion – Beyond Electric Dreams • Barry Adamson – Oedipus Schmoedipus, The Negro Inside Me • From First To Last – The Levy • P!nk – Try This • Saul Williams – The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! (2007) • Bomb the Bass – Clear

Atticus Ross is recorded with the occupation film score composer. Recorded with the occupation record producer. Classed in the genre dark ambient. Recorded as composer, record producer, film producer and musician. Established in Bibliothèque nationale de France under 16213591s. Established in Library of Congress under no2010180534. Established in Discogs under 259284.

Ross's work in film music began in 2004 when he scored the Hughes Brothers's TV 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's vignette in the film New York, I Love You, and Ross's first feature 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 nomination 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 new film The Social Network. The film's soundtrack was released on 28 September 2010, and was highly praised. On 16 January 2011, they won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for their score to The Social Network. 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 film 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. Ross and Reznor again teamed up with Fincher to score his 2014 film 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. 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 live rendition of the song "She's Gone Away" which previously appeared on Nine Inch Nails's 2016 EP Not the Actual Events. In 2021, Reznor, Ross, and Jon Batiste won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for the soundtrack for Soul. Since then, Ross and Reznor have composed numerous film scores, frequently collaborating with director David Fincher, as well as working with Luca Guadagnino on Challengers, which earned them the Golden Globe for Best Original Score once again.

• Year — Title — Director — Studio(s) — Notes • 2008 — New York, I Love You — Various — Vivendi Entertainment — Segment #6 Composed with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross • 2010 — The Book of Eli — Hughes brothers — Warner Bros. Pictures Summit Entertainment — Composed with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross • The Social Network — David Fincher — Columbia Pictures — Composed with Trent Reznor and 1st collaboration with Fincher • 2011 — Days of Grace — Everardo Gout — ARP Sélection — Composed with Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Leopold Ross, Claudia Sarne & Shigeru Umebayashi • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — David Fincher — Columbia Pictures — Composed with Trent Reznor • 2013 — Broken City — Allen Hughes — 20th Century Fox — Composed with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross • 2014 — Love & Mercy — Bill Pohlad — Lionsgate Roadside Attractions • Gone Girl — David Fincher — 20th Century Fox — Composed with Trent Reznor • 2015 — Blackhat — Michael Mann — Universal Pictures — Composed with Harry Gregson-Williams and Leo Ross • Almost Holy — Steve Hoover — Roco Films — Composed with Bobby Krlic and Leopold Ross • 2016 — Triple 9 — John Hillcoat — Open Road Films — Composed with Bobby Krlic, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne • Visions of Harmony — Joe Sill — Composed with Trent Reznor • Before the Flood — Fisher Stevens — National Geographic — Composed with Gustavo Santaolalla, Trent Reznor, and Mogwai • Patriots Day — Peter Berg — Lionsgate — Composed with Trent Reznor • 2017 — The Black Ghiandola — Catherine Hardwicke Theodore Melfi Sam Raimi — Short film Composed with Trent Reznor • Death Note — Adam Wingard — Netflix — Composed with Leopold Ross • 2018 — Mid90s — Jonah Hill — A24 — Composed with Trent Reznor • A Million Little Pieces — Sam Taylor-Johnson — Entertainment One — Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne • Corazón — John Hillcoat — Serial Pictures • Bird Box — Susanne Bier — Netflix — Composed with Trent Reznor • 2019 — Waves — Trey Edward Shults — A24 • Earthquake Bird — Wash Westmoreland — Netflix — Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne • 2020 — Soul — Pete Docter — Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios — Composed with Trent Reznor • Mank — David Fincher — Netflix • 2022 — Bones and All — Luca Guadagnino — Warner Bros. Pictures • Empire of Light — Sam Mendes — Searchlight Pictures • 2023 — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem — Jeff Rowe — Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies • The Killer — David Fincher — Netflix • 2024 — Challengers — Luca Guadagnino — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — Co-producer and co-performer for 15 songs on the soundtrack as well; co-composer for 14 songs; co-wrote "Compress / Repress" song • Queer — A24 — Composed with Trent Reznor • 2025 — The Gorge — Scott Derrickson — Apple Studios • Tron: Ares — Joachim Rønning — Walt Disney Pictures — Composed with Trent Reznor; credited as Nine Inch Nails; also executive producer • After the Hunt — Luca Guadagnino — Amazon MGM Studios — Composed with Trent Reznor • 2026 — The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth — David Fincher — Netflix — Composed with Trent Reznor