Steven Price (composer)

Steven Price
Born	(1977-04-22) 22 April 1977 Nottingham, England, UK
Other names	Steve Price, Steven B. Price
Occupation	Film composer
Years active	1996–present

Steven Price (born 22 April 1977) is a British film composer, best known for scoring Fury and Gravity, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Life and career

Price's passion for music began early: a guitarist from the age of five, he went on to achieve a First Class degree in Music from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Following graduation, he went to work in the London studio of Gang of Four guitarist/producer Andy Gill, for whom he would program, contribute string arrangements, and play on albums alongside artists such as Michael Hutchence and Bono.

Price went on to work as a programmer, arranger, and performer with film music composer Trevor Jones. He provided additional music for projects such as Roger Donaldson's Thirteen Days; Stephen Norrington's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Frank Coraci's Around the World in 80 Days; the television series Dinotopia; and Tamra Davis' Crossroads, on which he was also the featured guitar soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra.

A recommendation from Abbey Road Studios brought him to the attention of Howard Shore, leading to Price's work with the composer as music editor on Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. His subsequent films as music editor included Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, for which he shared with his fellow music editors a Golden Reel Award nomination; and, in his first project with The World's End director Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, on which he also collaborated with the film's composer Nigel Godrich. Among the other composers that he has worked with and learned from are Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Harry and Rupert Gregson-Williams, Patrick Doyle, George Fenton, Dario Marianelli, and Anne Dudley.

He has composed music for advertising campaigns in both the U.K. and U.S. After contributing additional music to Richard Curtis' Pirate Radio, he composed the original score for Joe Cornish's sleeper success Attack the Block, winning awards from both the Austin Film Critics Association and the Sitges-Catalonian International Film Festival.

In 2013, Price composed the score for Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Filmography

Composer

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
2011	Attack the Block	Joe Cornish	Optimum Releasing	with Basement Jaxx
2013	The World's End	Edgar Wright	Focus Features	N/A
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón	Warner Bros. Pictures	Academy Award for Best Original Score BAFTA Award for Best Original Music Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Score Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated – Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
2014	Fury	David Ayer	Columbia Pictures	N/A
2015	The Hunt (BBC series)	N/A	BBC Earth	N/A
2016	Suicide Squad	David Ayer	Warner Bros. Pictures DC Entertainment	N/A

Music department

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (as himself)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (as himself)
• Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
• Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) (as himself)
• Paul (2011)
• Marley (2012)

Awards and honors

In December 2013, the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association awarded him the Best Musical Score honor for his work on Gravity.

External links

• Steven Price at the Internet Movie Database