Atticus Ross

Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross (born 16 January 1968) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, composer, and audio engineer. Along with Trent Reznor, Ross 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. Ross has worked with Reznor's band Nine Inch Nails since 2005, and became an official member of the band in 2016.

Atticus Ross
Ross (right) with Trent Reznor in March 2006
Background information
Birth name	Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross
Born	16 January 1968 Ladbroke Grove, London, England, United Kingdom
Genres	Post-industrial alternative rock dark ambient experimental electronica
Occupation(s)	Musician songwriter record producer audio engineer
Instruments	Keyboards, synthesizer
Years active	1992–present
Associated acts	Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails How to Destroy Angels Error 12 Rounds Leopold Ross Bobby Krlic Harry Gregson-Williams Nick Ingman Korn

Early life

Ross was born in Ladbroke Grove, London,[1] to Roxana Lampson and Ian Ross, a founder of Radio Caroline.[2] He has five siblings, including fashion model Liberty Ross and musician Leopold Ross. His maternal grandfather was diplomat Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn,[3] and his great-grandfather was Italian pathologist and bacteriologist Aldo Castellani.[3] Ross was educated at Eton College, where he was a contemporary of future Prime Minister David Cameron,[2] and at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[4]

Career

1992–1999

Ross came to notice in the mid-1990s as a 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 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.[5]

2000–present

Since moving to the United States in 2000, Ross 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 performed live with the band at the Wiltern. Beyond Nine Inch Nails, he has worked with Trent Reznor on other acts, including 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, Ross appeared in a cryptic video[6] and was named as a member of a secret project,[7] later revealed to be How to Destroy Angels, a collaboration between Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig.[8][9][10] In 2016, Ross composed an original score titled 'The Journey' for FIFA 17's new single-player story campaign mode.[11] In 2020, he co-produced and co-wrote one track on Jehnny Beth's To Love Is to Live.

Film and television

Ross' work in film music began in 2004 when he scored the Hughes Brothers' 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' vignette in the film New York, I Love You, and Ross' first feature film, The Book of Eli (2010). The Book of Eli 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, Trent Reznor announced that he and Ross were scoring David Fincher's new film The Social Network. The soundtrack was released on 28 September 2010 and was highly praised.[12] On 16 January 2011, they won the award for Best Original Score at the 68th Golden Globe Awards for their score to The Social Network.[13] 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 a 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, directed by Carl Rinsch, but was soon replaced by Javier Navarrete.[14] 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.[15]

On 25 June 2017 Ross, along with Trent Reznor, Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, 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' 2016 extended play Not the Actual Events.[16]

Works

Film

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
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	N/A
	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
	Crocodile Gennadiy	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[17]	Joe Sill	N/A	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	N/A	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 [18]	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 & Claudia Sarne
2020	Soul	Pete Docter	Walt Disney Studios Pixar Animation Studios	Composed with Trent Reznor
	Mank	David Fincher	Netflix

Television

Year	Title	Original channel(s)	Notes
2004	Touching Evil	USA Network	Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne
2015	Fear the Walking Dead	AMC	Composed by himself
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

Video game

Year	Title	Studio(s)	Notes
2016	FIFA 17	EA Sports	N/A

Nine Inch Nails

• 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)

Production

• 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)

Programming

• 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

References

1. Ross, Atticus (June 2010). "How To Destroy Angels Official Blog". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 15 January 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
2. Urwin, Rosamund (1 August 2012). "Don't dare cross a Ross... why Kristen Stewart should beware Liberty Ross's family". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
3. Buckley, Cat (30 October 2013). "The Liberty Ross Family: Meet the Oscar Winners, Scientists, and Rock Stars Related to the Model". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
4. "Selected List of Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art". courtauld.ac.uk. The Courtauld Institute of Art. Retrieved 12 January 2017. Note: Select "Entertainment and music industry"
5. "12 Rounds – the official site". 12rounds.net. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
6. "02". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
7. Breihan, Tom (28 April 2010). "Trent Reznor and Wife Mariqueen Maandig Are How to Destroy Angels". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
8. Aditham, Kiran (27 April 2010). "How to Destroy Angels=Trent Reznor + Wife?". Prefix. Archived from the original on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
9. Woods, Travis (30 April 2010). "More News Leaks About Trent Reznor's Musical Collaboration with Wife". BeatCrave. Archived from the original on 21 August 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
10. Goodman, William (28 April 2010). "Trent Reznor and Wife Form New Band". Spin. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
11. "Making EA SPORTS™ FIFA 17 The Journey". www.easports.com. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
12. "Road to the Oscars: Best Original Score;". Picktainment.com. 11 February 2011. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
13. "2011 Golden Globe Award Winners". Zimbio.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
14. "Javier Navarrete to Score '47 Ronin' – Film Music Reporter". Filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
15. DeFore, John (9 September 2016). "'Before the Flood': Film Review – TIFF 2016". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
16. "See Nine Inch Nails Perform 'She's Gone Away' on 'Twin Peaks's". rollingstone.com. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
17. "Watch "Visions of Harmony" posted by Apple Music Electronic on Apple Music". 29 June 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
18. "Corazón official website". 27 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

External links

• Atticus Ross at Discogs
• Atticus Ross at IMDb