Lorne Balfe

Lorne Balfe is a Grammy Award winning, Emmy and BAFTA nominated film composer from Inverness, Scotland. His filmography boasts an incredible breadth of titles, ranging from major studio to independent films, tentpole video game franchises, beloved animations films, critically acclaimed television series, and documentary features.

Lorne’s recent film and television credits include Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming Argylle, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, Steven Spielberg’s Life on Our Planet narrated by Morgan Freeman, DC Studios Black Adam, Luther: The Fallen Sun for Netflix, Dungeons & drangons Ticket To Paradise starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, Top Gun: Maverick as score producer, Ambulance directed by Michael Bay, Marvel Studios Black Widow, the Amazon original The Wheel of Time (series 1 & 2), three series of the television adaptations of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials for BBC One / HBO, and series 2 & 3 of Pennyworth.

Further credits include Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, Universal’s Pacific Rim: Uprising, Warner Bros’ The Lego Batman Movie, Secret Headquarters, the action thriller The Tomorrow War, Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, Bad Boys for Lifefrom directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, two Ron Howard-produced Genius series (the first of which Lorne received an Emmy-nomination along with Hans Zimmer), Paramount’s Ghost in the Shell (co-composed with Clint Mansell), Terminator Genisys, Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, three series of the eight-part ITV crime thriller, Silent Night, mini-series Dopesick, Marcella, and The Cry for Synchronicity Films starring Jenna Coleman for which Lorne’s titles music was nominated for an RTS award.

While working in the UK, Lorne composed the film scores for Churchill, Ironclad, The Sweeney, Not Another Happy Ending (starring Karen Gillan of Doctor Who) and Side by Side. His music is featured in the BBC and Sundance Channel TV mini-series, Restless, starring Hayley Atwell and Rufus Sewell, for which Lorne received the 2013 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Composition.

When he hasn’t been composing for film, Lorne has found additional footing in the video game world. In 2011, Lorne composed alongside Jesper Kyd for the game, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Music. A year later in 2012, Lorne was already hard at work composing as a solo composer for Skylanders: Giants and Assassin’s Creed III. His score for Assassin’s Creed III would earn Lorne his second BAFTA nomination for Best Original Music, as well as the BSO Goldspirit Award for Best Score for a Video Game. In late 2013,Skylanders: Swap Force as well as Beyond: Two Souls were released. Beyond: Two Souls features performances by Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe and received three BAFTA nominations including one for Best Original Music.

Lorne began his career in Hollywood providing additional music on several major motion pictures including The Dark Knight, Inception, Rango, Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3, The Dark Knight Rises, and the 2009 Golden Globe nominated film, Frost/Nixon.

Lorne’s role as a score producer on The Dark Knight earned him a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture. In 2009, Lorne was music producer and composer of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 video game, and score producer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, which earned a 2010 Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.
Only a year later, Lorne produced the score for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.