Samuel Sim - Cool Music

Samuel is widely considered to be one of the most exceptional musical talents of his generation. His beautifully evocative music and award-winning film and television scores make him one of the most sought-after composers working in the industry today.

Samuel’s recent projects include five seasons of The Bay for ITV, two series of Sky’s historical drama Domina, Netflix’s Can I Tell You A Secret?, The Killing Kind for Paramount +, BBC drama series Showtrial, The Last Rider, Anne for World Productions, ITV’s The Long Call, and the Lee Haven Jones’ feature film The Feast.

Further credits include BBC’s Better, Maryland for ITV, the 10-part Netflix drama The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance (co-scored with Daniel Pemberton), The Spanish Princess for New Pictures, documentary film Maiden for New Black Films, The Victim for STV, four ITV feature films based on Georges Simoneson’s Maigret novels starring Rowan Atkinson, Left Bank Pictures’ eight-part drama The Halcyon, BBC’s dark and gritty drama Paula directed by Alex Holmes, ITV’s Homefires, C4’s drama The Mill (for which Sam’s score received an Ivor Novello nomination) and the Charlie Brooker/Daniel Maier comedy creation Touch Of Cloth. He also composed a wonderfully evocative score for the riveting Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story.

Early in his career, Samuel quickly stood out from the crowd with his award-winning score for the BBC’s Dunkirk. A whirlwind success followed which soon saw him composing for the Hollywood feature film Awake.

In 2008, Sam wrote the score for the BAFTA and Emmy Award winning House of Saddam, employing a unique blend of styles and instrumentation. Rare middle-eastern voices and instruments and dark, intense electronica were masterfully mixed with a full classical string orchestra. Described by one critic as: “superbly pitched somewhere between Stravinsky and The Chemical Brothers…”

Samuel showed his strong command of classical disciplines with his beautiful orchestral score for the lavish BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, earning him a RTS Award nomination for best musical score. In stark contrast, the dark haunting music for Tiger Aspects submarine thriller, The Deep, starring Minnie Driver and James Nesbitt, was also nominated for an RTS Award.

Samuel scored Of Two Minds, starring Kristin Davis & Tammy Blanchard, and the critically acclaimed We Are Poets, which released in the summer of 2013. Also that year he wrote the music for Left Bank’s flagship series Mad Dogs for Sky 1, the BBC series By Any Means, and the hugely successful ITV drama series, Ice Cream Girls.

Other career highlights include the ITV drama series The Reckoning, David Attenborough’s Climate Chaos series and additional music for the feature films Bobby, starring Antony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Laurence Fishburne & Shia LaBeouf; The Damned United starring Michael Sheen & Timothy Spall and ABC’s primetime drama, Combat Hospital.

“An extremely inventive and talented composer” (Michael Kamen: Film Composer)

Further information available at www.samuelsim.com

Credits

Film

THE LAST RIDER	New Black Films Director: Alex Holmes Producers: Sam Brayshaw, James Erskine, Victoria Gregory
THE FEAST (GWLEDD)	BFI/ IFC Midnight Director: Lee Haven Jones Producer: Roger Williams Starring: Anne Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones
MAIDEN	New Black Films / Sony Pictures Classics Director: Alex Holmes Producer: Victoria Gregory
MAIGRET: NIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS	Ealing Studios / ITV Director: Sarah Harding Producer: Jeremy Gwilt, Suzanne McAuley Starring: Rowan Atkinson
MAIGRET IN MONTMARTRE	Ealing Studios / ITV Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan Producer: Jeremy Gwilt, Suzanne McAuley Starring: Rowan Atkinson
MAIGRET’S DEAD MAN	Ealing Studios Director: Jon East Producer: Jeremy Gwilt Starring Rowan Atkinson
MAIGRET SETS A TRAP	Ealing Studios Director: Ashley Pearce Producer: Jeremy Gwilt Starring Rowan Atkinson
STOP AT NOTHING: THE LANCE ARMSTRONG STORY	Passion Pictures Director: Alex Holmes
IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN	Director: Harry Freeland
SALMA	Director: Kim Longinotto
WE ARE POETS	Director: Alex Ramseyer-Bache Producer: Daniel Lucchesi
LAD: A YORKSHIRE STORY	Rouge Runner Films Director: Dan Hartly Producers: Richard Shean Starring: Bretten Lord
AWAKE	Weinstein Co. / Greene Street Films Director: Joby Harold Producers: Kelly Carmichael, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Tim Williams Starring: Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, Lena Olin, Terrence Howard
OF TWO MINDS	Silver Screen Pictures / Konigsberg Company Director: Jim O’Hanlon Producers: Kyle Clarke, Eileen Fields, Lina Wong Starring: Kristin Davis, Tammy Blanchard
W.M.D.	Patchwork Films Director: David Holroyd Producer: Christine Hartland Starring: Emily Denniston, Jo-Anne Knowles Robert Cambrinus and Glenn Conroy
THE DAMNED UNITED (Additional Music)	Left Bank Pictures Director: Tom Hooper Producers: Andy Harries, Grainne Marmion Starring: Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall
FLAK	Patchwork Films Director: Finn McGough Starring: Ralph Laurila, Nicole Lecky & Daniel Ormerod
BOBBY (Additional Music)	Weinstein Co. Director: Emilio Estevez Producers: Daniel Grodnik, Michelle Krum, Matt Landon Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Elijah Wood, Laurence Fishburne, Lindsay Lohan, Martin Sheen, William H Macy, Christian Slater.	2 Golden Globe Nominations: Best Music / Best Picture
DOOGAL (Additional Music)	Pathe Films, Weinstein Co. Directors: Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval, Frank Passingham Producers: Jake Eberts, Butch Hartman, Matt Landon, Cameron McCracken, Eric Robinson, Jill Sinclair Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Chevy Chase, Judi Dench

Television

RUTH	ITV/ Silverprint Pictures Director: Lee Haven Jones Producer: Angie Daniell Starring: Lucy Boynton, Toby Stephens, Toby Jones, Juliet Stevenson
THE BAY (Series 1 – 5)	Tall Story Pictures / ITV Studios Director: Lee Haven Jones, Robert Quinn Producers: Philip Leach, Margaret Conway Starring: Morven Christie, Jonas Armstrong	RTS Awards Winner 2019: Music – Original Title
COMA	CBS/ Channel 5 Director: Michael Samuels Producer: Sandra MacIver Starring: Jason Watkins, Jonas Armstrong, Claire Skinner, Joe Barber
CAN I TELL YOU A SECRET?	Netflix Directors: Natasha Gaunt, Liza Williams Producer: Priya Sohal Starring: Savannah Gracey, Sirin Kale, Amy Pearson
DOMINA (Series 1 & 2)	SKY Directors: David Evans, Claire McCarthy, Debs Paterson Producer: John Phillips Starring: Kasia Smutniak, Liam Cunningham, Alex Lanipekun
THE KILLING KIND	Paramount + Directors: Chanya Button, Zara Hayes Producer: Andrew Litvin Starring: Emma Appleton, Colin Morgan, Elliot Barnes-Worrell
MARYLAND	ITV/ Monumental Television Director: Susan Tully Producer: Emma Burge Starring: Suranne Jones, Eve Best, Stockard Channing
BETTER	BBC Directors: Jonathan Brough, Pier Wilkie Producer: James Dean Starring: Leila Farzad, Andrew Buchan, Samuel Edward-Cook
THE HATCHET WIELDING HITCHHIKER	Netflix/ RAW Director: Colette Camden Producers: Sally Brindle, Suzanna Mitchell Starring: Kai Lawrence, Jessob Reisbeck, Terry Woods
SHOWTRIAL	BBC/ World Productions Director: Zara Hayes Producer: Christopher Hall Starring: Celine Buckens, Joseph Payne, Tracy Ifeachor, Kerr Logan, James Frain
ANNE	World Productions Director: Bruce Goodison Executive Producer: Simon Heath Starring: Maxine Peake, Rob Jarvis, Clare Calbraith, Polly Kemp
THE LONG CALL	ITV /Silverprint Pictures Director: Lee Haven Jones Executive Producers: Kate Bartlett, Kelly Jones Starring: Ben Aldridge, Siobhán Cullen, Juliet Stevenson, Martin Shaw
THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE (co-scored with Daniel Pemberton)	Netflix Director: Louis Leterrier Producer: Ritamarie Peruggi Starring: Taron Egerton, Natalie Dormer, Helena Bonham Carter
THE SPANISH PRINCESS (co-scored with Chris Egan)	All3 Media / New Pictures Directors: Birgitte Stærmose, Stephen Woolfenden Producers: Emma Frost, Matthew Graham Starring: Charlotte Pope, Richard Pepper
THE VICTIM	STV Productions Director: Niall MacCormick Producer: Mark Murdoch, Rob Williams Starring: Kelly Macdonald, James Harkness
THE CURE	Story Films Director: Bruce Goodison Executive Producer: Kate Cook Starring: Simon Armstrong, Sian Brooke
ANNE	World Productions Director: Bruce Goodison Executive Producer: Simon Heath Starring: Rob Jarvis, Clare Calbraith, Polly Kemp
THE INTERROGATION OF TONY MARTIN	Storm Films / Channel 4 Director: Dave Nath Producer: Kate Cook Starring: Steve Pemberton, Daniel Mays
INNOCENT	TXTV Director: Richard Clark Exec Producers: Chris Lang, Jeremy Gwilt Starring: Lee Ingleby, Hermione Norris, Angel Coulby
UNSPEAKABLE	Story Films / Channel 4 Director: David Nath Producer: Kate Cool Starring: Indira Varma, Luke Treadway
DIANA: HER STORY	Kaboom Film and Television Director: Kevin Sim Producer: Charles Furneaux
PAULA	BBC Northern Ireland Director: Alex Holmes Producer: Peter Norris Starring: Tom Hughes, Denise Gough
BORN TO KILL	World Productions Director: Bruce Goodison Producer: Lucy Robinson Starring: Jack Rowan
THE HALCYON	ITV / Left Bank Pictures Director: Rob Evans, Justin Hardy, Philip John, Stephen Woolfenden Producers: Chris Croucher
MURDERED BY MY FATHER	BBC Director: Bruce Goodison Producers: Toby Welsh
HOME FIRES (series 1 and 2)	ITV Studios Directors: Bruce Goodison, Robert Quinn Producers: Sue de Beauvoir, Jeremy Gwilt	RTS Awards Nomination 2015: Best Original Score RTS Awards Nomination 2015: Best Original Title
COALITION	Cuba Pictures Director: Ales Holmes Producers: Sarah Curtis, Dixie Linder
CHASING SHADOWS	ITV Studios Director: Chris Menaul Producer: Rob Bullock
THE MILL (series 2)	Darlow Smithson Director: Sue Tully, Bill Anderson Producer: Johnathan Young	Ivor Novello Award Nomination 2015: Best Television Soundtrack
TOUCH OF CLOTH	Director: Jim O’Hanlon Producer: Mat Chaplin
FATHER”S DAY	Director: Cilla Ware Producer: Charlie Druce Starring: Ray Winstone, Charles Dance
BY ANY MEANS	Red Planet Pictures / BBC Director: Charles Palmer Producer: Tim Key Starring: Keith Allen, Warren Brown
ICE CREAM GIRLS	Left Bank Pictures / ITV Director: Dan Zeff Producer: Lucy Dyke, James Flynn, Ronan Flynn Starring: Jodhi May, Lorraine Burrows
MAD DOGS (Series II)	Left Bank Pics / Sky Directors: James Hawes Producers: Andrew benson Starring: Phillip Glenister, Marc Warren, John Sim, Max Beesley
COMBAT HOSPITAL	(Co-Written with Edmund Butt) Sienna Films, Artists Studio, Lookout Point Directors: Chris Menaul, Ian B Macdonald, Stephen Reynolds, Helen Shaver, Paul Unwin Producer: Michael J Maschio Starring: Luke Mably, Elias Koteas
THE RECKONING	TXTV Director: Jim O’Hanlon Producer: Jeremy Gwilt
THE DEEP	Tiger Aspect / BBC Director: Jim O’Hanlon Producer: Will Gould Starring: Minnie Driver, James Nesbitt, Goran Visjnic
EMMA	BBC Director: Jim O’Hanlon Producer: George Ormond Starring: Ramola Garai, Michael Gambon, Johnny Lee Miller, Tamsin Greig	Nominated for Best Score: RTS Awards 2010
HOUSE OF SADDAM	BBC / HBO Directors: Alex Holmes, Jim O’Hanlon Producers: Alex Holmes, Hilary Salmon, Jane Tranter, Steve Lightfoot Starring: Yigal Naor, Said Taghmaoui and Shohreh Aghdashloo
LET IT SNOW	SKY1 Directors: Sam Miller Producers: Tim Bricknal Starring: Paterson Joseph, Angela Griffin
ANCIENT ROME	The Rise And Fall Of An Empire: Constantine BBC 2 Director: Nick Murphy Producers: Matthew Barrett, Mark Hedgecoe Starring: Sean Pertwee, Michael Sheen, David Threlfall
THE GOLDEN HOUR	ITV 1 / FOX Sony Pictures / Talkback Thames Directors: Julian Holmes, Tim Leandro Producers: Dean Hargrove, Johnathan Young Starring: Richard Armitage, Navin Chowdhry, Zoe Telford
SPACE RACE	BBC 1 / National Geographic Directors: Mark Everest, Christopher Spencer. Producer: Jill Fullerton-Smith
THE MAN WHO BROKE BRITAIN	BBC 1 / Wall to Wall Television Director: Gabriel Range Producer: Simon Finch	Wincott Award: Winner of Best Drama
DUNKIRK	BBC 2 / History Channel Director: Alex Holmes Producers: Mike Dormer, Peter Lovering, Laura Mackie Narrator: Timothy Dalton	FIPA D’OR Winner: Best Original Music BAFTA Winner: Hue Weldon Award
ENCOUNTERS	October Films 8 Short Films for Channel 4
BETTER THAN SEX	Boot Films 10 Short Films for Channel 4

Documentary

INDIAN SPACE DREAMS (Co-composed with Dru Masters)	Sequoia Films Director: Sue Sudbury
CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KILLER WITH PIERS MORGAN	ITV Studios / Ferret Productions
KILLER WOMEN WITH PIERS MORGAN	ITV Studios / Plum Pictures
LAS VEGAS WITH TREVOR MCDONALD	ITV Studios / Plum Pictures
ROOKIES	ITV / Plum Pictures
BILLIONAIRE’S PARADISE: INSIDE NECKER ISLAND	BBC Director: Kari Lia
THE MAFIA WITH TREVOR MCDONALD	ITV
SNOWBLIND	Renegade Pictures Director: Vikram Jayanti
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH’S CLIMATE CHAOS	BBC 1 / Discovery Channel Directors: Nicholas Brown, Stephen Cooter Producers: Sacha Baveystock, Jeremy Bristow Presenter: David Attenborough
BREAKING UP WITH THE JONESES	Betty TV / Channel 4 Director: Ursula Macfarlane	Broadcast Award Nomination: Best Documentary 4 BAFTA Award Nominations including Best Documentary 2007 Greirson Award Nomination: Best Documentary
IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN	Century Films Director: Harry Freeland
GHOSTS OF THE SEVENTH CAVALRY	October Films / BBC / Sundance Director: Tom Roberts
639 WAYS TO KILL CASTRO	Channel 4 / Sundance / Silver River Director: Dollan Cannell Producers: Kari Lia, Peter Moore
7 HOURS ON BOXING DAY	BBC1 / PBS / Diverse Television Director: Gregor Lyon	Multi BAFTA AWARD Winner
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT	Channel 4 / October Films Director: Nick Hornby Producers: Nick Hornby, Angus MacQueen Presenter: Marcel Theroux
THE LOST BOYS	Channel 4 / October Films Director: Clive Gordon