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Award-winning British musician
Atticus Ross began his career behind the scenes as a programmer and producer before forming the alternative rock band
12 Rounds in the 1990s. After meeting
Nine Inch Nails'
Trent Reznor, who signed
12 Rounds to his Nothing label in 1998,
Ross' creative scope expanded as he balanced his own personal projects with a busy schedule alongside
Reznor. Their creative partnership brought a flood of critical acclaim, garnering
Ross and
Reznor an Oscar and Golden Globe for their first major project together, the score for 2010's The Social Network. In addition to scoring dozens of films and television series,
Ross also became an official member of
Nine Inch Nails in 2016.
Born in London,
Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross has worked steadily since the mid-'90s, collaborating with Tim Simenon's
Bomb the Bass and
Barry Adamson as a programmer, and performing with his own band with wife
Claudia Sarne,
12 Rounds. The duo's first album, 1996's Jitterjuice, was released by Polydor in the U.K., but they were dropped by the label the following year; however,
Nine Inch Nails'
Trent Reznor signed them to his label Nothing Records, which released
My Big Hero in 1998. This began a long collaboration between
Ross and
Reznor, which intensified when
Ross moved to the U.S. in 2000; he earned production and programming credits on each of
NIN's albums following 2005's
With Teeth, eventually joining
Reznor as an official member of the band. Over the decades, their creative partnership yielded work for the likes of
Zack de la Rocha,
Jane's Addiction, the ill-fated
Tapeworm collective, and
How to Destroy Angels, which also included
Reznor's wife, former
West Indian Girl member Mariqueen Maandig. Starting in 2010,
Ross and
Reznor took their first steps away from the world of rock and composed the score for The Social Network, which went on to win a Golden Globe and Oscar. Juggling duties for
NIN and Hollywood, the duo contributed to over a dozen films and television shows into the 2020s.
Outside of his work with
Reznor,
Ross collaborated with
Bad Religion's
Brett Gurewitz in the band
Error, which released a self-titled EP in 2004, and did production and remixing work with artists including
Joe Barresi,
Coheed and Cambria,
Korn,
Grace Jones, and
Telepathe over the years.
Ross' first film music work was the 2004 score to the Hughes Brothers' television show Touching Evil, a collaboration with his brother
Leopold Ross and
Sarne, but his big break was scoring the Hughes' 2010 movie
The Book of Eli, which earned him a Discovery of the Year nomination at the World Soundtrack Awards. Later that year,
Ross and
Reznor collaborated on the score to
David Fincher's The Social Network, which was released in late 2010 and ultimately won that year's Golden Globe and Academy Awards for best original score.
Ross and
Reznor reteamed for
Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, released in late 2011, and for the director's 2014 thriller
Gone Girl.
Ross continued to garner high-profile scoring gigs on his own as well, including 2014's
Love & Mercy, a biopic about
the Beach Boys'
Brian Wilson. The following years saw more work from the composer, namely a credit on the composition team for
Michael Mann's thriller Blackhat, and his score for the movie Triple 9, which he created alongside his brother
Leopold Ross,
Claudia Sarne, and U.K. electronic artist
Bobby Krlic. The Ross brothers and
Krlic collaborated again in 2016 for their soundtrack to Steve Hoover's documentary film
Almost Holy. He returned later that year with a number of compositions on the collaborative soundtrack for Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary about the impact of climate change, Before the Flood. The effort marked
Ross' fourth soundtrack collaboration with
Reznor, as well as his first with revered composer
Gustavo Santaolalla. Later that year,
Reznor officially made
Ross a member of
Nine Inch Nails, while their scores for Peter Berg's Patriot's Day and
Ken Burns/
Lynn Novick's documentary series The Vietnam War carried them into 2017.
Outside of his work with
Reznor on a trio of
NIN EPs and scores for Mid90s, Bird Box, and Waves,
Ross continued to collaborate with
Leopold and
Sarne on compositions for
A Million Little Pieces and Earthquake Bird. He closed out the decade with
Reznor, delivering the soundtrack to the HBO series Watchmen. ~ Heather Phares