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Arthur Sharpe is a BAFTA, 2x Ivor Novello and RTS Award-winning composer

… whose distinct and characterful music helps give each new project a unique identity. Often blending a traditional orchestral palette with more unusual instruments and sounds, he balances the strange with the familiar, the beautiful with the gnarly as the picture requires, creating scores that move, unsettle, intrigue and intensify in equal measure.  

Most recently he scored DIARY OF A MAD OLD MAN (2026), a Japanese-language feature film directed by Wayne Wang, starring Lily Franky and Fan Bingbing, which premièred at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, EXTRA GEOGRAPHY (2026), a feature film directed by Molly Manners, which premièred at Sundance 2026, and ALICE AND STEVE (2026), a Disney+ series directed by Tom Kingsley, starring Nicola Walker and Jermaine Clement.

Other notable works include the HBO & Sky Atlantic series LANDSCAPERS (2021), a genre-distorting true crime drama starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis, for which he won multiple awards including the 2022 BAFTA for Best Original Music and the Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack; and the feature film THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN (2021), a Victorian-era artist’s biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy, for which he won an ASCAP London Music Award, as well as being nominated for the 2023 Ivor Novello Awards and making the 2022 BAFTA Longlist for Best Original Film Score. His work on these two projects also saw him nominated for an IFMCA Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year. For his work on the BBC1 & Sister Pictures series THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ARE BASED ON A PACK OF LIES (2023) he was also awarded the 2024 Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack, while his work on the Apple TV series PRIME TARGET (2025) won him another ASCAP London Music Award.

Projects soon to be released include THE SCURRY, a feature film directed by Craig Roberts, starring Ella Purnell and Rhys Ifans, and PRODIGIES, an Apple TV series written and directed by Will Sharpe, who also stars alongside Ayo Edebiri.

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