Benjamin Wallfisch

Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch (born 7 August 1979) is an English composer, conductor, and music producer known for his work on film scores. He has contributed to over 50 feature films since the mid-2000s, including notable works like Blade Runner 2049, Shazam! (2019), It (2017), It Chapter Two (2019), The Invisible Man (2020), Hidden Figures, A Cure for Wellness (both 2016), Mortal Kombat (2021), and its 2026 sequel, The Flash (2023), Twisters, Alien: Romulus, Kraven the Hunter (all 2024), and The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025). He additionally provided the score for two films in the Predator franchise, including Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands (both 2025).

His work has earned recognition including a joint nomination with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer for Best Original Score at the 74th Golden Globe Awards for Hidden Figures, as well as nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Blade Runner 2049. In 2020, Wallfisch was nominated for Film Composer of the Year for the second consecutive year at the World Soundtrack Awards.

Wallfisch's movies have made a combined worldwide box office revenue of over $2.5 billion. In 2019, Variety included him in their Billion Dollar Composer series.

Early life Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch was born on 7 August 1979 in London, England, to Elizabeth Wallfisch (née Hunt), an Australian Baroque violinist, and Raphael Wallfisch, a British cellist. He is the eldest of their three children. His paternal grandparents are pianist Peter Wallfisch and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the latter of whom was Holocaust survivor who, as a member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, was saved from extermination, as cello players were hard to replace. They were Jewish emigrants from the city of Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His great-grandfather was conductor Albert Coates.

Career Wallfisch has been nominated for multiple awards, including a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards. He composed Andy Muschietti's It, It Chapter Two, It: Welcome to Derry, and The Flash, David F. Sandberg's Shazam!, Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man, co-composed Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 with Hans Zimmer, and wrote the score for Simon McQuoid's Mortal Kombat for New Line Cinema and Warner Bros.

Other projects include Neil Marshall's Hellboy, Academy Award Best Picture nominee Ted Melfi's Hidden Figures (in collaboration with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer), and David F. Sandberg's Annabelle: Creation. He contributed music based on Elgar's "Enigma' Variations" for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.

Wallfisch has also scored Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness, the Steven Spielberg produced short film Auschwitz, directed by James Moll, James Marsh's King of Thieves, and Steven Knight's Serenity.

Wallfisch has released 25 albums and has performed over 100 live concerts worldwide, leading orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony at venues including the Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall. He has collaborated, recorded, and performed his music with artists including Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock and Yuja Wang.

He has collaborated with Pharrell Williams three times, including a live performance at the 2015 Grammy Awards, and he arranged Adele's 2017 Grammy Awards performance of George Michael's "Fastlove".

Wallfisch has been a member of the BAFTA Academy since 2009, was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2014, and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017.

Personal life Wallfisch resides in Los Angeles, California, with his daughter.

Discography Film As primary score composer Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes 2005 Dear Wendy Thomas Vinterberg Lucky PunchNimbus Film ProductionsZentropa EntertainmentsTV2 DanmarkZentropa International Köln Nominated – Robert Award for Best Score 2008 The Escapist Rupert Wyatt Picture FarmParallel Film ProductionsVertigo Films 2009 In Search of the Messiah Tim Meara Meara Films Documentary film 2012 Fetih 1453 Faruk Aksoy Aksoy FilmMedyapim 2013 Hours Eric Heisserer The Safran CompanyPalmStar MediaHours Capital As composer and conductor Hammer of the Gods Farren Blackburn Vertigo FilmsMagnolia Pictures Nominated – Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song Summer in February Christopher Menaul CrossDay Productions Ltd.Apart FilmsMarwood Pictures Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score 2014 Desert Dancer Richard Raymond CrossDay Productions Ltd.Head Gear FilmsLipsync Productions Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain Ravi Kumar Rising Star EntertainmentWardour Media GroupSahara One Motion Pictures 2015 Auschwitz James Moll Allentown Productions Documentary film A Flickering Truth Pietra Brettkelly PBK LimitedUmbrella Entertainment Gamba Tomohiro KawamuraYoshihiro Komori Arad ProductionsGrindstone PicturesShirogumi Pressure Ron Scalpello Pinewood PicturesVertical Entertainment Within Phil Claydon The Safran CompanyNew Line CinemaWarner Bros. 2016 Lights Out David F. Sandberg New Line CinemaRatPac-Dune EntertainmentGrey Matter ProductionsAtomic Monster First collaboration with David F. Sandberg, as composer and conductor Mully Scott Haze Bardis ProductionsSterling Light Productions Documentary film Hidden Figures Theodore Melfi Fox 2000 PicturesLevantine FilmsChernin Entertainment Composed with Hans Zimmer and Pharrell WilliamsNominated – Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original ScoreNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Original ScoreNominated – Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Orchestra conducted by Timothy WilliamsFirst collaboration with Theodore Melfi A Cure for Wellness Gore Verbinski 20th Century FoxRegency EnterprisesNew Regency ProductionsBlind Wink Productions Orchestra Conducted by Gavin Greenaway 2017 Bitter Harvest George Mendeluk Devil's Harvest ProductionsRoadside AttractionsD Films As composer and conductor Annabelle: Creation David F. Sandberg New Line CinemaWarner Bros. PicturesAtomic MonsterGrey Matter Productions Second collaboration With David F. Sandberg, orchestra conducted by Timothy Williams It Andy Muschietti New Line CinemaWarner Bros. PicturesVertigo Entertainment First collaboration with Andy Muschietti Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve Warner Bros. PicturesColumbia PicturesAlcon EntertainmentScott Free Productions Composed with Hans ZimmerReplaced Jóhann JóhannssonThemes by VangelisNominated – BAFTA Award for Best Film MusicNominated – Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best ScoreNominated – Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual MediaNominated – Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Film 2018 The Darkest Minds Jennifer Yuh Nelson 20th Century Fox21 Laps Entertainment Orchestra conducted by Timothy Williams & Benjamin Wallfisch King of Thieves James Marsh Working Title FilmsStudioCanal UK Orchestra conducted by Chris Egan The Vanishing Kristoffer Nyholm Cross Creek PicturesSaban EntertainmentLionsgate Films 2019 Serenity Steven Knight IM Global Additional music by Antonio Andrade, orchestra conducted by Geoff Alexander Shazam! David F. Sandberg DC FilmsNew Line CinemaWarner Bros. PicturesThe Safran Company Third collaboration with David F. Sandberg. Orchestra Conducted by Chris Egan & Benjamin Wallfisch Hellboy Neil Marshall Millennium FilmsDark Horse Entertainment Additional music by Antonio Andrade, Jared Fly & Alex Lu. Orchestra conducted by Chris Egan and performed by The Chamber Orchestra of London It Chapter Two Andy Muschietti New Line CinemaWarner Bros. PicturesVertigo Entertainment Second collaboration with Andy Muschietti, Orchestra conducted By Arturo Rodriguez 2020 The Invisible Man Leigh Whannell Universal PicturesBlumhouse Orchestra conducted by Chris Egan, performed by The Chamber Orchestra of London Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Horror Film 2021 Mortal Kombat Simon McQuoid Warner Bros. PicturesNew Line CinemaAtomic MonsterBroken Road Productions Orchestra conducted By Brett Kelly & Christopher Gordon The Starling Theodore Melfi NetflixLimelightEntertainment OneBoies/Schiller Film Group Second collaboration with Theodore Melfi, Orchestra Conducted By Geoff Alexander and Performed by Chamber Orchestra of London 2022 Thirteen Lives Ron Howard United Artists ReleasingMetro-Goldwyn-MayerUniversal PicturesBron CreativeImagine Entertainment Orchestra conducted By Chris Egan & performed By Chamber Orchestra of London 2023 The Flash Andy Muschietti Warner Bros. PicturesDC StudiosThe Disco FactoryDouble Dream Third collaboration with Andy Muschietti. Orchestra conducted by Chris Egan & Wallfisch and performed By Chamber Orchestra of London 2024 Twisters Lee Isaac Chung Universal PicturesWarner Bros. PicturesAmblin Entertainment Also orchestra conductor with Arturo Rodriguez Alien: Romulus Fede Álvarez 20th Century StudiosScott Free ProductionsBrandywine Productions Orchestra conducted By Chris Egan and performed by Chamber Orchestra of London Kraven the Hunter J. C. Chandor Columbia PicturesMarvel EntertainmentArad ProductionsMatt Tolmach Productions Composed with Evgueni Galperine and Sacha Galperine 2025 Wolf Man Leigh Whannell Universal PicturesBlumhouse ProductionsMotel MoviesWaypoint EntertainmentCloak & Co. Until Dawn David F. Sandberg Sony Pictures ReleasingScreen GemsPlayStation ProductionsVertigo EntertainmentCoin OperatedMangata Fourth collaboration with David F. Samberg Predator: Killer of Killers Dan TrachtenbergMicho Robert Rutare Hulu20th Century Studios20th Century AnimationDavis EntertainmentThe Third Floor, Inc. First collaboration with Dan Trachtenberg. First composition for an animated film. Predator themes by Alan Silvestri The Conjuring: Last Rites Michael Chaves New Line CinemaAtomic MonsterThe Safran Company The Conjuring themes by Joseph Bishara The Woman in Cabin 10 Simon Stone NetflixSisterGotham Group Predator: Badlands Dan Trachtenberg 20th Century Studios Second collaboration with Dan Trachtenberg. Co-composed with Sarah Schachner. 2026 Mortal Kombat II Simon McQuoid Warner Bros. PicturesNew Line CinemaAtomic MonsterBroken Road Productions Second collaboration with Simon McQuoid

As composer of additional music Year Title Director(s) Composer(s) Studio(s) Notes 2009 Moon Duncan Jones Clint Mansell Stage 6 FilmsLimelight PicturesSony Pictures Classics 2013 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen Hans Zimmer Summit EntertainmentRegency EnterprisesFilm4 ProductionsFox Searchlight Pictures 2015 The Little Prince Mark Osborne Hans ZimmerRichard Harvey ON Animation StudiosM6 FilmsNetflix 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Zack Snyder Hans ZimmerJunkie XL DC EntertainmentRatPac-Dune EntertainmentCruel and Unusual FilmsWarner Bros. Pictures 2017 Dunkirk Christopher Nolan Hans Zimmer Syncopy Inc.Warner Bros. Pictures Composed the "Nimrod" variation, based on the theme by Edward Elgar

Television Year TitleNetwork(s) Notes 2009 Breaking the Mould BBC OneTelevision film 2013 The Thirteenth Tale BBC Two 2014 The Crimson Field BBC One 6 episodes 2015 The Enfield Haunting Sky Witness 3 episodes 2019 Hostile Planet National Geographic 6 episodes 2025–present It: Welcome to Derry HBO 8 episodes

Theatre Year Title Director(s) Notes 2009 Peter Pan Ben Harrison London / San Francisco