Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross (born 16 January 1968) is an English musician, record producer, composer, and audio engineer. Along with

Trent Reznor Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, wh ...

, he won the

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for '' The Social Network'' in 2010. In 2013, the pair won a

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for their soundtrack to '' The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''. In 2021, alongside

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, they won the

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and Academy Award for the soundtrack for

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's ''

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''. Ross began working with Reznor on the latter's side project

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in 2002. He later worked with Reznor's band

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, first as a programmer and producer in 2005, and became the only official member of the band outside of Reznor in 2016.

Early life

Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross was born in the

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area of

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on 16 January 1968, the son of Roxana Lampson and Ian Ross. His father was a founder of

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. He has five siblings, including fashion model Liberty Ross and fellow musician Leopold Ross. His maternal grandfather was diplomat Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, his great-grandfather was Italian pathologist and bacteriologist Aldo Castellani, and his uncle is British-American journalist Charles Glass. Ross was educated at

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, where he was a few years below future UK Prime Ministers

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and

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, and later at the

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Career

Music

Ross came to notice in the mid-1990s as a

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for Tim Simenon's Bomb the Bass during the period of the albums ''Unknown Territory'' and ''Clear''. He worked on a number of production and remix projects with Simenon, as well as forming a collaborative relationship with

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. He programmed ''The Negro Inside Me'' and ''Oedipus Schmoedipus'', and produced ''As Above So Below'' before forming his own band, 12 Rounds, with his wife Claudia Sarne and Adam Holden. They released two albums, ''Jitterjuice'' and ''My Big Hero''. A third full-length album was produced by

, but was ultimately never finished. Three songs from that album have since been released on the band's website. Ross moved to the United States in 2000, and as of 2002 was working alongside Reznor for his side project

. He has been credited as a producer and/or programmer on the

albums ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Ghosts I–IV'' (on which he was a co-writer), '' The Slip'', and ''

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''. He has worked with Reznor in numerous other capacities, including work with

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and Zack de la Rocha, and they co-produced tracks for a reformed

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with

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in 2009.

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Other work has included two co-productions with Joe Barresi, the

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EP ''Human Nurture'' and

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's '' Year of the Black Rainbow'', as well as albums for

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. He has also produced tracks or created remixes for such artists as

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, and Telepathe. In May 2010, he appeared in a cryptic video and was named as a member of a secret project, later revealed to be How to Destroy Angels, a collaboration between Reznor and his wife

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. In 2016, Ross composed an original score titled 'The Journey' for ''

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'' new single-player story campaign mode. In 2020, he co-produced and co-wrote one track on

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's ''

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''. In 2021, Ross and Reznor produced and co-wrote Halsey's album ''

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''.

Film and television scores

Ross' work in film music began in 2004 when he scored the

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' TV series '' Touching Evil'' with his wife Claudia Sarne and brother Leopold Ross. He has since provided music for two further Hughes Brothers projects: Allen Hughes' vignette in the film '' New York, I Love You'', and Ross' first feature film, ''

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'' (2010). The latter's score was released through

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on 12 January 2010. It won at the BMI Awards and earned Ross a nomination as "Discovery of the Year" at the 2010

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. On 1 July 2010, Reznor announced that he and Ross were scoring

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's new film '' The Social Network''. The film's soundtrack was released on 28 September 2010, and was highly praised. On 16 January 2011, they won the

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for their score to ''The Social Network''. On 27 February, they received the

for '' The Social Network''. Ross and Reznor again collaborated on the soundtrack to Fincher's 2011 film ''

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (original title in sv, Män som hatar kvinnor , lit=''Men Who Hate Women'') is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004). It was published posthumously in 2 ...

''. In 2013, the pair won the

for their ''Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' soundtrack. Ross was slated to work on the 2013 samurai epic ''

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'', but was soon replaced by

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. Ross and Reznor again teamed up with Fincher to score his 2014 film '' Gone Girl''. In 2016, Ross and Reznor, along with composer

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and the band

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, collaborated to create the score to the documentary film '' Before the Flood''. In June 2017, Ross, along with Reznor, Maandig, Robin Finck,

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, and

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, appeared as "The Nine Inch Nails" in Episode 8 of '' Twin Peaks: The Return'' on Showtime, performing an alternative live rendition of the song "She's Gone Away" which previously appeared on Nine Inch Nails' 2016 EP ''

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''. In 2021, Reznor, Ross, and

won the Golden Globe for the soundtrack for ''

''.

Personal life

Ross and his wife, singer Claudia Sarne, have three children and live in

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Works

Musical scores

Film

Television

Video game

Nine Inch Nails

*''

'' (2005) (Production and programming) *''

'' (2007) (Production and programming) *'' Ghosts I–IV'' (2008) (Songwriter, production and programming) *'' The Slip'' (2008) (Production and programming) *''

'' (2013) (Production, programming, arranging and engineering) *''

'' (2016) (Production, performer and songwriter) *'' The Fragile: Deviations 1'' (2016) (Production) *''

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'' (2017) (Production, performer and songwriter) *''

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'' (2018) (Production, performer and songwriter)

Production

*No Jahoda – ''Jahoda Witness'' *

– '' See You on the Other Side'' (also co-writing) *Korn – ''

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'' *

– '' Year of The Black Rainbow'' (with Joe Barresi) *

– "Go All the Way (Into the Twilight)" *

– ''Human Nurture'' (with Joe Barresi) *

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– " Old Town Road" (also co-writing) *

– ''

'' (also co-writing) * Halsey – ''

Programming

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– ''Beyond Electric Dreams'' *

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– '' Oedipus Schmoedipus'', ''The Negro Inside Me'' *

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– ''The Levy'' * P!nk – '' Try This'' *

– ''

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'' (2007) * Bomb the Bass – ''Clear''

References

External links

Nine Inch Nails' site
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