Austin Wintory

Curiosity and exploration lay at the core of composer Austin Wintory’s career. In total Austin has garnered 2 BAFTA’s (among 7 nominations), a GRAMMY win for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media on Sword of the Sea (plus 3 additional nominations), an Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences DICE award (among 3 other nominations), 19 Game Audio Network Guild awards (among 45 nominations), 2 ASCAP Composer Choice awards (among 7 nominations) and 3 nominations from the Society of Composers and Lyricists. Known principally for his work in videogames, his music can be heard in a wide range of titles: from the critically acclaimed innovators (Journey, ABZU, Stray Gods, The Banner Saga) to AAA blockbusters (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Aliens Fireteam Elite, LEGO Fortnite, Towerborne).

After nearly a decade scoring independent films and games, Austin’s career took a leap forward on the back of thatgamecompany’s hit PS3 title Journey. The soundtrack album debuted on the Billboard charts higher than any prior game’s original score, and in December 2012 became the first game score ever nominated for a GRAMMY.

On the heels of Journey, subsequent game scores of Austin’s include The Banner Saga trilogy; Giant Squid’s debut title ABZÛ and its followup, The Pathless; Ubisoft’s Victorian-era Assassin’s Creed Syndicate; the innovative FMV game Erica; the co-op squad shooter ALIENS: Fireteam Elite; Pocketwatch Games’ indie darlings Monaco and Tooth and Tail; the remake of the infamous 80s romp Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded; Mike Bithell’s strategy/action John Wick Hex, Epic Games’ open world LEGO Fortnite; EA’s mobile reimagination of the 90s RTS classic Command & Conquer – Rivals; and Sloclap’s stylized martial arts debut Absolver. Austin most notably wrote one of League of Legends’ most popular champion themes, “Volibear: The Relentless Storm.”

In 2024 Austin re-teamed with Supergiant Games’ composer Darren Korb and contributed orchestral music to the forthcoming Hades 2, amongst multiple other upcoming releases: Yellow Brick Games’ Eternal Strands, Stoic Studio’s Towerborne, Pocketwatch Games’ Monaco 2, and Giant Squid’s Sword of the Sea for which Austin received a Grammy win, HMMA nomination, and SCL nomination.

In the world of film, Austin has scored over 60 features including multiple indie hits: Captain Abu Raed (2008 Sundance winner), Grace (2009 Sundance hit, starring Jordan Ladd), The Last Movie Star (Burt Reynolds’ final film), A Little Help (the leading role debut of The Office’s Jenna Fischer), Bullet Head (starring Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas), several acclaimed documentaries such as Tread and the EMMY-nominated Chowchilla (CNN films), and the continuous-take action films One Shot and One More Shot (directed by James Nunn, starring Scott Adkins). His TV work includes the Netflix international hit Thai Cave Rescue and Amazon’s Big Dogs.

Most recently Austin scored Clark Baker’s 80’s horror Test Screening, and Michael Russell Gunn’s political drama Reykjavik (starring Jeff Daniels, JK Simmons and Jared Harris).