Harry Escott


Harry Escott is a British composer living in London. He has composed the scores to several films, including Shame, Hard Candy, A Mighty Heart, and Ali & Ava, for which he won a British Independent Film Award for best music. He is a frequent collaborator with Michael Winterbottom,, Paddy Considine, Steve McQueen and Clio Barnard. His score for Dark River included a song co-written with PJ Harvey, "An Acre of Land", released on Cognitive Shift Recordings.
He scored Eran Creevy's action thriller Welcome to the Punch which was executive produced by Ridley Scott and had its cinematic release in 2013. This was the second time he had worked with Creevy, having scored the director's debut feature, Shifty, for which he received a BIFA nomination in 2008.
Escott's recent television credits include BBC One drama series Roadkill, for which he received a BAFTA award and Steve McQueen's Uprising for which he won the Royal Television Society award in 2021.
He studied music at the Royal College of Music and Somerville College, Oxford.
His choral work, "O Viridissima Virga", was written for the choir of St Bride's Church, London.

Filmography

  • Hard Candy
  • What's Your Name 41?
  • Ghosts
  • Deep Water
  • Die Österreichische Methode
  • The Road to Guantanamo
  • A Mighty Heart
  • Poppy Shakespeare
  • Shifty
  • The Arbor
  • I Am Slave
  • The Battle for Barking
  • Axis of Light
  • Shame
  • Welcome to the Punch
  • What Remains
  • The Selfish Giant
  • New Worlds
  • The Face of an Angel
  • River
  • Tout, tout de suite
  • Retablo
  • Dark River
  • Journeyman
  • Damascus Cover
  • The Wedding Guest
  • Deep State
  • Wild Bill
  • Greed
  • The English Game
  • Roadkill
  • Uprising
  • Ali & Ava
  • ''The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe''