BAFTA Winner Steven Price Named As Composer on Edgar Wright’s ANT-MAN

Composer Steven Price has received his first Best Original Film Music accolade from the EE British Academy of Film Awards (BAFTA) for his work on director Alfonso Cuarón’s GRAVITY.

In accepting the honor Sunday night, Price said, “Thank you so much BAFTA. I share this with Alfonso. You inspired every second of this and it has been a huge honor to tell this story with you. I want to thank all the musicians who played on this score and gave the music its heartbeat, as well as everyone at Warner Bros., The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency and all the people on this film who have been so supportive. Thank you to my mom and dad for having such a great record collection and starting this whole thing off. But most of all, thank you Gemma, my wife.”

In addition to BAFTA, Price’s music for Gravity has also been recognized with best score wins from the Broadcast Film Critics Association in addition to several best score nominations including the Oscar and the Golden Globe.

Read my interviews with the composer on THE WORLD’S END – HERE and GRAVITY – HERE.

Soon after receiving his BAFTA win yesterday, director Edgar Wright tweeted that Price will be composing the score to the upcoming feature adaptation of the Marvel comic book ANT-MAN starring Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.

Huge congrats to @SteveBPrice for his Bafta Award for the ‘Gravity’ score. I guess I should drop the news that he is scoring ‘Ant-Man’.

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) February 16, 2014

The film marks Price’s third collaboration with Wright after working with the filmmaker on THE WORLD’S END and ATTACK THE BLOCK (the latter which Wright executive produced).

Price is presently composing the score for FURY and also wrote music for Cuarón’s new NBC series Believe which premieres on March 10 and stars Kyle MacLachlan and Delroy Lindo. Believe tells the story of a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison, who has been tasked with protecting her from evil.