James Hannigan is a BAFTA award-winning composer and producer with credits including multi-million-selling video games, television, and cutting-edge audio drama. His work includes entries in the Harry Potter, Dead Space, Evil Genius, RuneScape, Warhammer, Theme Park, EA Sports, Command and Conquer video game series; full-cast audio adaptations including the NY Times #1 bestselling The Sandman, the Audie award-winning Alien series, along with audiobooks including the newly recorded Discworld and Harry Potter series read by Stephen Fry.

Among Hannigan’s awards are a Webby People’s Choice Award for The Sandman Act II (with James McAvoy , Michael Sheen, and Regé-Jean Page) and, in earlier years, an IFMCA (International Film Music Critics Association) Award for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince VG (also BAFTA Nominated, 2010). His themes, such as Red Alert 3’s parodic Soviet March, have been streamed hundreds of millions of times across media platforms.

Among his other credits are entries in the FIFA, F1, Grand Prix, Transformers, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lord of the Rings, and Space Hulk VG series; Evil Genius 2 (2022), Steelrising (2022), Microsoft’s Freelancer, Nintendo’s Art Academy (also heard in the Super Smash Bros. series), Terraria: Otherworld, Primeval (BBC America), Reign of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (VG) ... READ MORE >>

“… James Hannigan’s music makes The Sandman totally immersive.”

THE SUNDAY TIMES

“The most powerful weapon is the music.”

L.A. TIMES

“the best music in the series..”

MOVIE MUSIC UK

“An astonishing composer…”

NEIL GAIMAN

“…a wonderful cinematic score”

AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE

“[Evil Genius] expertly captures the ‘60s spy-movie aesthetic”

GAME INFORMER

” a superb score by composer James Hannigan — nothing more, nothing less.”

MULTIVERSITY COMICS

“horns and violins rise to cacophony, guaranteed to get the heart pumping.”

TIME

“A score which combines musicality with wit … complementing the sound perfectly.”

BAFTA

“10/10. The music in Republic is amazing… possibly the most appropriate music ever….”

GAME FAQS

“James Hannigan has not missed a beat.”

GAMING TREND

“formidable music, sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender…”

THE TIMES

“…some of the most viscerally satisfying bombast ever produced”

GGM

“The soundtrack is particularly fantastic”

IGN

“…a cohesive musical story from start to finish.”

FORBES

“The music truly excels”

RAPID REVIEWS

“The music is amazing. James Hannigan returns, expands the original … Brilliant Music.”

GAMEWATCHER

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