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James Hannigan is a BAFTA award-winning composer and producer with credits spanning 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, and Command and Conquer video game series; audio adaptations including the full-cast, NY Times #1 bestselling The Sandman, the Audie award-winning Alien series, and the recently recorded Discworld.
Among Hannigan's other 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 have been streamed hundreds of millions of times across media platforms, and tracks from his back catalogue can be heard in numerous TV productions, ranging from Top Gear and The Grand Tour to Evil Lives Here and The World According to Jeff Goldblum.
Other credits include entries in the FIFA, F1, Grand Prix, Transformers, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lord of the Rings, and Space Hulk VG series; cult hit Red Alert 3 (with Tim Curry and J.K. Simmons), themes including the parodic Soviet March, Nintendo's Art Academy (also heard in the Super Smash Bros. series), Evil Genius 2 (2022), Steelrising (2022), Terraria: Otherworld, Primeval (BBC America), Reign of Fire, Freelancer, video game film tie-ins such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and perhaps the most listened-to audiobooks in history: the Harry Potter series read by Stephen Fry.