James Hannigan
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| Background information | |
| Born | July 23, 1971 |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, musician, producer |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Website | http://www.jameshannigan.com/ |
James Hannigan (born 23 July 1971) is a multiple award-winning British composer and music producer. His work has included single or multiple entries in the multi-million selling Command & Conquer, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Dead Space, Warhammer, Space Hulk, Grand Prix and Theme Park game series; video games including The Transformers Universe, Freelancer, RuneScape 3, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Red Alert 3, Republic: The Revolution, Evil Genius, Sim Theme Park, Wing Commander: Privateer 2: The Darkening, Conquest, Nintendo's Art Academy, Reign of Fire and others, along with television such as BBC America’s Primeval. He has also contributed music to EA Sports titles, such as those belonging to the FIFA and F1 series and his music has been heard in games such as Super Smash Bros. Wii U and Saints Row 4. In the earlier years of his career, Hannigan was based at Pinewood Studios where he sometimes worked as a Sound Designer on films alongside composing. James Hannigan's other music credits include the Dirk Maggs directed dramas, Alien: Out of the Shadows and the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens and Neverwhere.
James Hannigan's Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 theme, Soviet March, is one of the best-known video game themes in history, garnering tens of millions of plays on YouTube and other streaming services.
Hannigan's music scores have been nominated five times by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and he won a BAFTA Award with Electronic Arts in 2000 for Sim Theme Park (UK title: Theme Park World). In 2010 his score for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince received a BAFTA nomination and won an International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) award. Most recently, in 2014, Hannigan was nominated for a Develop Award for his work on Runescape 3.
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