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Garry Schyman

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Garry Schyman
Composer Garry Schyman's award-winning music can be heard in nearly every audio-visual media, including feature films, prime-time television, and video games. His haunting orchestral scores for the globally acclaimed video games BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite have earned him multiple awards, including top honors for Best Original Score from the British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA) and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

As one of the world's most celebrated composers of video game music, Schyman is notable for his versatility of style and unique ability to fluidly draw from multiple eclectic sources of inspiration. He captured the fantasy world of Tolkien for the adventure game Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (nominated for a BAFTA award) and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and paid playful homage to '50s sci-fi with his score for the 2005 game Destroy All Humans! (followed by two sequels). He accelerated heartbeats with his thunderous orchestral scores in action games like Resistance: Retribution and Dante's Inferno and gave a nod to the hypnotic style of Bernard Herrmann in the mystery game Voyeur. Schyman's score for the virtual reality game Torn was released in Aug. 2018 as a soundtrack on Varèse Sarabande Records.
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    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 13 wins & 14 nominations total

    Known for

    BioShock (2007)
    BioShock
    9.1
    Video Game
    • Composer
    • 2007
    BioShock Infinite (2013)
    BioShock Infinite
    9.1
    Video Game
    • Composer
    • 2013
    BioShock 2 (2010)
    BioShock 2
    8.2
    Video Game
    • Composer
    • 2010
    BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode One (2013)
    BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode One
    8.6
    Video Game
    • Composer
    • 2013

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    Composer



    • Open Roads (2024)
      Open Roads
      5.9
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2024
    • Forspoken (2023)
      Forspoken
      5.0
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2023
    • Gypsy Rose Leezinski (2022)
      Gypsy Rose Leezinski
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2022
    • Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed (2022)
      Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed
      6.9
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2022
    • The Interrogation of Timmy H. (2021)
      The Interrogation of Timmy H.
      6.8
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Metamorphosis (2020)
      Metamorphosis
      6.7
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2020
    • Destroy All Humans! (2020)
      Destroy All Humans!
      6.9
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2020
    • Elizabeth Roberts in Itsy Bitsy (2019)
      Itsy Bitsy
      4.6
      • Composer
      • 2019
    • Torn (2018)
      Torn
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2018
    • Alastair Duncan and Troy Baker in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War (2017)
      Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
      8.1
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2017
    • Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire (2017)
      Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire
      8.1
      Video Game
      • co-composer: The Icebrood Saga
      • 2017
    • Norman Newkirk, Nikita Breznikov, Ken Zheng, and Livi Zheng in Brush with Danger (2015)
      Brush with Danger
      4.2
      • Composer
      • 2015
    • Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor - Game of the Year Edition (2015)
      Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor - Game of the Year Edition
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2015
    • Troy Baker in Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)
      Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
      8.2
      Video Game
      • Composer
      • 2014
    • Flight from Hell (2014)
      Flight from Hell
      3.5
      • Composer
      • 2014

    Music Department



    • Forspoken (2023)
      Forspoken
      5.0
      Video Game
      • conductor
      • 2023
    • Alastair Duncan and Troy Baker in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War (2017)
      Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
      8.1
      Video Game
      • conductor
      • 2017
    • BioShock 2 (2010)
      BioShock 2
      8.2
      Video Game
      • conductor
      • music produced by
      • orchestrator
      • 2010
    • Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)
      Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
      6.5
      • composer: additional score
      • 2010
    • Dante's Inferno (2010)
      Dante's Inferno
      7.6
      Video Game
      • orchestra conducted by
      • 2010
    • The Motel (2005)
      The Motel
      6.6
      • orchestrator
      • 2005
    • Spooky House (2001)
      Spooky House
      5.1
      • conductor
      • orchestration
      • 2001
    • The First Valentine
      TV Special
      • music
      • 1989

    Soundtrack



    • Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt in Happy! (2017)
      Happy!
      8.1
      TV Series
      • performer: "The Girl For The Debt"
      • writer: "The Girl For The Debt" (uncredited)
      • 2018
    • BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode Two (2014)
      BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode Two
      8.3
      Video Game
      • music: "Cohen's Masterpiece"
      • 2014
    • Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, and Brian Tochi in Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994)
      Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
      3.8
      TV Movie
      • lyrics: "Quiver", "Oh Yeah"
      • music: "Cupid", "Sexy Boy", "Quiver", "Oh Yeah", "Metal Heavy"
      • 1994

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