Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross composed the score for the limited series Watchmen.
Awards
- He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special along with Trent Reznor for their work on the Watchmen episode "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice".
- He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special along with Trent Reznor for their work on the song "The Way It Used to Be" featured in the Watchmen episode "This Extraordinary Being".
- He was nominated for a Society of Composers & Lyricists Award for Outstanding Original Score for a Television or Streaming Production along with Trent Reznor for their work on Watchmen.
Trivia
- Atticus Ross collaborated with Trent Reznor in The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, Before the Flood, Patriots Day, Mid90s, Bird Box, Waves, Mank, Soul, Bones and All, Empire of Light, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Killer, Challengers, Queer, The Gorge, Tron: Ares, and After the Hunt.
- Watchmen: Volume 3 (Music from the HBO Series) is actually presented as a new album titled The Manhattan Project from "The Nine Inch Nails", a fictional version of Atticus Ross' band, Nine Inch Nails, existing within Watchmen. A fictional version of Ross is featured in supplemental material within the limited series' in-universe album.
