Michael Trent Reznor 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 Atticus Ross 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 Atticus Ross 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 Atticus Ross for their work on Watchmen.
Trivia
- Trent Reznor collaborated with Atticus Ross 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.
- The vinyl edition of Watchmen: Volume 3 (Music from the HBO Series) is actually presented as an in-universe album titled The Manhattan Project from "The Nine Inch Nails", a fictional version of Trent Reznor's band, Nine Inch Nails, existing within Watchmen.
- A fictional version of Trent Reznor is featured in supplemental material within the limited series' in-universe album, The Manhattan Project.
