Steffen Thum is a composer for film and television.

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He has garnered extensive experience across high profile studio films, TV series and ad campaigns, as well as independent cinema and celebrated shorts.

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Most recently, Steffen co-scored THE OLD GUARD 2 with Ruth Barrett. The highly anticipated film, starring Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman, became the worldwide #1 film on Netflix right after its release.

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Further credits include the historical action epic STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH by acclaimed director Mikael Håfström. Defying genre conventions, Steffen combined a full orchestra with Nordic folk and modern rock influences, which Movie Music International described as "a major work for the beginning of the year". The score was also nominated for Best Original Score at the Music and Sound Awards 2024. Steffen continued his collaboration with Håfström on SLINGSHOT, a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller starring Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne.

 

For director Matt Routledge, he scored the action-packed indie horror breakout TRIBAL - GET OUT ALIVE, which won Best Original Score at the 2020 UK Motion Picture Festival.

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Steffen co-composed the action-packed Paramount horror feature CRAWL with Max Aruj (directed by Alexandre Aja, produced by Sam Raimi).​

Max and Steffen further collaborated on the survival thriller BETRAYAL, the six-part Amazon Prime documentary series THIS IS FOOTBALL for 14th Street Music, indie thriller WARNING SHOT (with David Spade, Bruce Dern), Netflix Original film iBOY (with Maisie Williams) and award-winning short films QUINCEANERO, WHEN WE DANCED, IGNITE - A BURNING MAN EXPERIENCE and RESURRECT.

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For acclaimed directors Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, Steffen wrote the original score for the heart-warming Chinese drama LOOKING UP, which debuted no. 1 at the Chinese Box Office ahead of THE LION KING.

 

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Steffen first started a career in visual post production before making his way into music, studying media composition and audio production in Germany as well as film scoring in Los Angeles, where he moved in 2013.

 

In 2014, Steffen began working with award-winning film composer Lorne Balfe and 14thStreetMusic at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica, CA. 

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He since served as score producer for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT, GEOSTORM and CHURCHILL, as well as contributing additional music and arrangements to films including TOP GUN: MAVERICK, Marvel's BLACK WIDOW, AD ASTRA, BAD BOYS FOR LIFE and TV series such as THE CROWN, HIS DARK MATERIALS, THE GILDED AGE, HUNTERS, MARCELLA and National Geographic’s GENIUS, as well as video games such as Marvel's SPIDERMAN 2 and SKYLANDERS: SUPERCHARGERS.​

 

Further work includes THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE, TERMINATOR: GENISYS, Michael Bay’s 13 HOURS and the DreamWorks Animation features KUNG FU PANDA 3, HOME and THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR.

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Since 2020, Steffen works independently from his studio in Berlin, Germany.