Steve Price Net Worth

What Is Steven Price's Net Worth?

Steven Price is a British film and television composer who has a net worth of $5 million. Price is best known for composing the innovative score for Alfonso Cuarón's 2013 science-fiction film "Gravity," which earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Original Score. He has since become one of Britain's most prominent film composers, with credits including "Fury," "Suicide Squad," "Baby Driver," "The Aeronauts," "Last Night in Soho," "Heart of Stone," "Heads of State," and "The Running Man."

Before becoming a composer in his own right, Price spent more than a decade working throughout the film-music business as an engineer, programmer, arranger, and music editor. His early credits included work on "The Lord of the Rings" films, "Batman Begins," and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." That experience eventually led to his first full feature-film score, for Joe Cornish's "Attack the Block" in 2011.

Price has also become closely associated with natural-history filmmaking. He composed music for the BBC series "The Hunt," Netflix's "Our Planet," and "David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet," winning a Primetime Emmy for the latter project. His work has subsequently been adapted for live concert performances.

Early Life and Education

Steven Price was born on April 22, 1977, in Nottingham, England. He became interested in music at an early age and studied music at the University of Cambridge.

After graduating, Price began his professional career in London as an assistant to Gang of Four guitarist and producer Andy Gill. Working in Gill's studio exposed him to recording, production, engineering, and the technical side of making music.

Price increasingly found himself working on film projects. Rather than entering the business immediately as a composer, he learned the industry through supporting roles that included programming, arranging, editing, engineering, and mixing.

"The Lord of the Rings" and Music Editing

A recommendation from Abbey Road Studios led Price to composer Howard Shore, who was creating the music for Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Price became part of Shore's music team and worked as a music editor on "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

The experience gave Price an unusually detailed education in how music interacts with picture during the final stages of a major film production.

He subsequently worked as a music editor on Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" and collaborated with producer Nigel Godrich on Edgar Wright's "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." Price also contributed additional music to several projects while gradually moving toward composing.

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"Attack the Block" and "Gravity"

Price's first feature film as primary composer was Joe Cornish's 2011 science-fiction comedy "Attack the Block." Produced by Edgar Wright, the movie began a series of collaborations that would become important to Price's career.

He next scored Wright's 2013 comedy "The World's End." Around the same time, he began working with director Alfonso Cuarón on "Gravity."

The unusual nature of "Gravity" made music particularly important. Because the film takes place largely in the vacuum of space, where conventional sound does not travel, Cuarón and Price developed a score that frequently performed functions normally handled by sound effects. Price combined orchestral material, electronics, processed voices, and manipulated instrumental sounds to create the sensation of movement and danger.

The result became Price's breakthrough. At the 2014 Academy Awards, he won Best Original Score for "Gravity." He also won the BAFTA Award for Original Music, along with honors from critics' organizations and the film-music industry.

"Fury," "Suicide Squad," and "Baby Driver"

The success of "Gravity" led to a steady run of major studio assignments.

Price composed the music for David Ayer's 2014 World War II film "Fury," starring Brad Pitt. For the score, he incorporated sounds connected to actual military machinery, including recordings involving World War II-era tanks.

He reunited with Ayer for the 2016 DC Comics film "Suicide Squad." Price then worked again with Edgar Wright on "Baby Driver" in 2017. The movie relied heavily on pre-existing songs synchronized to its action, requiring Price's original score to coexist with one of the most music-driven soundtracks of the decade.

His other film scores have included "American Assassin," "The Aeronauts," "Over the Moon," "Last Night in Soho," and "Heart of Stone."

Natural History and David Attenborough

Price has developed a significant parallel career composing for documentaries and natural-history productions.

He scored the BBC nature series "The Hunt," narrated by David Attenborough, and later composed the music for Netflix's "Our Planet." The latter project combined large-scale orchestral music with imagery of wildlife and environmental change from around the world.

Price subsequently composed "David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet," the 2020 documentary in which Attenborough reflected on his lifetime observing changes in the natural world. Price won a Primetime Emmy Award for his music.

The "Our Planet" score also became the basis of "Our Planet Live in Concert," combining footage from the series with live orchestral performance.

Later Career

Price has continued working across studio films, independent productions, documentaries, and television. His later projects have included "William Tell," "Los Frikis," "Joy," "Heads of State," and Edgar Wright's "The Running Man."

Unlike composers who establish themselves primarily through one franchise, Price has moved among action films, science fiction, comedy, horror, animation, documentaries, and natural-history productions. His career has also kept him closely connected with recurring collaborators including Edgar Wright and David Attenborough's documentary teams.

Along with his Academy Award, BAFTA, and Emmy wins, Price's body of work has established him as one of the leading British screen composers of his generation.

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