StephenGallagher
- Composer
Stephen Gallagher first fell in love with music through synthesizers, playing keys in rock band Breathe with his Hutt Valley High School friends. Since moving into composing and music editing in the early 2000s, he has garnered extensive credits, including frequent work on Sir Peter Jackson projects. This includes music editing and composition for The Hobbit trilogy, music editing for Mortal Engines, andThe Beatles: Get Back, which earned him an Emmy as part of the sound editing team. He also won an Emmy for music direction and composition for Secrets at Red Rocks, alongside David Long. Long and Gallagher's long-time collaboration includes co-composing for the series Mystic, and film Russian Snark.
Screenography
Awards
2026 Children's & Family Emmy Awards (United States)
Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Live Action Program (with David Long): for Secrets at Red Rocks, episode 'Open Your Mind A Little'
2025 APRA Silver Scroll Awards (Australian Performing Right Association)
Nominated for a Screen Music Award for Best Original Music in a Series (with David Long): Secrets at Red Rocks
2025 World Soundtrack Awards (Belgium)
Nominated for Public Choice Award: The War of the the Rohirrim
2025 New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Original Score - Series (with David Long): Secrets at Red Rocks
2025 International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
Nominated for Breakthrough Composer of the Year
Nominated forBest Original Score for an Animated Film: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2022 Chicago Horror Film Festival (United States)
Nominated for Best Music: Puppet Killer
2022 New Zealand Television Awards
Images & Sound Best Original Score (with David Long): for Mystic: Series 2
2022 Primetime Emmy Awards (United States)
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program, Single or Multi-Camera (with Martin Kwok, Matt Stutter, Simon Riley, Michael Donaldson. Emilie de la Rey): for The Beatles: Get Back, Part 3: Days 17-22
2022 Motion Picture Sound Editors (United States)
Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Non-Theatrical Documentary (with Brent Burge, Martin Kwok, Matt Stutter, Buster Flaws, Melanie Graham, Emilie de le Rey) for The Beatles: Get Back, Part 3: Days 17-22
2020 Indie Short Fest (United States)
Nominated for the November Award for Best Original Score: for Zealandia
2020 London International Motion Pictures Award (United Kingdom)
Nominated for Best Composer: for Puppet Killer
2018 Motion Picture Sound Editors (United States)
Nominated for the Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Foreign Language Feature Film (with Hayden Collow, Chris Ward, Martin Kwok, Matt Stutter, Matthew Lambourn, Brent Burge): for Wolf Warrior 2
“[I] hope that Directors are coming because they want someone that they can collaborate with. Someone who will listen and go on a kind of detective case or puzzle-solving mission with them ... how we can best serve their film with music and what language that needs to be, or what sounds we need to populate the score with.”