---
name: "Aaron Dessner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aaron-dessner"
fi1m_id: "aaron-dessner"
imdb_id: "nm3039520"
tmdb_id: 931139
wikidata_id: "Q4661964"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "23 April 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T02:02:29.319060+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aaron Dessner

## Identity

Aaron Dessner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aaron-dessner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aaron-dessner
- **IMDb ID:** nm3039520
- **TMDB ID:** 931139
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4661964
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Dessner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4661964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3039520/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931139

Producer. Born 23 April 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 23 April 1976, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Aaron Brooking Dessner, The National, Big Red Machine
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 producing, 2 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 78 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Dessner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4661964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3039520/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931139

## Biography

Aaron Dessner is an American composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is a founding member of the indie rock band The National, with whom he has recorded multiple studio albums, and co-founder of the duo Big Red Machine with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.

As a film composer he has worked on *C'mon C'mon* (2021) and *Cyrano* (2021), both scored with his twin brother Bryce Dessner. Other credits include *Transpecos* (2016) and *The Professor* (2019). Dessner has also collaborated extensively as a producer and songwriter, including on Taylor Swift's *Folklore* (2020) and *Evermore* (2020). He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1976 and studied at Columbia University.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Cyrano* (2021), Fi1m 75, Original Music Composer, Music, Songs, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano.md)

### Crew (2)

- *C'mon C'mon* (2021), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/cmon-cmon.md)
- *The Hunger Games: Catching Fire* (2013), Fi1m 80, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games-catching-fire.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dandelion* (2024), Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
- *The National - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival* (2024), Actor
- *The National - Live at Primavera Sound Barcelona 2024* (2024), Actor
- *The National - Live at Bearsville Theater* (2023), Actor
- *Really Good Rejects* (2022), Actor
- *Jockey* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Cyrano* (2021), Original Music Composer, Songs, Executive Producer, Music — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano.md)
- *C'mon C'mon* (2021), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/cmon-cmon.md)
- *All of This Unreal Time* (2021), Music
- *Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions* (2020), as Songs · Executive Producer
- *Death is Elsewhere* (2019), Actor
- *The Professor* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *I Am Easy to Find* (2019), Music
- *The National - Guilty Party: Basilica Hudson* (2017), Actor
- *Transpecos* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *The Hunger Games: Catching Fire* (2013), as Songs — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games-catching-fire.md)
- *Mistaken for Strangers* (2013), Music
- *Out of a Forest* (2010), Music
- *The National - Live at El Castell Embruixat* (2005), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner rehearsing and MusicNOW 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, Memorial Hall. Aaron has his back to the camera.](https://film.one/media/person/1320670/gallery-e30f6b29f0c0.jpg) Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner rehearsing and MusicNOW 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, Memorial Hall. Aaron has his back to the camera. — Meredithmel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Aandbdessner.jpg/1280px-Aandbdessner.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Aaron Dessner performing with The National at Byron Bay Bluesfest, Easter 2016](https://film.one/media/person/1320670/gallery-fa8342d731de.jpg) Aaron Dessner performing with The National at Byron Bay Bluesfest, Easter 2016 — Radcliffe Kelso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/AaronDessnerBluesfest2016.jpg/1280px-AaronDessnerBluesfest2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Edmonton Folk Fest 2016](https://film.one/media/person/1320670/gallery-0b2f68849282.jpg) Edmonton Folk Fest 2016 — Levi Manchak, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Aaron_Dessner_%2828677721700%29.jpg/1280px-Aaron_Dessner_%2828677721700%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016](https://film.one/media/person/1320670/gallery-fe59b5446da6.jpg) Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016 — Bruce Baker, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Aaron_Dessner_%28March_25%2C_2016%29.jpg/1280px-Aaron_Dessner_%28March_25%2C_2016%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Aaron Dessner](https://film.one/media/person/1320670/gallery-368afd05a041.jpg) Aaron Dessner — Kim Metso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Aaron_Dessner_at_Way_Out_West_2014.jpg/1280px-Aaron_Dessner_at_Way_Out_West_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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