---
name: "Brian Eno"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-eno"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "15 May 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T16:20:57.477700+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."
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# Brian Eno

Composer. Born 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 15 May 1948, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK
- **Active:** 1995–2011
- **Also known as:** Roxy Music, Brian Peter George Eno
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 83 (1), 2010s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q569003, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006061/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37317

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Top Boy*](https://film.one/tv/top-boy.md) (81)

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## Biography

Brian Eno is an English composer, musician and record producer, also known for his work with the band Roxy Music in the early 1970s.

He composed the original music for the television series *Top Boy* (2011), including its theme tune. His film scores include *Dune* (1984), *The Pillow Book* (1995), *The Lovely Bones* (2009) and *Me and Earl and the Dying Girl* (2015).

Eno studied at Ipswich Civic College and Colchester Institute. He has also contributed music to other projects including *Miami Vice* (1984) and *Ghost in the Shell* (1995).

*Sources: decodedmagazine.com, superdeluxeedition.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Top Boy* (2011), Fi1m 81, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/tv/top-boy.md)
- *Ghost in the Shell* (1995), Fi1m 83, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-in-the-shell.md)

## Complete filmography (90)

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

- *Imperfection* (2026), Music
- *Snow* (2026), Music
- *Together for Palestine* (2025), Producer
- *Daedalus* (2024), as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
- *Eno* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens* (2023), Music
- *We Are As Gods* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Ithaka* (2022), Music
- *Wood and Water* (2022), Music
- *The Year of the Everlasting Storm* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno* (2020), Acting
- *The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!* (2019), Songs
- *2025: The Long Hot Winter* (2019), as Radio presenter
- *Top Boy* (2019), series, Original Music Composer
- *Rams* (2018), Music
- *By This River* (2018), Music
- *492: A Man Called Death* (2017), Music
- *Hi Stranger* (2017), Music
- *Late Anthropocene* (2016), Music
- *Me and Earl and the Dying Girl* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *100 Years - Armenian Genocide* (2015), Music
- *We Are Many* (2014), Musician
- *The Lost World* (2013), Music
- *Laylou* (2012), Music
- *The British Guide to Showing Off* (2011), Acting
- *Top Boy* (2011), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/top-boy.md)
- *Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth* (2011), Acting
- *Article 12* (2010), Acting
- *The Lovely Bones* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Linear* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *The Pervert's Guide to Cinema* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Mein Freund, der Mörder* (2006), Music
- *14 Video Paintings* (2005), Music, Director
- *The Jacket* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Clean* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me* (2003), Additional Soundtrack
- *Fear X* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story* (2001), Acting
- *2001 and Beyond* (2001), Music
- *Mon Paradis - Der Winterpalast* (2001), Music
- *Shadowman* (2001), Music
- *In the Ocean* (2001), Acting
- *Buddy Boy* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Million Dollar Hotel* (2000), Music
- *Simon, the Magician* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Music for Airports* (1999), Music
- *How Buildings Learn* (1997), series, Music
- *Neverwhere* (1996), series, Original Music Composer
- *Ghost in the Shell* (1995), Songs — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-in-the-shell.md)
- *The Pillow Book* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Father Ted* (1995), series, as Father Brian Eno
- *Glitterbug* (1994), Music
- *Mr. Wroe's Virgins* (1993), series, Music
- *For All Mankind* (1989), Music
- *Brian Eno:  Imaginary Landscapes* (1989), as Music
- *Opera* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Dolphins* (1987), Music
- *The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July* (1986), as Music
- *A Few Things I Know About Miami* (1986), Music
- *The Creation of the Universe* (1985), Sound
- *Dune* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Soldiers in Hiding* (1984), Music
- *Miami Vice* (1984), series, Songs — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)
- *Thursday Afternoon* (1984), Director, Music
- *Frevel* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *How the Frog’s Eye Sees* (1984), Music Consultant
- *The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?* (1983), Additional Music
- *Hans, Life Before Death* (1983), Music
- *Remembrance* (1982), Music, Original Music Composer
- *The Falls* (1982), Additional Music
- *This Woman Is Not a Car* (1982), Music
- *Kold ensomhet* (1982), Music
- *Mea Culpa* (1981), Music
- *Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan* (1981), Director, Music
- *America Is Waiting* (1981), Music
- *Candy Store* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Transcending Mirror Boundaries* (1981), Music
- *Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment* (1980), Music
- *Brutal Ardour* (1978), Music
- *Short Letter to the Long Goodbye* (1978), Music
- *Jubilee* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Alternative 3* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *The Machine-Men* (1977), Music
- *Sebastiane* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *The Devil's Men* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Resistance* (1976), Music
- *Berlin Horse* (1970), Music
- *Zucchero: Luciano Pavarotti & Friends - Together for the Children of Bosnia*, Director
- *The Kumbha Mela: Same As It Ever Was*, Music
- *Little Red Robin Hood*, Music

## Gallery

- ![Brian Eno](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-a77fc74c8242.png) Brian Eno — How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Brian_Eno_2015.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Property of Brian Eno sign on mixer, Brian Eno's studio, Notting Hill, London, UK (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-60cdd495dab1.jpg) Property of Brian Eno sign on mixer, Brian Eno's studio, Notting Hill, London, UK (2026) — Cory Doctorow, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Album_Demo_This_Is_a_USB_Drive_cassette%2C_Brian_Eno%27s_studio%2C_Notting_Hill%2C_London%2C_UK.jpg/1280px-Album_Demo_This_Is_a_USB_Drive_cassette%2C_Brian_Eno%27s_studio%2C_Notting_Hill%2C_London%2C_UK.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-357d7016632f.jpg) Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/BEnoBarbican231022_%281_of_6%29_%2852456285671%29.jpg/1280px-BEnoBarbican231022_%281_of_6%29_%2852456285671%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-840d4382fc3b.jpg) Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BEnoBarbican231022_%282_of_6%29_%2852456737365%29.jpg/1280px-BEnoBarbican231022_%282_of_6%29_%2852456737365%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Eno](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-fd48af03f170.jpg) Brian Eno — Image via TMDB
- ![Brian Eno](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-82d6388ce9e7.jpg) Brian Eno — Image via TMDB
- ![Brian Eno](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-4612b8161081.jpg) Brian Eno — Image via TMDB
- ![Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-522ab9447b3e.jpg) Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/BEnoBarbican231022_%283_of_6%29_%2852456737300%29.jpg/1280px-BEnoBarbican231022_%283_of_6%29_%2852456737300%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-533923730725.jpg) Brian Eno - Barbican Centre - Sunday 23rd October 2022 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/BEnoBarbican231022_%284_of_6%29_%2852456815848%29.jpg/1280px-BEnoBarbican231022_%284_of_6%29_%2852456815848%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brian Eno](https://film.one/media/person/311298/gallery-b6730f493887.jpg) Brian Eno — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Royal Designer for Industry 2012: Royal Designer for Industry (won)
- Frankfurter Musikpreis 1994: Frankfurter Musikpreis (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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