---
name: "Buck Sanders"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/buck-sanders"
fi1m_id: "buck-sanders"
imdb_id: "nm0761486"
tmdb_id: 1014937
wikidata_id: "Q3646291"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-23T21:03:30.177199+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."
---

# Buck Sanders

## Identity

Buck Sanders

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/buck-sanders
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** buck-sanders
- **IMDb ID:** nm0761486
- **TMDB ID:** 1014937
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3646291
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Sanders, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3646291, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761486/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1014937

Producer. Born 1 January 1971 in Mississippi, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1971, Mississippi, USA
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 producing, 3 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (2), 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 44 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Sanders, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3646291, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761486/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1014937

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Hurt Locker*](https://film.one/film/the-hurt-locker.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Buck Sanders is an American composer and sound designer. Born in Mississippi in 1971 and raised in South Carolina, he moved to Los Angeles in 1989. He studied guitar performance at UCLA and met composer Marco Beltrami while working at a laserdisc store in 1997, soon becoming his assistant and later frequent co-composer.

Sanders has collaborated with Beltrami on numerous films across genres, including *The Hurt Locker* (2008), for which they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score in 2010. Other credits include *Ford v Ferrari* (2019), *Warm Bodies* (2013), *No Escape* (2015), *Don't Be Afraid of the Dark* (2010) and *Max Payne* (2008). He is noted for his work integrating experimental sound design and unconventional instrumentation into film scores.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

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

- *UNABOMBER* (2026), Fi1m 44, Music Score Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/unabomber.md)

### Crew (3)

- *Ford v Ferrari* (2019), Fi1m 80, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/ford-v-ferrari.md)
- *The Hurt Locker* (2008), Fi1m 86, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hurt-locker.md)
- *Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines* (2003), Fi1m 61, Sound Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Deaf President Now!* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Pantheon* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Shadow* (2021), Music
- *The Shadow in My Eye* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Nine Perfect Strangers* (2021), series, Additional Music
- *Love and Monsters* (2020), Additional Music
- *The Way I See It* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Ford v Ferrari* (2019), Music — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ford-v-ferrari.md)
- *Velvet Buzzsaw* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *All Hallows' Eve 2* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *No Escape* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Warm Bodies* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Don't Be Afraid of the Dark* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Max Payne* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *The Hurt Locker* (2008), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hurt-locker.md)
- *Flight of the Phoenix* (2004), Additional Music
- *I, Robot* (2004), Additional Music — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/i-robot.md)
- *Hellboy* (2004), Additional Music — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/hellboy.md)
- *The Night Before* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines* (2003), Sound Designer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines.md)
- *Joy Ride* (2001), Additional Music
- *Paranoid* (2000), Music
- *The Florentine* (1999), as Other

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2010: Best Original Score (nominated), for *The Hurt Locker*

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

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