---
name: "Jed Kurzel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jed-kurzel"
fi1m_id: "jed-kurzel"
imdb_id: "nm1011485"
tmdb_id: 549315
wikidata_id: "Q3176338"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 9
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_over: 9
updated: "2026-10-01T00:38:12.169130+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."
---

# Jed Kurzel

## Identity

Jed Kurzel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jed-kurzel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jed-kurzel
- **IMDb ID:** nm1011485
- **TMDB ID:** 549315
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3176338
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Kurzel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3176338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1011485/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/549315

Composer. Born 1 January 1976 in Gawler, South Australia, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1976, Gawler, South Australia, Australia
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Justin Kurzel](https://film.one/person/justin-kurzel.md), [Kristina Ceyton](https://film.one/person/kristina-ceyton.md), [Michael Fassbender](https://film.one/person/michael-fassbender.md), [Iain Canning](https://film.one/person/iain-canning.md), [Jennifer Kent](https://film.one/person/jennifer-kent.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 75 (5), 2020s 78 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 73 across 8 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Thriller 4, Horror 3, Crime 2, Romance 2, Western 2
- **Screen time:** 15 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $316m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Kurzel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3176338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1011485/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/549315

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Babadook*](https://film.one/film/the-babadook.md) (86), [*The Nightingale*](https://film.one/film/the-nightingale.md) (78)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Narrow Road to the Deep North*](https://film.one/tv/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north.md) (83), [*Macbeth*](https://film.one/film/macbeth.md) (77)
- **Netflix:** [*Slow West*](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md) (77)
- **Disney+:** [*The Order*](https://film.one/film/the-order.md) (75)
- **Peacock:** [*Alien: Covenant*](https://film.one/film/alien-covenant.md) (57)

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

## Biography

Jed Kurzel is an Australian film composer, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born in 1976 in Gawler, South Australia, he is a founding member of the blues rock duo The Mess Hall, formed in 2001.

Kurzel began scoring feature films with *Snowtown* (2011), directed by his older brother Justin Kurzel. He has since composed for *The Babadook* (2014), *Slow West* (2015), *Macbeth* (2015), *Alien: Covenant* (2017), *Overlord* (2018), *Monkey Man* (2024) and *The Order* (2024). He has won multiple APRA Screen Music Awards for feature film scores.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmmusicreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (9)

- *Leviticus* (2026), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/leviticus.md)
- *The Narrow Road to the Deep North* (2025), Fi1m 83, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north.md)
- *Monkey Man* (2024), Fi1m 72, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/monkey-man.md)
- *The Order* (2024), Fi1m 75, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-order.md)
- *The Nightingale* (2018), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-nightingale.md)
- *Alien: Covenant* (2017), Fi1m 57, Music, Music Director, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/alien-covenant.md)
- *Macbeth* (2015), Fi1m 77, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/macbeth.md)
- *Slow West* (2015), Fi1m 77, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md)
- *The Babadook* (2014), Fi1m 86, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-babadook.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Leviticus* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/leviticus.md)
- *Echo Valley* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Tornado* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *The Narrow Road to the Deep North* (2025), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north.md)
- *The Order* (2024), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-order.md)
- *Monkey Man* (2024), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/monkey-man.md)
- *The Pope's Exorcist* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Samaritan* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Encounter* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Nitram* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *A Writer's Odyssey* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Seberg* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *True History of the Kelly Gang* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *The City Where Children Disappear* (2019), Music
- *The Mustang* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Overlord* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Nightingale* (2018), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-nightingale.md)
- *The Old Snake* (2018), Music
- *Jupiter's Moon* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Alien: Covenant* (2017), Music Director, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/alien-covenant.md)
- *Una* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Assassin's Creed* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Macbeth* (2015), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/macbeth.md)
- *Slow West* (2015), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md)
- *Son of a Gun* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *All This Mayhem* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Babadook* (2014), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-babadook.md)
- *The Turning* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Dead Europe* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Snowtown* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Castor & Pollux* (2009), Music
- *Prime Mover* (2009), Musician
- *Scratch* (2000), as Jay

## Gallery

- ![Jed Kurzel](https://film.one/media/person/10209/gallery-5ff52bf45427.jpg) Jed Kurzel — Stuart Sevastos, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/The_Mess_Hall_%40_Amplifier_Bar_%2831_12_2009%29_%284256661406%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jed Kurzel](https://film.one/media/person/10209/gallery-4527b1f464e9.jpg) Jed Kurzel — Image via TMDB

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