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name: "Johan Söderqvist"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/johan-soderqvist"
fi1m_id: "johan-soderqvist"
imdb_id: "nm0845542"
tmdb_id: 32717
wikidata_id: "Q957964"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "11 February 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T14:09:36.167811+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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# Johan Söderqvist

## Identity

Johan Söderqvist

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/johan-soderqvist
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** johan-soderqvist
- **IMDb ID:** nm0845542
- **TMDB ID:** 32717
- **Wikidata ID:** Q957964
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_S%C3%B6derqvist, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0845542/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32717

Composer. Born 11 February 1966 in Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 11 February 1966, Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 88 (1), 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 38 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $111m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_S%C3%B6derqvist, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0845542/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32717

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Let the Right One In*](https://film.one/film/let-the-right-one-in.md) (88)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Bridge*](https://film.one/tv/the-bridge.md) (84)
- **Disney+:** [*Madame Web*](https://film.one/film/madame-web.md) (38)

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## Biography

Johan Söderqvist is a Swedish film score composer. He was born on 11 February 1966 in Täby, outside Stockholm, and studied composition and arranging at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

He began composing for film in 1991 with *Agnes Cecilia* and has since scored numerous features and television series. His work includes scores for nine films directed by Susanne Bier, such as *After the Wedding* (2006), as well as *Let the Right One In* (2008), *Kon-Tiki* (2012), *The Bridge* (2011) and *Madame Web* (2024).

Söderqvist was nominated twice for the European Film Award for Best Composer, for *Brothers* (2004) and *Let the Right One In* (2008).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Madame Web* (2024), Fi1m 38, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/madame-web.md)
- *The Bridge* (2011), Fi1m 84, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-bridge.md)
- *Let the Right One In* (2008), Fi1m 88, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/let-the-right-one-in.md)

## Complete filmography (58)

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

- *The Chase* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Ronja the Robber's Daughter* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *Madame Web* (2024), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/madame-web.md)
- *Before It Ends* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Anatomy of a Scandal* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Emigrants* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *The Burning Sea* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Betrayed* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *22 July* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *Hope* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Vermeer* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Held for Ransom* (2019), Music
- *Amundsen* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Congo* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Phoenix* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *La Noria* (2018), Music
- *The Quake* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Limehouse Golem* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *The King's Choice* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *A Second Chance* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Serena* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Absent One* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Keeper of Lost Causes* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Painless* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Love Is All You Need* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Kon-Tiki* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *The Road* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *The Bridge* (2011), series, Music — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-bridge.md)
- *False Trail* (2011), Music
- *King of Devil's Island* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Limbo* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *In a Better World* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The Murder Farm* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Effi Briest* (2009), Music
- *Let the Right One In* (2008), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/let-the-right-one-in.md)
- *Troubled Water* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Tingles* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Things We Lost in the Fire* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *When a Man Comes Home* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Walk the Talk* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Exit* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Say That You Love Me* (2006), Music
- *After the Wedding* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Bloodbrothers* (2005), Music
- *Four Weeks in June* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Brothers* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *At Point Blank* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *We Can Be Heroes!* (2002), Music
- *Swedish Beauty* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Kajsas Ko* (1999), series, Music Score Producer
- *The Glass-Blower's Children* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Like It Never Was Before* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Family Matters* (1993), Music
- *Morsarvet* (1993), series, Music
- *Stortjuvens pojke* (1992), Music
- *Freud Leaving Home* (1991), Music
- *Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia* (1991), Music

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 2 nominated

- Kanon Award for Best Soundtrack 2012: Kanon Award for Best Soundtrack (won), for *Kon-Tiki*
- Amanda Award for Best Score 2011: Amanda Award for Best Score (won), for *King of Devil's Island*
- Amanda Award for Best Score 2009: Amanda Award for Best Score (won), for *Troubled Water*
- European Film Award for Best Composer 2009: European Film Award for Best Composer (nominated), for *Let the Right One In*
- European Film Award for Best Composer 2005: European Film Award for Best Composer (nominated), for *Brothers*

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

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