---
name: "Oliver Coates"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/oliver-coates"
fi1m_id: "oliver-coates"
imdb_id: "nm6687155"
tmdb_id: 3081943
wikidata_id: "Q115142168"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T03:35:21.546035+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."
---

# Oliver Coates

## Identity

Oliver Coates

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oliver-coates
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oliver-coates
- **IMDb ID:** nm6687155
- **TMDB ID:** 3081943
- **Wikidata ID:** Q115142168
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Coates, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115142168, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6687155/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3081943

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Paul Mescal](https://film.one/person/paul-mescal.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 87 (1), 2020s 62 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Coates, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115142168, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6687155/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3081943

## Coming up

- *Frank & Louis* (2026-12-10), Original Music Composer

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The History of Sound*](https://film.one/film/the-history-of-sound.md) (62)

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

## Biography

Oliver Coates is a British cellist, film composer and electronic music producer. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music and has performed as principal cellist with ensembles including the London Contemporary Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra and London Sinfonietta.

His film scores include *Aftersun* (2022) and *The History of Sound* (2025). He has also composed for *The Stranger* (2022), *Occupied City* (2023), *Foe* (2023) and *Pillion* (2025), and contributed as a musician to scores by Mica Levi and Jonny Greenwood. Coates releases solo albums on RVNG Intl. and has collaborated with artists including Mica Levi, Arca and Radiohead.

*Sources: imdb.com, pitchfork.com, en.wikipedia.org, olivercoates.com, filmmusicreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The History of Sound* (2025), Fi1m 62, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-history-of-sound.md)
- *Phantom Thread* (2017), Fi1m 87, Musician — [page](https://film.one/film/phantom-thread.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Frank & Louis* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *The Witness* (2026), series, Music
- *100 Nights of Hero* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Pillion* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *The History of Sound* (2025), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-history-of-sound.md)
- *Close to You* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Omnivore* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Absence of Eden* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Mary & George* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *All Souls* (2023), Music
- *Occupied City* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Foe* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Dammi* (2023), Music
- *Aftersun* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *The Stranger* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Significant Other* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Dream Horse* (2021), Musician
- *Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *The Bird Game* (2019), Music
- *The Cave* (2019), Musician
- *The Mustang* (2019), Musician
- *Phantom Thread* (2017), Musician — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/phantom-thread.md)
- *QE3* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Under the Skin* (2014), Musician — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/under-the-skin.md)

## Gallery

- ![O. Coates Faster Than Sound (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/416/gallery-63c07969d011.jpg) O. Coates Faster Than Sound (2008) — David J Morgan from Cambridge, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Faster_than_Sound_2008_-_Oliver_Coates.jpg/1280px-Faster_than_Sound_2008_-_Oliver_Coates.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Faster Than Sound (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/416/gallery-04b06fcb5bef.jpg) Faster Than Sound (2008) — David J Morgan from Cambridge, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Faster_than_Sound_2008_-_Oliver_Coates_standing.jpg/1280px-Faster_than_Sound_2008_-_Oliver_Coates_standing.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Oliver Coates](https://film.one/media/person/416/gallery-4cc0da6741ff.jpg) Oliver Coates — Image via TMDB

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