Biography
Sam Slater is a British composer, sound designer and music producer. He studied experimental composition at Leeds University and has been based in Berlin since 2013.
He is known for his work as score producer and musical sound designer on Joker (2019) and Chernobyl (2019), for which he won two Grammy Awards. Slater has composed scores for the documentaries 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) and Divia (2025), and co-composed the soundtrack to the video game Battlefield 2042 (2021). He frequently collaborates with composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and is a member of the improvisational group OSMIUM.
Slater has also received the Icelandic Music Award for Producer of the Year and the Filmfare Award for Best Original Soundtrack for The Railway Men (2023).
