---
name: "Shelby Gaines"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shelby-gaines"
fi1m_id: "shelby-gaines"
imdb_id: "nm3111950"
tmdb_id: 1941468
wikidata_id: "Q7493389"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-20T23:46:59.693409+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."
---

# Shelby Gaines

## Identity

Shelby Gaines

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shelby-gaines
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shelby-gaines
- **IMDb ID:** nm3111950
- **TMDB ID:** 1941468
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7493389
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Gaines, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493389, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3111950/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1941468

Composer. Born in New Hampshire.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Gaines, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493389, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3111950/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1941468

## Biography

Shelby Gaines is an American composer, musician and writer. Born and raised in New Hampshire, he studied music at Brown University and began working in music production and sound design in the mid-1990s.

He frequently collaborates with his brother Latham Gaines as the duo GAINES, creating experimental scores that incorporate sound sculptures made from found objects. Their film work includes the score for *Blaze* (2018), original music for *The Kid* (2019) and *Wildcat* (2023), and both the score and co-screenplay credit on *The Weight* (2026). In theatre, the brothers received a Drama Desk Award nomination for their work on the Off-Broadway revival of *A Lie of the Mind*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, parkrecord.com, ascap.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Weight* (2026), Fi1m 66, Original Music Composer, Screenplay, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-weight.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *The Weight* (2026), Screenplay, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-weight.md)
- *Wildcat* (2024), Original Music Composer, Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Kid* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Blaze* (2018), Music Supervisor
- *Camino Real*, Screenplay
- *The Gunfighter*, Writer

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