Nainita Desai
Emmy and RTS award winning composer, Nainita Desai, was World Soundtrack Awards 2021 winner for Discovery of the Year. A double BIFA and Cinema Eye Honors nominee; BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. Nainita was described by Empire magazine as one of the top 5 composers to watch for 2022 and won the Women In Film & TV Award for Creative Technology 2022. She has been nominated in 2023 for the MPSE Golden Reel Award for Best Music Editing on a video game, an ASCAP Composer Choice award and two G.A.N.G awards for her score for acclaimed Bafta winning video game Immortality.
Amongst various BAFTA, Oscar and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s recent projects include the Netflix hit documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, exec produced by Oscar winner Jimmy Chinn, for which her score earned Emmy, HMMA and ASCAP Composer Choice nominations. Desai’s other credits include Oscar 2020 nominated and BAFTA & Cannes winning feature doc For Sama, and Sundance winning The Reason I Jump, an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity. Recent projects include BBC1 action thriller series Crossfire, Bafta nominated American Murder, ITV crime drama series The Tower (Mammoth Screen, Gemma Whelan), land mark natural history series Predators for Sky/Netflix and Interactive film / video game Telling Lies, (Annapurna Interactive).
Current projects include SKY comedy drama series Funny Woman (Gemma Arterton), a major fantasy, adventure series for Disney+, and other landmark series for Apple TV+, James Cameron, National Geographic and video games for EA Originals and Activision. Following a degree in Maths and studying sound for film at the NFTS in the UK, Nainita began her career as a sound designer on feature films for directors including Werner Herzog and Bertolucci, as well as assistant music engineering for Peter Gabriel. Nainita moves seamlessly between working with orchestras, to scores utilizing her collection of custom-made instruments, incorporating electronics, found sound, and experimental sound design which has informed her experimental, deeply immersive approach. She is also an elected senate member of the Ivor’s Academy, and sits on the BAFTA Film Committee and AMPAS Intl Committee.