Lorne Balfe (born February 23, 1976) is a Grammy award-winning film composer from Inverness, Scotland. Lorne is known for composing the scores to the DreamWorks' animation Megamind, and Ron Howard's film The Dilemma, in collaboration with Academy Award-winning composer, Hans Zimmer.
In addition to being recognized for producing two of Zimmer's Oscar-nominated scores, Sherlock Holmes and Inception, Lorne has also received significant recognition for his work in the United Kingdom.
In 2009, Lorne was nominated for the Discovery of the Year World Soundtrack Award for his score on BAFTA award-winning Crying With Laughter and he was nominated for the prestigious Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. Balfe began his career in Hollywood providing additional music on several major motion pictures, including: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, The Simpsons Movie, Angels & Demons, Iron Man, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He also composed additional music on the 2009 Golden Globe nominated film Frost/Nixon.
Complimented by his additional music, Balfe's role as a score producer on 2008's The Dark Knight earned Lorne a Grammy for "Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture." In 2009, Balfe was music producer and composer of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 videogame, and score producer for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, which earned a 2010 Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. Only a year later, in 2011, Balfe produced the score for Christopher Nolan's Inception, which also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. Balfe's recent film projects include DreamWorks' box office hit Megamind, Ron Howard's film The Dilemma, and the British made film, Ironclad.
In Revelations, he was responsible for composing the game's main theme, the music for in-game cinematics and the background music for the multiplayer of the Assassin's Creed installment. However, the primary composer was Jesper Kyd, who composed music for all previous games of the series, and scored the majority of Revelations' single-player music. He also conducted the Assassin's Creed III main theme and other game of the year nominees at the SPIKE Video Game Award 2012.
