Scott Hallgren
Biography
Scott Hallgren has an extensive list of film, TV, music video, and gaming work as a sound designer, boom operator, and composer, including the Emmy-nominated civil rights documentary "We Shall Not Be Moved: the Nashville Sit-Ins" which also won him both a 2011 Silver Telly and Golden CINE Award; "Sith'd", Best Comedy at the 2006 Comic-con; the 2017 award winning APT/PBS documentary “Perfect 36: How Women Won The Voteâ€; and 2020’s “Frankâ€, which won Best Music at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. In 2023, he won Best Original Score at the Paris Film Awards for "The Resistanceâ€.
He is the author/editor of .
In a previous life, Scott was a touring, live event, and studio musician for artists such as: Donna Summer, Sir Elton John, Aaron Neville, Andrae Crouch, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Skaggs, The Wilkinsons, Eddy Arnold, David Foster, Larry Gatlin, Steve Wariner, Marc Antony, and Margaret Becker. For 8 years he was a Grammy voter and committee member in the Nashville chapter. His first album for Magnatune, has gained almost two million plays on Spotify.
Mr. Hallgren is an affiliate member of the , an AVID Certified Instructor for ProTools, and a Dolby Developer. He has also been selected to be a Design/Innovation Team Member, focusing on surround sound, storytelling, and virtual reality in the D/I Hub. He has served as a panelist or on the selection committees of the Seattle, Nashville, Cleveland, and Highland Square (Akron) film festivals, and was an Oscar qualifying short films juror for the 46th . He serves on the and as Board President of .
His classes include: Sound for Picture, Post Production Sound, Music in Film/TV/Games, Sound Design, Scoring for Picture, and Production II (capstone).
Education
MMus, Composing for Picture, Seattle Film Institute
Affiliations
- University Film and Video Association
- Motion Pictures Sound Editors Guild (MPSE)
Awards/Achievements
- Best Original Score, ’The Resistance’, Paris Film Awards (2023)
- Best Music, ‘Frank' (2020)
- Bronze Telly Winner, 'Perfect 36: How Women Won The Vote' (2017)