Biography
Award-winning Hollywood composer Nicholas Pike has scored films ranging from the family-oriented Captain Ron, Return to Me and Virginia’s Run to darker films like Fear Dot Com, The Shining mini-series and The I Inside. He has scored large scale music videos like Michael Jackson's Ghost, Rock My World and Will Smith's Wild, Wild West. Nicholas recently won the 2013 Outstanding Music and Sound EMMY for the HBO documentary In Tahrir Square. Other awards include the Elmer Bernstein Award for his score to Love Object at the Woodstock Film Festival and the Best Music Award from the Sitges Cinema Fantastic Festival for his score to Critters 2. Pike is a sought-after film composer and was recently hand-picked by actress/comedienne and talk show host Bonnie Hunt to create and lead the first-ever daytime talk show live band for The Bonnie Hunt Show currently airing on the NBC network. Nicholas Pike also composed and scored The Bonnie Hunt Show theme.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 2026 · nominated
Filmography40 titles
Tales from the Crypt
Eerie, Indiana
For the Love of Spock
Blood and Bone
Freddy's Nightmares
King on Screen
The Prince and the Pauper
Return to Me
Rio 2
Star Kid
The Shining
Critters 2: The Main Course
Pick Me Up
Sleepwalkers
Blank Check
Bag of Bones
The I Inside
Haeckel's Tale
The Fair Haired Child
Telling Lies in America
Odds Are
Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge
Captain Ron
The Contractor
Desperation
Dance of the Dead
Devil May Call
Chocolate
Riding the Bullet
Loose Cannons
Parasomnia
We All Scream for Ice Cream
Model House
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Virtual Obsession
Albatross
Feardotcom
W.E.I.R.D. World
The L.A. Riot Spectacular
Fiddlin'