Jake Jackson

Clients & Collaborators: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Gareth Coker, Murray Gold, Daniel Hart, Natalie Holt, Tom Howe, Mark Korven, Mica Levi, Joseph Trapanese, Benjamin Wallfisch, Austin Wintory.

GRAMMY Award winner for Best Score for Video Games (2026), Jake Jackson has built a wide-ranging body of work across film, television, and games, known for his extensive creative and technical expertise.

He started working at AIR Studios in-house in 1998, where he developed his collaborative and detail-focused approach. He has been described by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis as one of the most “inventive, nuanced, and intuitive artists and technicians” in the field. His broad range of outstanding credits, including Mica Levi’s BAFTA-nominated score for Under the Skin, Murray Gold’s Doctor Who (twice nominated for BAFTA Best Original Television Music), and Daniel Hart’s score for the critically acclaimed A24 film The Green Knight. He has also contributed to Tom Howe’s score for DogMan, and Natalie Holt’s Primetime Emmy and BAFTA-nominated score for Loki.

In games, Jake was awarded a GRAMMY for his work on Austin Wintory’s score for Sword of the Sea. His earlier credits include engineering and mixing Jessica Curry’s BAFTA-winning Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, engineering Gareth Coker’s BAFTA-nominated Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and Mark Korven’s score for Until Dawn (2024). More recently, he recorded The Flight’s score for 007 First Light.

Recent film and television work includes recording Teddy Shapiro’s score for The Housemaid, mixing Simon Goff’s score for BBC’s The Cage, and was orchestral engineer and mixer on Daniel Hart’s score for Mother Mary. He was also orchestral score engineer and pre-mixer on Young Fathers’ score for 28 Years Later, which received the Music Producer’s Guild (MPG) Award for Score Recording of the Year 2026. Jake also mixed Yair Elazar Glotman’s score for Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi thriller, The Last House.

Alongside his scoring work, Jake has recorded, mixed, and produced a number of Spitfire Audio’s flagship sample libraries, including the Chamber Strings series recorded in AIR’s world-famous Lyndhurst Hall. He is also a semi-professional whistler, with credits including Bridget Jones, Wonka, The Great Escaper, and Doctor Who.