Sven Faulconer is a Los Angeles-based composer for film and television, recognized for his wide-ranging and distinctive musical voice. His recent credits include Searchlight’s upcoming horror-comedy Ready or Not 2: Here I Come and the indie dramedy Lost and Found in Cleveland – featuring Martin Sheen, June Squibb, and Stacy Keach – for which his score was placed on the Academy’s list of eligible original scores for the 98th Oscars. He is currently scoring the documentary Flying High for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity, as well as Mindhouse’s Hanging By a Wire, which is set to premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
Faulconer’s score for Scream VI earned the ASCAP Top Box Office Screen Music Award, and he composed the music for the 2023 Academy Award–winning documentary The Elephant Whisperers, which also received Best Score nominations from the Jackson Wild Festival and the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Additional notable credits include Rob Lowe’s Netflix comedy series Unstable (co-composed with Mark Foster) and Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the fourth installment in the Hellboy franchise.
His work in independent cinema has produced numerous soundtracks with a bold and distinctive character, including the Emmy-nominated National Geographic documentary Into the Okavango, as well as Blood Father (Amazon), Wanderland (Amazon Prime), and Assimilate (Netflix). Known for his collaborative spirit and strong storytelling instincts, Faulconer has also contributed music to major productions such as Top Gun: Maverick, Aquaman, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ad Astra, Black Widow, Abominable, The Hunger Games films, and Nightcrawler.
Faulconer began formal music training at age eight as a clarinetist, developing an early aptitude for improvisation and composition. His studies took him from Ghent, Belgium, to Rome, before concluding in Los Angeles at UCLA’s renowned Film Scoring Program. In addition to his own projects, he maintains ongoing collaborations with composers including Brian Tyler, James Newton Howard, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Steve Jablonsky, Henry Jackman, and Lorne Balfe.