Screen Music Connect and Game Music Connect His other BAFTA-nominated scores include those of Republic: The Revolution, FA Premier League Manager and Evil Genius. In 2014, Hannigan was nominated for a Develop Award for his work on RuneScape. In 2010 his score for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game received a BAFTA nomination and won an International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) award.
Hannigan's music scores have been nominated five times by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Hannigan won a BAFTA Award with Electronic Arts in 2000 for Sim Theme Park (UK title: Theme Park World). James Hannigan, Richard Joseph and Nick Laviers at the BAFTA Interactive Awards, 2000.
Hannigan has posted videos on the subject of his early interactive music system design for titles such as the BAFTA nominated Republic: The Revolution (designed by Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis) and entries in the Theme Park series of games on Youtube. On January 28th 2021, online entertainment news and media outlet Variety announced Seasons 2 and 3 of The Sandman, which will include scores by James Hannigan. James Hannigan's popular main theme to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, "Soviet March" has garnered hundreds of millions of plays on YouTube and other streaming services. In June 2020, Rebellion Developments announced that Hannigan would return to score Evil Genius 2. In March 2020, it was announced that James Hannigan would be scoring the DC Comics and Audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. His music is heard in trailers and television shows, such as the BBC's Top Gear, Amazon's The Grand Tour, Netflix's 100 Humans and Floor is Lava, and Disney's The World According to Jeff Goldblum. James Hannigan's other music credits include Audible's Audie Award winning Alien dramas (2016 - 2019), Unseen Academicals (Discworld 37) and the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens and Neverwhere. In the early years of his career, Hannigan worked as Composer for Electronic Arts Europe before basing his studio at Pinewood Studios in England for ten years between 19, where he sometimes worked as a Sound Designer on films such as Lost in Space alongside composing. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Catwoman, Reign of Fire, Saints Row 4, Privateer: The Darkening and others. He has scored or contributed to EA Sports titles in the FIFA and F1 series, and his music can also been heard in RuneScape, Conquest: Frontier Wars, Freelancer, Nintendo's Art Academy, Super Smash Bros.
James Hannigan FRSA (born 23 July 1971) is a multi-award winning British composer, whose credits include entries in the Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Dead Space, Warhammer, Wing Commander, Space Hulk, Evil Genius, Grand Prix, Command & Conquer, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and Theme Park game series themes such as "Soviet March" (the main theme of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3), the Audible and DC Comics adaptations of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, BBC America's Primeval, and more.