Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch (born 7 August 1979) is an English composer, conductor, and music producer known for his work on film scores. He has contributed to over 50 feature films since the mid-2000s, including notable works like Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Shazam! (2019), It (2017), It Chapter Two (2019), The Invisible Man (2020), Hidden Figures, A Cure for Wellness (both 2016), Mortal Kombat (2021), and it's 2026 sequel, The Flash (2023), Twisters, Alien: Romulus, Kraven the Hunter (all 2024), and The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025). He additionally provided the score for two films in the Predator franchise, including Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands (both 2025).
His work has earned recognition including a joint nomination with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer for Best Original Score at the 74th Golden Globe Awards for Hidden Figures, as well as nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Blade Runner 2049. In 2020, Wallfisch was nominated for Film Composer of the Year for the second consecutive year at the World Soundtrack Awards.
Wallfisch's movies have made a combined worldwide box office revenue of over $2.5 billion. In 2019, Variety included him in their Billion Dollar Composer series.
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Date: 08 August 1979
Bount County, Ala, Circuit Judge H E Holaday finds Greg McDonald, reporter for Birmingham Post-Herald, in contempt of court and sentences him to 3 days in jail for violating order prohibiting publication of trial account; fines McDonald and paper, represented by editor Angus McEachran, $100; newspaper's attorney David Olive asks for stay of sentence (S)
Date: 08 August 1979
Armed Islamic guards occupy offices of Ayandegan, leading Teheran newspaper, and Government officials say its publishers and editors will be prosecuted for 'counterrevolutionary policies and acts'; action appears to be part of Government crackdown on both domestic press and representatives of foreign news organizations; 4-man NBC-TV crew is ordered to leave Iran; Mehdi Momken, Deputy Minister of National Guidance for Press Affairs, comments on new law that empowers Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Government to suspend publications it deems critical of regime, bar anyone connected with ousted monarchy from publishing newspapers and magazines and ban foreign correspondents who damage 'Islamic revolution, notably Americans' (M)
Date: 07 August 1979
By JUDITH CUMMINGS
Judith CUMMINGS
Newsstand business in NYC is in slump, and crime is 1 reason cited; other causes are deoline in major NYC newspapers of general circulation from 7 in 1960's to 3 today; restrictions on what newsstands can sell to make up for loss of revenue; about 400 above-ground newsstands are operating in NYC, according to Department of Consumer Affairs; of total, about 250 are in Manhattan; NYC Consumer Affairs Comr Bruce C Rattner comments; illus (M)
Date: 07 August 1979
By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH Special to The News York Times
Clyde FARNSWORTH
Illus
Date: 08 August 1979
Daily News names Michael O'Neill editor and executive vice president, Al Heltman vice president, James Artz assistant to president and vice president, Henry Wurzer executive vice president and director of sales (S)
Date: 07 August 1979
Co raises '79 capital expenditures to $213 million from $171 million (S)
Date: 07 August 1979
By CAREY WINFREY Special to The New York Times
Carey Special
Analysis of plan holds that, on positive side, plan signifies 'meeting of minds' but notes 'hazards are enormous'; says getting all parties to attend constitional conference will he 'herculean task'; says Jamaican Prime Min Michael Manley and Thatcher, in separate new conferences, took pains to keep their optimism 'within bounds of reason' (M)
Date: 08 August 1979
By YOUSSEF M. IBRAHIM Special to The New York Times
Analysis: rigged election of council to draft new Constitution and other policies of Khomeini have alienated moderate secular and religious leaders (M)