2024 JUROR
Stephanie Economou
Composer // Film, TV + Games
Los Angeles, USA
Stephanie Economou is a Grammy-winning composer known for her work on the DreamWorks animated feature Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, Lionsgate’s About My Father, and Universal’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. She has written the music for Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy, based on the comic series by Mark Millar, Step Up: High Water, Manhunt: Deadly Games, and the Netflix series, The Chair, created by Amanda Peet and starring Sandra Oh. Stephanie scored two episodes of the Disney+ documentary series Marvel’s 616, directed by Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie, and continued her collaboration with Jacobs on the LucasFilm/Disney+ documentary feature More Than Robots. She is also the composer of the Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla DLCs The Siege of Paris and Dawn of Ragnarök, the latter of which earned her the historic 2023 Grammy Award for “Best Score for Video Games and Other Interactive Media,” making her the first-ever winner in the new category.
Stephanie is a long-time collaborator of Golden Globe-nominated composer, Harry Gregson-Williams, composing additional music on scores such as Disney’s live-action re-make Mulan, directed by Niki Caro, Jon Turtletaub’s The Meg, Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 2, Disneynature’s Penguins, and Ridley Scott's Oscar-nominated film The Martian.
In 2015, Stephanie was chosen as one of six fellows for the Sundance Institute Composers Lab at Skywalker Ranch. She was also selected for the 2018 NBC/Universal Composers Initiative and is a 2021 BAFTA Breakthrough Artist and is the winner of the 2022 Society for Composers and Lyricists David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent for her work on "Jupiter's Legacy."
