Trent Reznor is an American songwriter/musician/producer and sole member of multi-platinum act Nine Inch Nails, and now an Academy Award winning film composer. He began creating music as a child in Western Pennsylvania, first on piano and then taking up other instruments. He eventually moved to Cleveland...See full bio »
2013Sound City
(documentary)
(writer: "With Teeth", "Every Day Is Exactly the Same", "Mantra" / performer: "Mantra")
2012The Ghosts of Faust
(video)
(writer: "36 Ghosts IV Epilogue", "12 Ghosts II Where Did All the Color Go?", "23 Ghosts III Domino", "28 Ghosts IV Opalescent Haze", "26 Ghosts III The Big Come Up", "38 Ghosts Void: The Summit", "27 Ghosts III And This Is How Things Fall Apart", "25 Ghosts III Burn Out", "33 Ghosts IV, Pt. 2 Hellbound", "30 Ghosts IV Mephisto: The Pit", "34 Ghosts IV, Pt. 1 Further Down the Spiral", "20 Ghosts III The Dominoes Topple", "8 Ghosts I Bipolar", "22 Ghosts III Antidote O", "32 Ghosts IV Preparing the Canvas", "31 Ghosts IV Painting with Blood", "17 Ghosts II Stained", "33 Ghosts IV, Pt. 1 The Virtue of Patience", "2 Ghosts I Everything is Exactly the Same", "1 Ghosts I Color: The Beginning", "35 Ghosts IV A Proposition, Pt. 1", "6 Ghosts I A Proposition, Pt. 2", "21 Ghosts I Art Is Resistance, Pt. 1", "13 Ghosts II Love and Rebellion", "29 Ghosts IV Parepin", "19 Ghosts III Opal", "7 Ghosts I Baal", "5 Ghosts I No Room for Love in Anarchy", "18 Ghosts II Psilocybin / Ghost in the Machine", "24 Ghosts III Art Is Resistance, Pt. 2", "11 Ghosts II Break Down / Slip", "10 Ghosts II Myke", "15 Ghosts II Crossroads", "3 Ghosts I Art Is Resistance, Pt. 3", "4 Ghosts I Aftermath / The Presence", "9 Ghosts I Molly Memoria", "34 Ghosts IV, Pt. 2 Past is Prologue / Nia")
2010The Social Network
(performer: "In the Hall of the Mountain King Op. 23" / producer: "In the Hall of the Mountain King Op. 23" / arranger: "In the Hall of the Mountain King Op. 23")
2007Nine Inch Nails Live: Beside You in Time
(video)
(writer: "Love Is Not Enough", "You Know What You Are?", "Terrible Lie", "The Line Begins to Blur", "March of the Pigs", "Something I Can Never Have", "Closer", "Burn", "Gave Up", "Eraser", "Right Where It Belongs", "Beside You in Time", "With Teeth", "Wish", "Only", "The Big Come Down", "Hurt", "The Hand That Feeds", "Head Like a Hole")
2004Man on Fire
(writer: "The Mark Has Been Made", "The Wretched Version", "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One", "The Downward Spiral The Bottom", "Self Destruction, Part Two", "The Great Below")
2002Nine Inch Nails Live: And All That Could Have Been
(video documentary)
(writer: "Terrible Lie", "Sin", "March of the Pigs", "Piggy", "The Frail", "The Wretched", "Gave Up", "La mer", "The Great Below", "The Mark Has Been Made", "Wish", "Complication", "Suck", "Closer", "Head Like a Hole", "Just Like You Imagined", "Starfuckers, Inc.", "Hurt", "Starfuckers, Inc." alternate version, "Reptile", "The Day the World Went Away")
1997Closure
(video documentary)
(writer: "Eraser", "Terrible Lie", "Piggy", "Down in It", "A Violet Fluid", "March of the Pigs", "Eraser Polite" - uncredited, "Eraser Denial; Realization" - uncredited, "The Only Time", "I Do Not Want This", "Sanctified", "Wish", "Hurt", "Something I Can Never Have", "A Warm Place", "The Art Of Self Destruction" - uncredited, "Head Like a Hole", "Sin", "Pinion", "Help Me I Am in Hell", "Happiness in Slavery", "Gave Up", "Closer", "The Perfect Drug")
1997Edge
(writer: "Fist Fuck", "March of the Pigs" / performer: "Fist Fuck")
1992Broken
(video short)
(writer: "Pinion", "Wish", "Help Me I Am in Hell", "Happiness in Slavery", "Gave Up" / producer: "Pinion", "Wish", "Help Me I Am in Hell", "Happiness in Slavery", "Gave Up")
1990Class of 1999
(writer: "Head Like a Hole" / as T. Reznor)
[on covering Led Zeppelin for
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] That took a hell of a lot of time to do that. And also from the position of, "Hey, do you want to cover a classic rock song?" You're kind of setting yourself up to fail. A lot of time spent revising that and trying to get the tone just right. Again, when he [David Fincher] brought up the idea of doing it...
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Trivia:
Played prominent roles in his high school's productions of Jesus Christ SuperStar and The Music Man, as Judas and Professor Harold Hill respectively. He was voted "best in Drama" by his classmates.
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