Murray Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for #VanityFair (1999), #Queer as Folk (2000), #Casanova (2006) and twice for #DoctorWho (2009 and 2014). His score for the BAFTA winning film Kiss of Life was awarded the 'Mozart Prize of the 7th Art' by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated four times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television.
He has worked with Russell T Davies, the former writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, many times in the past on projects such as Casanova (starring David Tennant), The Second Coming (starring Christopher Eccleston) and Queer as Folk 1 & 2.
He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series #Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil's Whore. More recently Gold scored another David Tennant series, in BBC1's Single Father. In this, Gold opted for a more popular music style ensemble rather than writing for orchestra.
Since 2012 Murray Gold has composed the musical score for the drama series Last Tango in Halifax. In 2014, Gold scored the BBC series The Musketeers. In 2019, Gold reunited with Russell T Davies for his series Years and Years. He came to Fontainebleau to present his work on #AVeryEnglishScandal with Stephen Frears.
