Sandy Nuttgens

Alexander “Sandy” Nuttgens (born 1964) is a British composer and a Professional Member of the Ivors Academy. He is principally known for scoring television programmes mainly in the realm of children’s TV and documentaries. He has scored numerous BAFTA and Royal Television Society winners and nominees including My Parents Are Aliens for Granada, Timelines for October Films and Shakespeare Shorts for the BBC. In 2008 he scored his first feature film ‘The Blue Tower’which won Best UK Film at the London Raindance Film Festival. In children’s television he scored the music for Postman Pat SDS, Odo, Floogals, Mixmups, Big & Small, Get Well Soon and Dinopaws. Both Postman Pat and Dinopaws were nominated in the 2014 BAFTA Children’s Awards. Nuttgens was awarded two Silver Telly Awards for his work on Odo. Between 2023 and 2026 Nuttgens scored the music for BooSnoo! for Visionality and Sky Kids. Nuttgens was nominated for a BAFTA TV Craft Award in both 2025 and 2026 for his work on BooSnoo!. In 2007 Nuttgens won an RTS Yorkshire Region Award for Best Music for his score for Terry Jones’ Barbarians for Oxford Films and the BBC. He was nominated for RTS Best Music for The Rise and Fall of Ton