Custom music for Adrien Brody’s turn as a TurboTax expert
TurboTax 2026 Super Bowl Ad | The Expert ft. Adrien Brody (Extended Cut)
- Client
- Intuit TurboTax
- Spot
- The Expert
- Starring
- Adrien Brody
- Agency
- R/GA Americas
- Director
- Craig Gillespie
- Our role
- Custom music
The idea
Adrien Brody plays himself, preparing to play a TurboTax expert. The trouble is that he brings the full weight of an Oscar winner to the role, when the whole point of a TurboTax expert is to take the drama out of taxes.
The campaign ran as a two-minute film in theaters and online, a 45-second spot just before halftime of Super Bowl LX, and shorter cuts for the pregame and social.
What we did
Score a Score created the custom music for the campaign. Steve Sopchak, Miles Hankins and Dan Rosen composed it, with Max Ferguson producing and Jordan Passman as executive music producer.
The result
“The Expert” aired on February 8, 2026, TurboTax’s 13th Super Bowl campaign. It won Bronze at The One Show in Cinema Advertising and a Merit for celebrity casting, was shortlisted at the Clios and in several shots Ad of the Year categories, and made multiple publications’ lists of the year’s top Super Bowl campaigns.
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Credits
Music / Sound
Score a Score
- Composer
- Steve Sopchak, Miles Hankins, Dan Rosen
- Executive Producer
- Jordan Passman
- Music Producer
- Max Ferguson
Brand
Intuit TurboTax
- Vice President
- Nick Soukas
- Marketing Executive
- Trevor Kelley
- Marketing Director
- Jamie Lasser
- Marketing Manager
- Melissa Camperi, Scott Ricci, Molly Henze
Agency
R/GA Americas
- Chief Creative Officer
- Tiffany Rolfe
- Creative Excellence
- Ari Halper
- Group Creative Director
- Ryan O’Keefe
- Creative Director
- Adrien Bindi
- Associate Creative Director
- Mike Lopez, Isaac Weeber
- Technical Director
- Felipe Mahalem
- Designer
- Michelle Passe
- Head of Production
- Jesse Brihn
- Executive Producer
- Benjy Greenberg, Abbie Noon
- Business Affairs Director
- Miriam Hughes
- Managing Director
- Joe Ladd, Justine Kleeman
- Business Director
- Jillian Zarem, Rebecca Gernert
- Associate Director
- Victoria Sharp
- Strategy Director
- Yael Cesarkas
- Media Director
- Daniel Morosi
- Group Director
- Emily Arnold
Production company
MJZ
- Director
- Craig Gillespie
- Assistant Director
- Miles Gillespie
- Executive Producer
- David Zander, Noah Goldsmith
- Head of Production
- Robert Helphand
- Producer
- Martha Davis
- Production Supervisor
- Cameron McMillan Grant
- 1st AD
- Christian Van Fleet
- Director of Photography
- Masanobu Takayanagi
- Production Designer
- Jamie Vickers
- Video
- Rich Millard
Production service
Radke
- Executive Producer
- Scott Mackenzie, Tony DiMarco
- Producer
- Mollie Rolfe
- Production Manager
- Steven Goetz
- Coordinator
- Christina Bryson, Claire McCallum
- Talent
- Zachary Orwan
- 1st AC
- Colin Doering
- 2nd AC
- Avigal Levona
- 2nd AD
- Rosa Mussa
- 3rd AD
- Kenny Godinho
- Sound
- Scott Taylor
- Gaffer
- George Petras
- Grip
- Blake Ballentine
- Designer
- Francois Jordaan
- Stylist
- Caitlyn Wright, Michelle Lyte
- Hair and Makeup
- Ana Sorys, Christine Kohut
Post / VFX
Parliament
- VFX Supervisor
- Nathan Kane, Siro Valente
- 2D Lead
- Jade Kim
- Creative
- Andrew Emmerson, Ashley Forbito Jahanashahi, Luke Bedilion, Edgar De La Torre
- Executive Producer
- Anna Kravtsov
- Producer
- Aiste Akelaityte, Aidan Erbter
Post / Color
Company 3 New York
- Colorist
- Tom Poole
- Producer
- Nick Krasnic
Post / VFX
Swell Digital
- Executive Producer
- Michelle Leedy
- Retouching
- Kris Chu
Edit
Cabin Edit
- Editor
- Chan Hatcher, Dani Roth
- Cutting Assistant
- Astrid Cedeño-Franco
- Producer
- Noelle Lucien, Ellie Pettit
- Executive Producer
- Hope DuHaime
- Head of Production
- Lisa Barnable
Music / Sound
Lime Studios
- Sound Engineer
- Joel Waters, Ben Tomastik
- Assistant Engineer
- Mia Perfetti, Kris Huayata
- Executive Producer
- Susie Boyajen