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Gustavo Santaolalla

Composer / Songwriter / Record Producer | * 08/19/1951 (72) | El Palomar, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (Spanish: [ɡusˈtaβo alˈfɾeðo santaoˈlaʝa]; born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine composer. He has been a collaborator with acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composing the first four psychological drama films Iñárritu directed. He is known for his work on The Last of Us franchise, having composed the original scores for the video games The Last of Us (2013) and The Last of Us Part II (2020), and for his work on the HBO adaptation, having created the theme music and co-scored the soundtrack with David Fleming. His other notable work includes writing the themes for television series such as the American satirical romantic dramedy series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), the MBC 4 satirical romantic dramedy series Miss Farah (2019–2022), an Arabic adaptation of Jane the Virgin, and Making a Murderer (2015–2018). He won Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, first for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and then ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Thriller

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Awards & Nominations for Gustavo Santaolalla

2x Academy Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song BAFTA Award for Best Original Music 2x Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year Latin Grammy Trustees Award 2x Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Movies with Gustavo Santaolalla as Actor(7)

TV Shows/Series with Gustavo Santaolalla as Actor(1)

Movies with Gustavo Santaolalla as Crew(34)

Sound/Original Music Composer2023 Wild Life
Sound/Original Music Composer2021 Finch
Sound/Music2020 The Fight
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
Sound/Music2019 Postman
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 To End a War
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 The Tribes of Palos Verdes
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 All That Divides Us
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Before the Flood
Sound/Music2015 Borrowed Time
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Wild Tales
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 The Book of Life
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 August: Osage County
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 Néstor Kirchner, la película
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 On the Road
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 His Mother's Eyes
Sound/Music2011 Eva de la argentina
Sound/Music2010 Nanga Parbat
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Dhobi Ghat
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Biutiful
Production/Associate Producer2009 South of the Border
Sound/Music2009 I Come with the Rain
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Linha de Passe
Production/Producer2008 Café de los maestros
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Babel
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 North Country
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 Brokeback Mountain
Sound/Original Music Composer2004 The Motorcycle Diaries
Sound/Original Music Composer2003 21 Grams
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 11'09''01 September 11
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Amores Perros
Sound/Music1981 She Dances Alone

TV Shows/Series with Gustavo Santaolalla as Crew(5)

Sound/Music2023 Dear Child
Sound/Music2020 The Legend of El Cid
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Narcos: Mexico
Sound/Theme Song Performance2014 Jane the Virgin

Additional Information

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Citizenship: Argentina
Born: Sunday, 08/19 1951 (August) in El Palomar, Buenos Aires (Argentina) (current age: 72 years + 222 days)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES, native language)
Member of: Arco Iris, Soluna, Bajofondo
Influenced by/Role models: Thelonious Monk, Peter Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Olivier Messiaen, Bernard Herrmann, Alec Wilder, Andrés Segovia Torres, Astor Piazzolla, Billy May, Bix Beiderbecke, Count Basie, Mercer Ellington, Gil Evans, Michael Kamen, Jean-Michel Jarre, Chris Mancini, Miles Davis, Xavier Cugat
Other names for Gustavo Santaolalla (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla"
Gustavo Santaolalla frequently works together with these people:
Walter Salles (6x, Crew)
Rodrigo Prieto (6x, Crew)
Micah Schraft (5x, Crew)
Stephen Mirrione (4x, Crew)
Jimmy Chin (4x, Crew)
Gregory W. Allen (4x, Crew)
Emiliano Serra (4x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:776232, Added: 11/06/2018, Last updated: 02/29/2024