Gustavo Santaolalla

The Profile

Argentine composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for ronroco-driven, minimalist-lyrical film scores and genre-blending projects across cinema and television.

Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Original Score (Brokeback Mountain; Babel); composer for The Last of Us (games and HBO series); longtime collaborator of Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

A single, glowing review praises Santaolalla’s ability to make films ‘become music,’ focusing on The Motorcycle Diaries while nodding to 21 Grams and Amores Perros. The critic highlights his blend of tango, classical, rock, and electronics, and the way his scores evoke vast Latin American landscapes. Publicly, Santaolalla is an Argentine composer and producer known for Oscar-winning scores and for The Last of Us.