Javier navarrete biography

Spanish composer of film scores (born 1956)

Javier Navarrete (born May 9, 1956) is a Spanish film score composer.^[1] His best known score, for which he received an Oscar nomination, was for Pan's Labyrinth (his second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, the first being The Devil's Backbone).^[1]

Navarrete was born in Teruel. His scores include Whore, Tras el cristal, Dot the i, and other Spanish films. In addition, he scored 2009's Cracks (directed by Jordan Scott), 2012's Byzantium (directed by Neil Jordan) and the U.S. productions, Mirrors, Wrath of the Titans and Inkheart. His score for the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn won him an Emmy Award.^[2] He also produced in 2015 the soundtrack for the Hong Kong–based film Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal.

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Javier Navarrete (born 1956, Teruel) is a Spanish composer of film scores.

Life & Career[]

His most famous score, for which he received an Academy Award nomination, was for Pan's Labyrinth (his second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, the first being The Devil's Backbone). Navarrete also composed the scores for Whore, Tras el cristal, Dot the i, along with various other Spanish films. His other scores include 2009's Cracks (directed by Jordan Scott), and the U.S. productions, Mirrors and Inkheart. He scored the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn and the sequel film Wrath of the Titans

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• One of 115 peopled invited to join AMPAS in 2007.

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