1. Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an
Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has
won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two
consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005, and
Babel in 2006. Most recently, he composed the music for
the video game The Last of Us.
Biography
Moving on to movie soundtracks in the 1990s, Santaolalla scored Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 Grams, The
Motorcycle Diariesand 2005's North Country.
Winner of the 2007 Oscar for the original score of the motion picture Babel and the 2006 Oscar for the score of
Brokeback Mountain as well as a Golden Globe (Best Original Song) for Brokeback's "A Love that Will Never
Grow Old", Santaolalla is a name that we're all going to learn how to pronounce in the future.
Movie Soundtracks
Gustavo uses many different
instruments to compose pieces
of music. He is not focussed on
reading or writhing a piece of
music and experiments with
instruments that he is not
familiar with to find the sound
he is looking for.
Gustavo Santaolalla - Musician/ Film composer
The Last of Us music score was composed by the two-time
Academy Award for Best Original Score winner composer
Gustavo Santaolalla. The team wanted to focus on emotion
with the soundtrack rather than horror. The main theme is
acoustic guitar-led, an arpeggiated figure in a minor key over
tribal percussion, building to a dissonant climax of fiercely
strummed chords. The score has received critical acclaim
since its release.Many of the instruments in the score feature
Santaolalla himself on guitar and other instruments.