Gustavo Santaolalla

Q: Has Gustavo Santaolalla won any awards?

Yes, Gustavo Santaolalla has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score, one for 'Babel' and another for 'The Motorcycle Diaries'. He has also received numerous other accolades throughout his career.

Q: What was Gustavo Santaolalla's first major film?

His first major film score was for 'The Last of the Dictators' in 1996. This marked the beginning of his successful career in film music.

Q: What is Gustavo Santaolalla's musical style?

Santaolalla's musical style is characterized by a fusion of traditional Latin American music with modern genres. He often uses acoustic instruments and incorporates folk elements into his compositions.

Q: Does Gustavo Santaolalla have any musical albums?

Yes, Gustavo Santaolalla has released several albums, showcasing his work as a musician. His albums often feature a blend of original compositions and traditional Latin music.

Q: What is Gustavo Santaolalla's estimated net worth?

Gustavo Santaolalla's estimated net worth is around $10 million, largely due to his successful career as a composer, musician, and producer.

Q: What other notable films has Gustavo Santaolalla worked on?

Besides 'Babel' and 'The Motorcycle Diaries', Santaolalla has worked on films such as 'The Secret in Their Eyes', 'Amores Perros', and 'The Book of Life'.

Q: Is Gustavo Santaolalla involved in any other projects?

Apart from film scoring, Gustavo Santaolalla is involved in music production and has collaborated with various artists across different genres, further extending his influence in the music industry.

Known for

The Last of Us (2023)

IMDb 8.8 / 10

2023 / Drama / 73mins

Twenty years after modern civilisation has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive...

Name

Gustavo Santaolalla

Height

5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Born

19 August 1951, El Palomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Spouses

Diana Krall (2003–present)

Children

2; Jorge Santaolalla, Aina Santaolalla

Parents

Jorge Santaolalla, Mabel Santaolalla

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2024	Movie Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 Eric Clapton, one of the world’s pre-eminent blues/rock guitarists, once again summoned an all-star team of six-string heroes for his...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2024	Movie Arco Iris, música y filosofía	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	TV The Last of Us Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl,...	Brittany and the Jug Boys - Ronroco	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2022	Movie Soda Stereo - Gracias Totales	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2021	Movie León cumple León Gieco, a leading figure in Argentine popular music, turns 70.	Himself	Not rated
2020	TV BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and...	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2020	Movie Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 “Crossroads Guitar Festival” 2019 live video hosted by Eric Clapton will appear in Blu-ray including high-quality full HD pro shot,...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2020	Movie 30 Years of Argentine Rock Aided by archival footage and interviews with its key figures, this documentary delves into the history of Argentine rock music...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2019	Movie Gustavo Santaolalla - Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra Gustavo Santaolalla - Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra (2018)	Unknown character	Not rated
2019	Movie Café Tacvba - Un Segundo / MTV Unplugged Second MTV Unplugged album of Café Tacvba.	Self - Percussion, voice	TMDB 9.2 / 10
2019	Movie El cine a través de la música Tribute documentary on the relationship between music and image in the cinema, as a constitutive part of it, with great...	Unknown character	Not rated
2014	Movie The Last of Us: One Night Live To celebrate the launch of the PS4 version of The Last of Us, Naughty Dog brings last year’s Game of...	Self - Composer	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2013	Movie The Object Formerly Known as a Record The Object Formerly Known as a Record, the Movie is a film portraying the Mexican Rock band Café Tacvba in...	Self	Not rated
2013	Movie Grounded: Making The Last of Us A feature-length exploration of the game's creation, and a love letter to the trials of exploring new territory. There are...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2010	Movie Continue Being: Café Tacvba A rock band traveling many places of the world, and on planes, buses, in hotels and dressing rooms we discover...	self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie MTV Unplugged: Julieta Venegas MTV Unplugged is the first live album recorded by Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas. The album features a selection of her...	Guest	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2007	Movie Lights, Action, Music A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie Bajofondo Tango Club - Supervielle en el Solis	Luciano Supervielle	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2006	Movie Que sea rock A look into Argentina's rock scene post-Cromañon's tragedy. It does not just present the most popular songs by soloists and...	Self	Not rated
2004	Movie 21 Grams: In Fragments A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie Hollywood Erotic Film Festival Ten erotic vignettes from eight different directors.	(segment "He Believes")	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1973	Movie Hasta que se ponga el sol Concert film documenting the foundational stage of the Argentine 'rock nacional' movement. It was filmed during the third edition of...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
TBA	Movie Gustavo Santaolalla - Raconto Bonus DVD. Live album	Self	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2024	Movie Norita As a mother seeking justice for her disappeared son during the dark days of Argentina's dictatorship, Norita's unwavering determination and...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2024	Movie Norita As a mother seeking justice for her disappeared son during the dark days of Argentina's dictatorship, Norita's unwavering determination and...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2024	Movie Pedro Páramo A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2024	Movie Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II Learn directly from the team at Naughty Dog about what it took to bring the acclaimed sequel The Last of...	Music Sound	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2024	Movie Ayahuasca Now After many years of life marked by PTSD, men and women veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq...	Original Music Composer Sound	Not rated
2023	Movie Pleiades (or Going Home) From the music of Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla, Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou crafts a story inspired by the Pleiades, seven...	Original Music Composer Sound	Not rated
2023	TV Dear Child A mysterious woman's escape from her harrowing captivity points investigators toward the dark truth behind an unsolved disappearance 13 years...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2023	Movie Wild Life From Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, "Wild Life" follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic, decades-spanning love story...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2023	TV The Last of Us Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl,...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2022	Movie Seremos millones	Music Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	Movie Alone Following the events of a worldwide pandemic that has resulted in everyone deserting their homes and fleeing towns and cities,...	Music Sound	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2022	Movie The House Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Finch On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life,...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2020	TV The Legend of El Cid The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain.	Music Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2020	TV BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2020	Movie Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2020	Movie The Fight Inside the ACLU, five scrappy lawyers battle against the Trump administration’s historic assault on civil liberties - from separating families...	Music Sound	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2019	Movie Café Tacvba - Un Segundo / MTV Unplugged Second MTV Unplugged album of Café Tacvba.	Producer Production	TMDB 9.2 / 10
2019	Movie The City Where Children Disappear Documentary film by the Danish TV channel DR about sexual abuse and suicide in Tasiilaq, Southeastern Greenland.	Music Sound	Not rated
2019	Movie Postman Set in the late ‘90s, in the height of the privatizations and the increase in poverty, Postman closely follows Hernán,...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie Postman Set in the late ‘90s, in the height of the privatizations and the increase in poverty, Postman closely follows Hernán,...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	TV Narcos: Mexico See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2017	Movie The Tribes of Palos Verdes When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2017	Movie All That Divides Us A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie To End a War The conflict between the Colombian authorities and the marxist FARC guerrilla broke out in 1964, and in 2012 peace negotiations...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	Movie Before the Flood A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2016	Movie Le Sang des Hardes	Music Sound	Not rated
2015	Movie Borrowed Time A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	TV Jane the Virgin A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2014	Movie The Book of Life The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2014	Movie Wild Tales Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2014	Movie Rouge Brésil Adaptation of the Jean-Christophe Ruffin novel	Original Music Composer Sound	Not rated
2013	Movie August: Osage County An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2013	Movie Grounded: Making The Last of Us A feature-length exploration of the game's creation, and a love letter to the trials of exploring new territory. There are...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2012	Movie Néstor Kirchner, la película A documentary produced by Peronist activists Chino Navarro and Topo Devoto that focuses on former President Néstor Kirchner, featuring archival...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2012	Movie El Ocaso del Macá Tobiano	Music Sound	Not rated
2012	Movie On the Road Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2011	Movie Eva from the Argentina Argentina's Eva told from the perspective of journalist Rodolfo Walsh the remarkable story of Eva Peron. The obsession of this...	Music Sound	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2011	Movie His Mother's Eyes A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2010	Movie Biutiful This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2010	Movie Dhobi Ghat Arun is a reclusive and lonely modern art painter. Shai is an American banker who is on a visit to...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2010	Movie Nanga Parbat Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2009	Movie South of the Border A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception...	Associate Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie I Come with the Rain Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie Linha de Passe In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie Café de los maestros Coffee Masters is a documentary by Miguel Kohan, produced by Lita Stantic, Gustavo Santaolalla and Walter Salles. It tells the...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2007	Movie Common Ground: Under Construction Notes The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...	Music Sound	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2006	Movie Babel Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2005	Movie Brokeback Mountain In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2005	Movie North Country A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines,...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie The Motorcycle Diaries Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2003	Movie 21 Grams Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2002	Movie September 11 An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2000	Movie Amores Perros A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1981	Movie She Dances Alone Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to...	Music Sound	TMDB 10.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Íntegro, Integro, Integró	Music Sound	Not rated

Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023

2024 / TMDB 8.0

Arco Iris, música y filosofía

2024 / TMDB 6.0

Soda Stereo - Gracias Totales

2022 / TMDB 5.0

León cumple

2021

30 Years of Argentine Rock

2020 / TMDB 10.0

Café Tacvba - Un Segundo / MTV Unplugged

2019 / TMDB 9.2

Got a question about Gustavo Santaolalla?

What are Gustavo Santaolalla's most famous film scores?

Gustavo Santaolalla is known for his scores in 'Babel', 'The Motorcycle Diaries', and '21 Grams'. His music often blends traditional Latin American sounds with modern influences.

Has Gustavo Santaolalla won any awards?

What was Gustavo Santaolalla's first major film?

What is Gustavo Santaolalla's musical style?

Does Gustavo Santaolalla have any musical albums?

What is Gustavo Santaolalla's estimated net worth?

What other notable films has Gustavo Santaolalla worked on?

Is Gustavo Santaolalla involved in any other projects?

Gustavo Santaolalla

Known for

The Last of Us (2023)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023

Arco Iris, música y filosofía

Soda Stereo - Gracias Totales

León cumple

30 Years of Argentine Rock

Café Tacvba - Un Segundo / MTV Unplugged

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