Known for Sound
Justin Hurwitz (born January 22nd, 1985) is an American film composer and television writer. He is best known for his longtime collaboration with director Damien Chazelle, scoring each of his films: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), First Man (2018), and Babylon (2022). For La La Land, Hurwitz won two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best Original Song (for "City of Stars"), as well as Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. He has won two Grammy Awards for La La Land, one for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media and another for Best Score Soundtrack For Original Media. He won two additional Golden Globes for Original Score for First Man and Babylon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Justin Hurwitz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
January 22, 1985 (age 41)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Filmography
12 films, 6 shows


Babylon
2022 · 3h 9m
country: United States
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.


Piano Cinéma
2022 · 2h 4m
country: France
Jean-Michel Bernard's piano tribute concert to cinema.


First Man
2018 · 2h 21m
country: United States
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.


La La Land
2016 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.


Whiplash
2014 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.


Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
2010 · 1h 23m
country: United States
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.