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Gustavo Santaolalla is a Actor, Associate Producer and Sound Argentin born on 19 august 1951

Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla
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Birth name Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla
Nationality Argentine
Birth 19 august 1951 (72 years)

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

En 1967, il a fondé le groupe Arco Iris, groupe argentin cherchant la fusion du rock et du folk latino-américain. Arco Iris était un groupe assimilé au courant hippie de l'époque, fusion de l'idéologie "flowers powers" et de philosophie hindouiste sur qui la guide spirituel Dana, exerçait une influence bienveillante. Malgré les différents sauts évolutifs au long de sa carrière, sa musique est toujours imprégnée de cette touche minimaliste et mystique qui ont caractérisé ses débuts dans Arco Iris.

Il crée en 1981, son premier album : Santaolalla. Puis en 1995, G.A.S. (ses initiales) et en 1997 Ronroco (instrumental) ses premiers succès. Il produira en 2000 Fíjate bien un album pour le chanteur colombien Juanes. Il est aussi le producteur de plusieurs groupes latino tels que Javier Garcia ou Cafe Tacuba.


Musiques pour le cinéma et la publicité
Il a dirigé la musique du Secret de Brokeback Mountain d'Ang Lee, musique pour laquelle il a obtenu un Oscar en 2006 ainsi que le Golden Globe Award pour la meilleure chanson originale A Love That Will Never Grow Old, et des Carnets de voyage de Walter Salles. Il a aussi dirigé celle de Babel d'Alejandro González Iñárritu en 2006 pour laquelle il obtient à nouveau un Oscar en 2007. En 1999, il écrit également Iguazu qu'il interprète pour le film Révélations (The Insider). Il écrit également une partie de la musique de My Blueberry Nights. Pour le premier film, il a obtenu le 5 mars 2006, l'Oscar de la meilleure bande originale. Pour le second, il a reçu le BAFTA de la Meilleure musique. Ce film a aussi été récompensé par l'Oscar de la Meilleure Chanson originale avec Al otro lado del rio. Gustavo Santaolalla a aussi collaboré à Amours chiennes, à 21 grammes, et à la séquence de 11'09"01 réalisée par Alejandro González Iñárritu.

En 2008, il écrit la musique du premier film publicitaire de Louis Vuitton Where will life take you ?, réalisé par Bruno Aveillan, puis en 2010 il compose à nouveau pour Alejandro González Iñárritu pour le film Biutiful. Le morceau qu'il a composé appelé De Uschuaia la Quiaca a été utilisée en France dans la publicité pour le TGV en 2011. Le morceau Apertura sert également pour la publicité de la Société générale, la même année.

En 2013, il réalise la bande-originale du jeu vidéo The Last of Us du studio de développement Naughty Dog, tout comme pour sa suite.

Best films

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
(Original Music Composer)
Babel (2006)
(Original Music Composer)
August: Osage County (2013)
(Original Music Composer)
21 Grams (2003)
(Original Music Composer)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
(Original Music Composer)
Wild Tales (2014)
(Original Music Composer)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gustavo Santaolalla (26 films)

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All That Divides Us, 1h39
Directed by Thierry Klifa
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Diane Kruger, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Kev Adams, Michaël Cohen, Olivier Loustau
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53% 2.679562.679562.679562.679562.67956
Julia, jeune femme mutilée, est profondément éprise de Rodolphe, un voyou de cité qu'elle rémunère pour des prestations sexuelles et qui lui livre de la drogue. Un soir, après avoir fait l'amour dans un endroit isolé, celui-ci se montre violent envers Julia, qui, sous l'effet de drogues, lui assène un coup mortel à la tête.
Before the Flood, 1h35
Directed by Fisher Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Oprah Winfrey
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating81% 4.092974.092974.092974.092974.09297
Le film tente de montrer comment la planète peut encore être sauvegardée et empêcher la disparition d’espèces ou encore la modification brutale et peut-être irréversible de notre environnement. L’action citoyenne par le truchement du choix des politiques lors de consultations nationales est-il une forme de réponse ?
Borrowed Time, 7minutes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Animation, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Steve Purcell
Roles Music
Rating74% 3.743693.743693.743693.743693.74369
Borrowed Time raconte l'histoire poignante d'un shérif éploré, qui revient avec émotion sur les lieux d'un terrible accident. Il y retrouve un vieil objet, qui va lui redonner foi en l'avenir.
Wild Tales
Wild Tales (2014)
, 2h2
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti, Nancy Dupláa, María Onetto, Érica Rivas
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating80% 4.0484354.0484354.0484354.0484354.048435
Two plane passengers discover that they know a man named Pasternak: the woman is his former girlfriend, and the man is a music critic who savagely reviewed his work. They discover that everybody on the flight is connected to Pasternak. An air stewardess reveals that Pasternak is the plane's pilot and has locked himself into the cockpit. Pasternak crashes the plane into his parents' house.
The Book of Life, 1h35
Directed by Jorge R. Gutiérrez
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana, Diego Luna, Christina Applegate, Ice Cube, Cheech Marin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating72% 3.60463.60463.60463.60463.6046
A museum tour guide named Mary Beth takes a group of children on a tour of Mexican folk myths and legends. She tells them the story of the Mexican town of San Angel from the Book of Life, which holds every story in the world.
August: Osage County, 2h10
Directed by John Wells
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard, Chris Cooper
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.597343.597343.597343.597343.59734
The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard), an alcoholic, once-noted poet, interviews and hires a young native American woman Johnna (Misty Upham) as a live-in cook and caregiver for his strong-willed and contentious wife Violet (Meryl Streep), who is suffering from oral cancer and addiction to narcotics. Shortly after this, he disappears from the house, and Violet calls her sister and daughters for support. Her sister Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale) arrives with husband Charles Aiken (Chris Cooper). Violet's middle daughter Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) is single and the only one living locally; Barbara (Julia Roberts), her oldest, who has inherited her mother's mean streak, arrives from Colorado with her husband Bill (Ewan McGregor) and 14-year-old daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin). Barbara and Bill are separated, but they put up a united front for Violet.
On the Road, 2h20
Directed by Sam Riley, Walter Salles
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Alice Braga
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59% 2.996472.996472.996472.996472.99647
In 1947, on the day his father is buried, Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) is invited by his friend Chad to meet Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) and Moriarty's 16-year-old wife Marylou (Kristen Stewart). Sal befriends Dean, smoking marijuana with him and visiting a jazz nightclub where they meet saxophonist Walter (Terrence Howard), who also befriends them. Dean gets a job as a chauffeur (having previously been a car thief). Sal teaches Dean how to write before another friend, Carlo Marx (Tom Sturridge), leaves with Dean for Denver.
His Mother's Eyes, 1h45
Directed by Thierry Klifa
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Boxing films
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Géraldine Pailhas, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Marina Foïs, Marisa Paredes, Jean-Marc Barr
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59% 2.994352.994352.994352.994352.99435
Mathieu Roussel, écrivain à la solde d'un éditeur à scandales, s'infiltre dans la vie de la célèbre journaliste Lena Weber et de sa fille Maria Canalès, danseuse étoile, afin d'écrire une biographie intime à leur insu. Parallèlement, en Bretagne, Bruno, jeune homme passionné de boxe, est loin de se douter des conséquences de l'écriture de cette biographie sur sa vie.
Eva from the Argentina, 1h15
Genres Animation
Roles Music
Rating63% 3.161843.161843.161843.161843.16184
The Crossing of the Andes, 1h35
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Actors Rodrigo de la Serna, Juan Carlos Gené
Rating68% 3.435953.435953.435953.435953.43595
The story starts in 1880, near the date when the remains of the deceased José de San Martín were moved to Buenos Aires. A veteran of the Army of the Andes gets an interview for the event, and the narration continues mostly through a flashback. The telling of the events does not follow the complete biography of San Martín, focusing instead in the Crossing of the Andes and the later Battle of Chacabuco.
Nanga Parbat, 1h44
Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about families, Sports films
Actors Karl Markovics, Volker Bruch, Lena Stolze, Matthias Habich, Alexander Held, Sunnyi Melles
Roles Music
Rating64% 3.249183.249183.249183.249183.24918
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messner's younger brother Günther died.
Biutiful
Biutiful (2010)
, 2h27
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, La précarité, Films about cancer
Actors Javier Bardem, Nasser Saleh, Eduard Fernández, Martina García, Blanca Portillo, Rubén Ochandiano
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating73% 3.699053.699053.699053.699053.69905
Uxbal lives in a shabby apartment in Barcelona with his two young children, Ana and Mateo. He is separated from their mother Marambra, a woman suffering from alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Having grown up an orphan, Uxbal has no family other than his brother Tito, who works in the construction business. Uxbal earns a living by procuring work for illegal immigrants and managing a group of Chinese women producing forged designer goods along with the African street vendors who are selling them. He is able to talk to the dead and is sometimes paid to pass on messages from the recently deceased at wakes and funerals. When he is diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer leaving him with only a few months to live, his world progressively falls apart.