H. Scott Salinas

H. Scott Salinas is an American film score composer and musician.

Work and credits

Feature films

• Elevation (2024)

:Original Score

• The Banker (2020)

:Original Score

• Zipper (2015)

:Original Score

• ' (2013)

:Original Score

• Strictly Sexual (2008, DKZ Films)

:Original Score

• Just Friends (2006, New Line Cinema)

:Original Song, “Jamie Smiles”

• Edison (2005, Millennium Films)

:Original Score (Co-Composer)

:Toronto Film Festival Selection 2005

• Pool Hall Prophets (2005, Seven Arts Pictures)

:Original Song, “Venus”

:Toronto Film Festival Selection 2005

• 51 Birch Street (2005, Copacetic Pictures / HBO Documentary)

:Original Score

:Toronto Film Festival Selection 2005

• The Conventioneers (2005, Hyphenate Films / Cinema Libre Studio)

:Original Score (Co-Composer)

:Tribeca Film Festival Selection 2005

• Yesterday's Dreams (2005, Living the Dream Productions / Pisces Productions)

:Original Score

• The Red Lily (1924)

:Original Modern Score for Turner Classic Movies, 2005

• Dark Warrior (2005, Film Shack / Universal Home Video)

:Additional Music

• Raise Your Voice (2004, FilmEngine / New Line Cinema)

:Additional Score

• The Squaw Man (1913)

:Original Modern Score for Turner Classic Movies, 2004

• Latin Dragon (2004, Pacific Entertainment Group / Universal Home Video)

:Original Score

• Duplex (2003, Miramax Films)

:Source Cues

• The Divine Emerald (2003, Nubian Productions Corporation)

:Original Score

:New York Independent Film Festival Selection 2004

• Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

:Original Modern Score For Turner Classic Movies, 2002

:Commissioned as Grand Prize Winner of 2002 TCM Young Film Composers Competition

Documentary films

• Yanuni (2025)

Television

• I Hate My Job

:2004, RDF Media / Spike TV

:Main Title Song

• Johnson County War

:2001, Larry Levinson Productions / Hallmark Entertainment

:Assistant to Composer

• Evolution

:2001, Clear Blue Sky Productions / PBS

:Additional Orchestration

Video games

• '

:2005, Atari / Shiny Entertainment

:Additional Music

Advertisements

Cisco • Linksys • Toyota • Hyundai • Mattel • Coca-Cola • Kool Aid • History Channel • New York • Olympics 2012 • Nationwide • Special Olympics • Clorox • ID Channel, "Murder in the Heartland" Theme

Honors and awards

• Winner, AICP Award Best Commercial Music Arrangement “Buglers Dream” (2005)
• Composer Select, Exclusive Summer Program, ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop (2003)
• Grand Prize Winner, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Young Film Composers Competition (2002)
• Recipient, Georges Delerue Scholarship, Berklee College of Music (2000)
• Composer Select, Atelier with Toni Morrison and Yo-Yo Ma, Princeton University (1996)

References