Argentine musician Gustavo Santaolalla has been nominated for and won numerous accolades during his career.
After becoming a leading figure in the rock en español movement, Santaolalla caught the attention of filmmakers that led to a career expansion into film scores. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music for The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and subsequently received two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Original Score for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Babel (2006). He also won a Golden Globe Award for the song "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" from the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack and a second BAFTA Award for the Babel score.
Santaolalla is also known for his musical scores in The Last of Us media franchise, receiving two nominations at the BAFTA Games Awards for the soundtracks of the video games The Last of Us (2013) and The Last of Us Part II (2020), and a nomination at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his work in The Last of Us television series (2023âÂÂpresent).
Santaolalla has won two Grammy Awards for producing the Café Tacuba's studio album Cuatro Caminos (2003) and Juanes's La Vida... Es Un Ratico (2007). He is also the recipient of 17 Latin Grammy Awards, which include two Album of the Year wins, two Record of the Year wins, and the 2005 Producer of the Year award. In 2023, he received the Latin Grammy Trustees Award.