Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine composer and musician. Known for his minimalist approach to composing, he rose to fame for creating the scores to the films Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Babel (2006), for which he received two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in consecutive years. Santaolalla also gained recognition for his work on The Last of Us games, composing the original title and its 2020 sequel. He returned to reprise his themes and co-compose the score for the 2023 HBO adaptation.
19 August 1951
Born on the same birth date (19 August 1951): John Deacon
Born on the same birth day (19 August): Awak Kuier • Dave Dutton • David A. Gregory • David Durenberger • Dawn Steel • Eddy Raven • Gilbert Ryle • Ion N. Petrovici • James Tomkins (rower) • Jonathan Frakes • Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt • Kazuyoshi Tatsunami • Kirk Cousins • Maurice Wilks • Paul-Jan Bakker • Ronald King • Thomas Flegler • Tracie Thoms
Born in the same month (August 1951): Akhmad Kadyrov • Burgess Owens • Carl Lumbly • Chesley V. Morton • Dana Rosemary Scallon • Danny Joe Brown • Daryl Somers • Grant Batty • Greg Bear • Jay North • Joe Lynn Turner • Juan Manuel Santos • Mack Brown • Marcel Dionne • Per Westerberg • Peter Goodfellow (geneticist)