Javier Navarrete is an Academy Award–nominated and Emmy Award–winning composer whose music bridges Hollywood blockbusters and acclaimed European cinema.

He is best known for Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (Tequila Gang / Picturehouse), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score and a Grammy nomination for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture. He also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn, directed by Philip Kaufman.

Navarrete’s Hollywood studio credits include Wrath of the Titans (Warner Bros.), Inkheart (New Line Cinema / Warner Bros.), Antlers (Searchlight Pictures), and Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (Blumhouse Productions / Netflix), adapted from the Stephen King story and directed by John Lee Hancock.

In Europe, he has collaborated with Neil Jordan on Greta (Sidney Kimmel Entertainment / Focus Features) and Byzantium (Number 9 Films / IFC Films); Jordan Scott on Cracks (Antena 3 Films / IFC Films); Alexandre Aja on Mirrors (New Regency Productions / 20th Century Fox); and Pierre Godeau on Headwind and Raoul Taburin (Pan Européenne). He also composed the score for the Chinese fantasy epic Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (Beijing Enlight Pictures / Well Go USA Entertainment), co-directed by Peter Pau and Tianyu Zhao.

His early breakthrough came with In a Glass Cage (Frontera Films S.A.), a psychological horror film that gained cult status, followed by Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics).

Navarrete is currently based in Southern California and continues to work on U.S. and international productions.