Javier Navarrete
His best-known score, for which he received an Oscar nomination, was for Pan's Labyrinth (2006; his second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, the first being The Devil's Backbone). Navarrete was born in Teruel. His scores include Whore, Tras el cristal, Dot the i, and other Spanish films.
Javier Navarrete
- Name
- Javier Navarrete
- Born
- 9 May 1956
- Birthplace
- Teruel, Spain
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- Spain
- Fields
- film score
- Honours
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie and or a Special
- Languages
- Spanish
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His best-known score, for which he received an Oscar nomination, was for Pan's Labyrinth (2006; his second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, the first being The Devil's Backbone). Navarrete was born in Teruel. His scores include Whore, Tras el cristal, Dot the i, and other Spanish films.
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Biography
Biography
Navarrete worked across film score composer and composer. This article rests on 99 catalogued compositions, 1 published texts, 21 issued recordings and 6 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Javier Navarrete • Born — 9 May 1956 • Birthplace — Teruel, Spain • Occupation — Composer
1980s
1980s
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1986 — In a Glass Cage — Agustí Villaronga • 1989 — La banyera — Jesús Garay • Una ombra en el jardí — Antonio Chavarrías
1990s
1990s
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1991 — Manila — Antonio Chavarrías • 1995 — Atolladero — Óscar Aibar • 1996 — Susanna — Antonio Chavarrías • Andrea — Sergi Casamitjana • Atapuerca: El misterio de la evolución humana — Javier Trueba — Documentary film • 1997 — 99.9 — Agustí Villaronga • 1998 — Em dic Sara — Dolores Payás
2000s
2000s
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 2000 — The Sea — Agusti Villaronga • The Devil's Backbone — Guillermo del Toro • 2001 — Stranded — María Lidón • 2002 — The Impatient Alchemist — Patricia Ferreira — Co-composed with José Nieto • Volverás — Antonio Chavarrías • Thirteen Chimes — Xavier Villaverde • 2003 — Dot the i — Matthew Parkhill • Flying Saucers — Óscar Aibar • 2004 — Whore — María Lidón • 2006 — Moscow Zero • Pan's Labyrinth — Guillermo del Toro • Dance Machine — Óscar Aibar • 2007 — His Majesty Minor — Jean-Jacques Annaud • 2008 — Fireflies in the Garden — Dennis Lee • Mirrors — Alexandre Aja • Inkheart — Iain Softley • 2009 — The Hole — Joe Dante • Cracks — Jordan Scott • The New Daughter — Luis Berdejo
2010s
2010s
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 2010 — The Warrior's Way — Sngmoo Lee • 2011 — The Last Death — David Ruiz • 2012 — Wrath of the Titans — Jonathan Liebesman • Hemingway & Gellhorn — Philip Kaufman — Television film • Byzantium — Neil Jordan • 2015 — Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal — * Peter Pau * Zhao Tianyu • 2018 — Greta — Neil Jordan • Raoul Taburin — Pierre Godeau
2020s
2020s
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 2020 — Emperor — Mark Amin • 2021 — Antlers — Scott Cooper • 2022 — Mr. Harrigan's Phone — John Lee Hancock • 2023 — Sound of Freedom — Alejandro Gómez Monteverde
Won
Won
• Emmy Award 2012 Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Original Dramatic Score) – Hemingway & Gellhorn • BMI Film & TV Awards 2012 Film Music – Wrath of the Titans • Ariel Award 2007 Best Film Music – Pan's Labyrinth
Nominations
Nominations
• Academy Award 2007 Best Original Score – Pan's Labyrinth • Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2014 Best Score – Byzantium • Grammy Award 2008 Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Pan's Labyrinth • Goya Award 2007 Best Original Score – Pan's Labyrinth • Online Film Critics Society Awards 2007 Best Original Score – Pan's Labyrinth
Origins
Origins
Javier Navarrete was born on 1 January 1956 in Teruel. Navarrete held the nationality of Spain. Married to: Hilde Susan Jægtnes.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- Barcelona
Named but not plotted · 1
Teruel.
Birth place
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 99 further compositions are catalogued under Navarrete's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. It Is Not Forever. It's Still Down There Somewhere. If I Were a Demon. ¿Dónde estás? It Would Be Fatal. It's Just a Hole. It Brings Your Fears to Life.
The entries follow MusicBrainz
Cambio de aires
A Book of Blood
Idilio de said
Escape From Tartarus
A Swarm of Silver Fish
Giant Demon King
Fireflies in the Garden Suite
Esto es tuyo
Asomarse al abismo
Fiamma's Return. ¿Qué es un fantasma?
Humans Stopped Praying
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The entries follow MusicBrainz
Cambio de aires
A Book of Blood
Idilio de said
Escape From Tartarus
A Swarm of Silver Fish
Giant Demon King
Fireflies in the Garden Suite
Esto es tuyo
Asomarse al abismo
Fiamma's Return. ¿Qué es un fantasma?
Humans Stopped Praying
I'm Sixteen Forever
Attack of the Chimera
Here Be Monsters
Amour et folie
Fete de l'inauguration
I Am Resourceful
Deux syrinx dans la forêt
Eso soy yo
En el invernadero
How to Be There
Haz lo que te dice mi hijo
Across the Ocean
An Empty Island
Connais-toi toi-meme. ¿Quién ha hecho eso?
I'm Not Like You
Condenado a repetirse
Blade From Byzantium
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works
These entries are catalogued as moving-image works. The 2000s are the densest part of the run, with 19 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself.
38 films carry dates between 1987 and 2023
The run opens with Tras el cristal and closes with Sound of Freedom
Tras el cristal
1987
Una ombra en el jardí
1989
La banyera
1991
Manila
1992
99.9
1997
Em dic Sara
1998
The Sea
2000
Stranded
2001
The Devil's Backbone
2001
You'll Be Back
2002
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38 films carry dates between 1987 and 2023
The run opens with Tras el cristal and closes with Sound of Freedom
Tras el cristal
1987
Una ombra en el jardí
1989
La banyera
1991
Manila
1992
99.9
1997
Em dic Sara
1998
The Sea
2000
Stranded
2001
The Devil's Backbone
2001
You'll Be Back
2002
Dot the i
2003
Platillos volantes
2003
Sara
2003
Trece badaladas
2003
Whore
2004
La máquina de bailar
2006
Rumors
2006
Sa majesté Minor
2007
Postcards from Leningrad
2007
Fireflies in the Garden
2008
Inkheart
2008
Mirrors
2008
The Hole
2009
The New Daughter
2009
Cracks
2009
The Warrior's Way
2010
Wrath of the Titans
2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Byzantium
2012
The Forest
2012
The Last Death
2012
Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
2015
Greta
2018
Raoul Taburin
2019
Emperor
2020
Antlers
2021
Harrigan's Phone
2022
Sound of Freedom
2023
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Navarrete's work has been published in sound, not what Navarrete made. 20 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1996 to 2024. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 2000s are the densest decade of publication, with 10 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
El mar
2000
Trece Campanadas
2002
Sound of Freedom: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2024
El espinazo del diablo
2001
Pan’s Labyrinth
2006
Harrigan’s Phone: Soundtrack from the Netflix Film
2022
Stranded (Naufragos)
2001
Susanna
1996
Recognition and collections
Where the work is held
Recognition and collections
Javier Navarrete received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Javier Navarrete”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q982952: Javier Navarrete
General reference · Wikimedia Foundation
Authority records
References
Citations
References
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reference work
Secondary witnessinstitutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q982952: Javier NavarreteWikimedia Foundation
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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