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name: "H. Scott Salinas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/h-scott-salinas"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:18:52.411588+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# H. Scott Salinas

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5628563, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1242185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/62705

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Cartel Land*](https://film.one/film/cartel-land.md) (75)

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## Biography

H. Scott Salinas is an American film score composer and musician. He studied classical and jazz music at Princeton University and scoring for picture at Berklee College of Music.

He is best known for his scores for the documentaries *Cartel Land* (2015, with Jackson Greenberg) and the Academy Award-nominated *The Square* (2013), as well as feature films including *Zipper* (2015), *Birth of the Dragon* (2017), *A Private War* (2018), *The Banker* (2020) and *Elevation* (2024). His television credits include *The Newsroom* and *Warrior*.

In 2002 Salinas became the youngest recipient of the Grand Prize in the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition. He has also received Cannes Lion, Clio and BMI awards for his commercial work.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, kinetophone.com, filmmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cartel Land* (2015), Fi1m 75, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/cartel-land.md)

## Also known for

- *Green Street Hooligans* (2005), Orchestrator
- *The Banker* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Elevation* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *A Private War* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Edison* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Rust Creek* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Birth of the Dragon* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Ballad of Lefty Brown* (2017), Original Music Composer

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