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name: "Javier Navarrete"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/javier-navarrete"
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imdb_id: "nm0622782"
tmdb_id: 17004
wikidata_id: "Q982952"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "9 May 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T22:48:46.480771+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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# Javier Navarrete

## Identity

Javier Navarrete

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/javier-navarrete
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** javier-navarrete
- **IMDb ID:** nm0622782
- **TMDB ID:** 17004
- **Wikidata ID:** Q982952
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Navarrete, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982952, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622782/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17004

Composer. Born 9 May 1956 in Teruel, Aragón, Spain.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 9 May 1956, Teruel, Aragón, Spain
- **Active:** 2006–present
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 87 (1), 2020s 47 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Navarrete, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982952, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622782/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17004

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Sound of Freedom*](https://film.one/film/sound-of-freedom.md) (47)

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## Biography

Javier Navarrete is a Spanish film score composer. Born in Teruel, he began scoring films in Spain in the mid-1980s and has worked on numerous Spanish productions including *The Devil's Backbone* (2001).

He is best known for his score to *Pan's Labyrinth* (2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. His other credits include *Inkheart* (2008), *Mirrors* (2008), *Wrath of the Titans* (2012), *Byzantium* (2013) and *Sound of Freedom* (2023). Navarrete won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the HBO film *Hemingway & Gellhorn*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, allmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sound of Freedom* (2023), Fi1m 47, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/sound-of-freedom.md)
- *Pan's Labyrinth* (2006), Fi1m 87, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/pans-labyrinth.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Headwind* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Sound of Freedom* (2023), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/sound-of-freedom.md)
- *Mr. Harrigan's Phone* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Antlers* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Emperor* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Raoul Taburin* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Greta* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Byzantium* (2013), Original Music Composer, Music Producer
- *Hemingway & Gellhorn* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Wrath of the Titans* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Quiero tener una ferretería en Andalucía* (2011), Production Manager
- *The Warrior's Way* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The New Daughter* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Cracks* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *The Hole* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *The Esseker File* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Inkheart* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Mirrors* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Fireflies in the Garden* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *His Majesty Minor* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Moscow Zero* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Pan's Labyrinth* (2006), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/pans-labyrinth.md)
- *La máquina de bailar* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *The Life* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Platillos volantes* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Dot the I* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Stranded* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *The Devil's Backbone* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *The Sea* (2000), Music
- *Em dic Sara* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Señores de Gardenia* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *99.9: The Frequency of Terror* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Atolladero* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Susanna* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Escrito en la piel* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *La bañera* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Manila* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Una ombra en el jardí* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Moon Child* (1989), as Médico 3.º
- *In a Glass Cage* (1986), Original Music Composer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2007: Best Original Score (nominated), for *Pan's Labyrinth*

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won

- 2012: Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special (won), for *Hemingway & Gellhorn*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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