---
name: "Jon Batiste"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jon-batiste"
fi1m_id: "jon-batiste"
imdb_id: "nm4456022"
tmdb_id: 1513968
wikidata_id: "Q6272528"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "11 November 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:29:42.413923+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."
---

# Jon Batiste

## Identity

Jon Batiste

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jon-batiste
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jon-batiste
- **IMDb ID:** nm4456022
- **TMDB ID:** 1513968
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6272528
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Batiste, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6272528, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4456022/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1513968

Composer. Born 11 November 1986 in Kenner, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 11 November 1986, Kenner, Louisiana, USA
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Also known as:** TK Hazelton, Jonathan Batiste, Jonathan Michael Batiste
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Batiste, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6272528, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4456022/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1513968

## Coming up

- *American Amazon* (2026-11-13), Executive Producer
- *The Thomas Crown Affair* (2027-03-04), Original Music Composer

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Soul*](https://film.one/film/soul.md) (80)

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## Biography

Jon Batiste is an American composer, musician and bandleader. He composed and performed the jazz sequences for the Pixar animated film *Soul* (2020), working alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the overall score. The film’s soundtrack earned him shared Academy Award, Golden Globe, Grammy and BAFTA awards for Best Original Score.

Batiste is also known for his work on *The Garfield Movie* (2024), *Saturday Night* (2024) and the documentary *American Symphony* (2023). He trained at the Juilliard School and served as bandleader and musical director for *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert* from 2015 to 2022.

*Sources: classicfm.com, en.wikipedia.org, billboard.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Devil Wears Prada 2* (2026), Fi1m 64, as Jon Batiste — [page](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada-2.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Soul* (2020), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/soul.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *The Thomas Crown Affair* (2027), Original Music Composer
- *American Amazon* (2026), Executive Producer
- *If I Go Will They Miss Me* (2026), Executive Producer
- *The Devil Wears Prada 2* (2026), as Jon Batiste — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada-2.md)
- *Andrea Bocelli - The Celebration：30th Anniversary* (2025), Actor
- *Big Money: A Spiritual Manifesto* (2025), as Producer · Music
- *Saturday Night* (2024), as Billy Preston · Original Music Composer
- *The Garfield Movie* (2024), as Songs
- *The Color Purple* (2023), as Grady
- *American Symphony* (2023), Executive Producer, Original Music Composer, Songs
- *Jon Batiste @ Ground Control* (2023), Author, Compositor, Original Music Composer
- *The First Wave* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *WE ARE: A Visual Mission Statement from Jon Batiste* (2021), Actor
- *Soul, Improvised* (2021), Actor
- *Soul* (2020), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/soul.md)
- *She Ball* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale* (2016), Music Director
- *Red Hook Summer* (2012), as Da Organist Tk Hazelton
- *Treme* (2010), series, as Jon Batiste — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/treme.md)

## Gallery

- ![Jon Batiste](https://film.one/media/person/297432/gallery-613bf169ec3d.jpg) Jon Batiste — Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Jon_Batiste_2023.jpg/1280px-Jon_Batiste_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![“Soul” with Jon Michael Batiste, captured for the first time in the historic 1851 wet plate collodion process of pure silver on glass. Jon recently won an Oscar (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/297432/gallery-9b020b4882c9.jpg) “Soul” with Jon Michael Batiste, captured for the first time in the historic 1851 wet plate collodion process of pure silver on glass. Jon recently won an Oscar (2022) — Shane Balkowitsch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/%22Soul%22_Jon_Michael_Batiste_Wet_Plate_Collodion_Photograph.jpg/1280px-%22Soul%22_Jon_Michael_Batiste_Wet_Plate_Collodion_Photograph.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jon Batiste at Time 100 Gala](https://film.one/media/person/297432/gallery-17a07265c280.jpg) Jon Batiste at Time 100 Gala — lev radin as on website, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Batiste%2C_Jon.jpg/1280px-Batiste%2C_Jon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![At Super Bowl LIX. (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/297432/gallery-e7a403107ae9.jpg) At Super Bowl LIX. (2025) — Office of Speaker Mike Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Donald_Trump_salutes_%28February_9%2C_2025%29.jpg/1280px-Donald_Trump_salutes_%28February_9%2C_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jon Batiste](https://film.one/media/person/297432/gallery-ff9602ef177a.jpg) Jon Batiste — Image via TMDB
- ![NEWPORT, RI - AUGUST 1: The 60th edition of the Newport Jazz Festival kicks off with a full day of programming, with John Zorn's Masada Marathon being the highl (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/297432/gallery-e88dec49640f.jpg) NEWPORT, RI - AUGUST 1: The 60th edition of the Newport Jazz Festival kicks off with a full day of programming, with John Zorn's Masada Marathon being the highl (2014) — digboston, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Jon_Bastiste_and_Stay_Human_in_concert_%2814798313586%29.jpg/1280px-Jon_Bastiste_and_Stay_Human_in_concert_%2814798313586%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![NEWPORT, RI - AUGUST 1: The 60th edition of the Newport Jazz Festival kicks off with a full day of programming, with John Zorn's Masada Marathon being the highl (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/297432/gallery-16190f4ad8a9.jpg) NEWPORT, RI - AUGUST 1: The 60th edition of the Newport Jazz Festival kicks off with a full day of programming, with John Zorn's Masada Marathon being the highl (2014) — digboston, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Jon_Bastiste_and_Stay_Human_in_concert_%2814821309735%29.jpg/1280px-Jon_Bastiste_and_Stay_Human_in_concert_%2814821309735%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 2024: Best Original Song (nominated), for *It Never Went Away*
- 2021: Best Original Score (won), for *Soul*

### Other awards — 3 won

- Grammy Awards 2022: Grammy Awards (won)
- Time 100 2022: Time 100 (won)
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts 2021: British Academy of Film and Television Arts (won)

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

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