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name: "Mateo Messina"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mateo-messina"
fi1m_id: "mateo-messina"
imdb_id: "nm0582171"
tmdb_id: 52454
wikidata_id: "Q6786474"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "4 October 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:58:33.223522+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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# Mateo Messina

## Identity

Mateo Messina

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mateo-messina
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mateo-messina
- **IMDb ID:** nm0582171
- **TMDB ID:** 52454
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6786474
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Messina, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6786474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582171/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52454

Composer. Born 4 October 1972 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 4 October 1972, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Also known as:** Matt Messina
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Messina, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6786474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582171/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52454

## Biography

Mateo Messina is an American composer. Born in Seattle in 1972, he began playing the piano at the age of three and wrote his first symphony in his early twenties. He has since composed and premiered over twenty symphonies, with the associated benefit concerts raising more than two million dollars for Seattle Children's Hospital.

Messina is best known for his score to the 2007 film *Juno*, for which the soundtrack album won a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media. He has composed original music for feature films including *Young Adult* (2011), *Blockers* (2018), *Tall Girl* (2019) and *The Wrong Missy* (2020), and for television series such as *Superstore* (2015–2021). He has also provided additional music for several films directed by Jason Reitman.

A Seattle native, Messina graduated from Western Washington University with a business degree in 1995. He is also credited early in his career as Matt Messina.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, thefrontonline.com, cityartsmagazine.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Juno* (2007), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/juno.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

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

- *Oh Season* (2026), Director, Writer, Music
- *Boot Camp* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *What Remains* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Timescape: Back to the Dinosaurs* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Tall Girl 2* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Desperados* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *The Wrong Missy* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *The Thing About Harry* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist* (2020), series, Main Title Theme Composer
- *Tall Girl* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Why Women Kill* (2019), series, Original Music Composer
- *I Feel Bad* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *Little Italy* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Sideswiped* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *Blockers* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Fixed* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Tim Timmerman: Hope of America* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Second Nature* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Graves* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *Harley and the Davidsons* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *Superstore* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *Truth Be Told* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *Casual* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *Barely Lethal* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Dig* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *With This Ring* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Crossbones* (2014), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Angriest Man in Brooklyn* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Growing Up Fisher* (2014), series, Original Music Composer
- *A Case of You* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Breaking the Girls* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *From the Rough* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *The Story of Luke* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Family Weekend* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Best Man Down* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Butter* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *And While We Were Here* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Young Adult* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *The Least of These* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *L!fe Happens* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Knight to D7* (2011), Music
- *Fairly Legal* (2011), series, Music
- *2nd Take* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Sundays at Tiffany's* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Turnipseed* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Hit and Run* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *The Pizza King* (2008), Music
- *Juno* (2007), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/juno.md)
- *Jump!* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Bondage* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Thank You for Smoking* (2005), Additional Music
- *Terra* (2003), Music
- *Zoe Loses It* (2000), Music
- *The Swimming Lesson*, Original Music Composer

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