Alberto Iglesias

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Alberto Iglesias

Sound 70 October 21, 1955

Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain

Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi (born 21 October 1955) is a Spanish composer. He was first noticed as a score composer for Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar and Julio…

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

Exodus: Gods and Kings

5.9 2014 Movie
The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In

7.5 2011 Movie
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

6.6 2011 Movie
All About My Mother

All About My Mother

7.6 1999 Movie
Volver

Volver

7.5 2006 Movie
Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory

7.4 2019 Movie
The Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardener

7.0 2005 Movie
Talk to Her

Talk to Her

7.6 2002 Movie
The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

7.3 2007 Movie
Bad Education

Bad Education

7.4 2004 Movie
Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers

6.8 2021 Movie
Julieta

Julieta

7.0 2016 Movie

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Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi (born 21 October 1955) is a Spanish composer. He was first noticed as a score composer for Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar and Julio Medem. His career became more international with time and he eventually started to work also in Hollywood. Since then, he has been nominated four times for an Academy Award for his work in the films The Constant Gardener (2005), The Kite Runner (2007), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and Parallel Mothers (2021). His other film credits include soundtracks for Steven Soderbergh's Che. and Hossein Amini's The Two Faces of January (2014). Iglesias also has worked for ballet and has done other classical music work.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    It Will Happen Tonight

    Movie Original Music Composer

  2. 2026
    Bitter Christmas

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2025
    Pedro x Javis

    TV show Self

  4. 2024
    The Room Next Door

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2024
    Cristóbal Balenciaga

    TV show Original Music Composer

  6. 2023
    Strange Way of Life

    Movie Original Music Composer

  7. 2021
    O Night Divine

    Movie Original Music Composer

  8. 2021
    Parallel Mothers

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2021
    Maixabel

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2020
    The Human Voice

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2019
    Pain and Glory

    Movie Original Music Composer

  12. 2018
    Yuli

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 2018
    Quién te cantará

    Movie Music

  14. 2017
    The Summit

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 2016
    Julieta

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2015
    ma ma

    Movie Original Music Composer

More credits
  1. 2015
    Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

    Movie Self

  2. 2014
    Exodus: Gods and Kings

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2014
    The Two Faces of January

    Movie Original Music Composer

  4. 2013
    I'm So Excited!

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2011
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Movie Original Music Composer

  6. 2011
    The Skin I Live In

    Movie Original Music Composer

  7. 2011
    The Monk

    Movie Original Music Composer

  8. 2011
    Even the Rain

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2009
    Broken Embraces

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2008
    Che: Part Two

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2008
    Music at the Sea

    Movie Music

  12. 2008
    Che: Part One

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 2007
    The Kite Runner

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 2007
    Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar

    Movie Self

  15. 2007
    Deconstructing Almodóvar

    Movie Self

  16. 2006
    Volver

    Movie Original Music Composer

  17. 2005
    The Constant Gardener

    Movie Original Music Composer

  18. 2004
    Bad Education

    Movie Original Music Composer

  19. 2003
    Take My Eyes

    Movie Original Music Composer

  20. 2003
    Comandante

    Movie Original Music Composer

  21. 2002
    The Dancer Upstairs

    Movie Original Music Composer

  22. 2002
    Talk to Her

    Movie Original Music Composer

  23. 2001
    Sex and Lucía

    Movie Original Music Composer

  24. 1999
    The Dark Side

    Movie Music