Javier Navarrete is a Spanish film score composer born in Teruel, Spain, in 1956. Moving to Barcelona at age 19, Navarrete focused on electronic music during the 1980s in a duo with composer Alberto Iglesias before transitioning toward minimalism and film composition. Navarrete gained international acclaim for scoring director Guillermo del Toro's films The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006). For Pan's Labyrinth, Navarrete won a Premio Ariel in 2007 and earned nominations for both a Goya Award and an Academy Award. Navarrete's film score credits include El Mar (2000), Fireflies in the Garden (2008), Inkheart (2009), Cracks (2009), and Byzantium (2013). Navarrete won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2012 for scoring the television film Hemingway & Gellhorn.
