Justin Hurwitz (born January 22, 1985) is an American film composer and a t… Read Full Bio ↴Justin Hurwitz (born January 22, 1985) is an American film composer and a television writer. He is best known for his longtime collaboration with director Damien Chazelle, scoring each of his films: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), First Man (2018), and Babylon (2022).
For La La Land, Hurwitz won two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best Original Song (for "City of Stars"), as well as the Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. He won two more Golden Globes for Best Original Score for First Man and Babylon.
Hurwitz is the son of Gail (née Halabe), a professional ballet dancer turned registered nurse, and Ken Hurwitz, a writer. He is of Jewish heritage (from Russia, Poland, Damascus in Syria, and Beirut in Lebanon). His family moved to Wisconsin in 1998, where he attended Nicolet High School.
Hurwitz attended Harvard University, where he was roommates with director Damien Chazelle.[ They collaborated on a student film that would become Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, which was released in 2009. While in school, Hurwitz was a member of the Harvard Lampoon and was an original member of the indie-pop band Chester French with Chazelle.
After college, Hurwitz and Chazelle moved to Los Angeles, where Hurwitz wrote comedy for the sitcom The League and one episode of the animated comedy TV series The Simpsons. Thanks to the success of Guy and Madeline, they were able to obtain financing for their next collaboration, the 2014 film Whiplash – with Hurwitz scoring the film and Chazelle writing and directing. Hurwitz also scored Chazelle's 2016 film La La Land, for which Chazelle won the Oscar for Best Director, and Hurwitz won two Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Hurwitz, Pasek, and Paul will return as songwriters for the upcoming stage musical adaptation of the film, directed by Bartlett Sher from a book by Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker, with Marc Platt and Lionsgate returning to produce.
For La La Land, Hurwitz won two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best Original Song (for "City of Stars"), as well as the Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. He won two more Golden Globes for Best Original Score for First Man and Babylon.
Hurwitz is the son of Gail (née Halabe), a professional ballet dancer turned registered nurse, and Ken Hurwitz, a writer. He is of Jewish heritage (from Russia, Poland, Damascus in Syria, and Beirut in Lebanon). His family moved to Wisconsin in 1998, where he attended Nicolet High School.
Hurwitz attended Harvard University, where he was roommates with director Damien Chazelle.[ They collaborated on a student film that would become Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, which was released in 2009. While in school, Hurwitz was a member of the Harvard Lampoon and was an original member of the indie-pop band Chester French with Chazelle.
After college, Hurwitz and Chazelle moved to Los Angeles, where Hurwitz wrote comedy for the sitcom The League and one episode of the animated comedy TV series The Simpsons. Thanks to the success of Guy and Madeline, they were able to obtain financing for their next collaboration, the 2014 film Whiplash – with Hurwitz scoring the film and Chazelle writing and directing. Hurwitz also scored Chazelle's 2016 film La La Land, for which Chazelle won the Oscar for Best Director, and Hurwitz won two Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Hurwitz, Pasek, and Paul will return as songwriters for the upcoming stage musical adaptation of the film, directed by Bartlett Sher from a book by Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker, with Marc Platt and Lionsgate returning to produce.
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@MsClepsydra
No no no! It's very dangerous to think a romantic relationship alone can be a dream, it's too much to expect from a single person.
Sorry for the reality dose but that's how life is. People get used to each other even if they keep staying in love and together, in the same way they get used to their "dream job" and so they need to "distribute" their sense of happiness to more than one sources.
The way I see it, they helped each other realise their dreams. But as it often happens, they pushed and encouraged each other while individually they put their own dreams on hold. They passed into that stage of relationships where the other stops being perfect and the self stops feeling good and flaws can't be hidden by enthusiasm anymore. The other stops being a flattering mirror and becomes the opposite: a mirror of flaws.
In order to materialise their dreams they had to break up. But by the time they became more decisive about their own lives, they as a couple had been through too much friction.
After all that's what brought them together in the first place; they gave each other the confidence they themselves didn't have. Perhaps as successful grown ups they'd realise they weren't as good together.
I hope I'm articulating it well enough, but do check Alain de Botton's / School of Life's videos on love. He manages to put it realistically yet poetically.
That being said, the scene still is heartbreaking and that's what makes it brilliant. They have matured enough to be realistic and self confident but the feelings of love remain. The unfulfilled love will always be the most intense, but we often have to sacrifice it for our own good.
@bagghius
That final look between the two, god, that was intense
@zaramccann4289
jami0070 i cried too! so much because it was so beautiful
@alexman378
It reminded me of Alfred's fantasy in The Dark Knight Rises. "I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you. But we'd both know that you'd made it, that you were happy" Gut punch, but bitter sweet because they both succeeded in what they wanted, and couldn't have gone there without each other.
@abialston8476
bagghius i don't know a single person who didn't cry during this part
@eveterryable
bagghius when he stops playing the piano. OMG.
@megamoviez
bagghius They were grateful for what they did for each other and realized they will always love each other! It's a lot like they we're meeting again for the first time! So beautiful!
@sofiantz2142
My only regret is that I didn't see this in theaters
@MinhTran-zm2ws
me too :(
@zucchyni5851
ME TOO
@laurian5859
Sofini me too