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Justin Gabriel Hurwitz (born January 22, 1985) is an American film composer and a television writer.
He is known for being a frequent collaborator with filmmaker Damien Chazelle, having scored all of his feature length films thus far: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016) and First Man (2018).
For his work on La La Land, Hurwitz won two Academy Awards: Best Original Score and Best Original Song for "City of Stars".
He has also won three Golden Globes, two Grammys, and one BAFTA.
Hennessy is delighted to announce the global launch of Life is the Greatest Odyssey, the third instalment of the Maison’s Odyssey opus, a poignant visual experience directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle. Embark on a sensorial adventure, experiencing the universal tale of life's journey, where memories, places, people, sounds, and emotions unite in a whirlwind of experiences, all evoked by a single drop of Hennessy X.O cognac.
The cast and crew discuss the inspiration and motivation behind the original story and development of this epic, 15 years in the making.
When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the actors and the sound effects, but also by a new element, the music, which, combined with the dance and an unprejudiced imagination, gave rise to a new genre, as important to Hollywood cinema as the western was: the musical. A journey through the history of this genre, from its beginnings to the present day.
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.