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My Take
To me Alberto Iglesias is one of cinema's great unsung architects of mood. His scores for Pedro Almodóvar and Julio Medem don't just accompany the image, they color the emotional weather of every scene. Three European Film Awards for Best Composer is no accident, yet what I admire most is that he carried his distinctly Basque-Spanish sensibility into Hollywood without sanding off the melancholy and tension that make him unmistakable. Film music rarely gets the spotlight it deserves, and Iglesias is a composer whose work I'd happily listen to with the picture turned off.
Overview
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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Alberto Iglesias
- Name (Japanese)
- アルベルト・イグレシアス
- Reading
- あるべると・いぐれしあす
- Born
- October 21, 1955 (age 70)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Goat
- Origin
- San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- composer / film score composer / conductor / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2006 European Film Award for Best Composer
- 2009 European Film Award for Best Composer
- 2012 European Film Award for Best Composer
- 2022 Premio Feroz for Best Original Soundtrack
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.