Justin Hurwitz[2] (born January 22, 1985)[1] is an American film composer and a television writer.

[8][9][10] He is of Jewish heritage (from Russia, Poland, Damascus in Syria, and Beirut in Lebanon).

[18] They collaborated on a student film that would become Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, which was released in 2009.

[9] 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.