Marcelo Zarvos

Template:Short description Template:Portuguese name Template:Main otherTemplate:Wikidata image Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos is a Brazilian pianist and film composer.

Early life

Zarvos was born in São Paulo. He began in classical music in his teens and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He later attended the California Institute of the Arts, and graduated with a BFA in Music in 1992.

Career

He is more known for jazz and had success with the album Dualism accompanied by saxophonist Peter Epstein. He has done several film scores including Kissing Jessica Stein, The Door in the Floor, Sin Nombre, and Boynton Beach Club. Most recently, he composed the score for American Ultra (2015), starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, and The Choice, starring Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer.

His music has been recorded a number of times by the string quartet ETHEL. He composed the score for the 2007 film The Air I Breathe, starring Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emile Hirsch, and Forest Whitaker. In 2011 he composed the score for Beastly, which stars Vanessa Hudgens and The Beaver starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster. He also composed the score for the 2012 film Won't Back Down which stars Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Holly Hunter. In 2012 he composed the score for The Words which stars Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, and Dennis Quaid.

Filmography

Theatrical films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2000	Tully	Hilary Birmingham	Template:N/A
2001	Kissing Jessica Stein	Charles Herman-Wurmfeld	Template:N/A
	The Buffalo War	Matthew Testa	Template:N/A
2002	2wks, 1yr	Chris McKay	Template:N/A
	Xingu: Land of No Shame	Michael Engel	Template:N/A
2003	The Mudge Boy	Michael Burke	Template:N/A
2004	The Door in the Floor	Tod Williams	Template:N/A
2005	Strangers with Candy	Paul Dinello	Template:N/A
	Our Brand Is Crisis	Rachel Boynton	Template:N/A
	Four Lane Highway	Dylan McCormick	Template:N/A
	Escape Artists	Michael Laurence	Template:N/A
	Boynton Beach Club	Susan Seidelman	Template:N/A
2006	The Architect	Matt Tauber	Template:N/A
	Ira & Abby	Robert Cary	Template:N/A
	Hollywoodland	Allen Coulter	Template:N/A
	The Good Shepherd	Robert De Niro	Composed with Bruce Fowler
2007	You Kill Me	John Dahl	Template:N/A
	The Air I Breathe	Jieho Lee	Template:N/A
	Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot	Tod Harrison Williams	Template:N/A
2008	What Just Happened	Barry Levinson	Template:N/A
	Winged Creatures	Rowan Woods	Template:N/A
	New York, I Love You	Joshua Marston	Joshua Marston segment
	Last Stop 174	Bruno Barreto	Template:N/A
2009	Brooklyn's Finest	Antoine Fuqua	Template:N/A
	Sin Nombre	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Template:N/A
2010	Please Give	Nicole Holofcener	Template:N/A
	Remember Me	Allen Coulter	Template:N/A
2011	Beastly	Daniel Barnz	Template:N/A
	The Beaver	Jodie Foster	Template:N/A
	Friends with Kids	Jennifer Westfeldt	Template:N/A
2012	The Words	Brian Klugman	Template:N/A
	The Bay	Barry Levinson	Template:N/A
	Won't Back Down	Daniel Barnz	Template:N/A
2013	Reaching for the Moon	Bruno Barreto	Template:N/A
	The Hot Flashes	Susan Seidelman	Template:N/A
	Enough Said	Nicole Holofcener	Template:N/A
	The Face of Love	Arie Posin	Template:N/A
2014	Little Accidents	Sara Colangelo	Template:N/A
	The Humbling	Barry Levinson	Template:N/A
	Adult Beginners	Ross Katz	Template:N/A
2015	American Ultra	Nima Nourizadeh	Template:N/A
	Rock the Kasbah	Barry Levinson	Template:N/A
2016	Our Kind of Traitor	Susanna White	Template:N/A
	Cell	Tod Williams	Template:N/A
	The Choice	Ross Katz	Template:N/A
	Fences	Denzel Washington	Template:N/A
2017	Wonder	Stephen Chbosky	Template:N/A
2018	The Land of Steady Habits	Nicole Holofcener	Template:N/A
	Mapplethorpe	Ondi Timoner	Template:N/A
2019	The Best of Enemies	Robin Bissell	Template:N/A
	Breakthrough	Roxann Dawson	Template:N/A
	Otherhood	Cindy Chupack	Template:N/A
	Human Capital	Marc Meyers	Template:N/A
	Dark Waters	Todd Haynes	Template:N/A
2020	Penguin Bloom	Glendyn Ivin	Template:N/A
2021	The Guilty	Antoine Fuqua	Template:N/A
	A Journal for Jordan	Denzel Washington	Template:N/A
2022	Deep Water	Adrian Lyne	Template:N/A
	Emancipation	Antoine Fuqua	Template:N/A
2023	Flamin' Hot	Eva Longoria	Template:N/A
	Big George Foreman	George Tillman Jr.	Template:N/A
	May December	Todd Haynes	Adaptation and re-orchestration of Michel Legrand's score for The Go-Between
	The Equalizer 3	Antoine Fuqua	Template:N/A
2024	The Front Room	Max Eggers Sam Eggers	Template:N/A
2025	Nonnas	Stephen Chbosky	Template:N/A
	KPop Demon Hunters	Chris Appelhans Maggie Kang	First score for an animated film

Television films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2009	Taking Chance	Ross Katz	Template:N/A
2010	You Don't Know Jack	Barry Levinson	Template:N/A
2011	Too Big to Fail	Curtis Hanson	Template:N/A
2013	Phil Spector	David Mamet	Template:N/A
2019	What's My Name: Muhammad Ali	Antoine Fuqua	Template:N/A
2022	Ray Donovan: The Movie	David Hollander	Template:N/A

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1998	Uma História de Futebol	Paulo Machline	Template:N/A
2000	The Happy Prince (Alba E Garcia- Rivas)	Template:Ubl	Template:N/A
2002	Abbie Down East	Ellen-Alinda Verhoeff	Template:N/A
	Baseado em Estórias Reais	Gustavo Moraes	Template:N/A
2003	La sexta sección	Alex Rivera	Template:N/A
2005	The Foster Son	Ellen-Alinda Verhoeff	Template:N/A
2006	Cosmic Collisions	Carter Emmart	Template:N/A
2008	The Receiver	Anne Devereux	Template:N/A
2013	Presque pareil	Élisabeth Desbiens	Template:N/A

Television series

Year	Title	Notes
2009	30 for 30	Episode: The Band That Wouldn't Die
2010–2013	The Big C	39 episodes
2013–2020	Ray Donovan	82 episodes
2014	Extant	13 episodes
2014	The Affair	53 episodes
2015–2017	Z: The Beginning of Everything	10 episodes
	One Mississippi	12 episodes
2019	The Loudest Voice	7 episodes
2020	FreeRayshawn	15 episodes

External links

• Zarvos.com bio page
• Template:Trim/ Marcelo Zarvos at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidata

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