Justin Hurwitz Gives Everything to His Movie Scores, and He’s Not Going to Stop

Justin Hurwitz’s Hollywood story can be told in lockstep with Damien Chazelle’s. The composer and the director met as freshmen and bandmates at Harvard, and by the time Chazelle was working on what would become his first feature, 2009’s Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench, they had a firmly established collaboration that has now continued through five feature films. But when it came to the Oscars, it took a little bit longer for Hurwitz to get there. Though Whiplash went from Sundance sensation to underdog Best Picture contender in 2014, Hurwitz’s contribution to the score—which also included a significant… Read Full Article