Marcelo Zarvos

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.^[1]

He is known for his jazz compositions 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, Boynton Beach Club, The Air I Breathe, Sin Nombre, Beastly,^[2] The Beaver, Won't Back Down, The Words, American Ultra, The Choice, Wonder, A Journal for Jordan, Emancipation, Flamin' Hot, Big George Foreman, May December and KPop Demon Hunters. His music has been recorded a number of times by the string quartet Ethel.

He is married to Janel Moloney, and they have two children.

Theatrical films

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

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Television films

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

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Short films

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

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Television series

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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

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