Mario de Benito
Spanish composer
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Mario de Benito (born 25 September 1958) is a Spanish composer.
Biography
Mario de Benito was born on 25 September 1958 in Taravilla, province of Guadalajara, receiving a musical education at Madrid's Higher Conservatory of Music and, later, under Horacio Icasto.[1] After a spell as a member of synth-pop act 'Trópico de Cáncer', he was charged with scoring the 1990 film Alone Together, thereby starting a prolific career as composer in film and television series.[2]
A recurring collaborator of director Enrique Urbizu,[3] de Benito earned a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Original Score for his work in No Rest for the Wicked.[4] Jointly with Richelieu Morris, he had previously scooped another nomination to the Goya Award for Best Original Song for The Witch Affair's "Just Sorcery".[5]
Scored films
- Alone Together (1990)[6]
- La reina anónima (1992)[7]
- Tell Laura I Love Her (1995)[8]
- Brujas (1996)[9]
- Un asunto privado (1996)[10]
- Geisha (1996)[11]
- Blinded (1997)[12]
- To the Limit (1997)[13]
- Mambí (1998)[14]
- Un buen novio (1998)[15]
- Spanish Fly (1998)[16]
- El invierno de las anjanas (2000)[17]
- Lady of Porto Pim (2001)[18]
- Chicken Skin (2001)[19]
- El deseo de ser piel roja (2002)[20]
- Bestiary (2002)[21]
- Box 507 (2002)[22]
- The Witch Affair (2003)[23]
- Diario de una becaria (2003)[24]
- Life Marks (2003)[25]
- Stork Day (2006)[26]
- Crossing the Border (2005)[27]
- No digas nada (2007)[28]
- Love Expresso (2008)[29]
- Cyrano Fernández (2008)[30]
- Ispansi (¡Españoles!) (2011)[31]
- No Rest for the Wicked (2011)[32]
- Dioses y perros (2014)[33]
- 2 Francos, 40 pesetas (2014)[34]
- Los comensales (2016)[35]