Composer, music producer, conductor and orchestrator Pedro Osuna scored the Academy Award®-nominated Argentina, 1985 at just 24, on the recommendation of composer Michael Giacchino and producer Victoria Alonso. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Picture and earned Osuna nominations at the Platino Awards and the Silver Condor Awards.
His first score for television, Every Minute Counts, earned a Latin Grammy® nomination in 2025. Recent screen credits include Crazy Old Lady, produced by J.A. Bayona, and 27 Nights, produced by Santiago Mitre, as well as score producing The Residence by Shondaland. Previous projects include additional music for Klaus at 21 — becoming the first Berklee student to write music for an Oscar-nominated film while a student. He later orchestrated No Time to Die at 22 — becoming the youngest orchestrator in Bond franchise history — as well as Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder and Pixar's Lightyear.
His concert music has been commissioned and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Grammy® Award-winning Los Angeles Children's Chorus, and Festival Napa Valley, at venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Alhambra, in collaboration with artists including Grammy®-winning soprano Hila Plitmann, guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas, and conductor François López-Ferrer.
He was born in Granada, Spain, into the cultural mix of a father who loved cinema, jazz and the great symphonists, and a mother who played guitar and sang to him from the time he was a baby. He was singing in the school choir at three, picked up the violin at six and the piano at seven, and was improvising and composing in his free time before joining the Granada Professional Conservatory. He fell early for Bach and Beethoven, and for scores like The Nightmare Before Christmas and John Williams's E.T., later discovering Stravinsky, Alberto Iglesias, Ennio Morricone, Lili Boulanger, John Barry, Bill Evans, Quincy Jones and Alexandre Desplat. His piano professor would get annoyed when he played "fake" Beethoven — switching melodies and chords to make the music happy, sad or frightening — but the habit taught him that music was about play, and about communicating emotion. When he discovered that writing music for films was an actual job, the decision was made.
After assisting composers from the age of 15, he attended Berklee College of Music on a scholarship, where he worked as an accompanist, arranger, music tech instructor and librarian to pay the bills. He graduated Summa cum laude after receiving the Georges Delerue Award, the Berklee Film Scoring department's most prestigious recognition. He completed his studies at UCLA on a full scholarship under Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour, a disciple of Leonard Bernstein. He has also received Festival Napa Valley's Maria Manetti Shrem Daniel Brewbaker Composer Prize, the Rick Applin Award for fugue writing and the UCLA Dean's medal, along with recognition at MTNA, IBLA and the Academia Chigiana in Siena.
Away from the screen, Osuna writes, produces and arranges songs. He co-wrote Nunca Más with Kany García, co-producing it with 17-time Grammy winner Rafa Arcaute, and has worked on projects for the World Expo and Google and with artists including Zara Larsson, Raphael, David Bisbal, Javier Limón, Manuel Carrasco, Melendi, David Broza, Sergio Dalma, Pitingo, Agoney and Mayssa Karaa.
Osuna has been a guest speaker at UCLA, Berklee College of Music, Emerson College, Tufts University, YOLA at HOLA, the Festival Internacional de Granada, and the University of Oxford.
He is based in Los Angeles.