# Marcelo Zarvos

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

### Television films

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

### Short films

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

### 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 |
| 2015–2017 | One Mississippi | 12 episodes |
| 2019 | The Loudest Voice | 7 episodes |
| 2020 | FreeRayshawn | 15 episodes |