answers: Justin Hurwitz
context: La La Land (soundtrack) La La Land: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2016 film "La La Land". The soundtrack album was released through Interscope Records on December 9, 2016. The album has peaked at number 2 on the US "Billboard 200" and number 1 on the UK Albums Chart. At the 89th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for "City of Stars". The songs and score for "La La Land" were composed and orchestrated by Justin Hurwitz, film director Damien Chazelle's Harvard University classmate, who </s> Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song ("City of Stars"), and Best Production Design. While stuck in Los Angeles traffic, aspiring actress Mia Dolan has a moment of road rage with Sebastian Wilder, a struggling jazz pianist. After a bad day at work, Mia's subsequent audition goes poorly when the casting director takes a call in the middle of an emotional scene. That night, Mia's roommates take her to a lavish party in the Hollywood Hills, promising her that someone in the crowd could jump-start her career; but she is forced to walk home in disappointment after her car </s> was able to secure permission to use it for a day. Chazelle and his crew then arranged to have it run for shooting (it was re-opened to the public in 2017). Mia works at a coffee shop on the Warner Bros. studio lot; Chazelle considered studio lots to be "monuments" of Hollywood. Production designer Wasco created numerous fake old film posters. Chazelle occasionally created names for them, deciding to use the title of his first feature, "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" (2009) for one poster, which reimagines it as a 1930s musical. The six-minute-long Prius car scene had
question: who wrote the soundtrack for la la land