
Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French:[alɛksɑ̃dʁ dɛspla]; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Desplat was made an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and a commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2016. Desplat has received two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of Water (2017). He was Oscar-nominated for The Queen (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Argo (2012), Philomena (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Little Women (2019). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Golden Compass (2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) & Part 2 (2011), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Godzilla (2014), Unbroken (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022). He has collaborated with directors such as Wes Anderson, Chris Weitz, George Clooney, Roman Polanski, and Guillermo del Toro. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexandre Desplat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema as Self
- 2022 · Killing Me Softly with His Songs as Self
- 2021 · Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur as Self - Interviewee
- 2020 · In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat as Self
- 2020 · In The Tracks Of - Special Edition as Self
- 2018 · Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat as Self
- 2017 · Score: A Film Music Documentary as Self
- 2014 · The Monuments Men as Émile
- 2011 · Exploring 'The Tree of Life' as Self
- 2011 · Hollywood in Vienna as Self
- 2009 · Creating the World of Harry Potter as Self - Composer
- 2009 · The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button as Self
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self