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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dɛspla]; [1] born 23 August 1961) [2] is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades throughout his career spanning over four decades, including, two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two ...
Mini Bio. Composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat, Oscar winner and seven-time Academy Award nominated, for his prolific filmography and his collaborations with Stephen Frears, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Jacques Audiard, Wes Anderson, Roman Polanski, George Clooney or Matteo Garrone is one of the most worthy heirs of the French ...
- August 23, 1961
- Deep Classical Roots
- A Prolific Work Rate
- A Unique Stamp
- Nothing He Can’T Turn His Hand to
Born in Paris, on August 23, 1961, Desplat has deep classical roots: the romantic symphonists and Ravel and Debussy are heroes, yet he also has a deep knowledge of world music, Brazilian and African music, and jazz. Trained on piano and trumpet, with flute his main instrument, his signature style lies in the string arrangements. The violinist Domin...
Desplat’s work rate is remarkably prolific: 2008 alone produced memorable scores for Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution and David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. His atmospheric and baroque score to Roman Polanski’s political thriller The Ghost Writer(2010) won him a César and a second European Film Award. Further soundtracks to Twilight: New M...
With the start of a new decade, the big, important work flooded in. Across 2010 and 2011, Desplat scored both parts of David Yates’ Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, the second of which became the third most successful movie of all time. Never content to rest on his laurels, however, Alexandre Desplat showed his eclecticism again across nine va...
From here on out, there seemed to be nothing Alexandre Desplat couldn’t turn his hand to. The biographical comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), a glorious romp starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, saw him work with Frears again on a movie that is all about fulfilling a dream. In this instance, Desplat really became a part of the ensemble a...
Composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat, Oscar winner and seven-time Academy Award nominated, for his prolific filmography and his collaborations with Stephen Frears, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Jacques Audiard, Wes Anderson, Roman Polanski, George Clooney or Matteo Garrone is one of the most worthy heirs of the French masters ...
- January 1, 1
- 1.83 m
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
Composer, orchestrator and conductor, two times Academy Award winner, Alexandre Desplat, eleven-times Academy Award Nominee, with over hundred scores and numerous awards to his credit is one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters.
Legendary film composer Alexandre Desplat joins Awards Daily’s Shadan Larki to discuss returning to Wes Anderson’s ‘world of imagination’ and extravaganza for The French Dispatch. Desplat also looks back on career highlights, awards season memories, and why he never watches his iconic movies.
Jul 12, 2017 · As he entered his teens, Desplat began to collect Bernard Herrmann’s legendary Alfred Hitchcock soundtracks. But it wasn’t until he saw Star Wars in 1977 that he finally accepted his fate.
