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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1961-08-23 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Alexandre Desplat

Biography:

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has won two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water, and received nine additional Academy Award nominations, ten César nominations (winning three), ten BAFTA nominations (winning three), eleven Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two), and ten Grammy nominations (winning two).

Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Queen, The Golden Compass, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 & Part 2, The King's Speech, The Danish Girl, Moonrise Kingdom, Argo, Rise of the Guardians, Zero Dark Thirty, Godzilla, The Imitation Game, Unbroken, Little Women, The Secret Life of Pets, and Isle of Dogs.

Known For

Acting

2022

2021

2020

2018

2017

2014

2011

2009

1951

Sound

2025

Eagles of the Republic as Original Music Composer
The Phoenician Scheme as Original Music Composer

2024

Lee as Original Music Composer
The Piano Lesson as Original Music Composer
Unstoppable as Original Music Composer
Unstoppable as Orchestrator
Elyas as Original Music Composer
The Most Precious of Cargoes as Original Music Composer
The Regime as Original Music Composer

2023

Asteroid City as Original Music Composer
NYAD as Original Music Composer
The Palace as Original Music Composer
The Boys in the Boat as Original Music Composer
Father & Soldier as Original Music Composer

2022

A Cooler Climate as Original Music Composer
The Outfit as Original Music Composer
The Lost King as Original Music Composer
Final Cut as Original Music Composer
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Original Music Composer

2021

Eiffel as Original Music Composer
Him as Original Music Composer
The French Dispatch as Original Music Composer

2020

The Midnight Sky as Original Music Composer

2019

Little Women as Conductor
Little Women as Original Music Composer
The Secret Life of Pets 2 as Original Music Composer
Adults in the Room as Original Music Composer
An Officer and a Spy as Original Music Composer

2018

Operation Finale as Original Music Composer
Isle of Dogs as Original Music Composer
The Sisters Brothers as Original Music Composer
Kursk as Original Music Composer

2017

Endangered Species as Original Music Composer
Suburbicon as Original Music Composer
Based on a True Story as Original Music Composer
The Shape of Water as Original Music Composer
12 Days as Original Music Composer

2016

Les habitants as Music
The Secret Life of Pets as Original Music Composer
Heal the Living as Original Music Composer
American Pastoral as Original Music Composer
The Light Between Oceans as Original Music Composer
Alone in Berlin as Original Music Composer
American Pastoral as Orchestrator
American Pastoral as Conductor
7:19 as Original Music Composer
The Odyssey as Original Music Composer
Florence Foster Jenkins as Original Music Composer
Marseille as Music

2015

Every Thing Will Be Fine as Original Music Composer
Tale of Tales as Original Music Composer
Suite Française as Original Music Composer
Suffragette as Original Music Composer
The Danish Girl as Original Music Composer
Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad as Original Music Composer

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel as Original Music Composer
The Monuments Men as Original Music Composer
Godzilla as Original Music Composer
The Imitation Game as Original Music Composer
Unbroken as Original Music Composer

2013

Fanny as Original Music Composer
Philomena as Original Music Composer
Venus in Fur as Original Music Composer
Zulu as Original Music Composer
Marius as Original Music Composer

2012

Argo as Original Music Composer
Moonrise Kingdom as Original Music Composer
My Way as Original Music Composer
Rust and Bone as Original Music Composer
Zero Dark Thirty as Original Music Composer
Renoir as Original Music Composer
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir as Original Music Composer
Reality as Original Music Composer
A Therapy as Original Music Composer
Rise of the Guardians as Original Music Composer
Rise of the Guardians as Orchestrator

2011

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as Original Music Composer
My Week with Marilyn as Main Title Theme Composer
Largo Winch II as Original Music Composer
The Well Digger's Daughter as Original Music Composer
Carnage as Original Music Composer
The Tree of Life as Original Music Composer
A Better Life as Original Music Composer
The Ides of March as Original Music Composer

2010

The King's Speech as Original Music Composer
Tamara Drewe as Original Music Composer
The Ghost Writer as Original Music Composer
The Special Relationship as Original Music Composer

2009

Coco Before Chanel as Original Music Composer
Army of Crime as Original Music Composer
A Prophet as Original Music Composer
Julie & Julia as Original Music Composer
The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Original Music Composer
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button as Original Music Composer
Fantastic Mr. Fox as Original Music Composer
Chéri as Original Music Composer
Fantastic Mr. Fox as Orchestrator

2008

Afterwards as Original Music Composer
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch as Original Music Composer
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Original Music Composer

2007

The Golden Compass as Original Music Composer
Intimate Enemies as Original Music Composer
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium as Original Music Composer
Lust, Caution as Original Music Composer
Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau... as Original Music Composer
Michou d'Auber as Original Music Composer

2006

The Queen as Original Music Composer
Firewall as Original Music Composer
The Painted Veil as Original Music Composer
The Alibi as Original Music Composer
The Valet as Original Music Composer
Firewall as Orchestrator
The Singer as Original Music Composer

2005

Syriana as Original Music Composer
The Beat That My Heart Skipped as Original Music Composer
Hostage as Original Music Composer
The Upside of Anger as Original Music Composer
Casanova as Original Music Composer
Hostage as Conductor

2004

Birth as Original Music Composer
The Corsican File as Original Music Composer
Birth as Orchestrator
Birth as Conductor

2003

Girl with a Pearl Earring as Original Music Composer
A Sight for Sore Eyes as Original Music Composer
Eager Bodies as Original Music Composer
The Pact of Silence as Original Music Composer
Stormy Weather as Original Music Composer
Tristan as Original Music Composer

2002

The Nest as Original Music Composer
Another Woman as Music
Madame Sans-Gêne as Original Music Composer

2001

Read My Lips as Original Music Composer
A Hell of a Day as Original Music Composer
Transfixed as Original Music Composer
Transfixed as Conductor
Transfixed as Orchestrator

2000

Empty Days as Original Music Composer
Amazon as Original Music Composer
The Luzhin Defence as Original Music Composer

1999

Toni as Original Music Composer
A Monkey's Tale as Original Music Composer

1998

The Revengers' Comedies as Original Music Composer
Atilano, presidente as Original Music Composer
The Revengers' Comedies as Orchestrator
Half a Chance as Music

1996

A Self-Made Hero as Original Music Composer
Tout ce qui brille as Original Music Composer
Love, etc. as Original Music Composer
Death in Therapy as Original Music Composer

1994

See How They Fall as Original Music Composer
Dynamic Vienne as Original Music Composer

1993

The Hour of the Pig as Original Music Composer
Le Tronc as Original Music Composer

1992

1991

Family Express as Original Music Composer
Lapse of Memory as Original Music Composer

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Frankenstein as Original Music Composer
Frankenstein as Conductor

Crew

2022

Argentina 1985 as Thanks