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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French composer, music educator, and film score composer born on August 23, 1961, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He has worked in the field of film scores since 1985 and is employed by the Royal College of Music. Desplat plays the piano and flute and speaks French. His musical genres include easy listening soundtracks and musicals, orchestral, and film composition.
He has received the Knight of the Legion of Honour, a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, an Academy Award for Best Original Score, and a European Film Award for Best Composer. Desplat has also been nominated for the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Among his notable works are *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2* and *Lust Caution Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack*.
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Paris, France
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 both in 2016. Desplat has…
Known for
- Alexandre Desplat From Paris to Hollywood — Himself2025
- Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson — Self - Composer2025
- Killing Me Softly with His Songs — Self2022
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema — Self2022
- Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur — Self - Interviewee2021
- In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat — Self2020
- In The Tracks Of - Special Edition — Self2020
- Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat — Self2018
- Score: A Film Music Documentary — Self2017
- The Monuments Men — Émile2014
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1961
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,175,063
- Total plays
- 34,488,796
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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer, of Greek descent. He has won two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water, and received eight additional Academy Award nominations, eight César nominations (winning three), nine BAFTA nominations (winning three), ten Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two), and six Grammy nominations (winning two). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films
Key facts
- Born
- Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat , ( 1961-08-23 ) 23 August 1961 (age 64) , Paris, France
- Genres
- Film score , contemporary classical , jazz
- Occupations
- Composer, orchestrator, conductor
- Instruments
- Piano, trumpet, flute
- Spouse
- Dominique Lemonnier
- Website
- Alexandredesplat.net
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 20th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- librettist
- Employer
- Royal College of Music
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- film score
- Instrument
- flute
- Official website
- alexandredesplat.net
- Image
- AlexandreDesplat-gros-plan.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1961-08-23
- Commons category
- Alexandre Desplat
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- name in native language
- Alexandre Desplat
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- birth name
- Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Alexandre Desplat
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat ( French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ(ə) 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 both 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).
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