Two time Academy Award® winner and eleven-time Academy Award Nominee, Alexandre Desplat, has written hundred scores, received numerous awards, and to his credit is one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters.
A true cinephile, his approach to film composition is not only based on his strong musicality, but also on his understanding of Cinema, which allows him to intimately communicate with directors. Inspired by the works of Maurice Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota or Georges Delerue, he expressed his desire to compose for Cinema early on but really made his decision after listening to John Williams’s score to Star Wars.
In 2007 he received his first Academy Award nomination for Stephen Frears’ The Queen which earned him his first European Film Award. The same year he won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the World Soundtrack Award for his score to John Curran’s The Painted Veil, performed by Lang Lang.
In 2010-2011 Alexandre Desplat scored David Yates films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 and Part 2 which became the third most successful movie of all time. As eclectic as prolific he wrote nine score in 2011 including Terence Malik’s Tree of Life, Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Daniel Auteuil’s The Well’s Digger Daughter and George Clooney’s The Ides of March.
In 2018, Alexandre Desplat won for Guillermo del Toro‘s The Shape of Water his second Academy Award, second Golden Globe and third BAFTA. He was nominated in 2019 for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Wes Anderson‘s Isle of Dogs, and in 2020 for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Greta Gerwig‘s Little Women. Continuing his ongoing collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, Desplat wrote thematic scores and songs for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. He received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song “Ciao Papa”.
Most recently, Alexandre scored the highly anticipated next installment to the iconic Universal blockbuster franchise Jurassic World: Rebirth. Up next for Desplat is Guillermo del Toro’s next feature, Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, and Mia Goth.