Alexandre Desplat
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Born | Alexandre Michel Desplat August 23, 1961 Paris, France |
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Occupation | Film score composer | ||||||||||
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Alexandre Michel Desplat (born August 23, 1961 in Paris, France) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer. He most recently scored the music for the film adaption of The Golden Compass. Other scores include the Ang Lee movie Lust, Caution, The Luzhin Defence, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Syriana, Birth, Hostage, Casanova, The Nest and The Painted Veil, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. He received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for The Queen. He also won the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Film Music in The Beat that My Heart Skipped.
[edit] External links
- Alexandre Desplat, official website (French and English)
- Alexandre Desplat, fan website (French and English)
- Alexandre Desplat at the Internet Movie Database