Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat

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

Born: August 23, 1961 in Paris, Île-de-France, France

Filmography

Lee (pre-production)

She Came to Me (score by) (post-production)

The Palace (post-production) – 2022

Asteroid City (post-production) – 2022

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (post-production) – 2022

The Lost King (completed) – 2022

Father & Soldier – 2022

Final Cut – 2022

The Outfit – 2021/I

Lui – 2021

The French Dispatch (music by) – 2021

Eiffel – 2020

The Midnight Sky – 2019

Little Women (music by) – 2019

Adults in the Room (music composer) – 2019

An Officer and a Spy – 2019

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (music by) – 2019

Held for a moment (Short) – 2018

The Command – 2018

The Sisters Brothers – 2018

Operation Finale – 2018

Isle of Dogs – 2017

Suburbicon (music by) – 2017

Endangered Species – 2017

The Shape of Water – 2017

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (original score) – 2017/I

D’après une histoire vraie- 2017

12 Days (Documentary) – 2016

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (TV Series) (1 episode) – Becoming: Part 1 (2016)

American Pastoral – 2016

Heal the Living – 2016

The Light Between Oceans – 2016

The Secret Life of Pets (music by) – 2016

France (Documentary) – 2016

Florence Foster Jenkins – 2016

Jaguar Stephen Hawking James Bond Style Villain Television Commercial (Video short) – 2016

Alone in Berlin – 2016

The Odyssey – 2015

The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Short) – 2015

The Danish Girl – 2015

2019 | Winner | Oscar
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) for Isle of Dogs (2018)

2018 | Winner | Oscar
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) for The Shape of Water (2017)

 

Personal Details

Height: 6′ (1.83 m)

Spouse: Charlotte Riley (2 childern) 

Children: Antonia Desplat

Trivia: Father of Antonia Desplat and Ninon Desplat with wife Dominique Lemonnier.

Star Sign: Virgo

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