Alexandre Desplat

Sound

Born 1961-08-23 Paris, France 205 credits Academy Awards 2 Grammy Awards 1 European Film Award for Best Composer 2 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film 1 Officer of the National Order of Merit 1 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 9 nominated

2020 Best Original Score Nominated Little Women
2019 Best Original Score Nominated Isle of Dogs
2018 Best Original Score Won The Shape of Water
2015 Best Original Score Won The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 Best Original Score Nominated Philomena
2013 Best Original Score Nominated Argo
2011 Best Original Score Nominated The King's Speech
2010 Best Original Score Nominated Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 Best Original Score Nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2007 Best Original Score Nominated The Queen
— Best Original Score Nominated Frankenstein

Golden Globe Awards 1 nominated

2023 Best Original Score Nominated Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Grammy Awards 1 won

2015 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won The Grand Budapest Hotel

European Film Award for Best Composer 2 won · 3 nominated

2011 Best Composer Nominated The King's Speech
2010 Best Composer Won The Ghost Writer
2009 Best Composer Nominated Coco Before Chanel
2007 Best Composer Won The Queen
2004 Best Composer Nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring

César Award for Best Music Written for a Film 1 won · 2 nominated

2023 Best Music Written for a Film Nominated Final Cut
2020 Best Music Written for a Film Nominated An Officer and a Spy
2011 Best Music Written for a Film Won The Ghost Writer

Officer of the National Order of Merit 1 won

2016 Officer of the National Order of Merit Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won

2016 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won

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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 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). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Golden Compass (2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) & Part 2 (2011), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Godzilla (2014), Unbroken (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) and Jurassic World Rebirth (2025). He has collaborated with directors such as Wes Anderson, Chris Weitz, Terrence Malick, George Clooney, Roman Polanski, Guillermo del Toro and Gareth Edwards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexandre Desplat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.