Alexandre Desplat
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961-08-23
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
- Lust Caution Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Extremely Loud Incredibly Close Main Theme Original Sheet Music Edition
- Harry Potter Piano Anthology
- Harry Potter -- Sheet Music from the Complete Film Series
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Film & TV
Sound · 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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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,175,063
- Total plays
- 34,488,796
Tags
SoundtrackinstrumentalClassicalcomposerscore
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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 11,461x
- pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves
· 2011 · cited 11,408x
- Universal sample preparation method for proteome analysis
· 2009 · cited 7,583x
- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
<i>Phenix</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,179x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 23 August 1961
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 20th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Employer
- Royal College of Music
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- film score
- Instrument
- flute
Article
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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1961 birthsAcademics of the Royal College of MusicAlumni of the Royal College of MusicAnimated film score composersAnnie Award winnersBest Composer European Film Award winnersBest Music Lumière Award winnersBest Original Music BAFTA Award winnersBest Original Music César Award winnersBest Original Music Score Academy Award winnersCommandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres