Alexandre Desplat
Sound
Born: August 23, 1961 (age 65) · Paris, France
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Biography
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.
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Self / Appearances (13)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
Self - Composer
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Self
Hollywood in Vienna
Self · 1 eps
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Self
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Self
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
Self
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
Nino – A Film About Nino Rota
Self – Film music composer
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
Self - Interviewee
Alexandre Desplat From Paris to Hollywood
Himself
Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat
Self
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
Self
Other Crew (211)
The Imitation Game
Original Music Composer
The Social Reckoning
Original Music Composer
Jurassic World Rebirth
Original Music Composer
Jurassic World Rebirth
Conductor
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Original Music Composer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Original Music Composer
Little Women
Conductor
Little Women
Original Music Composer
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Original Music Composer
The Shape of Water
Original Music Composer
The Phoenician Scheme
Original Music Composer
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Original Music Composer
Isle of Dogs
Original Music Composer
The King's Speech
Original Music Composer
Rise of the Guardians
Original Music Composer
Rise of the Guardians
Orchestrator
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Original Music Composer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Original Music Composer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Orchestrator
Frankenstein
Original Music Composer
Frankenstein
Conductor
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Original Music Composer
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
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The Golden Compass
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The Monuments Men
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Unstoppable
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Unstoppable
Orchestrator
The Midnight Sky
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Argo
Original Music Composer
Lee
Original Music Composer
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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Godzilla
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Unbroken
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The Ghost Writer
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Moonrise Kingdom
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The Sisters Brothers
Original Music Composer
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Original Music Composer
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Songs
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Executive Music Producer
Julie & Julia
Original Music Composer
Asteroid City
Original Music Composer
Zero Dark Thirty
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Venus in Fur
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Hostage
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Hostage
Conductor
The Outfit
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The Piano Lesson
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The Light Between Oceans
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American Pastoral
Original Music Composer
American Pastoral
Orchestrator
American Pastoral
Conductor
Argentina 1985
Thanks
Largo Winch II
Original Music Composer
The Tree of Life
Original Music Composer
Lust, Caution
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My Week with Marilyn
Main Title Theme Composer
Philomena
Original Music Composer
The Secret Life of Pets
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The Danish Girl
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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The Painted Veil
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Operation Finale
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Tale of Tales
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Tale of Tales
Conductor
Tale of Tales
Orchestrator
An Officer and a Spy
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Suffragette
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Marseille
Music
Eagles of the Republic
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Casanova
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The Ides of March
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Suite Française
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The Alibi
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The Regime
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NYAD
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The Boys in the Boat
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Firewall
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Firewall
Orchestrator
Syriana
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Tamara Drewe
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The Queen
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The Shrinking Man
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Florence Foster Jenkins
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The Lost King
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Suburbicon
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Birth
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Birth
Orchestrator
Birth
Conductor
Eiffel
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Coco Before Chanel
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Elyas
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The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
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Based on a True Story
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A Prophet
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Every Thing Will Be Fine
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Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
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Carnage
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The Palace
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Chéri
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Kursk
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A Better Life
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Rust and Bone
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Intimate Enemies
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The Upside of Anger
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The Well Digger's Daughter
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The Corsican File
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Adults in the Room
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Renoir
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The Valet
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Alone in Berlin
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Afterwards
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The Odyssey
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The Special Relationship
Conductor
The Special Relationship
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Read My Lips
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The Pact of Silence
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The Nest
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A Monkey's Tale
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The Luzhin Defence
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Zulu
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Innocent Lies
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Father & Soldier
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Final Cut
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A Self-Made Hero
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My Way
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The Hour of the Pig
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
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Amazon
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The Most Precious of Cargoes
Music
The Most Precious of Cargoes
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Him
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Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad
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Les Milles
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The Singer
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12 Days
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Heal the Living
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The Hills of Wrath
Music
Barnie's Minor Annoyances
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La Voisine
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The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Original Music Composer
Only the Night
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A Cooler Climate
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Half a Chance
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Reality
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Toni
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Michou d'Auber
Original Music Composer
Les Habitants
Music
Those Were the Days
Music
Love, etc.
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Eager Bodies
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7:19
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A Hell of a Day
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A Sight for Sore Eyes
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Army of Crime
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The Revengers' Comedies
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The Revengers' Comedies
Orchestrator
Doors of Glory
Music
Doors of Glory
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I Didn't Do It!
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Le pays des enfants perdus
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Virus au paradis
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See How They Fall
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Un petit grain de folie
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Lapse of Memory
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Le Cri de la soie
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Ki lo sa ?
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Vive nous!
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Les beaux jours
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Alexandre Desplat From Paris to Hollywood
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Alexandre Desplat From Paris to Hollywood
Conductor
Sous les pieds des femmes
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Le passage du bac
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
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Restons groupés
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Laughter and Punishment
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Fanny
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Sexes faibles !
Music
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
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Marie-Louise ou la permission
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Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat
Conductor
Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat
Music
Endangered Species
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A Minute of Silence
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Stormy Weather
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Other People's Kisses
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Monsieur Naphtali
Music
Tristan
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Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte
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Juliette
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Family Express
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Le fils de Paul
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Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...
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Transfixed
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Transfixed
Conductor
Transfixed
Orchestrator
Another Woman
Music
Dynamic Vienne
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Atilano, presidente
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Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Music
Tout ce qui brille
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Marius
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Death in Therapy
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La Femme du cosmonaute
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Au nom du père et du fils
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Le Tronc
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Le Paradis absolument
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Les ritaliens
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Empty Days
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Papa veut pas que je t'épouse
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Madame Sans-Gêne
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