Alexandre Desplat
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.
Filmography (75)
The Social Reckoning
Frankenstein
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Phoenician Scheme
The Shrinking Man
The Piano Lesson
Lee
Asteroid City
The Boys in the Boat
NYAD
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
The Outfit
Final Cut
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Him
The Midnight Sky
Little Women
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Operation Finale
Isle of Dogs
Kursk
The Sisters Brothers
The Shape of Water
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Suburbicon
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Light Between Oceans
The Secret Life of Pets
American Pastoral
Alone in Berlin
The Danish Girl
Suffragette
Suite Française
Tale of Tales
The Monuments Men
Godzilla
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Unbroken
Philomena
Zulu
Argo
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Rise of the Guardians
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Tree of Life
The Ides of March
Carnage
My Week with Marilyn
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
A Better Life
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The Ghost Writer
The King's Speech
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Julie & Julia
Chéri
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Afterwards
The Golden Compass
Lust, Caution
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
The Queen
Firewall
The Painted Veil
Syriana
Hostage
Casanova
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
The Upside of Anger
Birth
Girl with a Pearl Earring
