Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades, including two

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, three

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, two

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, and two

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. Desplat was made an Officer of the

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and a Commander of the

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both in 2016. Desplat has received two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014) and ''

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'' (2017). He was Oscar-nominated for '' The Queen'' (2006), '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008), '' Fantastic Mr. Fox'' (2009), ''

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'' (2010), ''

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'' (2012), ''

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'' (2013), ''

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'' (2014), '' Isle of Dogs'' (2018), and ''

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'' (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), ''

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'' (2010) & '' Part 2'' (2011), '' Moonrise Kingdom'' (2012), '' Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), ''

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'' (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

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and Gareth Edwards.

Early life and education

Alexandre Desplat was born in

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. His father, Jacques Desplat, was a Frenchman originally from Sarlat-la-Canéda. His mother, Katie Ladopoulou, is a

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poet originally from

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. Desplat's parents had met in the United States while they were both students at the

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. They married in

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and returned to France, settling in Paris. Alexandre has two older sisters, Marie-Christine (also known as Kiki) and Rosalinda. Desplat began playing the piano at the age of five. He later picked up the trumpet, before switching to flute at nine. Desplat's musical interests were wide, ranging from French composers such as

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and

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, to jazz and world music. He developed an early appreciation for film music, courtesy of the movie soundtracks his parents brought back from the United States. He began collecting

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's Hitchcock soundtracks as a teen and eventually decided to pursue a career as a film composer after hearing

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's ''

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'' score in 1977. Other early sources of Desplat's inspiration include the music of Maurice Jarre, Nino Rota and

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. Desplat studied at the

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and the

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under Claude Ballif. During this period, he also took a summer course under Iannis Xenakis. Desplat also studied under Jack Hayes in Los Angeles. When recording the music for his first film, he met violinist Dominique Lemonnier, who became his favorite soloist and artistic director. They later married. Desplat has worked on many films since the 1990s. His big

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break came in 2003 with the soundtrack for the film '' Girl with a Pearl Earring,'' a drama set in 17th-century Delft exploring a fictional muse of

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Career

1990–2009

Desplat has composed extensively for French cinema, Hollywood, and incidental music for over 100 films, including ''Lapse of Memory'' (1992), ''Family Express'' (1992), '' Regarde Les Hommes Tomber'' (1994), '' Les Péchés Mortels'' (1995), César-nominated '' Un Héros Très Discret'' (1996), ''Une Minute de Silence'' (1998), '' Sweet Revenge'' (1998), '' Le Château des Singes'' (1999), ''Reines d'un Jour'' (2001), the César-nominated '' Sur mes lèvres'' (2002), ''Rire et Châtiment'' (2003), ''

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'' (2005), the César-winner '' The Beat That My Heart Skipped'' (2005), '' The Queen'' (2006), '' Fantastic Mr. Fox'' (2009), ''

'' (2010), '' The Ghost Writer'' (2010),

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's remake of '' La Fille du Puisatier'' (2011), ''

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'' (2011) and '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014). Desplat has composed individual songs that have been sung in films by such artists as

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, Kate Beckinsale, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Valérie Lemercier, Miosotis and Catherine Ringer. He has also written music for the theatre, including pieces performed at the Comédie Française. Desplat has conducted performances of his music played by the

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, the

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and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Desplat has also given

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es at

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and the

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. In 2007, he composed the scores for

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's '' Golden Compass''; Zach Helm's

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nominated directorial debut '' Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium'' with American composer Aaron Zigman; and the

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movie ''

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''. Prior to these break-out works, he contributed scores for '' The Luzhin Defence'', '' Girl with a Pearl Earring'', ''

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Casanova'' and '' The Nest.'' For '' The Painted Veil'', he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music, and the 2006 World Soundtrack Award. He won the 2007 BMI Film Music Award, 2007 World Soundtrack Award, 2007 European Film Award, and received his first

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nomination for Best Original Score for '' The Queen''. He also won the Silver Berlin Bear at the

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for Best Film Music in '' The Beat that My Heart Skipped''. In 2008, Desplat received his second Oscar nomination for

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's '' Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. Desplat received his third Oscar nomination and a

nomination for '' Fantastic Mr. Fox'' in 2010, both of which were won by

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for '' Up''. Desplat has composed music for ''

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'', based on the Belgian comic; '' Afterwards'' a French-Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Gilles Bourdos in English; Anne Fontaine's '' Coco avant Chanel,'' based on the life of designer

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;

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's '' L'Armée du Crime''; '' Cheri'', reuniting him with director

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, whom he collaborated with on ''The Queen''; '' Un Prophète'' reuniting with director

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; ''

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'' directed by

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; '' Fantastic Mr. Fox'', directed by

and based on the novel by

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; ''

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'', directed by

;

's '' Ghost Writer''; '' Tamara Drewe''; '' The Special Relationship''; and ''

'' which earned Desplat his fourth Oscar nomination.

2010–2019

In early 2011, Desplat began to write the music to ''

,'' which would earn him a nomination for

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at the

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. He reunited with director

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, who offered Desplat the opportunity to score the second part after his work on the '' Part 1'' soundtrack in 2010 "enchanted everyone in the control room". Desplat's soundtrack sequel to the 2008 film ''Largo Winch'' was released in 2011 and was well received. Desplat's 2011 projects included '' The Tree of Life'', directed by Terrence Malick (which he actually recorded in early 2010), '' A Better Life'', '' La Fille du Puisatier'', Roman Polanski's '' Carnage'',

's ''

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'', and the logo for the French film company

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. Desplat started 2012 with '' Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'', the Florent Emilio Siri-directed biopic '' Cloclo'', and DreamWorks Animation's '' Rise of the Guardians''. His other scores of 2013 included '' Rust and Bone'', '' Zero Dark Thirty'', and ''

'', the latter of which earned him Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. In June 2013, Desplat's first Concerto for Flute & Orchestra premiered in France with flautist Jean Ferrandis and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire conducted by John Axelrod. His Trois Etudes for piano originally written for pianist Lang Lang had its U.S. premiere in October 2013 played by pianist Gloria Cheng. He received a sixth Oscar nomination for his score to ''

'', which marked his fourth collaboration with director

. On 23 June 2014, it was announced that Desplat would head the jury at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. He wrote five major scores during 2014, with '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' winning him his first Academy Award. His score for ''

'' was also nominated, and his win therefore marked the first time a composer had won against another of their own scores since John Williams won for ''Star Wars'' (beating ''

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'') in 1978, and only the seventh time overall ( Alfred Newman,

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, Miklos Rozsa and Johnny Green are the only other composers to achieve this). On 16 March 2015, It was announced that Desplat would be composing the first anthology film of the new Disney Star Wars films, called '' Rogue One''. In September 2016, he stepped down due to the reshoots of the film that left him unavailable, and was then replaced by

. In 2018, he won his second Academy Award for ''

'' and premiered a new work for solo flute played by Emmanuel Pahud.

Personal life

Desplat is married to violinist Dominique "Solre" Lemmonier. They have two daughters, Antonia and Ninon. Desplat has studios both in

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and

and makes his home in the latter city.

Filmography

Films

Television series

Accolades

Desplat has received many awards and nominations for his work including two

, three

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, and two

Decorations

* Officer of the

(2016) * Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016) * Chevalier of the

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(2011)

References

External links

Alexandre Desplat, official website
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