News about Alexandre Desplat, composer

Nomination at 58th David di Donatello (Accademia del Cinema Italiano)
"Migliore Musicista" for Reality

World premiere of Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
inspired by "Pelléas et Melisande"
commissioned by the "Orchestre Nationale des Pays de la Loire"
directed by John Axelrod
June, and June, 13 2013 in Angers, June, 11 and June,12 in Nantes (France)

June, 1st 2013, at Salle Pleyel, Paris (France)
the "Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France", directed by Jean Deroyer
plays Alexandre Desplat's film music
Prix Sacem - France Musique des musiques de film

April 4-17, 2013 Alexandre Desplat president of
14th Festival du Film Francophone in Athens (Greece)

Alexandre Desplat in concert with Traffic Quintet
24th March, 2013 at Cité de la Musique in Paris
creation of Quai de Scènes

César 2013 de la Meilleure Musique Originale

Etoile d'Or 2013 du Compositeur de musique originale de film

Nomination at London Critics Circle Film Award
Technical Achievement of the Year

Nomination at 40e Annie Award (International Animated Film Society)
"Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production"
for Rise of the Guardians

Soundtrack Geek Awards: Alexandre Desplat Best Composer 2012

Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for year 2012
Best Score for Moonrise Kingdom

Alexandre Desplat receives his 5th Oscar nomination
Best Music (Original Score) for Argo

Nomination at EE British Academy Film Award (BAFTA)
Original Music for Argo

Nomination at 33rd London Critics' Circle Film Award
The Sky 3D Award: Technical Achievement Award Rust and Bone
Alexandre Desplat, music (StudioCanal)

2012 International Press Academy Satellite Award, Best Score for Argo

3 Nominations at Chicago Film critics Awards (CFCA) for year 2012
Best Original Score for
Argo, Zero Dark Thirty and Moonrise Kingdom

7 Academy Awards nominations, including Best Music (Original Score)

7 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominations
including Best Original Music

2012 International Press Academy Satellite Award: Best Score

Argo awarded 5 Golden Globes nominations, including
Best original Score for a Motion Picture

7 Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations, including Best Score

5 Chicago Film critics Awards nominations, including Best Original Score

4 Awards and 4 Nominations at San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
for 2012, including Best Score

Nomination at 70th Golden Globe Award 2013:
Best Score for for a Motion Picture for Argo

Nomination at 2012 WAFCA Award, Best Score for Moonrise Kingdom

2 Nominations at 18th Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2013:
Best Score for Argo and Moonrise Kingdom

2 Nominations at San Diego Film Critics Society Awards for 2012
Best Score for Argo and Moonrise Kingdom

The Rise Of the Guardians
Release in november 2012

Nomination at 40th Annie Award
"Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production"

Nominations at 2012 World Soundtrack Awards:

Film Composer of the Year: Alexandre Desplat
for A Better Life, Carnage, De Rouille Et d'Os (Rust & Bone)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Moonrise Kingdom, The Ides Of March

Best Original Film Score of the Year:
The Ides Of March

Commercial for Prada "A Therapy"
Directed by Roman Polanski, Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Kingsley
Music by Alexandre Desplat

Nomination at 2012 Prix France Musique-Sacem de la musique de film
for THE TREE OF LIFE

Masterclass May 19, 2012
at Festival de Cannes
"A personal history of film music"

Cycle Alexandre Desplat in Guimarães (Portugal) 25-27 May 2012
at Centro Cultural Vila Flor
concert with Traffic Quintet May, 26th, masterclass May, 27th

MOONRISE KINGDOM
by Wes Anderson is the opening film of the 65th Festival de Cannes

Grammy Award
"Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media"
for THE KING's SPEECH

2 nominations at 2011 International Film Music Critics Awards
"Best score for a fantasy film" for
HARRY POTTER ET LES RELIQUES DE LA MORT: 2e partie
and " Film composer of the year"

San Diego Film Critics Award 2011, "Best Score"
for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2

Nomination at 2012 Grammy Awards
"Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media" for
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
and THE KING's SPEECH

Chinese pianist Lang Lang playing Alexander Desplat's
"Marilyn's Theme", from MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

BMI London Film Music Award
for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1
and THE KING's SPEECH

Nomination at 24th European Academy Awards
Alexandre Desplat "European Composer of The Year"
for THE KING's SPEECH

Concert November 30th 2011 in Sao Paulo (Brasil)
with Orchestra Jazz Sinfônica

For the third year in a row
Alexandre Desplat is honored with the "Film Composer of The Year" kudo
at the World Soundtrack Awards during the 38th Ghent Film Festival (Belgium)

Nomination at 2011 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
Original Score-Feature Film
Alexandre Desplat for THE IDES OF MARCH

Masterclass October 20th 2011 at 55e BFI, London Film Festival

New logo for STUDIOCANAL, music by Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat receives the Harry Warren Award
at "Sonora, Una Musica per il Cinema" festival (Italy)
for THE KING's SPEECH

Nominees at 2011 World Soundtrack Awards:
Alexandre Desplat "Soundtrack Composer of the Year" for

A BETTER LIFE, TAMARA DREWE, THE BURMA CONSPIRACY
THE KING's SPEECH, THE TREE OF LIFE
THE WELL DIGGER's DAUGHTER
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2

"Best Original Soundtrack of the Year" for THE KING's SPEECH

Alexandre Desplat will be at Venice International Film Festival (Italy)
August, 31th and September, 1st 2011, for the presentation of
THE IDES OF MARCH by George Clooney
and CARNAGE by Roman Polanski

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
release in July 2011

Alexandre Desplat selected at
6e Prix France Musique-Sacem de la musique de film
for THE GHOST WRITER

THE TREE OF LIFE
Palme d'Or at 2011 Cannes Film Festival (France)

Etoiles d'Or du Cinéma Français 2011
"Film Music Composer" Alexandre Desplat
for THE GHOST WRITER

2011 César "Best Music Written For A Film"
for THE GHOST WRITER

Alexandre Desplat César 2011

International Film Music Critics Awards 2011
"Film Composer of the Year": Alexandre Desplat
"Best Original Score for a Drama Film": THE KING's SPEECH
"Best Original Score for a Action/Adventure/Thriller": THE GHOST WRITER

"Best Original Music" for THE KING's SPEECH
2011 BAFTA Award, Orange British Academy Film Awards

Paul Mc Cartney - Alexandre Desplat

Paul McCartney poses with Alexandre Desplat after Desplat won the award for Best Original Music for The King's Speech at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London February 13, 2011
Luke McGregor/Reuters

The King's Speech at BAFTA ceremony
The King's Speech team at BAFTA ceremony

Alexandre Desplat receives
7 International Film Music Critics' 2010 Award nominations
including two for Film Score Of The Year

THE KING's SPEECH theme, sheet music for piano solo

THE KING's SPEECH
nominee for the 83rd Academy Awards "Best Music - Original Score"

Nomination at 2011 César "Best Music Written For A Film"
for THE GHOST WRITER

The King's Speech

Nomination "Best Music - Original Score" at the 83rd Academy Awards

"Best Original Music"
at the 2011 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)

Sammy Award for Film Music CD of 2010
"Best New Film Score CD: THE KING'S SPEECH"
Music by Alexandre Desplat (Decca)

Nomination "Best Original Score" at the 68th Golden Globe Awards

International Film Music Critics' 2010 Award
"Best Original Score For a Drama Film"

"Prix de la Meilleure Musique de Film"
at 22nd Lourdes Art & Cinema Festival (France)

Nomination "Best Original Film Score of the Year"
at the World Soundtrack Awards 2011 (Gent, Belgium)

Harry Warren Award
at "Sonora, Una Musica per il Cinema" festival (Italy)

New CD with Traffic Quintet "DIVINE FÉMININ"
Art Direction: Dominique Lemonnier, orchestrations: Alexandre Desplat

" My collaboration with the string ensemble The Traffic Quintet is an infinite source for transcriptions of works by film music composers who influenced my aesthetic choices.
Transcription is a creative act that allows you to dive into the very heart of a score when you revisit it, and sometimes it even allows you to elaborate on it.
After a programme based on the Nouvelle Vague, Dominique Lemonnier and I imagined a free path for the Quintet to take with pieces of music that have revealed and sublimated the eternal female... "

Nomination "Best Original Score" at the 68th Golden Globe Awards
for THE KING's SPEECH

Nomination "Best Score" at the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards
for THE KING's SPEECH