A feast for the ears as Alexandre Desplat in person leads the Orchestre de Paris through a fascinating anthology of his best scores: Desplat's wizardry, which has seduced even Harry Potter, in action!
Orchestre de Paris, Alexandre Desplat conductor, Solrey artistic director
Wednesday January 29, 2025 at 18h45
Venue: Salle de conférence - La Philharmonie de Paris - 221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris
Duration: about 45 minutes, free admission, subject to availability
Together with Alexandre Desplat, the Wiener Symphoniker and Tomek Productions invite you to a first-class film music evening in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein.
Under the title Cinema:Sound, the Wiener Symphoniker take up their long film music tradition and bring a Hollywood legend to Vienna every year to guide the orchestra through their worlds of sound.
Friday March 1, 2024 at 21:00. Venue: Golden Hall of Musikverein Wien
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 Wien, Austria.
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Alexandre Desplat in contention for two Hollywood Music in Media Awards: 'Best Score for a Feature Film' for Nyad, and 'Best Score for a Scifi/Fantasy Film' for Asteroid City
Expect nothing less than the imaginative and dystopic when Alan Lucien Øyen once again fuses dance and theatre to create dramatic scenery. ‘Cinematic’ is a word often used to describe Øyen’s art and this time, he has engaged Oscar-winning film composer Alexandre Desplat to write the music and Solrey to conduct the Opera Orchestra.
October 12 to November 2, 2023 Venue: Main Stage, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Kirsten Flagstads pl. 1 N-0150 Oslo (Norway).
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Saturday July 1, at 21:00. Venue: Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Dionysiou street Areopagitou, Athens, Greece.
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Admission: from 30€.
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Honored with the greatest international awards (2 Oscars, 3 C&ecacute;sars, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Grammy Awards, etc.), composer Alexandre Desplat directs here the music he wrote for the films of Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Jacques Audiard (A Self-Made Hero), Gareth Edwards (Godzilla), David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Jonathan Glazer (Birth), Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I & II), Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring), as well as a world premiere suite.
Wednesday March 22, 2023 at 18:00:
Meeting-conference of the Friends of the Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine with Benoit Daldin in the company of Alexandre Desplat around his film music.
Venue: Grand-Théâtre - Place de la Comédie 33000 Bordeaux France
Admission: 5€ (Free for students)
Alexandre Desplat in contention for three International Film Music Critics Association Awards, 'Composer of the year', 'Best Original Score for an Animated Film' for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and 'Best Original Score for a Comedy Film' for Stephen Frears' movie The Lost King
Alexandre Desplat in contention for a César, 'Best Original Score', for Michel Hazanavicius' movie Final Cut (Coupez !)
Awards(in red)andNominations(in black), for
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2023Gold Derby Film Award, 'Best Original Score',
2023Gold Derby Film Award, 'Best Original Song',
2023International Film Music Critics Association, 'Best Original Score for a Comedy Film',
2023International Film Music Critics Association, 'Best Original Score for an Animated Film',
2023Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Award, 'Best Musical Score',
2023Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Award, 'Best Song Written for a Film',
2023CinEuphoria Award, 'Best Song Written for a Film',
2023CinEuphoria Award, 'Best Musical Score',
2023Annie Award, 'Best Music - Feature film',
2023Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Award (HCA), 'Best Score',
2023Houston Film Critics Society Award'Best Original Score',
2023Houston Film Critics Society Award'Best Original Song',
2023BAFTA(British Academy Film Award) 'Best Original Score',
2023Society of Composers & Lyricists Award'Outstanding Song for a Musical/Comedy',
2023Society of Composers & Lyricists Award'Outstanding Score for a Studio Film',
2023Chicago Indie Critics Award'Best Original Score',
2023Chicago Indie Critics Award'Best Original Song',
2023Iowa Film Critics Association Award'Best Song',
2023Portland Film Critics Award'Best Original Score',
2023Denver Film Critics Society Award'Best Original Song'2023Golden Globe'Best Original Score for a Motion Picture',
2023Golden Globe'Best Original Song for a Motion Picture'2023North Dakota Film Society Award'Best Original Song',
2023North Dakota Film Society Award'Best Original Score',
2023Georgia Film Critics Association'Best Score',
2023Georgia Film Critics Association'Best Original Song',
2023San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award'Best Original Score',
2023Capri Hollywood International Film Festival Award (Italy)'Best Original Score',
2023DiscussingFilm Critics Award'Best Original Score',
2023DiscussingFilm Critics Award'Best Original Song',
2023Hawaii Film Critics Society Award'Best Song',
2023Music City Film Critics Association Award'Best Score',
2023Music City Film Critics Association Award'Best Original Song',
2023Columbus Film Critics Association Award'Best Score',
2022Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Award'Best Score',
2022Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Award'Best Musical Score',
2023Critics Choice Association Award'Best Score',
2023Critics Choice Association Award'Best Song',
2022Phoenix Critics Circle Award'Best Score',
2022Chicago Film Critics Association Award'Best Original Score',
2022Las Vegas Film Critics Society Sierra Award'Best Score',
2022Las Vegas Film Critics Society Sierra Award'Best Original Song',
2022Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award, 'Best Original Score',
2022Sunset Circle Award'Best Score',
2022Hollywood Music in Media Award'Best Score for an Animated Film',
2022Hollywood Music in Media Award'Best Song for an Animated Film'.
Alexandre Desplat in contention for two Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards, for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 'Best Score for a Motion Picture' and 'Best Song for a Motion Picture' together with Roeban Katz and Guillermo del Toro
December 9, 2022 | 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' Soundtrack Release
Album
Original Soundtrack from Guillermo del Toro's
Pinoccchio
starring Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro...
All music and original songs written by Alexandre Desplat, featuring lyrics by Roeban Katz & Guillermo del Toro
Two Hollywood Music in Media Awards: 'Best Score for an Animated Film', for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 'Best Song for an Animated Film', for Ciao Papa from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Written by Alexandre Desplat, Lyrics by Roeban Katz and Guillermo del Toro.
Alexandre Desplat gets also two nominations: 'Best Score for an Independant Film', for The Outfit and 'Best Score for a Mobile Video Game', for Honor of Kings.
Thessaloniki welcomes world-renowned film music composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat, who will conduct the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra in his own works. The French composer, of Greek origin on his mother's side, has written music for more than 40 films and has won numerous awards, including two Oscars, two Grammys, a Golden Globe and many more, with his music dressed famous movies, such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Shape of Water, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Argo, Godzilla , Twilight Saga: New Moon etc. A special evening in our city for music and also cinema lovers.
Venue: Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Leoforos Nikis 73, 546 22, Near White Tower, Thessaloniki, Greece
Alexandre Desplat will be the guest of honor at the 8th edition of the La Baule Film and Film Music Festival and will participate in the closing tribute concert dedicated to him. He will perform on the stage of the Palais des Congrès Atlantia alongside the musicians of the Traffic Quintet led by conductor and violinist Solrey.
Venue: Palais des Congrès et des Festivals Atlantia de La Baule, 119 Avenue du Mar&ecacute;chal de Lattre de Tassigny 44503 La Baule France
As part of the launch of the newly founded Basel Film Music Festival, the two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat will be available for a relaxed, personal talk in which festival-founder Alex Strohm will discuss various stations of Desplat’s journey. Strohm will be joined by Swiss filmmusic composer Michael Künstle.
Venue: Stadtcasino Basel, Konzertgasse 1, 4051 Bâle (Switzerland)
Friday May 6, 2022 at 19:30 ˃ Booking
April 8, 2022 | 'The Outfit' Soundtrack Release
Album
Label : Back Lot Music
Music composed and directed by Alexandre Desplat
Recorded by Alexandre Tanguy at Studio Saint Germain
Orchestrations by Alexandre Desplat, Jean-Pascal Beintus and Sylvain Morizet
Soloists :
Flute, Piano – Alexandre Desplat
Bass – Darryl Hall, Riccardo Del Fra
Cello – Cyrille Lacrouts
Violin – David Braccini
Executive Producer for Galilea Music : Xavier Forcioli
Executive Producer for Backlot Music : Michael Knobloch
Alexandre Desplat in contention for an International Film Music Critics Association Award, 'Best Original Score for a Comedy Film', for The French Dispatch.
Alexandre Desplat in contention for Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Award, 'Best Score for a Motion Picture' for Wes Anderson's movie The French Dispatch.
The American Moth is a hybrid, multi-medial performance combining dance, theatre in multiple languages and cinematic live video.
Alan Lucien Øyen: direction, choreography, script; Alexandre Desplat: music; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Solrey: musical director, conductor.
Nomination, 'Best Musical Score' for The Midnight Sky.
December 23, 2020 | Release of 'The Midnight Sky' Soundtrack
Album
Label: ABKCO Records
Music composed by Alexandre Desplat
Conducted by Gavin Greenaway
Performed by The London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestrations by Alexandre Desplat, Jean-Pascal Beintus and Sylvain Morizet
Recorded and mixed by Peter Cobbin and Kirsty Whalley
Edited by Michael Alexander and Peter Clarke
Album produced by Alexandre Desplat and Solrey
WSA Talks: Masterclass with Alexandre Desplat Exclusively for the World Soundtrack Awards, composer Alexandre Desplat sat down with Matt Mueller of Screen International to talk about his many creative collaborations. "Like an actor, I have different characters to play, but I try to stay myself", explained the Oscar-winning film composer. Get to know the ins & outs of Desplat's process and learn from the very best.
Video: WSA Masterclass: Alexandre Desplat. Listen to the conversation with five-time winner of the Film Composer of the Year Award, Alexandre Desplat. Matt Mueller of Screen International asks about the ins & outs of Maestro Desplat's process and about the renowned composer's many creative collaborations.
Alexandre Desplat Guest of Honour at the World Soundtrack Awards 2020, during Film Fest Gent (Belgium).
Video: Film Fest Gent 2020's trailer, with music by Alexandre Desplat from
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, performed by Traffic Quintet with guests Alain Planès and Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat nominated at 3 IFMCA awards: 'Composer of the Year', 'Film Score of the Year' and 'Best Original Score for a Drama Film', for Little Women.
Silence! By Nobel Prize writer Yasunari Kawabata & Academy Award composer Desplat
A chamber operina for 1 mezzo-soprano, 1 bass-baritone, 1 comedian and 10 musicians
Romain Bockler - Bass-baritone Judith Fa - Soprano Laurent Stocker - Narrator
And Ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin: Fabian Perdicizzi, Danielle Hennicot, Ingrid Schoenlaub, Sophie Deshayes, Gionata Sgambaro, Pierre Golse, Marcel Lallemang, Max Mausen, Chritelle Pochet and Guy Frisch.
Charles Chemin - Assistant to stage director Reihhard Biichsel - Technical director
At Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, Yokohama (Japan) - Saturday January 25, 2020 at 14:00
The 65th Anniversary Concert Hall Opera Project
Borderless chamber opera / 120th anniversary of Yasunari Kawabata's birth
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Japan premiere of “En Silence”, a new interdisciplinary opera by Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat, marking 120 years since the birth of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata.
Inspired by the short story “Silence” by Yasunari Kawabata, this is a new chamber opera by Alexandre Desplat, the composer well known for his film soundtracks and whose extensive list of accolades include Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Academy Awards. “En Silence” premiered in Luxembourg in February 2019, 120 years after the birth of Kawabata, and comes to Japan in January 2020 after performances also in Paris. In addition to the Luxembourg-based contemporary music ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin, the opera brings together a strikingly wide range of collaborators, including the creative director of the brand Valentino for the costumes. The result is a truly new kind of opera experience that defies conventional categories.
In French with Japanese surtitles
Saturday January 18, 2020 at 14:00
At the ROHM Theatre Kyoto -
13 Okazakisaishoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City 606-8342 Japan
starring Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Timoth&ecacute;e Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, James Norton, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Louis Garrel, Bob Odenkirk, Chris Cooper, Abby Quinn...
Music and cinema "It's a very strange profession, film music" says Alexandre Desplat, "we are at the service of a common project, but there are all these constraints, of time, of exchanges, of communication with the director. You have to look until the music really becomes the image. It's not just the music anymore, it's in the movie." The most famous French composer of film music, author of more than a hundred soundtracks, awarded numerous prizes - including two Oscars (for The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water) - will tell us about his course and his work.
The meeting with Alexandre Desplat will follow the screening at 14h of Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom, whose music he composed.
Saturday september 21, 2019 at 16:00, at the cinema Le Méliès, 12 place Jean Jaurès 93100 Montreuil (France).
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May 31, 2019 | Release of 'The Secret Life of Pets 2' soundtrack
Album
The Magic and Majesty of Alexandre Desplat
with Sinfonietta Cracovia conducted by Alexandre Desplat
Saturday May 18, 2019 at 19:00, ICE Krakow Congress Centre, S2, Krakow (Poland) ˃ Reservations here
Meet & Greet Alexandre Desplat: Life with Music
Host: Magdalena Miśka-Jackowska
Thursday May 16, 2019 at 16:00, ICE Krakow Congress Centre, S2, Krakow (Poland), Free Entry
During the 9th New French Film Festival, Masterclass at Palazzo Farnese, Piazza Farnese, 67 Roma
Free entry, limited space available. Registration is mandatory, as of April 1 avril 2019 ˃ Register here
February 26-27, 2019 & March 2-3, 2019 | SilenceConcert
World Premiere of Silence, A chamber operina for 1 mezzo-soprano, 1 bass-baritone, 1 comedian and 10 musicians
Music by Alexandre Desplat, libretto by Alexandre Desplat and Solrey after Silence by Yasunari Kawabata
With Camille Poul (soprano), Mikhail Timoshenko (bass-baritone), Sava Lolov (comedian, narrator)
And ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin
Nominations at the International Film Music Critics Association Awards 2018, 'Best Original Score for an Animated film' for Isle of Dogs, 'Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller Film'
for Operation Finale, and 'Best Original Score for a Comedy Film' for The Sisters Brothers.
Alexandre Desplat, two times Academy Award Winner, receives his seventh nomination for 'Achievement in music written for motion pictures' (Original score) for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs.
The award ceremony for the France Musique - SACEM Film Music Award will take place on Friday, January 11, 2019 at Auditorium of Radio France at 20:00.
Alexandre Desplat will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Composer Alexandre Desplat on Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson, and a Career Spent in Film | by Karen M. Peterson For Alexandre Desplat, composing was a natural pursuit. The two-time Oscar winner (with seven additional nominations), and Grammy winner is halfway to an EGOT. He began with short films, moving into feature work in the late 1990s.
His career really started to accelerate around 2005, and by 2006 he earned his first nomination for The Queen. He followed that the next year with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
In 2009, he worked on his first collaboration with Wes Anderson, and Fantastic Mr. Fox earned him his third Oscar nomination. That film led to Moonrise Kingdom three years later, and then his first win for The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2015, when he was double-nominated with The Imitation Game.
This year, he and Anderson teamed up again on another animated marvel, Isle of Dogs, from Fox Searchlight. I recently had the opportunity to speak with the composer about his early days, some of his career highlights, and what keeps him excited about working in cinema. Please enjoy our conversation.
Young Audience Concert (from the age of 7) with the Orchestre National de France at la Maison de la radio (Paris) - 17:00 Composer of many film scores, including those of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King's Speech, The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat has been awarded by Academy Awards and Césars. He conducts and presents this concert.
Music from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Twilight, Valerian, etc.
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Concert with Orchestre National de France at the Maison de la Radio (Paris) - Auditorium de Radio France - 20:00 Alexandre Desplat, awarded in 2018 with an Oscar for film music for The Shape of Water, is also the author of Valerian's score, which he recorded at Radio France with the Orchestre National de France. Here is the orchestra and the composer again gathered for a whole evening dedicated to a composer who also can be listened for himself, regardless of any image.
Works by Alexandre Desplat:
Valérian, suite - New Work: Solo Flute Piece (world premiere) -
Pelléas et Mélisande, Sinfonia Concertante for Flute and Orchestra -
Suite from The King's Speech, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Shape of Water, Birth, The Ghost Writer, Twilight, Harry Potter. Emmanuel Pahud flute, Solrey artistic director, Orchestre National de France, Alexandre Desplat conductor
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Concert with Orchestre National de France at the Maison de la radio (Paris) - Auditorium de Radio France - 20:00 Alexandre Desplat, awarded in 2018 with an Oscar for film music for The Shape of Water, is also the author of Valerian's score, which he recorded at Radio France with the Orchestre National de France. Here is the orchestra and the composer again gathered for a whole evening dedicated to a composer who also can be listened for himself, regardless of any image.
Works by Alexandre Desplat:
Valérian, suite - New Work: Solo Flute Piece (world premiere) -
Pelléas et Mélisande, Sinfonia Concertante for Flute and Orchestra -
Suite from The King's Speech, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Shape of Water, Birth, The Ghost Writer, Twilight, Harry Potter. Emmanuel Pahud flute, Solrey artistic director, Orchestre National de France, Alexandre Desplat conductor
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Composer Alexandre Desplat on his score for Isle of Dogs: Other than the taiko drums, we avoided Japanese influences | by Charles Bright Visually, the animated movie Isle of Dogs relies heavily on Japanese influences, but Alexandre Desplat had a very different idea when it came to film's score. "What we decided on this one was to avoid, aside from the taiko drums, there's no other folkloric instruments," he tells us in a recent chat (watch the video above). He elaborates on the power that the taikos provide, saying they "are strong enough and they have such a range of sounds, frequency and dynamic that it can do a lot." Desplat surrounded the taiko drums with instruments such as saxophones, recorders, French horns and the double bass in order to keep the rest of the score in our own contemporary world. "Even though it's set in Japan, it keeps the world of music in our own."
Video: Composer Alexandre Desplat on his score for Isle of Dogs with taiko drums | GOLD DERBY
Alexandre Desplat nominated at Hollywood Music in Media Awards: 'Best Original Score for an Animated Film', for Isle of Dogs and
'Best Original Score for a Feature Film', for The Sisters Brothers (Les Frères Sisters).
PR Newswire:The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) announced today the nominees for music in film, TV, video games, commercials and trailers. The HMMA nominations have historically been representative of the nominees of other key awards shows that occur months later. With over 500 submissions this year, HMMA nominees are chosen in specific genres of music for film, TV and video game including dramatic feature, sci-fi/ fantasy, documentary and animation. HMMA nominees represent music for visual media from around the world.
The 2018 Hollywood Music in Media Awards will be held at The Avalon Hollywood 1735 Vine Street on Wednesday, November 14, 2018.
September 14, 2018 | Release of 'The Sisters Brothers' soundtrack
Album
Label: Why Not Productions
Digital Media on ITunes | Qobuz
World Soundtrack Academy announces first wave of nominees for the 18th #WSAwards.
Alexandre Desplat is nominated for Best Film Composer of the Year
for Endangered Species, Isle of Dogs, Suburbicon, The Shape of Water and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
The 18th World Soundtrack Awards will be held on October 17 at the Capitole Ghent
'Music in the Summer Air' - Shanghai Symphony Hall - 19:30 Alexandre Desplat will be leading the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, performing 11 selected pieces from his impressively long list of film scores, as well as a composition inspired by 'Pelleas et Melisande' from Belgian playwright Mæterlinck.The program is HERE
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Video: Christopher Walken presents Alexandre Desplat with the OscarB. for Original Score for his work on The Shape of Water at the 90th OscarsB. in 2018. | OscarsB.
Video: The Shape of Water - Best Score - Oscars 2018 - Alexandre Desplat - Full Backstage Interview | Variety
Alexandre Desplat is one of the most prolific composers working in Hollywood today and he’s just days away from a potential second Oscar win.
His work on Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, which has 13 Academy Award nominations and has taken $111.14 million at the worldwide box office so far, has already won Desplat, among other awards, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. The composer is hoping that he’ll be adding an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) to the pile on March 4, 2018.
I caught up with Desplat to talk about how he’s feeling in the final run-up to the Oscars, his relationship with del Toro, his first landmark payday and why his awards are as much about inspiration as they are about recognition.
International Film Music Critics Association Award Winner 2017 : 'Composer Of The Year'
Composer Alexandre Desplat is named Composer of the Year, him having written at least four outstanding works spanning multiple genres in the past year. His work in 2017 included director Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed monster movie romance “The Shape of Water,” director Luc Besson’s epic space fantasy “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” director George Clooney’s satirical racial drama ‘”Suburbicon,” and the French-language comedy-drama “D”Après Une Histoire Vraie,” directed by Roman Polanski. IFMCA member James Southall said that The Shape of Water was “yet another from the top drawer of Desplat,” and went on to describe him as “one of the most consistently impressive film composers of the last couple of decades,” who has “managed to be so successful without having to water down his highly-distinctive musical voice at all”. IFMCA member Christian Clemmensen called Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets a “sonic marvel of extremely intelligent rendering” and an “unparalleled execution of orchestral textures” featuring “composition of demanding complexity.” Desplat received IFMCA Score of the Year honors in 2008 for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. This marks the third time Desplat has been named Composer of the Year, following his previous wins in 2017 and 2014.
Composer Alexandre Desplat is named Composer of the Year, him having written at least four outstanding works spanning multiple genres in the past year. His work in 2017 included director Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed monster movie romance “The Shape of Water,” director Luc Besson’s epic space fantasy “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” director George Clooney’s satirical racial drama ‘”Suburbicon,” and the French-language comedy-drama “D”Après Une Histoire Vraie,” directed by Roman Polanski. IFMCA member James Southall said that The Shape of Water was “yet another from the top drawer of Desplat,” and went on to describe him as “one of the most consistently impressive film composers of the last couple of decades,” who has “managed to be so successful without having to water down his highly-distinctive musical voice at all”. IFMCA member Christian Clemmensen called Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets a “sonic marvel of extremely intelligent rendering” and an “unparalleled execution of orchestral textures” featuring “composition of demanding complexity.” Desplat received IFMCA Score of the Year honors in 2008 for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. This marks the third time Desplat has been named Composer of the Year, following his previous wins in 2017 and 2014.
56-year old Frenchman Alexandre Desplat is nominated for his work on two scores – director Guillermo Del Toro’s critically acclaimed monster movie romance “The Shape of Water,” and director Luc Besson’s epic space fantasy “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” – and is one of the five nominees for Composer of the Year. IFMCA member James Southall said that “The Shape of Water” was “yet another from the top drawer of Desplat,” and went on to describe him as “one of the most consistently impressive film composers of the last couple of decades,” who has “managed to be so successful without having to water down his highly-distinctive musical voice at all”. Desplat previously received IFMCA Score of the Year honors in 2008 for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. His other major scores in 2017 include director George Clooney’s satirical racial drama ‘”Suburbicon,” and the French-language comedy-drama “D”Après Une Histoire Vraie,” directed by Roman Polanski.
