Known For
Sound
Born
Aug 23, 1961
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
208 titles
Alexandre Desplat
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Social Reckoning
Original Music Composer
The Hills of Wrath
Music
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
Self - Composer
The Shrinking Man
Original Music Composer
Frankenstein
Original Music Composer
Alexandre Desplat From Paris to Hollywood
Himself
Eagles of the Republic
Original Music Composer
Jurassic World Rebirth
Original Music Composer
The Phoenician Scheme
Original Music Composer
Unstoppable
Original Music Composer
The Most Precious of Cargoes
Music
The Piano Lesson
Original Music Composer
Lee
Original Music Composer
Elyas
Original Music Composer
The Regime
Original Music Composer
The Boys in the Boat
Original Music Composer
NYAD
Original Music Composer
The Palace
Original Music Composer
Asteroid City
Original Music Composer
Father & Soldier
Original Music Composer
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Self
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
Self
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Original Music Composer
The Lost King
Original Music Composer
A Cooler Climate
Original Music Composer
Argentina 1985
Thanks
Final Cut
Original Music Composer
The Outfit
Original Music Composer
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Music
Him
Original Music Composer
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Original Music Composer
Eiffel
Original Music Composer
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
Self - Interviewee
The Midnight Sky
Original Music Composer
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
Self
Little Women
Conductor
Adults in the Room
Original Music Composer
An Officer and a Spy
Original Music Composer
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Original Music Composer
Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat
Self
Kursk
Original Music Composer
The Sisters Brothers
Original Music Composer
Operation Finale
Original Music Composer
Isle of Dogs
Original Music Composer
The Shape of Water
Original Music Composer
12 Days
Original Music Composer
Based on a True Story
Original Music Composer
Suburbicon
Original Music Composer
Endangered Species
Original Music Composer