Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat

  • Birthday: 1961-08-23
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Also know as: Alexandre Desplats

Biography

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has won two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water, and received nine additional Academy Award nominations, ten César nominations (winning three), ten BAFTA nominations (winning three), eleven Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two), and ten Grammy nominations (winning two). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Queen, The Golden Compass, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 & Part 2, The King's Speech, The Danish Girl, Moonrise Kingdom, Argo, Rise of the Guardians, Zero Dark Thirty, Godzilla, The Imitation Game, Unbroken, Little Women, The Secret Life of Pets, and Isle of Dogs.

Filmography

Production

Argentina, 1985

2022

As Thanks

Syriana

2005

As Original Music Composer

The Queen

2006

As Original Music Composer

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005

As Original Music Composer

Afterwards

2008

As Original Music Composer

Hostage

2005

As Original Music Composer

The Revengers' Comedies

1998

As Original Music Composer

The Golden Compass

2007

As Original Music Composer

Girl with a Pearl Earring

2003

As Original Music Composer

Birth

2004

As Original Music Composer

Army of Crime

2009

As Original Music Composer

A Prophet

2009

As Original Music Composer

The Upside of Anger

2005

As Original Music Composer

Read My Lips

2001

As Original Music Composer

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

2007

As Original Music Composer

Julie & Julia

2009

As Original Music Composer

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

As Original Music Composer

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011

As Original Music Composer

Casanova

2005

As Original Music Composer

Firewall

2006

As Original Music Composer

The Painted Veil

2006

As Original Music Composer

The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

2008

As Original Music Composer

The Alibi

2006

As Original Music Composer

The King's Speech

2010

As Original Music Composer

See How They Fall

1994

As Original Music Composer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011

As Original Music Composer

The Corsican File

2004

As Original Music Composer

A Self-Made Hero

1996

As Original Music Composer

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

2009

As Original Music Composer

Argo

2012

As Original Music Composer

Moonrise Kingdom

2012

As Original Music Composer

Largo Winch II

2011

As Original Music Composer

My Way

2012

As Original Music Composer

Rust and Bone

2012

As Original Music Composer

Zero Dark Thirty

2012

As Original Music Composer

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

As Original Music Composer

The Monuments Men

2014

As Original Music Composer

Renoir

2012

As Original Music Composer

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

2012

As Original Music Composer

Family Express

1991

As Original Music Composer

A Sight for Sore Eyes

2003

As Original Music Composer

Philomena

2013

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla

2014

As Original Music Composer

Venus in Fur

2013

As Original Music Composer

The Imitation Game

2014

As Original Music Composer

Every Thing Will Be Fine

2015

As Original Music Composer

Intimate Enemies

2007

As Original Music Composer

Tale of Tales

2015

As Original Music Composer

Zulu

2013

As Music

Carnage

2011

As Original Music Composer

Unbroken

2014

As Music

Suite Française

2015

As Original Music Composer

Suffragette

2015

As Original Music Composer

The Tree of Life

2011

As Original Music Composer

Tamara Drewe

2010

As Original Music Composer

Amazon

2000

As Music

The Danish Girl

2015

As Original Music Composer

Eager Bodies

2003

As Original Music Composer

A Better Life

2011

As Original Music Composer

7:19

2016

As Music

Heal the Living

2016

As Original Music Composer

American Pastoral

2016

As Original Music Composer

The Light Between Oceans

2016

As Original Music Composer

Endangered Species

2017

As Original Music Composer

Innocent Lies

1995

As Music

Suburbicon

2017

As Original Music Composer

Based on a True Story

2017

As Original Music Composer

The Ghost Writer

2010

As Original Music Composer

A Therapy

2012

As Original Music Composer

The Odyssey

2016

As Music

Another Woman

2002

As Music

Chéri

2009

As Original Music Composer

Alone in Berlin

2016

As Music

American Pastoral

2016

As Conductor

American Pastoral

2016

As Orchestrator

The Shape of Water

2017

As Music

12 Days

2017

As Original Music Composer

The Luzhin Defence

2000

As Music

Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009

As Music

Isle of Dogs

2018

As Original Music Composer

Death in Therapy

1996

As Original Music Composer

Rise of the Guardians

2012

As Orchestrator

Rise of the Guardians

2012

As Original Music Composer

Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009

As Orchestrator

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

As Original Music Composer

The Hour of the Pig

1993

As Original Music Composer

The Sisters Brothers

2018

As Original Music Composer

Operation Finale

2018

As Music

Firewall

2006

As Orchestrator

Les Milles

1995

As Music

Atilano, presidente

1998

As Original Music Composer

The Singer

2006

As Original Music Composer

The Revengers' Comedies

1998

As Orchestrator

Little Women

2019

As Original Music Composer

Kursk

2018

As Original Music Composer

Hostage

2005

As Conductor

Stormy Weather

2003

As Original Music Composer

The Secret Life of Pets 2

2019

As Original Music Composer

The Valet

2006

As Music

Adults in the Room

2019

As Original Music Composer

The Ides of March

2011

As Original Music Composer

An Officer and a Spy

2019

As Original Music Composer

The French Dispatch

2021

As Original Music Composer

Half a Chance

1998

As Music

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016

As Original Music Composer

Transfixed

2001

As Music

Transfixed

2001

As Orchestrator

Transfixed

2001

As Conductor

I Didn't Do It!

1999

As Music

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2022

As Original Music Composer

Monsieur Naphtali

1999

As Music

Those Were the Days

1995

As Music

A Monkey's Tale

1999

As Original Music Composer

Coco Before Chanel

2009

As Original Music Composer

Eiffel

2021

As Original Music Composer

Fanny

2013

As Original Music Composer

My Week with Marilyn

2011

As Main Title Theme Composer

The Well Digger's Daughter

2011

As Original Music Composer

Les habitants

2016

As Music

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

2009

As Original Music Composer

The Special Relationship

2010

As Conductor

Asteroid City

2023

As Original Music Composer

The Outfit

2022

As Original Music Composer

Final Cut

2022

As Music

Lust, Caution

2007

As Original Music Composer

Malick: Fire & Water

2013

As Music

The Lost King

2022

As Music

The Palace

2023

As Music

The Nest

2002

As Original Music Composer

Tout ce qui brille

1996

As Original Music Composer

Father & Soldier

2023

As Music

Love, etc.

1996

As Original Music Composer

Empty Days

2000

As Original Music Composer

A Hell of a Day

2001

As Original Music Composer

Lee

2024

As Original Music Composer

Little Women

2019

As Conductor

A Cooler Climate

2022

As Original Music Composer

The Secret Life of Pets

2016

As Original Music Composer

Sexes faibles!

1992

As Music

Toni

1999

As Original Music Composer

Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...

2007

As Original Music Composer

Him

2021

As Original Music Composer

Reality

2012

As Music

Look Within

2019

As Original Music Composer

Michou d'Auber

2007

As Original Music Composer

The Pact of Silence

2003

As Original Music Composer

Fatum

0000

As Music

The Boys in the Boat

2023

As Music

The Midnight Sky

2020

As Music

Dynamic Vienne

1994

As Original Music Composer

Frankenstein

0000

As Original Music Composer

Frankenstein

0000

As Conductor

NYAD

2023

As Original Music Composer

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