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.

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Jurassic World Rebirth

(2025) Conductor

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The Phoenician Scheme

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The Regime

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

(2011) Original Music Composer

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

(2010) Original Music Composer

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Elyas

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The Imitation Game

(2014) Original Music Composer

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Marseille

(2016) Music

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2025	Himself	Alexandre Desplat – Le Concert symphonique au cinéma 2025-09-28 Movie
2022	Self	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema 2022-12-09 Movie
	Self	Killing Me Softly with His Songs 2022-11-10 Movie
2021	Self - Interviewee	Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur 2021-05-16 Movie
2020	Self	In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat 2020-08-13 Movie
	Self	In The Tracks Of - Special Edition 2020-03-27 Movie
2018	Self	Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat 2018-12-06 Movie
2017	Self	Score: A Film Music Documentary 2017-03-16 Movie
2014	Émile	The Monuments Men 2014-01-24 Movie
2011	Self	Exploring 'The Tree of Life' 2011-10-11 Movie
	Self	Hollywood in Vienna 2011-09-25 TV Show
2009	Self	The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button 2009-05-05 Movie
1951	Self	German Film Award 1951-06-06 TV Show
1944	Self - Nominee	Golden Globe Awards 1944-01-20 TV Show
	Self - film music composer	Nino Movie
	N/A	Montage: Great Film Composers and The Piano Movie
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Crew

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2025	Compositor	The Incredible Shrinking Man 2025-10-22 Movie
2022	Thanks	Argentina 1985 2022-09-29 Movie
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Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2025	Original Music Composer	Frankenstein 2025-10-17 Movie
	Conductor	Frankenstein 2025-10-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Eagles of the Republic 2025-09-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Jurassic World Rebirth 2025-07-01 Movie
	Conductor	Jurassic World Rebirth 2025-07-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Phoenician Scheme 2025-05-23 Movie
2024	Original Music Composer	Unstoppable 2024-12-06 Movie
	Orchestrator	Unstoppable 2024-12-06 Movie
	Music	The Most Precious of Cargoes 2024-11-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Most Precious of Cargoes 2024-11-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Piano Lesson 2024-11-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lee 2024-09-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Elyas 2024-07-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Regime 2024-03-03 TV Show
2023	Original Music Composer	The Boys in the Boat 2023-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	NYAD 2023-10-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Palace 2023-09-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Asteroid City 2023-06-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Father & Soldier 2023-01-04 Movie
2022	Original Music Composer	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022-11-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Cooler Climate 2022-10-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lost King 2022-10-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Final Cut 2022-05-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Outfit 2022-02-25 Movie
	Music	Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite 2022-02-06 Movie
2021	Original Music Composer	Him 2021-10-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The French Dispatch 2021-10-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Eiffel 2021-10-07 Movie
2020	Original Music Composer	The Midnight Sky 2020-12-10 Movie
2019	Conductor	Little Women 2019-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Little Women 2019-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Adults in the Room 2019-10-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	An Officer and a Spy 2019-09-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Secret Life of Pets 2 2019-05-24 Movie
2018	Conductor	Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat 2018-12-06 Movie
	Music	Le cinéma d'Alexandre Desplat 2018-12-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kursk 2018-11-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Sisters Brothers 2018-09-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Operation Finale 2018-08-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Isle of Dogs 2018-03-23 Movie
2017	Original Music Composer	The Shape of Water 2017-12-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	12 Days 2017-11-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Based on a True Story 2017-11-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Suburbicon 2017-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Endangered Species 2017-09-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 2017-07-19 Movie
	Music	Wes Anderson: From Above 2017-06-30 Movie
2016	Original Music Composer	Heal the Living 2016-11-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	American Pastoral 2016-10-20 Movie
	Conductor	American Pastoral 2016-10-20 Movie
	Orchestrator	American Pastoral 2016-10-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Odyssey 2016-10-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	7:19 2016-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Light Between Oceans 2016-09-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Secret Life of Pets 2016-06-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Florence Foster Jenkins 2016-05-06 Movie
	Music	Marseille 2016-05-05 TV Show
	Music	Les Habitants 2016-04-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Alone in Berlin 2016-02-15 Movie
2015	Original Music Composer	The Danish Girl 2015-11-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad 2015-11-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Suffragette 2015-10-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tale of Tales 2015-05-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Every Thing Will Be Fine 2015-04-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Suite Française 2015-03-12 Movie
2014	Original Music Composer	Unbroken 2014-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Imitation Game 2014-11-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Godzilla 2014-05-14 Movie
	Music	Wes Anderson: Centered 2014-03-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014-02-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Monuments Men 2014-01-24 Movie
2013	Original Music Composer	Zulu 2013-12-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Philomena 2013-11-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fanny 2013-07-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Marius 2013-07-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Venus in Fur 2013-05-28 Movie
	Music	Malick: Fire & Water 2013-04-15 Movie
2012	Original Music Composer	Zero Dark Thirty 2012-12-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rise of the Guardians 2012-11-21 Movie
	Orchestrator	Rise of the Guardians 2012-11-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Argo 2012-10-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir 2012-10-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Renoir 2012-07-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Therapy 2012-05-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rust and Bone 2012-05-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Moonrise Kingdom 2012-05-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Reality 2012-05-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	My Way 2012-03-14 Movie
2011	Original Music Composer	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 2011-12-25 Movie
	Main Title Theme Composer	My Week with Marilyn 2011-11-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Ides of March 2011-10-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Carnage 2011-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011-07-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Better Life 2011-06-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Tree of Life 2011-05-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Well Digger's Daughter 2011-04-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Largo Winch II 2011-02-16 Movie
2010	Original Music Composer	The King's Speech 2010-11-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010-11-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tamara Drewe 2010-07-14 Movie
	Conductor	The Special Relationship 2010-05-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Special Relationship 2010-05-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Ghost Writer 2010-02-12 Movie
2009	Original Music Composer	The Twilight Saga: New Moon 2009-11-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009-10-14 Movie
	Orchestrator	Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009-10-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Army of Crime 2009-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Prophet 2009-08-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Julie & Julia 2009-08-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button 2009-05-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Coco Before Chanel 2009-04-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Chéri 2009-04-08 Movie
2008	Original Music Composer	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch 2008-12-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Afterwards 2008-10-01 Movie
2007	Original Music Composer	The Golden Compass 2007-12-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium 2007-11-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Intimate Enemies 2007-10-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lust, Caution 2007-09-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau... 2007-04-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Michou d'Auber 2007-02-28 Movie
2006	Original Music Composer	The Painted Veil 2006-12-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Queen 2006-09-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Singer 2006-09-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Valet 2006-03-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Firewall 2006-02-08 Movie
	Orchestrator	Firewall 2006-02-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Alibi 2006-01-12 Movie
2005	Original Music Composer	Casanova 2005-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Syriana 2005-11-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Only the Night 2005-08-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005-03-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Upside of Anger 2005-03-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hostage 2005-03-10 Movie
	Conductor	Hostage 2005-03-10 Movie
2004	Original Music Composer	Birth 2004-10-29 Movie
	Conductor	Birth 2004-10-29 Movie
	Orchestrator	Birth 2004-10-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Corsican File 2004-10-06 Movie
2003	Original Music Composer	Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003-12-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Sight for Sore Eyes 2003-09-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Stormy Weather 2003-09-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tristan 2003-04-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Eager Bodies 2003-04-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Pact of Silence 2003-03-05 Movie
2002	Music	Another Woman 2002-05-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Nest 2002-03-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Madame Sans-Gêne 2002-02-11 Movie
2001	Original Music Composer	A Hell of a Day 2001-10-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Read My Lips 2001-10-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Transfixed 2001-08-08 Movie
	Conductor	Transfixed 2001-08-08 Movie
	Orchestrator	Transfixed 2001-08-08 Movie
	Music	Doors of Glory 2001-06-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Doors of Glory 2001-06-13 Movie
2000	Original Music Composer	The Luzhin Defence 2000-08-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Amazon 2000-07-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Empty Days 2000-02-21 Movie
1999	Music	Monsieur Naphtali 1999-08-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Monkey's Tale 1999-06-02 Movie
	Music	I Didn't Do It! 1999-05-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Toni 1999-01-20 Movie
1998	Original Music Composer	Atilano, presidente 1998-09-24 Movie
	Music	Restons groupés 1998-09-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Revengers' Comedies 1998-06-09 Movie
	Orchestrator	The Revengers' Comedies 1998-06-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Half a Chance 1998-03-25 Movie
1997	Music	La Femme du cosmonaute 1997-12-17 Movie
	Music	Sous les pieds des femmes 1997-10-08 Movie
1996	Original Music Composer	Love, etc. 1996-11-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Death in Therapy 1996-10-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tout ce qui brille 1996-10-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Self-Made Hero 1996-05-15 Movie
1995	Music	Those Were the Days 1995-09-13 Movie
	Music	Les Milles 1995-08-22 Movie
	Music	Innocent Lies 1995-06-30 Movie
	Music	Marie-Louise ou la permission 1995-06-21 Movie
1994	Original Music Composer	See How They Fall 1994-08-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dynamic Vienne 1994-01-01 Movie
1993	Original Music Composer	The Hour of the Pig 1993-09-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Le Tronc 1993-09-08 Movie
1992	Music	Sexes faibles ! 1992-10-14 Movie
1991	Original Music Composer	Family Express 1991-08-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lapse of Memory 1991-06-02 Movie
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