Alexandre Desplat

Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 23, 1961 (64 years old)
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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.
2025
2024
2023
2022

Actor Self
Killing Me Softly with His Songs

Actor Self
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

Music
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite

Original Music Composer
A Cooler Climate

Original Music Composer
The Outfit

Thanks
Argentina 1985

Original Music Composer
The Lost King

Original Music Composer
Final Cut

Original Music Composer
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017

Actor Self
Score: A Film Music Documentary

Original Music Composer
Endangered Species

Original Music Composer
Suburbicon

Original Music Composer
Based on a True Story

Original Music Composer
The Shape of Water

Original Music Composer
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Original Music Composer
12 Days

Music
Wes Anderson: From Above
2016

Music
Les habitants

Original Music Composer
The Secret Life of Pets

Original Music Composer
Heal the Living

Original Music Composer
American Pastoral

Original Music Composer
The Light Between Oceans

Original Music Composer
Alone in Berlin

Orchestrator
American Pastoral

Conductor
American Pastoral

Original Music Composer
7:19

Original Music Composer
The Odyssey

Original Music Composer
Florence Foster Jenkins
2015
2014
2013
2012

Original Music Composer
Argo

Original Music Composer
Moonrise Kingdom

Original Music Composer
My Way

Original Music Composer
Rust and Bone

Original Music Composer
Zero Dark Thirty

Original Music Composer
Renoir

Original Music Composer
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Original Music Composer
Reality

Original Music Composer
A Therapy

Original Music Composer
Rise of the Guardians

Orchestrator
Rise of the Guardians
2011
Actor Self
Exploring 'The Tree of Life'

Original Music Composer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Original Music Composer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Main Title Theme Composer
My Week with Marilyn

Original Music Composer
Largo Winch II

Original Music Composer
The Well Digger's Daughter

Original Music Composer
Carnage

Original Music Composer
The Tree of Life

Original Music Composer
A Better Life

Original Music Composer
The Ides of March
2010
2009

Actor Self
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

Original Music Composer
Coco Before Chanel

Original Music Composer
Army of Crime

Original Music Composer
A Prophet

Original Music Composer
Julie & Julia

Original Music Composer
The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Original Music Composer
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

Original Music Composer
Fantastic Mr. Fox

Original Music Composer
Chéri

Orchestrator
Fantastic Mr. Fox