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Composer Alexandre Desplat has made seven films with George Clooney, either as producer or director — including the Oscar-winning “Argo” and the Oscar-nominated “Syriana” — but creating music for “The ...

As Guillermo del Toro’s go-to composer, Alexandre Desplat knew about the filmmaker’s desire to tell his version of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” While del Toro loved the story, Desplat admits his own ...

There have been multiple film and TV versions of “Little Women.” But composer Alexandre Desplat and writer-director Greta Gerwig had a non-traditional idea for Sony’s 2019 version: “We wanted the ...

What do several of this year’s Oscar contenders have in common? Scores by Alexandre Desplat, who composed for “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Argo,” “Rust and Bone,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” and “Rise of the ...

Although John Williams hasn't scored a Harry Potter film since Prisoner of Azkaban, I had always hoped that he would return to finish out the epic series. However, the odds of that now happening have ...

The original motion picture score race has begun, and already two-time Oscar winning composer Alexandre Desplat is a contender for his music on George Clooney‘s sci-fi Netflix movie The Midnight Sky ...

If you're a filmmaker looking for a smart score, commissioning music from French composer Alexandre Desplat is at the top of your to-do list. For millions of Muggles worldwide, Desplat's music for ...

Is Alexandre Desplat the new hardest working man in show business? The prolific French composer who has had four Oscar nominations in the last five years is just coming off his busiest year since ...

How George Clooney and Alexandre Desplat avoided space film cliches to create the sound of Netflix's 'The Midnight Sky.' By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Desplat’s score for the film, which ...

The subject matter hit home. For his first opera, Alexandre Desplat chose to adapt “Silence” — a short story by the late Yasunari Kawabata about an aged writer who can no longer communicate because of ...