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Jan 3, 2019 · Picture: PA Images. Alexandre Desplat is married to violinist Dominique Lemonnier. She has played on a number of Desplat's film soundtracks including The Shape of Water, The Imitation Game and Godzilla. Together they have two daughters, Antonia and Ninon Desplat.
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1. A master of movie music. Born in 1961, Desplat dreamed of...
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Alexandre Desplat. Composer: The King's Speech. Composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat, Oscar winner and seven-time Academy Award nominated, for his prolific filmography and his collaborations with Stephen Frears, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Jacques Audiard, Wes Anderson, Roman Polanski, George Clooney or Matteo Garrone is one of the most worthy heirs of the French masters of ...
- August 23, 1961
2889 x 4340 px (9.63 x 14.47 in) - 300 dpi - 5 MB. Alexandre Desplat , wife Dominique Lemonnier and daughter Antonia Desplat attend the EE British Academy Film Awards held at Royal Albert Hall on February 18, 2018 in London, England. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images.
- Deep Classical Roots
- A Prolific Work Rate
- A Unique Stamp
- Nothing He Can’T Turn His Hand to
Born in Paris, on August 23, 1961, Desplat has deep classical roots: the romantic symphonists and Ravel and Debussy are heroes, yet he also has a deep knowledge of world music, Brazilian and African music, and jazz. Trained on piano and trumpet, with flute his main instrument, his signature style lies in the string arrangements. The violinist Domin...
Desplat’s work rate is remarkably prolific: 2008 alone produced memorable scores for Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution and David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. His atmospheric and baroque score to Roman Polanski’s political thriller The Ghost Writer(2010) won him a César and a second European Film Award. Further soundtracks to Twilight: New M...
With the start of a new decade, the big, important work flooded in. Across 2010 and 2011, Desplat scored both parts of David Yates’ Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, the second of which became the third most successful movie of all time. Never content to rest on his laurels, however, Alexandre Desplat showed his eclecticism again across nine va...
From here on out, there seemed to be nothing Alexandre Desplat couldn’t turn his hand to. The biographical comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), a glorious romp starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, saw him work with Frears again on a movie that is all about fulfilling a dream. In this instance, Desplat really became a part of the ensemble a...
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470936961EM104_86th_Annual_. Composer Alexandre Desplat , his wife Solre Desplat and daughter Ninon Desplat attend the Oscars held at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images.
Feb 21, 2019 · She’s also married to Desplat. Lemonnier had a brain aneurysm in 2010, and during surgery the oxygen flow to her left side was temporarily cut off. When she woke up, her left arm was paralyzed....
Sep 18, 2018 · It’s been a great year for Alexandre Desplat, ... (played by his wife and concert master, Dominique Lemonnier). “I wanted it to be rooted in the mid-20th century of American music, but from ...
