This is a list of awards and nominations received by Alexandre Desplat , the French film composer.
It includes two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
The Academy Awards are a set of awards given annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. The awards, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, were first held in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. [1] Desplat has received two awards from eleven nominations.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | The Queen | Best Original Score | Nominated | [2] |
| 2009 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | The King's Speech | Nominated | ||
| 2013 | Argo | Nominated | ||
| 2014 | Philomena | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | ||
| The Imitation Game | Nominated | |||
| 2018 | The Shape of Water | Won | ||
| 2019 | Isle of Dogs | Nominated | ||
| 2020 | Little Women | Nominated | ||
The BAFTA Award is an annual award show presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The awards were founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others. [3] Desplat has received three awards from eleven nominations.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Best Film Music | Nominated | |
| 2006 | The Queen | Nominated | ||
| 2009 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | The King's Speech | Won | ||
| 2013 | Argo | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | ||
| 2018 | The Shape of Water | Won | ||
| 2019 | Isle of Dogs | Nominated | ||
| 2020 | Little Women | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | The French Dispatch | Nominated | ||
| 2023 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Nominated |
The César Awards are France's national film awards. With three awards out of ten nominations, Desplat is both the most nominated and most rewarded composer.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Un héros très discret | Best Music Written for a Film | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Sur mes lèvres | Nominated | ||
| 2006 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Won | ||
| 2008 | L'Ennemi intime | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | A Prophet | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | The Ghost Writer | Won | ||
| 2013 | Rust and Bone | Won | ||
| 2014 | Venus in Fur | Nominated | ||
| 2019 | The Sisters Brothers | Nominated | ||
| 2020 | An Officer and a Spy | Nominated |
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. [4] Desplat has received two awards from twelve nominations.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Best Original Score – Motion Picture | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Syriana | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | The Painted Veil | Won | ||
| 2009 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | The King's Speech | Nominated | ||
| 2013 | Argo | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | The Imitation Game | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | The Danish Girl | Nominated | ||
| 2018 | The Shape of Water | Won | ||
| 2019 | Isle of Dogs | Nominated | ||
| 2020 | Little Women | Nominated | ||
| 2021 | The Midnight Sky | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | The French Dispatch | Nominated | ||
| 2023 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Nominated | ||
| Best Original Song | Nominated |
The Grammy Awards are presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. Desplat has received ten nominations and won two awards.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Nominated | |
| 2011 | The King's Speech | Won | ||
| 2012 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Nominated | ||
| 2013 | Argo | Nominated | ||
| Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated | |||
| 2015 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | ||
| 2016 | The Imitation Game | Nominated | ||
| 2019 | The Shape of Water | Nominated | ||
| "The Shape of Water" | Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella | Nominated | ||
| Best Instrumental Composition | Nominated | |||
| 2021 | "Plumfield" | Nominated |
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40th Annie Awards | Rise of the Guardians | Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production | Nominated |
| 44th Annie Awards | The Secret Life of Pets | Best Music in an Animated Feature Production | Nominated |
| 44th Annie Awards | Trollhunters | Best Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production | Nominated |
| 50th Annie Awards | Pinocchio | Best Music in an Animated Feature Production | Won |
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Sisters Brothers | Best Music | Nominated |
| 2020 | Adults in the Room | Best Music | Won |
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Best Score | Nominated |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Argo | Won | |
| 2013 | Philomena | Nominated | |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Nominated | |
| 2015 | The Danish Girl | Nominated | |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Nominated | |
| 2018 | The Sisters Brothers | Nominated | |
| 2020 | The Midnight Sky | Won | |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Nominated |
James Hannigan is a BAFTA Award winning composer and producer. His credits include entries in the Harry Potter, Command & Conquer, Dead Space, RuneScape, Evil Genius,EA Sports and Theme Park video game series, among numerous others. He has also scored full-cast adaptations of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, the Audie Award winning Alien dramas (2016–2019), BBC Radio 4's adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens and Neverwhere.
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades throughout his career spanning over four decades, including, two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three César 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.
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The WS Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the Year is one of the three main prizes given by the World Soundtrack Academy to honour the best movie soundtracks.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is a 2010 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. The film is the first of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and the seventh instalment in the Harry Potter film series.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is a motion picture soundtrack to the 2011 film of the same name composed and conducted by Alexandre Desplat. The soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award, Satellite Award, Houston Film Critics Society Award, Denver Film Critics Society Award, and an IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Fantasy Film. The soundtrack won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Score.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is a 2011 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. The film is the second of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and the eighth and final instalment in the Harry Potter film series. The story concludes Harry Potter's quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes in order to stop him once and for all.
Little Women: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the score album composed by Alexandre Desplat for the 2019 American film Little Women. A seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott, the film is directed by Greta Gerwig, and stars an ensemble cast consisting of Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper. The original score album was released by Sony Music on December 13, 2019.
Moonrise Kingdom (Original Score) is the accompanying score album for the identically named 2012 coming-of-age comedy-drama film released on June 19, 2012 through ABKCO Records. The score album featured six tracks, including five themes from the soundtrack composed by Alexandre Desplat and one theme by Mark Mothersbaugh, who scored for Anderson's early films. Irrespective of being released along with the soundtrack on May 2012, the score album was separately released, in order to be shortlisted for nominations at award ceremonies, including Academy Awards, which was rejected due to the inspiration of classical music from Benjamin Britten's compositions.
The King's Speech (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the Academy Award-winning film The King's Speech, released by Decca Records on 22 November 2010. Alexandre Desplat composed the film's original music. The score consisted of minimalistic sounds created with piano and strings, and a limited orchestra with oboe and harp being used. It was recorded using old microphones from the EMI archives, used by the royal family, in order to create a vintage and dated sound. The minimalistic use of the music is used to describe Colin Firth's character, the future King George VI.
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Music from the Motion Picture) is the soundtrack album to the 2008 film of the same name, released by Concord Music Group on December 16, 2008. It was released in physical forms as a two-disc album, with one disc containing the film's original score composed by Alexandre Desplat, and the other consists few classical songs as well as dialogues featured in the film. The David Fincher-directed film, written by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and stars Brad Pitt as the titular character, alongside Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Mahershala Ali, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, and Tilda Swinton.
Unbroken (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2014 film of the same name directed by Angelina Jolie. The album featured original score composed by Alexandre Desplat, with an original song "Miracles" by the British rock band Coldplay was featured in the album as well as the film's end credits. It was released as a single on December 15, 2014, the same day as the soundtrack, distributed by Parlophone and Atlantic Records.