Frankenstein composer Alexandre Desplat knows one of his scores is working when it makes Guillermo del Toro cry. "He's very sensitive to music. Guillermo loves music," says Desplat, who won his second ...

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“Cinema was always a passion for me,” says composer Alexandre Desplat. “I was very lucky to have a friend who had directed a short movie and he asked me if I could write the score… and it became my ...

The French scorer is about to undergo a Hollywood composer’s rite of passage, which some would say is overdue, conducting his first full night of music at the Hollywood Bowl this coming Tuesday night.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As a teenage cineaste and budding musician Alexandre Desplat had a habit of devouring as many movies as he could in a week around his regimen of schoolwork and flute practice.

As a boy, Alexandre Desplat gravitated toward the movie soundtracks in his parents’ record collection, never dreaming that one day making film music would become his career. “If I really go very, very ...

While one can quibble about those two months — the soundtrack awards are like the Grammys and work on a weird calendar year — Desplat did compose the music to Terrence Malick‘s “Tree of Life” this ...

What do Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, Rise of the Guardians and Rust and Bone have in common? Composer Alexandre Desplat. He wrote the music for these and a few more films this year. He ...

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 ...