15/12/2006

French composer Alexandre Desplat was nominated yesterday in the Best Original Music category for the 64th Golden Globes.

Selected for his work on US film The Painted Veil by John Curran, Desplat also scored UK director Stephen Frears’ The Queen [+see also:
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interview: Andy Harries
interview: Stephen Frears
film profile] (a 20% co-production by France’s Pathé and France 3 Cinéma), which is nominated in several categories at the prestigious event, whose awards will be presented on January 15 by foreign critics working in Hollywood.

Since his first feature film score in 1985 (Ki lo sa? by Robert Guédiguian), Desplat has had a swift rise to fame. Twice nominated for the Cesars – in 1997 for A Self-Made Hero and in 2002 for Read My Lips [+see also:
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trailer
film profile].

His long-standing association with Jacques Audiard was recognised with The Beat That My Heart Skipped [+see also:
trailer
film profile], which won the French composer a Silver Bear at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival and a Cesar in 2006., There was a tribute to the collaboration between the two men at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, at which Desplat held a Music Masterclass.

The career of the 45 year-old composer – who has composed music for over a hundred cinema and television films – has gone into high-speed in recent years in both the US (2006 Golden Globes nomination for the score of Syriana and Lasse Hallström’s Casanova) and in Europe (Francis Veber’s The Valet [+see also:
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film profile]).

The next French feature in which the composer will put his talents on show will be Florent Emilio Siri’s Ennemi Intime, currently in post-production (see news).

(Translated from French)