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GOLDEN GLOBES 2007 France

Victory for composer Desplat

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After a Berlin Bear and French Cesar, French composer Alexandre Desplat added a third title to his laurels yesterday evening, winning the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Original Music for John Curran’s US title The Painted Veil.

The famous Californian ceremony, whose awards are presented by foreign critics based in Hollywood, also smiled indirectly on the 45 year-old composer and on French cinema, with two Golden Globes for Stephen FrearsThe Queen [+see also:
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(a 20% French co-production between Pathé and France 3 Cinéma), which Desplat also scored.

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Since his debut feature score in 1985 (Ki lo sa? by Robert Guédiguian), Desplat has been 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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(both by Jacques Audiard) – and his work on Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring [+see also:
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won him nominations at the 2004 Golden Globes, BAFTA and European Film Awards.

His long-standing association with Audiard was recognised with The Beat That My Heart Skipped [+see also:
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, which won the composer a Silver Bear at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival and a Cesar in 2006. There was a tribute made to the collaboration between the composer and director at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, 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 by) and Europe (Francis Veber’s The Valet [+see also:
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, Xavier Giannoli’s The Singer [+see also:
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).

The next French feature in which the composer will put his talents on show will be Florent Emilio Siri’s Ennemi Intime [+see also:
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, out on September 26 (see news).

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(Translated from French)

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