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Alexandre Desplat More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

Trivia

Started playing piano at the age of 5.

His Greek mother and French father met in the US while attending university. After the marriage, they moved to France where Desplat was born.

One of 115 peopled invited to join AMPAS in 2007.

Personal Quotes

Over the past 15 years, I've been able to build a voice, something that looks like me. I don't know if it's a "new" voice as some say, it's not within my ability to say - but I write what I like! So it's "me". I come from France, and I've worked here, and in England, and Spain, and I'm not going to dump the past 15 years of my life when I come to Hollywood. I will still improve by doing a European movie once in a while, because there's a different approach to film scoring. Even a film with a small budget - I don't care, as long as I can be creative. And being creative is the way to move forward.

Funnily enough, almost at the same time that the Hollywood career started to ascend, I received two major awards for Best Score in Europe: the Silver Bear in Berlin, and the Cesar in France. And suddenly it made sense that the stars were aligned at the same time here and there. I still have not gotten an award here, so I still have a long way to go! I think Maurice Jarre had three, and Michele Legrand had two or three. Yared had one. So, I have to work a little bit.

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