Alexandre Desplat is noted for his collaborations with some of the world’s top filmmakers: Greta Gerwig, Wes Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, George Clooney, Kathryn Bigelow, Stephen Daldry, David Fincher, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Ang Lee, Terrence Malick, and Angelina Jolie. Desplat first captivated American ears with The Girl With The Pearl Earring and Birth. The two-time Oscar and Golden Globe winner has since scored a range of acclaimed films, eleven of which have been Oscar-nominated: The Queen, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Imitation Game, The King’s Speech, Argo, Philomena, The Painted Veil for which he received a Golden Globe, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox, Isle of Dogs, and The Grand Budapest Hotel which won the 2015 Oscar for Best Original Score. Desplat’s thematic score to Guillermo Del Toro’s film, The Shape of Water won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Original Score and garnered a 2018 Golden Globe, a BAFTA award, and a 2019 Grammy nomination. Desplat scored Greta Gerwig’s Little Women which was nominated for a 2020 Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Original Score, George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky, which received a 2021 Golden Globe nomination for Best Score, and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which earned a 2022 Golden Globe nomination for Best Score. Desplat provided both Original Score and all Original Songs for the Oscar-winning Netflix stop-motion animated musical Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Recently released is Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, and new for Desplat in 2023 are Ellen Kuras’ Lee starring Alexander Skarsgard and Kate Winslet, and Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin’s Netflix sports drama NYAD starring Jodie Foster and Annette Bening.

SCL Screening + Q&A: NYAD