Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 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 ...
Darkness was bound to find its way into Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. The tale of the long-nosed wooden puppet who wants to become a boy is one for all times. But in an era when truth is once again ...
An enormous shadow hovers over the characters in “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” and it’s the same one that has been dogging composer Alexandre Desplat ever since he was a teenager in Paris. That shadow?
The Academy Award-nominated composer shares how he's able to come up with his different scores and how he chose his music for Stephen Frears' drama. "The music does not have to push into the comedy," ...
“Wes Anderson likes music to be part of the narrative of his films,” says composer Alexandre Desplat. As the musician who has worked with Wes Anderson consistently since the film Fantastic Mr. Fox ...
The original motion picture score race has begun, and already two-time Oscar winning composer Alexandre Desplat is a contender for his music on George Clooney‘s sci-fi Netflix movie The Midnight Sky ...
And the Oscar for Most Prolific Composer of 2009 goes to: Alexandre Desplat. The Paris-born composer (“The Queen,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) has written music for nine films over the past ...
On Sunday, Alexandre Desplat won a BAFTA Award and a Grammy, both for “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Next up: the Feb. 22 Oscars, where he is nominated in the musical score category for “Budapest Hotel” ...
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 ...
Guillermo del Toro's new film, Pinocchio, hovers between joy and sadness. So does the music by French composer Alexandre Desplat — performed,... Alexandre Desplat scores 'joyous melancholy' in ...