OM DENNE EPISODE
Two-time Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is one of the most respected film composers in the world today. Desplat first captivated American audiences with his score for The Girl With The Pearl Earring and Birth. He has since scored a range of acclaimed films, twelve 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, and 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. Alexandre joined forces again with director Guillermo del Toro for the film Frankenstein. Next to that he wrote recently the music for Jurassic World: Rebirth, The Phoenician Scheme and many more.
In this episode of Composer Talk Alexandre Desplat talks about working with Guillermo del Toro on the film Frankstein. How it is to be nominated again for an Oscar. We zoom in on his score for Jurassic World: Rebirth and The Phoenician Scheme.
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