Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat's sophisticated orchestral film scores are informed by influences spanning Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Georges Delerue, Bernard Herrmann, and António Carlos Jobim, as well as jazz and world music. A diverse composer who works in a variety of film genres, he emerged in the mid-'80s, developing an extensive résumé in his native France before coming to the attention of Hollywood. That happened with his at-once gorgeous and fanciful score for the English-language film The Girl with the Pearl Earring in 2003. He earned his first of many Academy Award nomination...