Alexandre Desplat

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. Enjoy listening to this new Composer Talk!

Two-time Academy Award®-winning composer Alexandre Desplat joins guest host Jon Burlingame to discuss his latest score for “Frankenstein,” directed by Guillermo del Toro. This long-awaited project — their third collaboration — had been a topic of conversation between the two for years, and Desplat was eager to finally help del Toro bring it to life. “Knowing his passion for this character, and his sensitivity, I knew it would be epic, romantic, lyrical, emotional, and that it would be beautiful, visually… There’s this epic, fearless, operatic way of telling a story that Guillermo del Toro can handle so well. His talent as a director is so strong, his craft is so great, and his knowledge about art is so wide. I knew that it would be beautiful and strong.” —Alexandre Desplat, Composer, “Frankenstein” Be sure to check out “Frankenstein,” now streaming on Netflix — in Dolby Vision® and Dolby Atmos® — and in select theaters. Check out our playlist of exclusive interviews with the 2026 Academy Award® nominees. Please subscribe to Dolby Creator Talks wherever you get your podcasts . You can also check out the video for this episode on YouTube. Learn more about the Dolby Creator Lab and check out Dolby.com . Connect with Dolby on Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , or LinkedIn .

Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. Desplat reflects on how he crafted the modern score for Little Women by drawing on personal memories with his sisters, utilizing two pianists and four hands to represent the women in the film, and recording in New York City with various esteemed musicians. Little Women is written and directed by Greta Gerwig ( Lady Bird ) and draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms – is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. Composer, orchestrator and conductor Alexandre Desplat is one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters. A true cinephile, his approach to film composition is not only based on his strong musicality, but also on his understanding of cinema, which allows him to intimately communicate with directors. Inspired by the works of Maurice Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota and Georges Delerue, he expressed his desire to compose for cinema early on but really made his decision after listening to John Williams’ Star Wars score. After scoring fifty European films, with legendary French directors such as Philippe de Broca and Francis Girod, in 2003 he burst onto the Hollywood scene with his evocative score to Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring . In 2007 he received his first Academy Award nomination for Stephen Frears’ The Queen which earned him his first European Film Award. The same year he won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the World Soundtrack Award for his score to John Curran’s The Painted Veil. In 2010-2011 Desplat scored David Yates' films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 . In 2018, Desplat won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA for Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water. He was nominated in 2019 for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs , and in 2020 for an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for Little Women . The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to the full Little Women Soundtrack here . Listen to the official Alexandre Desplat Spotify playlist here . To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the 'Little Women' podcast featurIng Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer; Alexandre Desplat. Sony Music's release of LITTLE WOMEN (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) was recorded in New York City under the leadership of Desplat, who conducted a chamber orchestra to perform his original compositions. The score serves as a sonic companion to the film's coming-of-age narrative, directed by Greta Gerwig, and which opened in theatres on Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25. Of the soundtrack, composer Alexandre Desplat says, "To capture the life of these four young girls on their path to adulthood, I have called in the four hands of two pianists. They are surrounded by a chamber orchestra, which keeps us in the intimate world of these ‘little women.' We recorded the score in New York City with the most wonderful musicians whose musicality and virtuosity went beyond my expectations." "Working with him has been a dream," adds Greta Gerwig of working with Desplat on the score. "From the first sketches he sent me to listening to him record the glorious score with an orchestra in New York, every step of the process has been a joy. He has taught me how to work with a composer: how to listen, how to give notes, how to wait for it to develop, how to step away, how to dive in. I am a better filmmaker for having worked with him, and I sincerely hope that it is not the last time." "For Little Women, Greta envisioned a musical without lyrics. From the beginning, Alexandre had to be the musical voice of the film," says Spring Aspers, President of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, Music. "The resulting score is both dynamic and intimate making it the perfect complement to this exquisite retelling. I can't wait for audiences to come together to experience this film." Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms -- is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. Produced & Narrated by Max Horowitz — Crossover Media This content, as well as the related podcast, are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) for redistribution and adaptation.