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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French:[alɛksɑ̃dʁ dɛspla]; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Desplat was made an Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres both in 2016. Desplat has received two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of Water (2017). He was Oscar-nominated for The Queen (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Argo (2012), Philomena (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Little Women (2019). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Golden Compass (2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) & Part 2 (2011), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Godzilla (2014), Unbroken (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) and Jurassic World Rebirth (2025). He has collaborated with directors such as Wes Anderson, Chris Weitz, Terrence Malick, George Clooney, Roman Polanski, Guillermo del Toro and Gareth Edwards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexandre Desplat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn led a quiet life as a country vicar until his wife Imogen was seduced by and eloped with Nicholas Tappitt, a man Syn considered a close friend. After pursuing the eloped couple on a quest for vengeance, Syn is forced into piracy under the alias of "Captain Clegg." Eventually, Dr. syn abandons his quest, and his manufactured Clegg identity to settle in Dymchurch, accompanied by his former ship's carpenter Mipps. When he discovers that many of his parishioners are involved in the smuggling of goods from France to avoid the excessive customs duties, and are in sore need of experienced leadership, Syn adopts the identity of The Scarecrow, a costumed vigilante who organizes the townsfolk into the "Night Riders", and well-trained team with their own macabre costumes and code-names. The operation is a success, but it soon gains the attention of the Royal Navy, who are resolved to crush the smuggling ring, while ghosts from Syn's past soon complicate matters further.
