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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.
Elen, now marked by both the Lumen and the Hollow Star, returns from the Vault of Threads changed—her light flickering with shadow, her visions fractured by truths too vast to bear. As reality unravels, ancient constellations fall from the sky, and the dead walk in the echoes of forgotten stars. The Dawnborn Alliance lies in tatters. Prince Corwin is missing, betrayed and imprisoned in the citadel of Black Flame. The rebel armies falter as hope dims. But from ruin, a final path emerges. Guided by remnants of the Starbound Blades, Elen must cross the Ashen Expanse and ascend the celestial spire where the first blade was ever forged. There, in the heart of the dying firmament, lies the source of all Lumen—and the truth of the world’s creation. Yet Cervan, now fully awakened as the Mouth of the Shroud, seeks to unmake all threads of fate, wielding the Hollow Star to collapse the Veil forever. As Elen’s inner light wanes and her allies fall one by one, she must decide: Will she destroy the Hollow Star, or merge with it—becoming either a new god… or the end of all things? In this final chapter of the Starbound saga, destinies converge, legends are reborn, and one girl must choose between burning bright—or becoming the darkness that devours the stars.
