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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.
Alexandre Desplat
Composer
for Composer in Wuthering Heights: A Two-Part Epic Film Adaptation
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Directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by Tony Kushner, this definitive, two-part epic adaptation of Emily Brontë’s masterpiece reclaims the story as a ferocious psychological thriller and a haunting Gothic tragedy. Set against the bleak, elemental canvas of the Yorkshire moors, Part I: The Ghost of Wuthering Heights traces the volatile, codependent bond between the dark-featured foundling Heathcliff and the untamable Catherine Earnshaw, whose fateful choice to marry for societal status triggers a cycle of madness and a vow of absolute vengeance. Sweeping into the next generation, Part II: The Reckoning of the Moors explores the chilling legal and emotional warfare waged by an older, weaponized Heathcliff against the children of his enemies - the spirited Cathy Linton and the degraded Hareton Earnshaw - until an unexpected literacy-born romance directly challenges his tyranny, culminating in a poetic, supernatural resolution where the cycle of generational hatred is finally broken.
