Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Guillermo del Toro’s go-to composer, Alexandre Desplat knew about the filmmaker’s desire to tell his version of Mary Shelley’s ...

The original motion picture score race has begun, and already two-time Oscar winning composer Alexandre Desplat is a contender for his music on George Clooney‘s sci-fi Netflix movie The Midnight Sky ...

Darkness was bound to find its way into Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. The tale of the long-nosed wooden puppet who wants to become a boy is one for all times. But in an era when truth is once again ...

It’s impossible to talk about Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio without considering the music. Del Toro’s Netflix adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story takes place in 1930s Italy, during the Fascist ...

An enormous shadow hovers over the characters in “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” and it’s the same one that has been dogging composer Alexandre Desplat ever since he was a teenager in Paris. That shadow?

Frankenstein composer Alexandre Desplat knows one of his scores is working when it makes Guillermo del Toro cry. “He’s very The post Composer Alexandre Desplat on Fiction and Function in ...

“Wes Anderson likes music to be part of the narrative of his films,” says composer Alexandre Desplat. As the musician who has worked with Wes Anderson consistently since the film Fantastic Mr. Fox ...

How George Clooney and Alexandre Desplat avoided space film cliches to create the sound of Netflix's 'The Midnight Sky.' By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Desplat’s score for the film, which ...

On Sunday, Alexandre Desplat won a BAFTA Award and a Grammy, both for “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Next up: the Feb. 22 Oscars, where he is nominated in the musical score category for “Budapest Hotel” ...

The Academy Award-nominated composer shares how he's able to come up with his different scores and how he chose his music for Stephen Frears' drama. "The music does not have to push into the comedy," ...

As Guillermo del Toro’s go-to composer, Alexandre Desplat knew about the filmmaker’s desire to tell his version of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” While del Toro loved the story, Desplat admits his own ...