Alexandre Desplat (born August 23, 1961 in Paris, France) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer. He most recently scored the music for the movie "Firewall", a primarily digital, synthesized soundtrack. Other scores include "The Luzhin Defence", "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "Syriana", "Birth", "Casanova" and "The Painted Veil", for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Wikipedia
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Started playing piano at the age of 5. His Greek mother and French father met in the US while attending university. After the marriage, they moved to France where Desplat was born. One of 115 peopled invited to join AMPAS in 2007. www.imdb.com/name/nm0006035/
