Isle of Dogs with Alexandre Desplat

Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

Oscar^®-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is one of the most coveted film composers in the world today. Desplat is noted for his collaborations with some of the world’s top filmmakers: Wes Anderson, George Clooney, Stephen Daldry, David Fincher, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Ang Lee, Terrence Malick, Roman Polanski and Angelina Jolie garnering nine Academy Award^® nominations.

Desplat first captivated American ears with The Girl With The Pearl Earring and Birth. The two-time Golden Globe^® and Oscar^® winner has since scored a range of incredible films, eight of which have been Oscar^®-nominated: The Queen, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The King’s Speech, Argo, Philomena, The Imitation Gameand Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel which won the 2015 Oscar^® for Best Score. Desplat’s thematic score to Guillermo Del Toro’s film, The Shape of Water garnered a 2018 Golden Globe^®, a BAFTA, and recently won the Academy Award^® for Best Original Score.

Desplat’s other work includes Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, his second collaboration with Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech), The Danish Girl, Illumination Entertainment’s recent box office smash hit, The Secret Life Of Pets, Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep, and Touchstone’s The Light Between Oceans starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. Desplat’s most recent work includes The Shape of Water, George Clooney’s comedy crime feature, Suburbicon, and Fox Searchlight’s animation adventure-comedy, Isle of Dogs. Upcoming for Desplat includes Annapurna Pictures’ The Sisters Brothers directed by Jacques Audiard, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Operation Finale directed by Chris Weitz, EuropaCorp’s Kursk directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and Universal Pictures’ Secret Life of Pets 2 directed by Chris Renaud.

Born to a Greek mother and French father, Desplat grew up in France with a budding love for Hollywood film music, and broke into the French film industry in the 1980s. With a penchant for lyricism, elegant orchestrations, and precise dramatization, Desplat has quickly joined the pantheon of all-time greats. “I was in a car with a friend who had offered me a double vinyl of Star Wars,” Desplat remembers. “It might have been ’78. He gave me this record, and I remember having said to him, “Hmm. ‘Music composed and conducted by John Williams.’ That’s what I want to do.” And that’s what I’m doing.”