Q&A with Composer

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT

Moderated by JON BURLINGAME (Variety)

Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation

YouTube Live Stream Q&A

MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 – 12:30PM PT

This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine (George Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe. Clooney directs the adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s acclaimed novel Good Morning, Midnight, co-starring David Oyelowo, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, and Tiffany Boone. PG-13 |122min

Two-time Oscar-winning and eleven-time Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat is one of the most respected film composers in the world today. Desplat first captivated American ears with The Girl With The Pearl Earring and Birth. The two-time Oscar and Golden Globe winner has since scored a range of acclaimed films, eleven of which have been Oscar-nominated: The Queen, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Imitation Game, The King’s Speech, Argo, Philomena, The Painted Veil for which he received a Golden Globe and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs, and 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 won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Original Score and garnered a 2018 Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a 2019 Grammy nomination. Most recently, Desplat scored Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, for which he received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score.

Desplat’s work includes Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, his second collaboration with Tom Hooper The Danish Girl, Godzilla, directed by Gareth Edwards, Illumination Entertainment’s box office smash hit, The Secret Life Of Pets as well as the sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2, Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep, Zero Dark Thirty directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Twilight Saga: New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pts. 1 & 2, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone and The Sisters Brothers starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal, The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo Del Toro, George Clooney’s comedy crime feature, Suburbicon, and Fox Searchlight’s animation adventure-comedy Isle of Dogs directed by Wes Anderson. Upcoming for Desplat is the Wes Anderson comedy The French Dispatch, George Clooney’s post-apocalyptic Midnight Sky, and the highly anticipated animated musical feature, Pinocchio directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Monday, December 21, 10 minutes before Q&A start.

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