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Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925 Roubaix - 20 March 1992 Los Angeles) was a renowned French film composer who composed over 500 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize (1949), Emmy Award (1968 - Our World), Genie Award (1986 - Sword Of Gideon), ACE Award (1991 - The Josephine Baker Story) and Academy Award in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations (1969 - Anne Of 1000 Days; 1973 - The Day Of The Dolphin; 1977 - Julia, and; 1985 - Agnes Of God).

Le Figaro Magazine (France, 1981) addressed him as “Mozart of Cinema” (Georges Delerue le Mozart des salles obscures), and he marks France history that Delerue’s the first and perhaps the only composer won 3 Cesar Awards consecutively (1979 - Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, 1980 - Love On The Run and 1981 - The Last Metro) plus 5 other Cesar Nominations (1977 - Le Grand Escogriffe and Police Python 357, 1983 - La Passante, 1984 - L’ete Meurtrier and 1993 - Dien Bien Phu). Georges Delerue was a Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France’s highest honours.

His career was diverse and he composed frequently for major avant-garde directors, most often François Truffaut, but also for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Contempt, and for Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, and Bernardo Bertolucci, besides working on several Hollywood productions.

He composed the music for Flemming Flindt’s ballet, Enetime (The Lesson), based on Ionesco’s play, La Leçon. During his 42 years career he put his talent to the service of nearly 200 feature movies, 125 short ones, 70 TV films and 35 TV serials.

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'Crimes of the Heart' anyone?

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thewaysheposed wrote:
August 2009

oh my lord i love the contempt score

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Chiaroscurist wrote:
June 2009

J'adore. <3

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irene-val wrote:
March 2009

Dans l’architecture de sentiments jusqu’a la beauté de l’ame

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irene-val wrote:
March 2009

De l’architecture de sentiments jusqu’à la beauté de l’âme

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staytooned wrote:
March 2009

A+

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Maloficio wrote:
March 2009

Much better picture.

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wjp4107 wrote:
October 2008

Good day... Please check out the Movie Score Addicts... group. We would be very glad to have you as a member too. Thanks...

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October88 wrote:
August 2008

I love, I believe it is my favorite composer! The sublimity of Le Mepris (Camille) and L'Important c'est d'aimer (Largo) are indisputable! Listen to believe!

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moreaupat wrote:
June 2008

GENIUS

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El Topo wrote:
May 2008

Camille <3

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pablobunnyman wrote:
April 2008

GODARD IS GOD!

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Epitymbidia wrote:
April 2008

Ah, yes, Steel Magnolias is so very lovely...

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mistralazur wrote:
March 2008

et mes fesses ? tu le trouves belles mes fesses ? le mépris

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Bass00nGuy wrote:
April 2007

I really love his Steel Magnolias score. Sadly, it's really hard to find anymore.

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January 2007

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s_e_a wrote:
October 2006

I really love his score to Curly Sue movie. Great music

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