Alexandre Desplat: Film Composer of the Year at World Soundtrack Awards 2009

Posted by Jorn Tillnes

October 18, 2009

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Alexandre Desplat was the big winner at this years World Soundtrack Academy Awards.

He won the esteemed award Composer of the Year in addition to Best Film Score of the year.

This has been an impressive year by Alexandre Desplat who has composed for more than 10 movies and his latest score to New Moon from the Twilight saga is yet to be released. Interestingly Carter Burwell won the Public Choice Award for his score Twilight.

Here is the list of winners in full:

FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, COCO AVANT CHANEL, LARGO WINCH, CHÉRI)

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON by Alexandre Desplat

BEST ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN FOR FILM

“JAI HO” from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Music by: A.R. Rahman
Lyrics by Gulzar and Tanvi Shah
Performed by A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaksmi Iyver, Vijay Prakash
Published by KM Musiq ltd

DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR

NICO MUHLY “THE READER”

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

MARVIN HAMLISCH

PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD

“TWILIGHT” CARTER BURWELL

SABAM AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG EUROPEAN COMPOSER

CHRISTOPHER SLASKI

The World Soundtrack Awards are organized in cooperation with Port of Ghent, Sabam, the province East-Flanders, the Ghent City Marketing Fund and Belgacom.

More info: www.worldsoundtrackacademy.com