Georges Delerue

Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925, Roubaix – March 20, 1992 Los Angeles) was a French film composer who composed over 350 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 for Best Original Score in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations (1969 - Anne of t... more

Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925, Roubaix – March 20, 1992 Los Angeles) was a French film composer who composed over 350 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 for Best Original Score in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations (1969 - Anne of the Thousand Days, 1973 - The Day of the Dolphin, 1977 - Julia and 1985 - Agnes of God). Le Figaro (France, 1981) addressed him as "Mozart of Cinema" (Georges Delerue le Mozart des salles obscures), and Delerue was the first and perhaps the only composer won 3 consecutive Cesar Awards together Academy in the same year in 1979 (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and A Little Romance), (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'été... less