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  1. Mar 23, 1992 · Georges Delerue, the French composer who won an Oscar in 1979 and who wrote soundtracks for "Platoon," "The Day of the Jackal" and a number of films by Francois Truffaut, died here on Friday.

  2. Georges had a unique talent that every director’s looking for: the ability to enhance the director’s work. If you had a comedy scene and it wasn’t as funny as you’d like for it to have been, Georges could make it funnier. If you wanted to evoke a beautiful sunny day and it was raining, Georges’ […]

  3. Feb 18, 2015 · The Pitch. Georges Delerue: Most Essential Tracks. Film Composer Georges Delerue scored for Godard and Traffaut and was considered to be "the Mozart of Cinema". In advance of the Oscars, we run ...

  4. Georges Delerue was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance , three César Awards , two ASCAP Awards , and one Gemini Award for Sword of Gideon . He was also nominated for four additional Academy Awards for Anne of the Thousand Days , The Day of the Dolphin ...

  5. Composer Georges Delerue, once named “the Mozart of cinema” by the French newspaper Le Figaro, wrote more than 350 film and television scores, along with pop songs, ballads, and orchestral pieces. In the course of his work with such titans of cinema as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Mike Nichols, and Oliver Stone, Delerue, a native of Roubaix, France, created some of ...

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  6. Reference entries. Delerue Georges. in Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4) Length: 665 words. B. 12 March 1925, Roubaix, France, d. 20 March 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA. An important composer of film music for well over 150 features, from the early 50s through ...

  7. Jan 22, 2016 · Five-time Academy Award-nominee and Oscar winner for his Best Original Score for “A Little Romance” (1979), Georges Delerue may today be one of the most overlooked film composers of his era. Composing the scores of more than 350 movies, (mostly French) TV movies, and series, documentaries, and shorts since 1950, he was one of the most productive of his kind during his lifetime.

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