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Oscars 2015
Alexandre Desplat wins at last
The French composer had been nominated 8 times before... without ever walking away with the statuette. With 2 nominations this year (The Imitation Game and The Grand Budapest Hotel), the expectations had doubled! Winning for Best Score with Wes Anderson's movie settles the, ahem... score for this giant of French and International cinema.
Watch his acceptance speech here
And view his incredible filmography here
At Focus on French Cinema, your ears had been touched by his work in Renoir, screened at your 2013 festival.
Other French Cinema notes at the Ceremony
 - Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carri�re received an Honorary Award for his career. With less of his movies released over the last years, we never had the chance to show his work at Focus on French Cinema, but you can borrow many of his works - over 50 years - in the Alliance Fran�aise of Greenwich DVD collection.
- Whiplash Director Damien Chazelle, whose father is French, spent part of his childhood in France and still has family overseas.
- French-born Mathilde Bonnefoy was a producer and the editor of the Best Documentary winner, Citizen Four.
- Timbuktu was nominated for Best Foreign Film and, although it did not ultimately win, the 7 Cesars won on Friday should serve as consolation.
- Marion Cotillard was nominated for Best Actress and did not win, but was graceful on the red carpet and on stage, where she presented Best Song nominee "Everything is Awesome" (The Lego Movie).
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