Gabriel Yared

Oscar winning composer Gabriel Yared is one of the most well-respected composers in film.

 

Yared won an Academy Award for his score to Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, which also won him a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Grammy.

 

Yared was originally known for his work in French cinema, starting with Jean-Luc Godard, and later Jean-Jacques Beineix.

 

He also composed ballet music for works such as Clavigo for The Paris Opera, and Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl for the Royal Opera Ballet.

More recently, he scored Xavier Dolan’s sixth feature film, ‘It’s Only the End of the World’, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2016.

Yared was an official member of the Cannes Film Festival Jury, 2017.