Biography
Georges Delerue was a French composer born on 12 March 1925 in Roubaix, Nord, France. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Henri Büsser and Darius Milhaud, and began composing for film in the early 1950s after working in radio and for short films.
He composed scores for more than 350 films and television productions. His credits include Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Jules and Jim (1962), Contempt (1963), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Platoon (1986) and Twins (1988). He collaborated repeatedly with directors including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Oliver Stone.
Delerue won an Academy Award for Original Score for A Little Romance (1979) and three César Awards for Best Original Music. He received further Academy Award nominations for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), The Day of the Dolphin (1973), Julia (1977) and Agnes of God (1985). He died on 20 March 1992 in Burbank, California.
