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name: "Georges Delerue"
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imdb_id: "nm0000016"
tmdb_id: 3535
wikidata_id: "Q435034"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "12 March 1925"
died: "20 March 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 14
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 14
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# Georges Delerue

## Identity

Georges Delerue

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/georges-delerue
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** georges-delerue
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000016
- **TMDB ID:** 3535
- **Wikidata ID:** Q435034
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Delerue, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000016/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3535

Composer. Born 12 March 1925 in Roubaix, Nord, France. Died 20 March 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 12 March 1925, Roubaix, Nord, France
- **Died:** 20 March 1992
- **Active:** 1956–1992
- **Also known as:** Georges DeLerue, George Delerue, Georges Delrue
- **Frequently works with:** [François Truffaut](https://film.one/person/francois-truffaut.md), [Fred Zinnemann](https://film.one/person/fred-zinnemann.md), [Marie Dubois](https://film.one/person/marie-dubois.md), [Oliver Stone](https://film.one/person/oliver-stone.md), [Suzanne Schiffman](https://film.one/person/suzanne-schiffman.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 4 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 89 (2), 1960s 79 (4), 1970s 77 (3), 1980s 73 (5)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 72 across 13 titles
- **Score spread:** 8 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 11, History 5, Romance 5, War 3, Action 2, Comedy 2
- **Screen time:** 26 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $518m across 10 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Delerue, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000016/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3535

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Jules and Jim*](https://film.one/film/jules-and-jim.md) (88), [*The Last Metro*](https://film.one/film/the-last-metro.md) (75)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Contempt*](https://film.one/film/contempt.md) (86), [*A Man for All Seasons*](https://film.one/film/a-man-for-all-seasons.md) (81)
- **Apple TV:** [*Platoon*](https://film.one/film/platoon.md) (84), [*Salvador*](https://film.one/film/salvador.md) (74)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Conformist*](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md) (87)
- **Netflix:** [*Steel Magnolias*](https://film.one/film/steel-magnolias.md) (67)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmtracks.com.*

## On Fi1m (14)

- *Steel Magnolias* (1989), Fi1m 67, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/steel-magnolias.md)
- *Twins* (1988), Fi1m 64, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)
- *Platoon* (1986), Fi1m 84, Original Music Composer, Music, Conductor — [page](https://film.one/film/platoon.md)
- *Salvador* (1986), Fi1m 74, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/salvador.md)
- *The Last Metro* (1980), Fi1m 75, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-metro.md)
- *Julia* (1977), Fi1m 60, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/julia.md)
- *The Day of the Jackal* (1973), Fi1m 84, Original Music Composer, Music, Conductor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-day-of-the-jackal.md)
- *The Conformist* (1971), Fi1m 87, Music, Original Music Composer, Conductor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)
- *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969), Fi1m 60, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/anne-of-the-thousand-days.md)
- *A Man for All Seasons* (1966), Fi1m 81, Conductor, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/a-man-for-all-seasons.md)
- *Contempt* (1963), Fi1m 86, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/contempt.md)
- *Jules and Jim* (1962), Fi1m 88, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/jules-and-jim.md)
- *Hiroshima Mon Amour* (1959), Fi1m 87, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/hiroshima-mon-amour.md)
- *Night and Fog* (1956), Fi1m 91, Conductor, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/night-and-fog.md)

## Complete filmography (263)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView* (2018), Music
- *The Apparition* (2018), Music
- *Tours du monde, tours du ciel 2009* (2013), Music, Musical
- *Hiroshima: The Time of Return* (2005), Music
- *Day for Night: An Appreciation* (2003), Music
- *The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Remember Me* (1996), Music
- *Rich in Love* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Man Trouble* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Memento Mori* (1992), Music
- *Céline* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Dien Bien Phu* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Curly Sue* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Black Robe* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Without Warning: The James Brady Story* (1991), Music
- *The White Queen* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Mister Johnson* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *American Friends* (1991), Original Music Composer, Music
- *The Josephine Baker Story* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Cadence* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *A Show of Force* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Joe Versus the Volcano* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Steel Magnolias* (1989), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/steel-magnolias.md)
- *Seven Minutes* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *The French Revolution* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Paris by Night* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Her Alibi* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Beaches* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Twins* (1988), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)
- *Heartbreak Hotel* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Memories of Me* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *To Kill a Priest* (1988), Music, Conductor
- *A Summer Story* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Biloxi Blues* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Chouans !* (1988), Music
- *The House on Carroll Street* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *The Pick-up Artist* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Maid to Order* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Queenie* (1987), series, Music
- *A Man in Love* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Escape from Sobibor* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Her Secret Life* (1987), Music
- *Platoon* (1986), Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/platoon.md)
- *Crimes of the Heart* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Women of Valor* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Descent Into Hell* (1986), Music
- *Sword of Gideon* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Salvador* (1986), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/salvador.md)
- *Sin of Innocence* (1986), Music
- *Family Business* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Mesmerized* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Stone Pillow* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *A Time to Live* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Amazing Stories* (1985), series, Music
- *Amos* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Maxie* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Agnes of God* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Deadly Intentions* (1985), Music
- *The Execution* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Arch of Triumph* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Silence of the Heart* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Love Thy Neighbor* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *The Vultures* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Aurora* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Le Bon Plaisir* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Silkwood* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *The African* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Liberty Belle* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Confidentially Yours* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *One Deadly Summer* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Exposed* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Man, Woman and Child* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *The Black Stallion Returns* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *The Escape Artist* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Partners* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *The Passerby* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Guy de Maupassant* (1982), Music
- *A Little Sex* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Josepha* (1982), as Compositor
- *Documenteur* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *The Borgias* (1981), series, Music
- *The Woman Next Door* (1981), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *True Confessions* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *The Inquisitor* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Rich and Famous* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *La vie continue* (1981), Music
- *Le Rescapé de Tikeroa* (1981), Music
- *La Lettre Volèe* (1981), Music
- *Nana* (1981), series, Music
- *Le Mythomane* (1981), series, Music
- *Richard's Things* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Arsène Lupin joue et perd* (1980), series, Music
- *Lundi* (1980), as Compositor
- *Les Chevaux du soleil* (1980), series, Music
- *The Last Metro* (1980), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-metro.md)
- *Willie & Phil* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Fantômas* (1980), series, Musical, Music
- *The Visitors* (1980), series, Music
- *First Voyage* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Toine* (1980), Music
- *Joséphine, ou la comédie des ambitions* (1979), series, Sound
- *The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2* (1979), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Bluebeard* (1979), Music
- *A Little Romance* (1979), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *An Almost Perfect Affair* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 1* (1979), Music, Original Music Composer
- *My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter* (1979), Music
- *Pierrot mon ami* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Les Insulaires* (1979), Music
- *Love on the Run* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Simone de Beauvoir* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Photo-souvenir* (1978), as Compositor
- *Little Girl in Blue Velvet* (1978), Music
- *Your Turn, My Turn* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Dear Inspector* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Get Out Your Handkerchiefs* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Banlieue Sud-Est* (1977), series, Music
- *Julia* (1977), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/julia.md)
- *Bloodthirsty Hawk* (1977), Music
- *Egy őrült naplója* (1977), Sound
- *The Big Operator* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Boomerang* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Police Python 357* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Nevermore, Forever* (1976), Music
- *Femmes Fatales* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Milady* (1976), Music
- *Incorrigible* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *Les Compagnons d'Eleusis* (1975), series, Original Music Composer
- *Paul Gauguin* (1975), series, Music
- *That Most Important Thing: Love* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *La Cloche tibétaine* (1974), series, Music
- *The Slap* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Les Musiciens de la pellicule* (1974), series, as lui-même
- *Alien Thunder* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *The Day of the Dolphin* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Molière pour rire et pour pleurer* (1973), series, Music
- *Angela – Love Comes Quietly* (1973), Music
- *Day for Night* (1973), as Georges, the Composer (narration) (uncredited) · Original Music Composer
- *The Day of the Jackal* (1973), Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-day-of-the-jackal.md)
- *L'Éducation sentimentale* (1973), series, Music
- *The Accursed Kings* (1972), series, Original Music Composer
- *L'Homme qui revient de loin* (1972), series, Music
- *A Gorgeous Kid Like Me* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Dear Louise* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Malpertuis* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Two English Girls* (1971), as Claude's Business Agent · Original Music Composer
- *The Horsemen* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *The Most Gentle Confessions* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Adieu mes quinze ans* (1971), series, Music
- *Mira* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *The Conformist* (1971), Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)
- *Lancelot of the Lake* (1970), Music
- *Promise at Dawn* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Mauregard* (1970), series, Original Music Composer
- *La mort de Danton* (1970), Sound
- *La Mort de Danton* (1970), Musical
- *Give Her the Moon* (1970), Music
- *Countdown to Vengeance* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/anne-of-the-thousand-days.md)
- *A Walk with Love and Death* (1969), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *Jacquou le Croquant* (1969), series, Original Music Composer
- *Women in Love* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Hibernatus* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The Erasers* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The Brain* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *The Devil by the Tail* (1969), Music
- *Thibaud ou les Croisades* (1968), series, Original Music Composer
- *Nobody Runs Forever* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Interlude* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Oscar* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Our Mother's House* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Our World* (1967), Music
- *The 25th Hour* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *The Two of Us* (1967), Music
- *Huckleberry Finn* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *The Sunday of Life* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *On Sunday Afternoon* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday* (1967), as Compositor
- *The Nameless Star* (1966), Music
- *King of Hearts* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *A Man for All Seasons* (1966), Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/a-man-for-all-seasons.md)
- *Paris au temps des cerises* (1966), Music
- *Up to His Ears* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Moment of Peace* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Viva Maria!* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Bestiary of Love* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Rapture* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Uninhibited* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Le Bonheur conjugal* (1965), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Sucker* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *A* (1965), Music
- *The Black Indies* (1964), Music
- *That Tender Age* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Lucky Jo* (1964), Music
- *Male Companion* (1964), Music, Original Music Composer
- *The Unvanquished* (1964), Music
- *Valparaiso* (1964), Conductor
- *The Pumpkin Eater* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Let the Shooters Shoot* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *The Big Hit* (1964), Music
- *Dandelions by the Roots* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *The Soft Skin* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Greed in the Sun* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Trouble Among Widows* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *French Dressing* (1964), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *That Man from Rio* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Mata Hari, Agent H21* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Bosphore* (1964), Musical
- *Golden Horn* (1964), Musical
- *Èves futures* (1964), Music
- *Highway Pick-Up* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Contempt* (1963), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/contempt.md)
- *Portuguese Vacation* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Magnet of Doom* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Nothing Ever Happens* (1963), Music
- *Hitler - Never Heard of Him* (1963), Music
- *The Immortal One* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Till the End of the World* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Vive Le Tour* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *The Immoral Moment* (1962), Music
- *Crime Does Not Pay* (1962), Music
- *Antoine and Colette* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Love at Twenty* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Paris Pick-Up* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Le bureau des mariages* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Cartouche* (1962), Music
- *Jules and Jim* (1962), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/jules-and-jim.md)
- *Simon* (1962), Music
- *Over the Wall* (1961), Music
- *The Nina B. Affair* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Le bonheur est pour demain* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Long Absence* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Passion of Slow Fire* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Five Day Lover* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Playtime* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Women and War* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Joker* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Shoot the Piano Player* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Love and the Frenchwoman* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Love Game* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Le Sourire* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Do or Die!* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Big Risk* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *A Mistress for the Summer* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Love Exists* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Le Bel Âge* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Hiroshima Mon Amour* (1959), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/hiroshima-mon-amour.md)
- *Along the Coast* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Diary of a Pregnant Woman* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *The First Night* (1958), Music
- *The Overworked* (1958), Music
- *The Sea and the Days* (1958), Music
- *Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur* (1957), Music
- *A Girl in a Pocket* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Letter from Siberia* (1957), Orchestrator
- *Chères vieilles choses* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *All the World's Memory* (1956), Conductor
- *Sunday in Peking* (1956), Conductor
- *Night and Fog* (1956), Orchestrator, Conductor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/night-and-fog.md)

## Gallery

- ![Georges Delerue](https://film.one/media/person/118572/gallery-a3e7793f028c.png) Georges Delerue — Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/GeorgesDelerue-1961-Harcourt.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- !["Hollywood", buste 3D hommage à Georges Delerue et fiche d'inscription scolaire au lycée professionnel Turgot de Roubaix. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/118572/gallery-8179683f0462.jpg) "Hollywood", buste 3D hommage à Georges Delerue et fiche d'inscription scolaire au lycée professionnel Turgot de Roubaix. (2024) — Otitonews, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Buste_en_3D_de_Georges_Delerue_%2B_fiche_d%27inscription_Lyc%C3%A9e_Turgot_de_Roubaix.jpg/1280px-Buste_en_3D_de_Georges_Delerue_%2B_fiche_d%27inscription_Lyc%C3%A9e_Turgot_de_Roubaix.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Georges Delerue](https://film.one/media/person/118572/gallery-1a292036ebda.jpg) Georges Delerue — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 4 nominated

- 1986: Best Original Score (nominated), for *Agnes of God*
- 1980: Best Original Score (won), for *A Little Romance*
- 1978: Best Original Score (nominated), for *Julia*
- 1974: Best Original Dramatic Score (nominated), for *The Day of the Dolphin*
- 1970: Best Original Score, no Musical (nominated), for *Anne of the Thousand Days*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Prix de Rome 1949: Prix de Rome (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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