Alexandre Desplat Debuts New Score Track For ‘Lee’ Film Starring Kate Winslet (Listen)
February 6, 2025
Soundtracks, Scores and More Staff
Ahead of the worldwide release of LEE—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, listen to the title track (below) by the film’s two-time Academy Award-winning composer, Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water), who has also won three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes and two Grammy Awards. Desplat’s use of piano and strings weaves an effortlessly beautiful backdrop that also delves into the complexity of the war correspondent character. The full album releases digitally on Friday, February 7, 2025 on Lakeshore Records. Previously, Lakeshore released Desplat’s scores to The Tree of Life, The Light Between Oceans, The Sisters Brothers, American Pastoral, and The Lost King.
The Sky Original film directed by Ellen Kuras and starring Kate Winslet is streaming now on Hulu.
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Track List
01. Lee
02. Anything Or Anyone
03. Happy Days
04. Vogue
05. I Was Ambitious
06. Am I In The Frame?
07. Holly Shit
08. Hospital
09. Liberation
10. Solange
11. Drink This
12. To The Front
13. Arriving At Dachau
14. H’s Bathtub
15. There Was Another Man
16. La Garoupe
Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee captured some of the most important images of World War II, for which she paid an enormous personal price.
ABOUT ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
Two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is one of the most respected film composers in the world today. Desplat is noted for his collaborations with some of the world’s top filmmakers: Greta Gerwig, Wes Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, George Clooney, Kathryn Bigelow, Stephen Daldry, David Fincher, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Ang Lee, Terrence Malick and Angelina Jolie.
Desplat first captivated American audiences with his score for The Girl With The Pearl Earring and Birth. He has since scored a range of acclaimed films, eleven of which have been Oscar- nominated: The Queen, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Imitation Game, The King’s Speech, Argo, Philomena, The Painted Veil for which he received a Golden Globe, and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs, and The Grand Budapest Hotel which won the 2015 Oscar for Best Original Score. Desplat’s thematic score to Guillermo Del Toro’s film, The Shape of Water won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Original Score and garnered a 2018 Golden Globe, a BAFTA award, and a 2019 Grammy nomination. Desplat scored Greta Gerwig’s Little Women which was nominated for a 2020 Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Original Score, George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky, which received a 2021 Golden Globe nomination for Best Score, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which earned a 2022 Golden Globe nomination for Best Score, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, and Desplat received two 2023 Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for “Ciao Papa”.
Desplat’s work includes Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, his second collaboration with Tom Hooper The Danish Girl, Godzilla, directed by Gareth Edwards, Illumination Entertainment’s box office smash hit, The Secret Life Of Pets as well as the sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2, Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep, Zero Dark Thirty directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Twilight Saga: New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pts. 1 & 2, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone and The Sisters Brothers starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal, George Clooney’s comedy crime feature Suburbicon, NYAD starring Jodie Foster and Annette Bening, and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City.
Most recently, Desplat reunited with Stephen Frears to score the mini-series The Regime, starring Kate Winslet, and George Clooney’s The Boys in the Boat, starring Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner. Released last fall was The Piano Lesson based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson and upcoming is the Amazon MGM sports drama Unstoppable which centers around the life of Anthony Robles who was born with one leg and won a national championship in 2011 at Arizona State University.
Born to a Greek mother and French father, Desplat grew up in France with a budding love for Hollywood film music, and broke into the French film industry in the 1990s. “I was in a car with a friend who had offered me a double vinyl of Star Wars,” Desplat remembers. “It might have been ’78. He gave me this record, and I remember having said to him, “Hmm. ‘Music composed and conducted by John Williams.’ That’s what I want to do.” And that’s what I’m doing.” With a penchant for lyricism, elegant orchestrations, and precise dramatization, Desplat has quickly joined the pantheon of all-time greats.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
