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Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925 – March 20, 1992), was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize (1949), Emmy Award (1968 – Our World), Genie Award (1986 – Sword Of Gideon), ACE Award (1991 – The Josephine Baker Story) and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations (1969 – Anne of the Thousand Days, 1973 – The Day of the Dolphin, 1977 – Julia and 1985 – Agnes of God). Le Figaro (France, 1981) addressed him as "Mozart of Cinema"... MORE

Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925 – March 20, 1992), was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize (1949), Emmy Award (1968 – Our World), Genie Award (1986 – Sword Of Gideon), ACE Award (1991 – The Josephine Baker Story) and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations (1969 – Anne of the Thousand Days, 1973 – The Day of the Dolphin, 1977 – Julia and 1985 – Agnes of God). Le Figaro (France, 1981) addressed him as "Mozart of Cinema" (Georges Delerue le Mozart des salles obscures). Delerue was the first composer to win 3 consecutive César Awards: 1979 – Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, 1980 – Love on the Run and 1981 – The Last Metro. Georges Delerue was a Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France's highest honours. Delerue was born in Roubaix. His career was diverse and he composed frequently for major art house directors, most often François Truffaut (including Jules and Jim), but also for Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt (Le Mépris), and for Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, and Bernardo Bertolucci, besides working on several Hollywood productions, LESS