Alexandre Desplat (born August 23, 1961 in Paris, France) is a film composer. He most recently scored the music for the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Golden Compass. Other scores include Lust, Caution, Firewall, The Luzhin Defence, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Syriana, Birth, Casanova, The Painted Veil and The Queen, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, in 2007.