- Prolific French film composer and pianist. He won a scholarship to the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied under Henri Busser and Darius Milhaud and was encouraged to write music for the cinema. While studying, he supported himself financially by playing jazz in Parisian piano bars. His screen contributions began in the early 1950's, when he conducted the Club d'Essai orchestra for French National Radio and Television. He also wrote music for the stage, including the Opera Comique, and for short films. As the decade progressed, he collaborated with most of the top French film directors (on several occasions with Truffaut). As his reputation grew, he became much in demand by American and British film makers. The French Government awarded him the highly meritorious Commandeur des Arts et Lettres.
- Composed music for nine ballets, two operas ('Le Chevalier de Neiges' and 'Medis et Alyssio') and two chamber operas ('Ariane' and 'Une Regrettable Histoire'). He also scored several 'son et lumiere' shows, including two famous ones in Egypt, at the Pyramids of Giza and at Philae.
- Oscar-winning French composer.
- Georges Delerue composed his first film music for "Les années décisives", a propaganda short sponsored by the U.S. Information Service documentary on the positive effects of the Marshall Plan on French economy. (1950)
- He composed a full score for Mike Nichols's film "Regarding Henry", but it was not used. However, it has been recorded and released on CD.
- On IMDb, he is the first composer, labeled as 0000016.
- Won 3 consecutive Césars (the French Oscars) in the Best Music category, between 1979 and 1981.
- He contributed with the music of four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: A Man for All Seasons (1966), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Julia (1977) and Platoon (1986). Of those, A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Platoon (1986) are winners in the category.
- He was the original composer of Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), before Disney made significant changes in the film and replaced his somber score for a more friendly composed by James Horner. Part of Delerue's score was used on the film trailer, and Disney released some excerpts of his material many years after his death.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989
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