Philippe Sarde

Known For: Sound
Born: June 21, 1948
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Philippe Sarde

Philippe Sarde (born 21 June 1948) is a French film composer. Considered among the most versatile and talented French film composers of his generation, Sarde has scored over two hundred films, film shorts, and television mini-series. He received an Academy Award nomination for Tess (1979), and twelve César Award nominations, winning for Barocco (1976) and The Judge and the Assassin (1976). In 1993, Sarde received the Joseph Plateau Music Award. Philippe Sarde was born 21 June 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. His mother, Andrée Gabriel, was a singer in the Paris Opera. Through his mother's encouragement, he became interested in music from the early age of three. When he was four years old, he conducted a brief section of Carmen at the Paris Opera. At the age of five, he began experimenting with sound recording and made his first short films. Sarde loved b…

Filmography

The One I Loved

2025 · Original Music Composer

Borgo

2024 · Original Music Composer

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

2019 · Original Music Composer

A Faithful Man

2018 · Original Music Composer

Rodin

2017 · Original Music Composer

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

2017 · Self

Two Friends

2015 · Original Music Composer

The French Minister

2013 · Original Music Composer

And They Call It Summer

2012 · Original Music Composer

Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres

2011 · Self

The Princess of Montpensier

2010 · Original Music Composer

The Three-way Wedding

2010 · Original Music Composer

The Girl on the Train

2009 · Original Music Composer

Symphonie métallique

2008 · Self

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

2007 · Self, Original Music Composer

Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'

2007 · Self

The Witnesses

2007 · Original Music Composer

Call Me Elisabeth

2006 · Original Music Composer

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

2005 · Original Music Composer

Me and My Sister

2004 · Original Music Composer

A Less Bad World

2004 · Original Music Composer

Filming 'Tess'

2004 · Original Music Composer

Tess: The Experience

2004 · Original Music Composer

Tess: From Novel to Screen

2004 · Original Music Composer

Raja

2003 · Original Music Composer

Strayed

2003 · Original Music Composer

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

2003 · Original Music Composer

Un film et son époque

2003 · Self

Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic

2003 · Self

Break of Dawn

2002 · Original Music Composer

Sister Mary Explains It All

2001 · Original Music Composer

Mademoiselle

2001 · Original Music Composer

Princesses

2000 · Original Music Composer

Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes

2000 · Original Music Composer

Alice and Martin

1998 · Original Music Composer

The Red and the Black

1997 · Original Music Composer

The Red and the Black

1997 · Original Music Composer

On Guard

1997 · Original Music Composer

A Brother...

1997 · Original Music Composer

K

1997 · Original Music Composer

Lucie Aubrac

1997 · Original Music Composer

Ponette

1996 · Original Music Composer

Thieves

1996 · Original Music Composer

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

1995 · Original Music Composer

The Little Boy

1995 · Original Music Composer

Uncovered

1995 · Original Music Composer

Le fils préféré

1994 · Original Music Composer

D'Artagnan's Daughter

1994 · Original Music Composer

Night Taxi

1993 · Original Music Composer

Sunfish

1993 · Music

My Favorite Season

1993 · Original Music Composer

Young Werther

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Little Apocalypse

1993 · Original Music Composer

Max & Jeremie

1992 · Original Music Composer

L.627

1992 · Original Music Composer

Room Service

1992 · Original Music Composer

I Don't Kiss

1991 · Original Music Composer

Iran: Days of Crisis

Iran: Days of Crisis

1991 · Original Music Composer

The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

1991 · Original Music Composer

Jealousy

1991 · Original Music Composer

For Sasha

1991 · Original Music Composer

The Tribe

1991 · Original Music Composer

Eve of Destruction

1991 · Original Music Composer

The Little Gangster

1990 · Original Music Composer

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

1990 · Original Music Composer

Lord of the Flies

1990 · Original Music Composer

La fille des collines

1990 · Original Music Composer

C'est La Vie

1990 · Original Music Composer

Music Box

1989 · Original Music Composer

Separate Bedrooms

1989 · Original Music Composer

Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre

1989 · Original Music Composer

L'Invité surprise

1989 · Original Music Composer

Reunion

1989 · Original Music Composer

Lost Angels

1989 · Original Music Composer

The House of Jade

1988 · Original Music Composer

The Bear

1988 · Original Music Composer

L'Argent

1988 · Original Music Composer

A Few Days with Me

1988 · Original Music Composer

La Travestie

1988 · Original Music Composer

The Murdered House

1988 · Original Music Composer

The Innocents

1987 · Original Music Composer

Ennemis intimes

1987 · Original Music Composer

Widow's Walk

1987 · Original Music Composer

The Two Crocodiles

1987 · Original Music Composer

Comédie !

1987 · Original Music Composer

Funny Boy

1987 · Original Music Composer

State of Grace

1986 · Original Music Composer

The Prude

1986 · Original Music Composer

Every Time We Say Goodbye

1986 · Original Music Composer

Private Tuition

1986 · Original Music Composer

Devil in the Flesh

1986 · Original Music Composer

The Manhattan Project

1986 · Original Music Composer

Scene of the Crime

1986 · Original Music Composer

I Love You

1986 · Original Music Composer

Pirates

1986 · Original Music Composer

My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister

1986 · Original Music Composer

L'Homme aux yeux d'argent

1985 · Original Music Composer

Harem

1985 · Original Music Composer

The Temptation of Isabelle

1985 · Original Music Composer

Joshua Then and Now

1985 · Original Music Composer

Rendez-vous

1985 · Original Music Composer

Outlaws

1985 · Original Music Composer

The Cowboy

1985 · Music, Compositor, Original Music Composer

Sincerely Charlotte

1985 · Original Music Composer

Ça n'arrive qu'à moi

1985 · Original Music Composer

Next Summer

1985 · Original Music Composer

Happy Easter

1984 · Original Music Composer

The Bitch

1984 · Original Music Composer

La Pirate

1984 · Original Music Composer

Fort Saganne

1984 · Original Music Composer

A Sunday in the Country

1984 · Original Music Composer

First Desires

1983 · Original Music Composer

Waiter!

1983 · Original Music Composer

A Friend of Vincent

1983 · Original Music Composer

My Other Husband

1983 · Original Music Composer

Lovesick

1983 · Original Music Composer

I Married a Shadow

1983 · Original Music Composer

The Story of Piera

1983 · Original Music Composer

A Captain's Honor

1982 · Original Music Composer

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Shock

1982 · Original Music Composer

The North Star

1982 · Original Music Composer

A Thousand Billion Dollars

1982 · Original Music Composer

Strange Affair

1981 · Original Music Composer

Ghost Story

1981 · Original Music Composer

Quest for Fire

1981 · Original Music Composer

Hotel America

1981 · Original Music Composer

Coup de Torchon

1981 · Original Music Composer

Beau Pere

1981 · Original Music Composer

Tales of Ordinary Madness

1981 · Original Music Composer

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

1981 · Original Music Composer

Choice of Arms

1981 · Original Music Composer

The Carousel

1981 · Original Music Composer

The Wings of the Dove

1981 · Original Music Composer

Is This Reasonable?

1981 · Original Music Composer

The Boy Soldier

1981 · Original Music Composer

A Bad Son

1980 · Original Music Composer

I Sent a Letter to My Love

1980 · Original Music Composer

Le Guignolo

1980 · Original Music Composer

La Femme flic

1980 · Original Music Composer

Buffet Froid

1979 · Original Music Composer

The Medic

1979 · Original Music Composer

Seeking Asylum

1979 · Original Music Composer

Tess

1979 · Original Music Composer

Cop or Hood

1979 · Original Music Composer

The Adolescent

1979 · Original Music Composer

A Simple Story

1978 · Original Music Composer

Mountain Pass

1978 · Original Music Composer

Sugar

1978 · Original Music Composer

Bye Bye Monkey

1978 · Original Music Composer

Death of a Corrupt Man

1977 · Original Music Composer

Drummer-Crab

1977 · Original Music Composer

Madame Rosa

1977 · Original Music Composer

Spoiled Children

1977 · Original Music Composer

As the Moon

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Devil, Probably

1977 · Original Music Composer

Violette & Francois

1977 · Original Music Composer

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

1977 · Original Music Composer

Barocco

1976 · Original Music Composer

Mado

1976 · Original Music Composer

Marie, the Doll

1976 · Original Music Composer

The Bottom Line

1976 · Original Music Composer

The Tenant

1976 · Man staring at Trelkovsky in the movie theatre (uncredited), Original Music Composer

The Last Woman

1976 · Original Music Composer

The Judge and the Assassin

1976 · Original Music Composer

The French Detective

1975 · Original Music Composer

A Bag of Marbles

1975 · Original Music Composer

Seven Deaths by Prescription

1975 · Original Music Composer

French Provincial

1975 · Original Music Composer

Cookies

1975 · Original Music Composer

Mad Enough to Kill

1975 · Original Music Composer

No Problem!

1975 · Original Music Composer

The Cage

1975 · Original Music Composer

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975 · Self

La Confession d'un enfant du siècle

1974 · Original Music Composer

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

1974 · Original Music Composer

Icy Breasts

1974 · Original Music Composer

Dorothea's Revenge

1974 · Original Music Composer

Lancelot of the Lake

1974 · Original Music Composer

Creezy

1974 · Original Music Composer

Don't Touch the White Woman!

1974 · Original Music Composer

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974 · Original Music Composer

Charlie and His Two Chicks

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Last Train

1973 · Original Music Composer

Two Men in Town

1973 · Original Music Composer

Marriage a la Mode

1973 · Original Music Composer

La Grande Bouffe

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Son

1973 · Original Music Composer

Cesar and Rosalie

1972 · Original Music Composer

The Right to Love

1972 · Original Music Composer

Liza

1972 · Original Music Composer

Hellé

1972 · Original Music Composer

The Widow Couderc

1971 · Original Music Composer

The Cat

1971 · Original Music Composer

Max and the Junkmen

1971 · Original Music Composer

La Liberté en croupe

1970 · Original Music Composer

The Things of Life

1970 · Original Music Composer

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