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Benoît Charest (French pronunciation: [bənwa ʃaʁɛ]; born in 1964) is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville) (2003), for which he won a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles ...
Benoît Charest est un compositeur de musiques de films québécois, né à Montréal le 16 juillet 1964. Il est notamment connu pour la bande sonore du film Les Triplettes de Belleville, pour laquelle il a obtenu plusieurs distinctions.
Benoît Charest was tasked with scoring the music. Charest's score was composed according to Johannes Kepler 's cosmological theory, Harmonices Mundi , in which the harmony of the universe is determined by the motion of celestial bodies, referenced in the film's opening voiced by Robert Lepage .
Benoît Charest was born in 1964 in Canada. He is a composer and actor, known for The Triplets of Belleville (2003), Upside Down (2012) and Polytechnique (2009).
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Jan 27, 2004 · Benoît Charest. on The Triplets of Belleville. Producers. Louis Chedid, -M- (FRA) & 1 more. The film’s theme song is this swing number that hearkens back to the jazz music of Django Reinhardt....
Jun 28, 2011 · In “Polytechnique,” the director Denis Villeneuve reconstructs events from 1989, when a disturbed young man went on a rampage against women at a Montreal technical school.
Three composers received two nominations in the same year: Jorane in 2007, Benoît Charest in 2013 and Philippe Brault in 2022. Dédé Fortin , who died in 2000, received the award posthumously for Through the Mist (Dédé, à tarvers les brumes) , a biopic about his life and music with the band Les Colocs .
