VIDEO: Watch Alexandre Desplat's Oscar 2018 Acceptance Speech for Original Score for THE SHAPE OF WATER. 

Watch Alexandre Desplat's Oscar 2018 Acceptance Speech for Original Score for THE SHAPE OF WATER.

From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER - an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation.

Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the film features a screenplay by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor with a story by Guillermo del Toro.

Having composed the musical scores for some of the biggest films of the century so far, Alexandre Desplat has displayed an uncanny ability to tap into the thoughts, emotions and even the very dramatic themes inherent in properties as diverse as - just to use his most recent projects as examples - TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, Roman Polanski's THE GHOST WRITER and CARNAGE, Stephen Daldry's upcoming EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE,George Clooney's THE IDES OF MARCH (another stage-to-screen adaptation like CARNAGE), Terrence Malick's THE TREE OF LIFE - as well as the main theme for MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, performed on the soundtrack by noted pianist Lang Lang.

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