Alexandre Desplat, the Oscar-winning composer of The Shape of Water and The Grand Budapest Hotel (and 11-time nominee, for everything from The Queen to Little Women) is George Clooney's go-to music guy.
The pair have collaborated on four of Clooney's films as a director, starting with Ides of March (2011), through The Monuments Men (2014), Suburbicon (2017), and now, The Midnight Sky.
Desplat's score for the film, which premieres on Netflix Dec. 23, is as central a character in the science-fiction drama as Clooney's protagonist Augustine, the lonely scientist who, together with a young, mute girl, races across the barren Arctic tundra to try and reach a relay station from where he can warn returning astronauts of a mysterious catastrophe.
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