Antoine Duhamel Biography

Fast Facts

• Won an Étoile d'Or Award for Best Composer for "Safe Conduct" in 2003
• Won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his composing for "Safe Conduct" in 2002
• Studied music at the Conservatoire National de Paris and Sorbonne in Paris
• Was the son of writer Georges Duhamel and actress Blanche Albane
• Got his start as a film composer in 1960 on the short film "Les gens de lettres․"
• Best known as a composer and orchestra conductor who worked on the films "Pierrot le Fou" and "Belle Epoque․"
• Appeared as an actor in two films, "Le grain de sable" in 1964 as a police inspector and "The Good Life" in 1996 as a music professor