
About
Bruno Coulais
Overview
Bruno Coulais (born 13 January 1954) is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks.
Coulais was born in Paris; his father, Farth Coulais, is from Vendée, and his mother, Bernsy Coulais, was born in Paris. Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano and taught by Bren Santos, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music. However, a series of acquaintances gradually re-oriented him towards film music. Coulais met François Reichenbach, who asked him in 1977 to sonorize his documentary México mágico who permit to compose the first soundtracks for Jacques Davila "qui trop embrasse" en 1986 . Until the end of the 1990s, he remained low-profile, composing mainly for television. His name can often be found from TV films by Gérard Marx and Laurent Heynemann. He also composed the soundtracks for Christine Pascal's 1992 film Le Petit Prince a dit, and Agnès Merlet's Le fils du requin in 1993.
In 1994, he met the television producer Josée Dayan, who let him write a theme for the TV series La rivière esperance, aired on the France 2 network in autumn 1995. He worked with Dayan again with other major productions such as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Balzac, and Les nuiteux.
The largest turning point of his career came in 1996, when he worked with directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou of the documentary Microcosmos. This single film, which gave a great significance to the music in it, was a great success and made Coulais one of the most wanted composers of French film music. In 1997, he won the César award for the best musical score in a film, as well as a Victoire de la Musique. His reputation was confirmed by the soundtracks to Himalaya (1999) and Les rivières pourpres (2000), and after that Bruno Coulais's name was to be found on most new French blockbusters, such as Belphégor and Vidocq.
After producing the soundtrack to Winged Migration in 2001, Coulais announced that he wanted to significantly reduce his contributions to film music, and instead concentrate on other projects, such as the creation of an opera for children, and collaborations with Akhenaton, Akhenaton's group IAM and the Corsican group A Filetta, with whom he had worked since he had made the soundtrack for Jacques Weber's film Don Juan in 1998.
In 2002, his name was found on the ending credits of the animation L'Enfant qui voulait être un ours , and in 2004, on Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Agents secrets. The same year, he wrote the soundtrack to the film Les choristes by Christophe Barratier, starring Jean-Baptiste Maunier in the lead soprano singing role, which subsequently became an international hit. The music for this film received as great praise as the film itself, and it won Coulais his third César award. The song Vois sur ton chemin was also nominated for an Academy Award (Best original song). Since then, Coulais's collaborations in cinema seem to be limited to works by directors with whom he already shares some history, in particular Jacques Perrin, Frédéric Schoendoerffer, and James Huth.
In 2009, he won at the 37th Annie Awards, in the "Music in a Feature Production" category for Coraline. ...
Source: Article "Bruno Coulais" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
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2020 | In The Tracks Of - Special Edition | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
Sound |
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2025 | Belle | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2024 | Boléro | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2023 | Goodbye Vinyle | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2023 | Summer Frost | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2023 | La Syndicaliste | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
2022 | The King’s Favorite | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
2022 | Wendell & Wild | Sound | Original Music Composer | 62 Fair |
2022 | Story of Annette Zelman | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2022 | The Forest Maker | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2022 | Maigret | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2022 | Chevrotine | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2021 | The Man in the Basement | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2020 | Wolfwalkers | Sound | Orchestrator | 75 Good |
2020 | Wolfwalkers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 75 Good |
2020 | There's a Monster in My Kitchen | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2020 | Mama Weed | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2019 | Meet the Malawas | Sound | Original Music Composer | 54 Average |
2019 | The Spellbound | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2019 | White as Snow | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2019 | Casanova, Last Love | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2018 | Volontaire | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2018 | 1968 - The Global Revolt | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
2018 | White Fang | Sound | Original Music Composer | 63 Fair |
2018 | Eva | Sound | Original Music Composer | 56 Average |
2018 | Normandy Nude | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2018 | Aurore | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
2017 | False Confessions | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2016 | Le Peuple des forêts | Sound | Original Music Composer | 69 Fair |
2016 | Never Ever | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2016 | Marie Curie | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2016 | Brice 3 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 49 Bad |
2016 | My Journey Through French Cinema | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2016 | Seasons | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2015 | The Chameleon Slayer | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2015 | Masaan | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
2015 | Diary of a Chambermaid | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2015 | Mune: Guardian of the Moon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 66 Fair |
2014 | Gemma Bovery | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2014 | 3 Hearts | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2014 | Song of the Sea | Sound | Original Music Composer | 74 Good |
2013 | Playing Dead | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2013 | Amazonia | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2013 | La rupture | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2012 | Ludwig II | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2012 | Pour toi, j'ai tué | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2012 | An Open Heart | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2012 | Happiness Never Comes Alone | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2012 | HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami | Sound | Original Music Composer | 55 Average |
2012 | Farewell, My Queen | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2012 | Calm at Sea | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2011 | The Field of Enchantment | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2011 | My Worst Nightmare | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2011 | Switch | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2010 | Deep in the Woods | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2010 | Turk's Head | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2010 | Oceans | Sound | Original Music Composer | 64 Fair |
2009 | Lucky Luke | Sound | Original Music Composer | 51 Average |
2009 | Villa Amalia | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2009 | The Secret of Kells | Sound | Original Music Composer | 67 Fair |
2009 | Coraline | Sound | Original Music Composer | 77 Good |
2008 | Agathe Cléry | Sound | Original Music Composer | 56 Average |
2008 | Le Septième Juré | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2008 | The Last Deadly Mission | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
2008 | Female Agents | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
2007 | The Second Wind | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2007 | Max & Co | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2007 | Ulzhan | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2007 | Hellphone | Sound | Original Music Composer | 56 Average |
2007 | Crime Insiders | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2006 | The White Planet | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2005 | Les Choristes in Concert | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2005 | The Accursed Kings | Sound | Music | 68 Fair |
2005 | The Brice Man | Sound | Original Music Composer | 56 Average |
2005 | Let's Be Friends | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2005 | Sometimes in April | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
2004 | Genesis | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2004 | The Chorus | Sound | Original Music Composer | 74 Good |
2004 | Secret Agents | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
2004 | Milady | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2003 | Hot House | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2002 | The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2002 | The Tombs | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2001 | Winged Migration | Sound | Music Director | 63 Fair |
2001 | Winged Migration | Sound | Original Music Composer | 63 Fair |
2001 | Les rivières pourpres: L'enquête | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2001 | Making of "la scène au scalpel" | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
2001 | Vidocq | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2001 | Origins of Life | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2001 | All About Love | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2001 | Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre | Sound | Original Music Composer | 54 Average |
2000 | The Crimson Rivers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 66 Fair |
2000 | Harrison's Flowers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
2000 | Jacqueline dans ma vitrine | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
2000 | The Magnet | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2000 | The Libertine | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2000 | Crime Scenes | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2000 | Marry Me | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1999 | Himalaya | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
1999 | Balzac: A Life of Passion | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1999 | Hard Off | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1999 | Belle Maman | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1998 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Sound | Original Music Composer | 71 Good |
1998 | Don Juan | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1998 | Serial Lover | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1998 | Already Dead | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1997 | Fire in Paradise | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1996 | Vice vertu et vice versa | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1996 | Microcosmos | Sound | Original Music Composer | 63 Fair |
1995 | Time | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1994 | Le Chambon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1993 | The Son of the Shark | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1992 | Old Rascal | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1992 | Siméon | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
1992 | And the Little Prince Said | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1992 | The Return of Casanova | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1991 | Walking a Tightrope | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1991 | Epiphany Sunday | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1986 | The Secret Wife | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1986 | Qui trop embrasse... | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1986 | Lien de parenté | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
1986 | Bel ragazzo | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1984 | Oiseau de sang | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
1978 | Nuit féline | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
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1999 | Balzac | Crew | Compositor | 69 Fair |