Lebanese composer, conductor

Gabriel Yared

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Lebanese composer, conductor
Genres
Awards Received
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award
Nominated For
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score European Film Award for Best Composer European Film Award for Best Composer

Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for his work on The English Patient (1996) and was nominated for both The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (2003).