Marius de Vries is an English record producer and composer. He has won two Grammy Awards from five nominations, two BAFTA Awards, and an Ivor Novello Award.

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Marius de Vries (born 1961) is an English record producer and composer. He has won two Grammy Awards from five nominations, two BAFTA Awards, and an Ivor Novello Award.\n

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Education

Marius de Vries was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, Bedford School (between 1975 and 1980) and then at Peterhouse, Cambridge.\n

Career

Music producer

Recording artists he has collaborated with include Björk, Madonna, Massive Attack, The Cranberries, David Bowie, U2, FKA twigs, Rufus Wainwright, Chrissie Hynde, Neil Finn, Annie Lennox, Bebel Gilberto, David Gray, P.J. Harvey, Elbow, Josh Groban, Alice Martineau and Melanie C.\n

De Vries served as the executive music producer for the 2016 film La La Land and produced the accompanying soundtrack. He also co-wrote the song \"Start a Fire\" alongside John Legend, Justin Hurwitz, and Angelique Cinelu, and had a small role in the film as a casting director.\n

Composer/film scores

De Vries was the music director of the 2001 film Moulin Rouge! and worked with Nellee Hooper on the film soundtrack of Romeo + Juliet (1996) as co-composer, programmer, and co-producer. Both of these projects won de Vries British Academy Film Awards. He was also awarded an Ivor Novello Award for his compositional work on the former.\n

He also wrote the scores for Stephan Elliott's surreal thriller Eye of the Beholder as well as Elliott's adaptation of the Noël Coward comedy Easy Virtue. The latter film is notable musically for using the real singing voices of leading actors Ben Barnes, Jessica Biel, and Colin Firth.\n

In 2010, he co-wrote the score of Kick-Ass with John Murphy, Henry Jackman and Ilan Eshkeri. He co-produced, along with Tyler Bates and Zack and Deborah Snyder, and performed on the soundtrack of Snyder's 2011 film Sucker Punch.\n

In 2020 and 2021, he composed the score for Sian Heder's CODA, which won Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards. He served as executive music producer on Leos Carax's Annette.\n

De Vries recently scored Daniel Roher's Navalny, which won Best Documentary at the 2023 Academy Awards. With Joshua Schmidt, he composed the score for Joshua Oppenheimer's apocalyptic musical film, The End (2024), starring Tilda Swinton.\n

Partial list of songs produced

Songs by Teddy Thompson\n

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Songs by Rufus Wainwright\n

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Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards\n

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Grammy Awards\n

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Ivor Novello Awards\n

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World Soundtrack Awards\n

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References

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External links

Official website
Marius de Vries interview: Brave New World

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Marius de Vries

Broadcast History