Mathieu Lamboley is a French film composer born in Les Lilas. He is the brother of actress Juliette Lamboley.

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Mathieu Lamboley is a French film composer born in Les Lilas. He is the brother of actress Juliette Lamboley.\n

He studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, where he received five first prizes (harmony, counterpoint, fugue and form, orchestration, and piano).\n

He began his career in film music as an orchestrator, collaborating notably with Grégoire Hetzel on A Christmas Tale by Arnaud Desplechin (in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival). In 2004, he wrote his first film score for Les oreilles n'ont pas de paupières by Étienne Chaillou, an animated short film which received the Grand Prix for Best Sound Creation at the Aubagne International Film Festival in 2005.\n

In 2006, he was selected by ASCAP to participate in the Film Music Workshop in Los Angeles, where he recorded and conducted one of his symphonic pieces with the Hollywood orchestra. He worked with Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, who encouraged him to write for cinema.\n

Inspired by Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky and John Williams, Lamboley has since collaborated on numerous projects for cinema, television and advertising with directors including Jonny Campbell, Julie Delpy,Louis Leterrier, Guillaume Canet, \nEmmanuel Carrère, Yvan Attal, Pascal Chaumeil, Antonin Peretjatko and Laurent Tirard.\n

He composed the score for Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away by Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo, performed by the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France which he conducted for the occasion. The score was widely praised by critics.\n

In 2019, he was the only French composer nominated at the World Soundtrack Awards (Public Choice category).\n

In 2020, he received two nominations from the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA), alongside composers such as John Powell, Christophe Beck and Dan Levy, and won the UCMF Award for Best Score for an Animated Film.\n

In 2021, he composed the score for the Netflix global hit series Lupin, starring Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, Clotilde Hesme and Nicole Garcia, blending orchestral music with hip-hop rhythms. The series became one of Netflix's most-watched non-English language shows worldwide. He composed all and is currently working on the next one.\n

Also in 2021, Yvan Attal chose him to compose the score for The Accusation, an adaptation of the novel by Karine Tuil, presented at the Venice Film Festival and the Deauville American Film Festival.\n

The film Ouistreham by Emmanuel Carrère was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, opening the Directors' Fortnight. Carrère called upon Lamboley to compose a score inspired by American minimalist music.\n

In 2023, he received the Grand Prix SACEM for film music, the most prestigious French distinction in the field.\n

Internationally, he composed the score for Cold Storage directed by Jonny Campbell, starring Liam Neeson, Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell, on a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible), released in February 2026.\n

He also composed the score for the successful German Netflix series Cassandra, created by Benjamin Gutsche and produced by Christian Becker and Amara Palacios, released in 2025, for which he received a nomination for Best Music at the Deutscher Fernsehpreis.\n

In 2026, L'Affaire Bojarski by Jean-Paul Salomé was released, featuring a score by Lamboley drawing on musique concrète — recording the sounds of a banknote printing press — and influenced by film noir, with a theme performed on alto and soprano saxophone.\n

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Filmography

Film

2004: Les oreilles n'ont pas de paupières — Étienne Chaillou (short film)
2009: L'Apparition de la Joconde — François Lunel
2011: Nos résistances — Romain Cogitore
2014: Macadam Baby — Patrick Bossard
2014: Libre et assoupi — Benjamin Guedj
2015: Toute Première Fois — Noémie Saglio & Maxime Govare
2015: Lolo — Julie Delpy
2016: Un petit boulot — Pascal Chaumeil
2017: Garde alternée — Alexandra Leclère
2017: Daddy Cool — Maxime Govare
2017: Bonne Pomme — Florence Quentin
2017: Boule et Bill 2 — Pascal Bourdiaux
2018: Return of the Hero — Laurent Tirard
2019: Sisters in Arms — Caroline Fourest
2019: Territory of Love — Romain Cogitore
2019: Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away — Hélène Giraud & Thomas Szabo
2020: La Pièce rapportée — Antonin Peretjatko
2020: Le Discours — Laurent Tirard
2020: La Fine Fleur — Pierre Pinaud
2021: Ouistreham — Emmanuel Carrère
2021: The Accusation — Yvan Attal
2021: The Last Mercenary — David Charhon
2022: Jack Mimoun et les Secrets de Val Verde — Malik Bentalha & Ludovic Colbeau-Justin
2022: Le Tigre et le Président — Jean-Marc Peyrefitte
2022: Les Têtes givrées — Stéphane Cazes
2022: La Guerre des Lulus — Yann Samuell
2022: Juste ciel ! — Laurent Tirard
2023: A Place to Fight For — Romain Cogitore
2023: Soul Mates — André Téchiné
2026: Cold Storage — Jonny Campbell
2026: L'Affaire Bojarski — Jean-Paul Salomé

Television

2008: Cherche toujours (documentary)
2011: Pour Djamila
2012: Climats
2013: Super Fungi (documentary)
2013: Bardot, la méprise (documentary)
2014: Rocky IV : le coup de poing américain (documentary)
2015: Un père coupable
2016: La Sociologue et l'Ourson (documentary)
2017: L'Homme dauphin, sur les traces de Jacques Mayol (documentary)
2018–2020: L'Art du crime (TV series, seasons 2, 3 and 4)
2021: Lupin (Netflix) — season 1
2021: Meurtres à Blois
2022: Lupin (Netflix) — season 2
2023: Lupin (Netflix) — season 3
2023: Tobie Lolness (France Télévisions)
2025: Cassandra (Netflix Germany)

Radio

2017: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France Culture
2025: La Reine des neiges by Hans Christian Andersen, France Culture with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Awards and nominations

Awards

2005: Grand Prix for Best Sound Creation, Aubagne International Film Festival — Les oreilles n'ont pas de paupières
2018: Best Original Score for a Comedy, Reel Music Awards — Return of the Hero
2020: UCMF Award, Best Score for an Animated Film — Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away
2023: Grand Prix SACEM, Film Music

Nominations

2019: World Soundtrack Awards, Public Choice — Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away
2019: IFMCA, Breakthrough Composer of the Year
2019: IFMCA, Best Score for an Animated Film — 'Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away
2019: UCMF Award, Cinema category — Return of the Hero
2021: Prix Michel-Legrand
2023: France Musique–SACEM Listeners' Prize, Best Original Film Score — A Place to Fight For
2025: Deutscher Fernsehpreis, Best Music — Cassandra

References

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External links

Official website

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Mathieu Lamboley

Broadcast History