Marius de Vries

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

BAFTA Awards • Year — Recipient — Category — Result — Ref. • 1998 — Romeo + Juliet — Best Film Music • 2002 — Moulin Rouge! Grammy Awards • Year — Recipient — Category — Result — Ref. • 1998 — Ray of Light — Album of the Year • Contact from the Underworld of Redboy — Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical • 2001 — Moulin Rouge! — Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media • 2017 — La La Land • 2026 — Eusexua — Best Dance/Electronic Album Ivor Novello Awards • Year — Recipient — Category — Result — Ref. • 1998 — Romeo + Juliet — Best Original Film Score World Soundtrack Awards • Year — Recipient — Category — Result — Ref. • 2001 — Moulin Rouge! — Best Original Score of the Year • Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack