Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared is known for 1408 (2007), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Lives of Others (2006).
Biography
Gabriel Yared (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).
When Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher. Two years later Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. Although he was not necessarily a gifted pianist, Yared was interested in reading music. When Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Yared replaced him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph. Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, and many other composers. This extensive reading inspired his first original composition, a piano waltz.
Yared gained a degree in law and did not formally study music at the university level until he traveled to France in 1969 to attend the École Normale de Musique de Paris as a non-registered student. There he learned the rules of music composition from Henri Dutilleux.
At the end of 1971, Yared went to Brazil to visit his uncle and was asked by the president of the World Federation of Light Music Festivals to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the Rio de Janeiro Song Festival. The song he composed went on to win first prize. While in Brazil, he also performed with a small orchestra. Yared subsequently said that his time in Brazil greatly influenced his work.
In 1975, he arranged the album Minacantalucio for the popular Italian singer Mina.
He then went back to France, where he met and collaborated with the Costa Brothers, Jacques Dutronc, Françoise Hardy, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, and numerous other musicians. This was a prolific period for the composer and he wrote nearly 3,000 pieces over a span of about six years. His contributions included a number of radio and TV jingles, such as TF1 news jingles and an episode on the series In the Tracks of.
Yared is best known for his collaborations with the late Anthony Minghella. His first collaboration with Minghella was the 1996 film The English Patient, which was highly acclaimed and won him an Oscar for Best Original Score. He composed the scores for all of Minghella's subsequent films and the music for the television series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, co-created by Minghella and Richard Curtis.
Aside from his work with Minghella, Yared scored a number of other films, including Betty Blue (1986), Map of the Human Heart (1992), City of Angels (1998), Message in a Bottle (1999), Autumn in New York (2000), The Next Best Thing (2000), Possession (2002), and Bon Voyage (2003). He had a notable collaboration with René Laloux in the late 1980es on Gandahar and How Wang-fo was saved produced at the SEK Studio in North Korea.
Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Yared was tapped to compose the score for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. However, he was eventually replaced on the project by Atli Örvarsson. ...
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Questions about Gabriel Yared
How many Gabriel Yared films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 93 films with Gabriel Yared, from 1980 to 2026.
What is the best rated Gabriel Yared film?
The best rated Gabriel Yared film in the catalogue is The Lives of Others (2006), rated 8.0.
What was the first Gabriel Yared film?
The first Gabriel Yared film in the catalogue is Every Man for Himself, from 1980.
Who has Gabriel Yared worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Gabriel Yared shares the most credits with Anthony Minghella (4 films), John Seale (4 films) and Olivier Claverie (4 films).
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Known for
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6.7 1408
2007
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7.2 The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
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8.0 The Lives of Others
2006
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7.1 The English Patient
1996
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6.8 City of Angels
1998
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6.9 Cold Mountain
2003
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6.4 Shall We Dance?
2004
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7.2 It's Only the End of the World
2016
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7.0 The Lover
1992
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6.7 Judy
2019
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7.3 A Royal Affair
2012
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6.3 Message in a Bottle
1999
Full filmography
96 films — 93 in the catalogue
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The Cinema of Francis Lai
2026
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6.0 Killerwood
2025 · Gabriel Yared
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6.7 Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand
2024 · Self
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7.8 My Way
2024 · Self
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In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
2020 · Self
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8.0 Françoise Hardy - La discrète
2016 · Self (archive footage)
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5.0 Blue Notes and Bungalows
2013 · Self
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6.1 The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack
1999 · Self
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6.0 Sarah
1983 · Paul Jarry, composer
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6.9 Just the Two of Us
2023
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6.8 Scarlet
2023
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6.7 The Life Ahead
2020
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6.7
Judy
2019
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6.9 The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019
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6.6 Dilili in Paris
2018
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6.2 The Happy Prince
2018
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6.8 The Promise
2016
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7.2
It's Only the End of the World
2016
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6.8 Chocolat
2016
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5.5 By the Sea
2015
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7.3 Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014
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6.8 Tom at the Farm
2014
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6.1 In Secret
2014
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5.7 A Promise
2013
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5.2 Belle du Seigneur
2012
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6.2 Haute Cuisine
2012
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7.3
A Royal Affair
2012
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5.8 In the Land of Blood and Honey
2011
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5.7 Amelia
2009
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6.1 Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
2009
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7.2 The Hedgehog
2009
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5.9 All About Actresses
2009
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6.1 Adam Resurrected
2008
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5.4 A Room with a View
2007
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6.7
1408
2007
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6.1 Breaking and Entering
2006
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7.7 Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
2006
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8.0
The Lives of Others
2006
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6.4
Shall We Dance?
2004
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6.9
Cold Mountain
2003
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4.4 Lost Seamen
2003
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5.8 Sylvia
2003
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6.3 Bon Voyage
2003
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5.2 The One and Only
2002
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6.0 Possession
2002
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4.6 Lisa
2001
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6.1 Autumn in New York
2000
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5.2 The Next Best Thing
2000
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7.2
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
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6.3
Message in a Bottle
1999
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6.8
City of Angels
1998
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7.1
The English Patient
1996
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6.1 Black for Remembrance
1995
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6.7 Wings of Courage
1995
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4.0 Fall from Grace
1994
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8.0 Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994
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5.2 Low Profile
1993
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5.3 The Groundhogs
1993
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6.3 Map of the Human Heart
1993
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6.6 The Girl in the Air
1992
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5.0 The First Circle
1992
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7.0
The Lover
1992
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6.3 Vincent & Theo
1990
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4.8 The King's Whore
1990
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5.2 1001 Nights
1990
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7.0 Romero
1989
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6.8 Camille Claudel
1988
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6.4 Clean and Sober
1988
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4.6 The Seasons of Pleasure
1988
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6.9 Gandahar
1987
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4.5 The Veiled Man
1987
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5.6 Agent trouble
1987
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3.9 Beyond Therapy
1987
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7.1 How Wang-Fo Was Saved
1987
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6.1 Disorder
1986
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7.2 Betty Blue
1986
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6.6 Zone Red
1986
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5.5 The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
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3.9 Dream One
1984
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5.9 Dangerous Moves
1984
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6.3 Hanna K.
1983
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10.0 Shadow Dance
1983
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5.7 The Moon in the Gutter
1983
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6.2 Every Man for Himself
1980
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6.5 The Airplane
2005
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5.1 The Idol
2002
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6.5 Auntie Danielle
1990
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4.3 Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
1988
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8.0 Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988
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4.2 Fire on Sight
1984
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6.7 Malevil
1981
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9.0 The Ark and the Deluge
1993
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6.1 IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
1992
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6.9 Broken Keys
2022
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5.9 Adieu Bonaparte
1985
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6.4 The Captive
1985
Series and TV shows
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