Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared
Yared at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Background information
Born (1949-10-07) 7 October 1949
OccupationComposer

Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. He also served as the composer of the 1999 Warner Bros. Pictures fanfare, which originally debuted a year earlier during a montage to celebrate the studio's 75th anniversary.

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).