French composer, Ludovic Bource, was awarded the 2012 Academy Award for the Best Original Score for the movie, “The Artist”.This was his first time nominated for an Academy Award. He also was the recipient of the Best Original Score for a Motion Picture at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beerly Hilton in Beverly HIlls, CA on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Bource has already won a European Film Award and a BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts). He was also named Breakout Composer of the Year in 2011 by the International Film Music Critic Association (IFMCA).

Bource, 41, grew up in Brittany and from the age of eight played accordion at local dances and weddings. His first time in the spotlight happened when he played the accordion on stage at a Bastille Day Ball in his native Brittany. At the age of 17, he switched to the piano and studied classical piano at the conservatoire with Anne Magadur and at 18 he began to study jazz.

He has previously worked with Hazanavicius on the director’s OSS 117 spy adventures, with “The Artist’s” Dujardin as the secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath. He has recently produced an album for his friend, French saxophonist Pierrick Pedron.

For “The Artist”, Bource took ideas from many styles of music including, surprisingly, Brahms’s “”Sapphic Ode” for a theme called “Comme une rosee de largess” (Like a Dew of Tears), used to suggest George’s melancholy, a “sort of sensitivity and dignity”.

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording was made by the Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra in Brussels with all the resources needed to create powerful effects: 80 musicians, including 50 string players, 4 French horns, 4 trombones, 5 percussionists and a harpist. However, the variety of the soundtrack extends beyond the symphonic mode, as the tap dance scenes are played to lively big band music.