Name Benoit Charest Role Guitarist | Albums Belleville Rendez-Vous Ex-spouse Beatrice Bonifassi | |
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Awards Cesar Award for Best Original Score, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Song Similar People Beatrice Bonifassi, Sylvain Chomet, Martin Villeneuve, Matthieu Chedid, Jean Claude Donda | ||
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Benoît Charest ([bənwa ʃaʁɛ]; born in 1964) is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003), for which he won a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music. The song "Belleville Rendez-vous", in particular, earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a Grammy Award nomination.
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- Bruno s theme benoit charest
- Lizabett Russo Belleville Rendezvous Benot Charest Cover
- Biography
- Selected filmography
- Awards and nominations
- References
Lizabett Russo - Belleville Rendezvous (Benoît Charest Cover)
Biography
Benoît Charest was born in Montreal in 1964. At the age of 13 he started playing guitar and learned to play the songs of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin by ear. He later discovered jazz and decided at 17 to undertake private lessons with Neil Smolar, a graduate from the Berklee School of Music in Boston. During his college studies, Charest earned a living playing with established jazz musicians in Montreal.
In 1991, Charest produced his first score for Montréal rétro, a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada; he composed, arranged and conducted the music for the film. In the late 1990s, Charest co-founded Ben & Max Studios with musician Maxime Morin (better known as DJ Champion) — a company specializing in jingles and soundtracks. In 2001 Morin sold his share in the company back to Charest in order to continue his own personal musical career.
Charest has written music for such films as Polytechnique, Route 132, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea and Upside Down. Charest composed the score for the 2009 National Film Board of Canada animated short Runaway, written and directed by Cordell Barker. He wrote the soundtrack for Martin Villeneuve's sci-fi film Mars et Avril, nominated at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards and at the 2013 Jutra Awards for Achievement in music - Original score.
Charest composed the soundtrack for the 2003 animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville. The film's score garnered him a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film and the song "Belleville Rendez-vous" earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song in 2004. Charest, along with his then wife, vocalist Béatrice Bonifassi, performed "Belleville Rendez-vous" at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony — Maxime Morin played percussion on a bicycle during the live performance.
Charest has also composed music for television, theatre, and more than sixty commercials.
On October 22, 2013, Benoît Charest won the Félix in the category Album of the year – original soundtrack at the ADISQ Gala for his work on Mars et Avril. For the occasion, a limited edition of 300 vinyl records of the soundtrack was released, as a nod to the retro-futuristic look of the film.
Selected filmography
Awards and nominations
Awards
Nominations