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Early life

Méchaly was born in 1972. He studied music at the Conservatoire National de Région de Musique de Marseille.

Career

Méchaly began his career as a composer for television shows and commercials for French media conglomerates. He served as an assistant to French-Lebanese composer

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. He wrote his first score for French-Israeli writer and director Raphaël Nadjari's 2004 film '' Avanim''. He went on to score two more Israeli feature films: ''

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'' (2004), and '' Tehilim'' (2007) which was also directed by Nadjari. Eventually, the French production company

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's music department director became aware of Méchaly's earlier works and referred him to compose French actor Richard Berry's 2005 directorial feature film '' The Black Box''. Afterward, French screenwriter and director

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, co-founder of EuropaCorp became pleased with Méchaly's work in ''The Black Box'' and decided to hire him for future projects. Méchaly won Best Original Film Score at the

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and Best Composer at the 8th Asian Film Awards for '' The Grandmaster'' (2013) with Japanese composer

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Selected filmography

References

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* * 1972 births Living people French film score composers French musicians French male film score composers Best Original Score Guldbagge Award winners {{France-composer-stub