Nathaniel Méchaly (born 1972
) is a French musician and film composer. His composing credits include ''
Avanim'' (2004), ''
Revolver
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'' (2005), ''
Colombiana
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'' (2011), ''
The Grandmaster'' (2013), and the
''Taken'' trilogy (2008–2014).
Early life
Méchaly was born in 1972. He studied music at the Conservatoire National de Région de Musique de Marseille.
His older sister, opera singer
Gaëlle Méchaly, studied music at the same conservatoire.
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
Gabriel Yared
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Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films '' Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claudel''. He later worked on Eng ...
.
He wrote his first
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for French-Israeli writer and director
Raphaël Nadjari's 2004 film ''
Avanim''. He went on to score two more Israeli feature films: ''
Ushpizin'' (2004), and ''
Tehilim'' (2007) which was also directed by Nadjari. Eventually, the French production company
EuropaCorp
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's music department director became aware of Méchaly's earlier works and commissioned him to compose French actor
Richard Berry's 2005 directorial feature film ''
The Black Box''. French screenwriter and director
Luc Besson
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, co-founder of EuropaCorp was 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
33rd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Composer at the
8th Asian Film Awards for ''
The Grandmaster'' (2013) with Japanese composer
Shigeru Umebayashi
(born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer.
Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film scores to his credi ...
.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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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
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