Cyrille Aufort

Film Industry Role: Composer

Nationality: French

Major WorksA Royal Affair (2012) and Splice (2009)

Major Awards and Nominations: Emmy Award for Best Original Music in the Miniseries, Film or Special category for the feature documentary film March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (2017)

An eclectic composer (comedy, thriller, drama, adventure), Cyrille Aufort has truly begun to establish his reputation both in France and abroad with films such as Antartica: Ice & Sky (2015), Past Life (2016), A Perfect Man (2013), and more recently, by winning an Emmy Award and a Music in Media Award for his original composition on the documentary L'Empereur (2017) by Luc Jacquet. 

Cyrille Aufort is in the spotlight with Heart of Oak, co-directed by Michel Seydoux and Laurent Charbonnier. He has just finished composing for the series And the Mountain Will Flourish by Eléonore Faucher. Previously, he composed the series Saving Lisa and the TV movie Never Again Without You, Luna, both by Yann Samuell. He recently worked on the original scores for the series Nox by Mabrouk El Mechri for Canal+, then for the TV movie Ma Mère Le Crabe et Moi by Yann Samuell, for the documentary Beyond the Clouds by Eric Valli and for the feature film The Other Story by Avi Nesher.