1. Maurice Jarre received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award.
24 Facts About Maurice Jarre
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Maurice Jarre won three Academy Awards for Best Original Score for the David Lean films Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India.
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Maurice Jarre was Oscar-nominated for Sundays and Cybele, The Message, Witness, Gorillas in the Mist, and Ghost.
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Maurice Jarre worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, John Huston, Luchino Visconti, John Frankenheimer, and Peter Weir.
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Maurice Jarre was the father of musician Jean-Michel Jarre and the adoptive father of screenwriter Kevin Jarre.
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Maurice Jarre was born in Lyon, the son of Gabrielle Renee and Andre Maurice Jarre, a radio technical director.
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Maurice Jarre first enrolled in the engineering school at the Sorbonne, but decided to pursue music courses instead.
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Maurice Jarre left the Sorbonne against his father's will and enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris to study composition and harmony and chose percussion as his major instrument.
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Maurice Jarre became director of the Theatre National Populaire and recorded his first film score in France in 1951.
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Maurice Jarre wrote the score for Toute la memoire du monde by Alain Resnais.
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Maurice Jarre followed with The Train and Grand Prix, both for director John Frankenheimer, and in between had another great success in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, which included the lyricless tune "Lara's Theme", and which earned him his second Oscar.
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Maurice Jarre contributed the music for Luchino Visconti's The Damned, and John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King.
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Maurice Jarre was again nominated for an Academy Award for scoring The Message in 1976, for the director and producer Moustapha Akkad.
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Maurice Jarre followed with Witness and Dead Poets Society, for which he won a British Academy Award.
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Maurice Jarre scored his last project in 2001, a television mini-series about the Holocaust titled Uprising.
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Maurice Jarre wrote mainly for orchestras, but began to favour synthesized music in the 1980s.
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Maurice Jarre pointed out that his electronic score for Witness was actually more laborious, time-consuming and expensive to produce than an orchestral score.
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Maurice Jarre was married four times, the first three marriages ending in divorce.
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In 1965, Maurice Jarre married French actress Dany Saval; together they had a daughter, Stephanie Maurice Jarre.
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Maurice Jarre next married American actress Laura Devon, resulting in his adopting her son, Kevin Jarre, a screenwriter, with credits on such films as Tombstone and Glory.
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Maurice Jarre died of cancer on 28 March 2009 in Los Angeles.
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Maurice Jarre received three Academy Awards and received a total of nine nominations, eight for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song.
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Maurice Jarre won four Golden Globes and was nominated for ten.
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Maurice Jarre received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.