Marius de Vries
Marius de Vries (born 1961) is an English music producer and composer. He has won a Grammy Award from four nominations, two BAFTA Awards, and an Ivor Novello Award. Education. Marius de Vries was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, Bedford School (between 1975-1980) and then at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Career. Music producer. Recording artists he has collaborated with include Bjork, Madonna, Massive Attack, David Bowie, U2, Rufus Wainwright, Chrissie Hynde, Neil Finn, Annie Lennox, Bebel Gilberto, David Gray, P.J. Harvey, Elbow, and Josh Groban. De Vries served as the executive music producer for the 2016  film "La La Land" and produced the accompanying soundtrack. He also co-wrote the song "Start a Fire" alongside John Legend, Justin Hurwitz, and Angelique Cinelu, and had a small role in the film as a casting director. Composer/film scores. De Vries was the music director of the 2001 film "Moulin Rouge!" and worked with Nellee Hooper on the film soundtrack of "Romeo + Juliet" as co-composer, programmer, and co-producer. Both of these projects won de Vries BAFTA awards, and he was awarded an Ivor Novello Award for his compositional work on the former. He also wrote  the scores for Stephan Elliott's surreal thriller "Eye of the Beholder" as well as Elliott's adaptation of the Noël Coward comedy "Easy Virtue". The latter is notable musically for using the real singing voices of leading actors Ben Barnes, Jessica Biel, and Colin Firth. In 2010, he co-wrote the score of "Kick-Ass" with John Murphy, Henry Jackman and Ilan Eshkeri. He co-produced, along with Tyler Bates and Zack and Deborah Snyder, and performed on the soundtrack of Snyder's 2011 film "Sucker Punch". In 2020 and 2021, he composed the score for Sian Heder's  CODA, and served as Executive Music Producer on Leos Carax's Annette. Partial list of songs produced. Songs by Teddy Thompson Songs by Rufus Wainwright Awards and nominations. BAFTA Awards Grammy Awards Ivor Novello Awards World Soundtrack Awards