Marius de Vries


Marius de Vries is an English record 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 and then at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Career

Music producer

Recording artists he has collaborated with include Björk, Madonna, Massive Attack, David Bowie, U2, FKA twigs, Rufus Wainwright, Chrissie Hynde, Neil Finn, Annie Lennox, Bebel Gilberto, David Gray, P.J. Harvey, Elbow, Josh Groban, Alice Martineau and Melanie C.
De Vries served as the executive music producer for the 2016 film La [La Land (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 [Sucker Punch (soundtrack)|the soundtrack of Snyder's 2011 film] Sucker Punch.
In 2020 and 2021, he composed the score for Sian Heder's CODA, which won Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards, and served as executive music producer on Leos Carax's Annette.
De Vries' most recent scores are for Daniel Roher's Navalny - which won Best Documentary at the 2023 Academy Awards, and, with Joshua Schmidt, for Joshua Oppenheimer's apocalyptic musical film, The End, starring Tilda Swinton.

Partial list of songs produced

Songs by Teddy Thompson
Songs by Rufus Wainwright

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards
YearRecipientCategoryResultRef.
1998Romeo + JulietBAFTA Award for [Best Film Music|Best Film Music]Won
2002Moulin Rouge!Best Film MusicWon

Grammy Awards
YearRecipientCategoryResultRef.
1998Ray of LightAlbum of the YearNomitated
1998Contact from [the Underworld of Redboy]Best Engineered Album, Non-ClassicalNomitated
2001Moulin Rouge!Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual MediaNomitated
2017La La LandBest Compilation Soundtrack for Visual MediaWon

Ivor Novello Awards
YearRecipientCategoryResultRef.
1998Romeo + JulietBest Original Film ScoreWon

World Soundtrack Awards
YearRecipientCategoryResultRef.
2001Moulin Rouge!World Soundtrack Award for [Best Original Score of the Year|Best Original Score of the Year]Nomitated
2001Moulin Rouge!Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a SoundtrackWon