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

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.

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.

BAFTA Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Recipient	Category	Result	Ref.
1998	Ray of Light	Album of the Year	Nomitated
1998	Contact from [the Underworld of Redboy]	Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical	Nomitated
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media	Nomitated
2017	La La Land	Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media	Won

Ivor Novello Awards

Year	Recipient	Category	Result	Ref.
1998	Romeo + Juliet	Best Original Film Score	Won

World Soundtrack Awards

Year	Recipient	Category	Result	Ref.
2001	Moulin Rouge!	World Soundtrack Award for [Best Original Score of the Year\|Best Original Score of the Year]	Nomitated
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack	Won