Marius de Vries (born 1961) is an English record producer and composer. He has won two Grammy Awards from five 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 and 1980) and then at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Career Music producer Recording artists he has collaborated with include Björk, Madonna, Massive Attack, The Cranberries, 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 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 (1996) as co-composer, programmer, and co-producer. Both of these projects won de Vries British Academy Film Awards. He was also 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 film 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, which won Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards. He served as executive music producer on Leos Carax's Annette.
De Vries recently scored Daniel Roher's Navalny, which won Best Documentary at the 2023 Academy Awards. With Joshua Schmidt, he composed the score for Joshua Oppenheimer's apocalyptic musical film, The End (2024), starring Tilda Swinton.
Partial list of songs produced Songs by Teddy Thompson
Songs by Rufus Wainwright
Awards and nominations BAFTA Awards Year Recipient Category Result Ref. 1998 Romeo + Juliet Best Film Music 2002 Moulin Rouge!
Grammy Awards Year Recipient Category Result Ref. 1998 Ray of Light Album of the Year Contact from the Underworld of Redboy Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical 2001 Moulin Rouge! Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 2017 La La Land 2026 Eusexua Best Dance/Electronic Album
Ivor Novello Awards Year Recipient Category Result Ref. 1998 Romeo + Juliet Best Original Film Score
World Soundtrack Awards Year Recipient Category Result Ref. 2001 Moulin Rouge! Best Original Score of the Year Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack
References
External links
Marius de Vries interview: Brave New World