Benoit Charest - Quebec based Film Composer - Les Triplettes de Belleville, Maxed Out, Runaway, Polytechnique, Route 132, Mars Et April

Benoit is best known for the soundtrack of the Oscar nominated, animated film, The Triplettes of Belleville, for which he won a Cesar Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music. The song Belleville Rendez-vous, in particular, earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a Grammy Award nomination. Benoit composed the score for the National Film Board of Canada animated short Runaway, written and directed by Cordell Barker.  Benoit wrote the music for a variety of other feature films including: Maxed Out, Polytechnique, Route 132, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, and Mars et Avril.