On 23 June 2014 , it was announced that Desplat would head the jury at the 71st Venice International Film Festival . He wrote five major scores during 2014 , with '' The Grand Budapest Hotel '' winning him his first Academy Award . His score for '' The Imitation Game '' was also nominated , and his win therefore marked the first time a composer had won against another of their own scores since John Williams won for '' Star Wars '' ( beating '' Close Encounters of the Third Kind '' ) in 1978 , and only the seventh time overall ( Alfred Newman , Bernard Herrmann , Max Steiner , Miklos Rozsa and Johnny Green are the only other composers to achieve this )
71st Venice International Film Festival
71st Venice International Film Festival
Alexandre Desplat