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Georges Delerue was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards,... including an Academy Award for A Little Romance , three César Awards , two ASCAP Awards , and one Gemini Award for Sword of Gideon . He was also nominated for four additional Academy Awards for Anne of the Thousand Days , The Day of the Dolphin , Julia , and Agnes of God , four additional César Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Genie Award for Black Robe . The French newspaper Le Figaro named him "the Mozart of cinema." Delerue was the first composer to win three consecutive César Awards for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs , Love on the Run , and The Last Metro . Georges Delerue was named Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France's highest honours. Georges Delerue was born 12 March 1925 in Roubaix, France to Georges Delerue and Marie Lhoest. He was raised in a musical household; his grandfather lead an amateur chorale group and his mother sang and played piano at family gatherings.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles , New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
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