Nathaniel Méchaly (born 1972) is a French musician and film composer. His composing credits include Avanim (2004), Revolver (2005), Colombiana (2011), The Grandmaster (2013), and the Taken trilogy (2008–2014).
Early life Méchaly was born in 1972. He studied music at the Conservatoire National de Région de Musique de Marseille. His older sister, opera singer Gaëlle Méchaly, studied music at the same conservatoire.
Career Méchaly began his career as a composer for television shows and commercials for French media conglomerates. He served as an assistant to French-Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared.
He wrote his first score for French-Israeli writer and director Raphaël Nadjari's 2004 film Avanim. He went on to score two more Israeli feature films: Ushpizin (2004), and Tehilim (2007) which was also directed by Nadjari. Eventually, the French production company EuropaCorp's music department director became aware of Méchaly's earlier works and commissioned him to compose French actor Richard Berry's 2005 directorial feature film The Black Box. French screenwriter and director Luc Besson, co-founder of EuropaCorp was pleased with Méchaly's work in The Black Box and decided to hire him for future projects.
Méchaly won Best Original Film Score at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Composer at the 8th Asian Film Awards for The Grandmaster (2013) with Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi.
Selected filmography Year Title Director Studio Notes2004 Avanim Raphaël Nadjari BVNG ProductionsTransfax Film Productions2.1 FilmsCompagnie des Phares et Balises Ushpizin Gidi Dar Eddie King Films 2005 Revolver Guy Ritchie Samuel Goldwyn Films The Black Box Richard Berry EuropaCorp 2007 Tehilim Raphaël Nadjari BVNG ProductionsTransfax Film Productions The Secret Vincent Perez EuropaCorp The Last Gang Ariel Zeitoun Room of Death Alfred Lot Bac Films 2008 Taken Pierre Morel EuropaCorp ()20th Century Fox () Dorothy Mills Agnès Merlet Dutch FilmWorks 2009 Eyes Wide Open Haim Tabakman Peccadillo Pictures The Assassin Next Door Danny Lerner Bleiberg Entertainment 2010 Une petite zone de turbulences Alfred Lot UGC / TFI Films 2011 Final Balance Pierre Lacan Sombrero Films Colombiana Olivier Megaton EuropaCorp 2012 Taken 2 EuropaCorp ()20th Century Fox () Black Really Suits You Jacques Bral Thunder Films International 2013 The Grandmaster Wong Kar-wai Block 2 PicturesJet Tone FilmsSil-Metropole OrganisationBona International Film Group Composed with Shigeru Umebayashi and Stefano Lentini 2014 Angélique Ariel Zeitoun EuropaCorp Get Well Soon Jean Becker ICE3 K.J.B. Production SND Films France 3 Cinéma Rhône-Alpes Cinéma Pure Life Jeremy Banster Cantina Studio Taken 3 Olivier Megaton EuropaCorp ()20th Century Fox () 2016 Shut In Farren Blackburn Transfilm InternationalLava Bear FilmsCanal+OcsCine+ See You Tomorrow Zhang Jiajia Alibaba Pictures 2017 Stratton Simon West GFM Films 2024 Mads Les Enfants Terribles
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