French composer, film director, producer.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Best Score « IndieFest Film Awards 2015» Hacker’s Game
Best Score « Valladolid Festival 2010 » The Human Resources Manager

Best Music «Israelian Documentary Film Award 2009» Unmistaken Child
Best soundtrack «Bastia film festival 2005» Little Jerusalem

Public award «Auxerre music film festival 2005» Zaïna, rider of the Atlas
Grand Prix, best original score «Aubagne film festival 2005» Little Jerusalem
Best Score «Auxerre music film festival 2004» The Syrian Bride
Best Score «Cinematic Encounter Cannes 2004» The Syrian Bride

Best Score «Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2014» Faith Connection (nomination)
Best Score « Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2013» Zaytoun (nomination)
European composer 2005 European film academy (nomination)

Revelation of the Year «World Soundtrack Academy 2005» (nomination)
Coup de Coeur “Auxerre film festical 2002” Samsara

Cyril Morin
Composer Biography



Cyril Morin is an Academy member, a multi-award winning composer, who has scored numerous soundtracks for both film and television. He is re-known throughout the international press for his long lasting multiple talents (Variety).

His score for the critically acclaimed Samsara (directed by Pan Nalin), won honors at AFI and festivals in Santa Barbara and Melbourne. The soundtrack continues to be a hit internationally, garnering many dedicated fans, and has made Morin something of a cult composer.

He was nominated for a World Soundtrack Award and a European Film Award for The Syrian Bride, and his score for Little Jerusalem (directed by Karin Albou with Elsa Zylberstein), which screened during Critics week at the Cannes Film Festival, earning him two awards. His music for That Day (directed by Jacob Berger) was cited as being a wonderfully varied and evocative score... by The Hollywood Reporter. Other projects include A Simple Heart (the Flaubert adaptation with Sandrine Bonaire), Ultimatum (with Gaspard Uliel) and the Eran Riklis's Human Resources Manager (with Mark Ivanir), which won Best Score in Vallaloid, Spain.

Morin has also worked on numerous TV features, documentaries and the critically acclaimed series Mafiosa (directed by Louis Choquette with Hélène Filières) and Borgia (show by Tom Fontana).

He scored Zhou Sun's I Do (with Li Bingbing), Lam Le “20 nights and a rainy day”, Eran Riklis's Playoff (with Danny Huston) and Zaytoun (with Steven Dorff), which screened at the Toronto film festival, AFI and London film festivals. Zaytoun's score get a nomination for the Jerry Goldsmith Awards. The music for the documentary Faith Connections gave him another nomination for the Jerry Goldsmith Awards.

During the last few years Cyril Morin has composed several soundtracks around the globe, Borders, Desrances from Burkina director Apolline Traore, Love All - Susi Susanti (Indonesia), The Bra (Azerbaïdjan/Germany), Winter (Argentina)… Among his recent scores is also “Last Film Show” directed by Pan Nalin (India) who just got Best World cinema film in Mill Valley and also a Golden Spike (Valladolid, Spain) to the director.

Cyril Morin has produced over 50 albums, soundtracks and solo albums for his own label, Massive Music. He has also orchestrated songs for Madonna, Mirwais, Kery James and the Indian singer Vidya Rao. Also a solo artist, Cyril Morin's The Evolutionist has been hailed a cinematic journey and a beautiful fusion of sound by critics. His last Album was release on the platforms “Double Piano” with the pianist William Lecomte.

In search for new experiences, Cyril Morin has also directed few movies starting by The Application Café (2012), a short film shot in the California desert, which touches upon the American myth.

In 2013, he wrote and directed “The Activist”, a thriller about American political unrest regarding the Native Americans at Wounded Knee. The film won awards at the Sedona, Tenerife, and Red Nation film festivals. It also received two Henri Langlois awards in France. The Activist was named one of the top 10 essential Native American films by Indian Country Today.

In 2016, he directed “Hacker's Game Redux”, a love story between two hackers, starring Pom Klementieff ( Guardian of the Galaxy, Mission Impossible). This film swept the Indie Fest Film Awards with four wins.

“NY84”, was released is inspired by the artists and music of the 1980s, the film looks at the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in New York.

In 2022 a new cut of The Activist will be released under the name” The Sacrifice Zone (The Activist)”


The press knows him
« When you work by yourself, you’re in the world of your creation alone. A director can push you in a direction you would never have explored on your own, into new countries, new worlds, new moods. And one work winds up energizing another... »
VARIETY Interview January 2009
«Multiple talents...» (Première),
«An original and inspired composer... » (Trax),
«A beautifull fusion of sounds... » (Properly child),
«Cyril's music take us a million miles away (Unlimited Pop),
« ...Intriguing and very imaginative... » (Vogue),
« Wonderfully varied and evocative score by French composer Cyril Morin...To infuse the proceeding with added wit and poignancy » (The Hollywood Reporter)
«A successful film composer, producer and musician» (Variety)
www.cyrilmorin.net