Oscar Watch: Academy Award-Winning Composer Lightens Up for Secret Life of Pets

Nominated for eight Academy Awards over the past decade, French composer Alexandre Desplat has a gift for infusing somber period pieces incuding The Imitation Game, Philomena and The King's Speech with majestic scores. But Desplat also has a playful side. For animated hit The Secret Life of Pets, which opened in July, Desplat shifted gears from his Oscar-winning Grand Budapest Hotel music to score the New York City misadventures of runaway dog Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) and rebel pet leader Snowball the Bunny (Kevin Hart).

Louis C.K. is a Dog in The Secret Life of Pets Trailer

If you missed National Pets Day, yesterday, don't feel too bad, a lot of people weren't even aware it existed. But it does! It did! And in the spirit of a day celebrating our beloved best friends, we're sharing the first trailer for The Secret Life of Pets, 

The Secret Life of Pets is a exactly what its title says it is; a comedy about "the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day." Louis C.K.,