Thomas Foguenne

Thomas Foguenne (Chinese: 福多瑪; born 25 July 1980) is a Belgian-Taiwanese composer and pianist. He is known for his film scores for Stranger Eyes, Three Tears in Borneo (2024) and Trouble Girl (2023).

Foguenne won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Score for Stranger Eyes at the 61st Golden Horse Awards in 2024. He has also received two Golden Bell Awards, a Golden Harvest Award and a Taipei Film Festival Award.

His film work also includes We Are All Strangers (2026), directed by Anthony Chen, for which he shares the music credit with Singaporean composer Kin Leonn.

Foguenne studied composition, piano, chamber music and harmony at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, where he also studied orchestral conducting and electroacoustic music. He teaches music analysis, classical composition, and applied and interactive music composition at Arts² in Mons, Belgium.

Career

After initially working as a contemporary music composer, Foguenne left music for several years to pursue a career in culinary arts before returning to composition and turning increasingly towards film scoring. He subsequently developed much of his career in Taiwan, where he became established as a film composer and collaborated with Taiwanese filmmakers on feature films, documentaries and television productions.

Among his early Taiwanese film credits were Black Sheep (2016), Blood Amber (2017), The Last Verse (2017) and Upstream (2017). His work on the latter two films was discussed by Taiwanese cultural publication BIOS Monthly, which highlighted his collaborations with directors Tseng Ying-ting and David Chuang.

His work subsequently expanded across Taiwanese and international productions. In 2023 he received his first Golden Horse Award nomination for Trouble Girl, followed in 2024 by the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Score for Yeo Siew Hua's Stranger Eyes, which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Foguenne continues to work between Europe and Asia. His recent credits include The Waves Will Carry Us, Slave Island and Anthony Chen's We Are All Strangers, for which he shares the music credit with Singaporean composer Kin Leonn. The film was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2026.

Filmography Film

Year Title Director(s) Notes 2026 We Are All Strangers Anthony Chen Music co-written with Kin Leonn. 2025 The Waves Will Carry Us Lau Kek-huat Original title: 人生海海. Nominated for Best Original Film Score at the 62nd Golden Horse Awards. 2025 Under the Same Boat Chang Ming-yu Documentary. Original title: 同一條船下. 2024 Stranger Eyes Yeo Siew Hua Original title: 默視錄. Won Best Original Film Score at the 61st Golden Horse Awards and Best Score at the Taipei Film Awards. 2023 Trouble Girl Chia-hua Chin (靳家驊) Original title: 小曉. Nominated for Best Original Film Score at the 60th Golden Horse Awards. 2023 Who'll Stop the Rain I-Hsuan Su (蘇奕瑄) Original title: 青春並不溫柔. 2022 Ballet in Tandem Wei-Hsin Yang (楊偉新) Documentary. Original title: 舞徑. 2021 Green Jail Yin-Yu Huang (黃胤毓) Documentary. Original title: 綠色牢籠. Nominated for Best Score at the Taipei Film Awards. 2021 The Bad Man Yong-chao Lee (李永超) Documentary. Original title: 惡人之煞. 2021 The Piano Lesson Hsu Yung-chih (徐湧智) Short film. Original title: 鋼琴課. Nominated for Best Score at the Taipei Film Awards. 2017 Blood Amber Yong-chao Lee (李永超) Original title: 血琥珀. 2016 The Fool and the Temple Yingjie Cui (崔英杰) Original title: 保守之地.

Television

Year Title Director(s) Notes 2024 Three Tears in Borneo Jie-heng Sun Television series. Original title: 聽海湧. Nominated for Best Music at the 60th Golden Bell Awards. 2022 Marriage no.1314 Wen-tang Cheng Television film. Original title: 尾號1314. Opening film of the Kaohsiung Film Festival. 2018 The Defender Shih-Han Tsao (曹仕翰) Television film. Original title: 無法辯護. 2017 Their Heaven Chien-Hung Lien (練建宏) Television film. Original title: TMD天堂. Five nominations at the 52nd Golden Bell Awards. 2017 Upstream David Chuang (莊絢維) Television film. Original title: 濁流. Five nominations and one award at the 52nd Golden Bell Awards; selected for the international competition at the Montreal World Film Festival. 2017 The Last Verse Ying-Ting Tseng (曾英庭) Television film. Original title: 最後的詩句. Eight nominations and four awards at the 52nd Golden Bell Awards; selected for the Busan International Film Festival and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. 2016 The Cat in the Closet Ying-Ting Tseng (曾英庭) Television film. Original title: 衣櫃裡的貓. Won Best Sound at the 51st Golden Bell Awards.