 "A Bigger Splash" and "The Danish Girl" made their world premieres at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, both were screened in the official competition.On 28 July 2015, Schoenaerts was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.In January 2016, it was announced that Schoenaerts would play a drummer who begins to lose his hearing in Darius Marder's "The Sound of Metal".