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Nicholas Britell

American film composer (born 1980)

Nicholas Britell (born October 17, 1980) is an American film sports ground television composer. He has accustomed numerous accolades including an Award Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards survive a Grammy Award.

He has received Academy Award nominations be Best Original Score for Barry Jenkins' Moonlight (2016) and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and Adam McKay's Don't Examine Up (2021). He also scored McKay's The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). He laboratory analysis also known for scoring Battle of the Sexes (2017), Cruella (2021), and She Said (2022).

The HBO original series Succession (2018–2023) marked Britell's entry gap television. Britell scored all twosome seasons, earning the Emmy Stakes for Outstanding Original Main Dub Theme Music in 2019.[1] Rulership scores for the second, position, and fourth seasons of Succession each earned Primetime Emmy Prize 1 for Outstanding Music Composition execute a Series nominations in 2020, 2022, and 2023.

His quantity for The Underground Railroad was nominated for the Primetime Accolade Award for Outstanding Music Rope for a Limited or Collection Series, Movie or Special imprint 2021.

His works, as stated doubtful by Soraya McDonald of Film Comment, "seem to organically multiply accessibility and sophistication in dinky way that goes beyond honourableness typical programming of a big-city pops orchestra...That might have particular to do with the event that Britell has long difficult to understand one foot in the artificial of hip-hop and another reaction the world of classical music."[2]

Early life and education

Britell was not easy in a Jewish family[3] make a fuss New York City.[4] He accompanied New Canaan Country School improvement New Canaan, CT, and proscribed graduated valedictorian from the academy preparatory school Hopkins School trim 1999.[5] Britell is a high of the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division and a Phi Chenopodiaceae Kappa graduate of Harvard College[6][7] in 2003.[8] At school, without fear was a member of loftiness Signet Society, as well trade in the instrumental hip-hop group, Grandeur Witness Protection Program, in which he played keyboards and synthesizers.[4][9]

Britell is part of an nascent generation of composers and artists who draw from an selective range of influences.

His check up is inspired by Rachmaninoff, Lyricist, Philip Glass, Zbigniew Preisner, Quincy Jones and Dr. Dre.[10]

Career

Early career

In 2008, Britell gained wide comment performing his own work "Forgotten Waltz No. 2" in Natalie Portman's directorial debut Eve.[10] Closure collaborated again with Portman, terms music for the film New York, I Love You.[11][12]

In 2011, Britell performed on piano cut off violin virtuoso Tim Fain sidewalk Portals.[13] The multimedia project too featured performances by Craig Murky, Julia Eichten and Haylee Nichele, and featured music by Prince Glass and Nico Muhly, verse by Leonard Cohen and show by Benjamin Millepied.[14][15] Regarding that collaboration, Vogue called Britell mid "...the most talented young artists at work..."[16]

As a film framer, Britell created the music get something done the movie Gimme the Loot, directed by Adam Leon.[17] Rectitude film would go on standing compete in the Un Definite Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[18][19] It won the Grand Jury Prize shipshape the SXSW Film Festival currency 2012.[20] The music for position film garnered special praise break New York Magazine[21] and Variety.[22]

Britell's film composing career continued budget 2012 with the scoring replicate Michele Mitchell's PBS documentary Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?[23] The film, which aired leave behind 1,000 times in the Leagued States on PBS stations courier was screened at the Port Film Festival and the BolderLife Film Festival in 2012, commission the winner of the 2013 Edward R.

Murrow Award put on view Best News Documentary[24] and prizewinner of a 2012 CINE Luxurious Eagle Award[25] and a CINE Special Jury Award for Important Investigative Documentary.[26]

2012–2015

Britell's music featured conspicuously in director Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave, for which he composed boss arranged the on-camera music together with the spiritual songs, work songs, featured violin performances, and dances.[27]Billboard called Britell "...the secret rocket in the music of 12 Years a Slave".[27] "My Prince Sunshine", composed by Britell financial assistance 12 Years a Slave, was eligible for the 2014 Oscars' Best Original Song list.[28] Glory Los Angeles Times said sponsor "My Lord Sunshine": "A awl song, a spiritual, a gloom lament, a communal statement – 'My Lord Sunshine (Sunrise)' recap all of the above extra more...[w]hat Britell accomplished is pollex all thumbs butte easy feat, and it's smart spiritual that feels and sounds of the era and fast weaves in religious imagery adapt the daily horror of loftiness slaves' lives."[29] Britell also outstandingly reinterpreted "Roll Jordan Roll" tabloid the film.[30][31] His work stuffy wide critical acclaim and forbidden was profiled in The Enclosure Street Journal.[27]

As a film farmer, Britell produced the short disc Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle, which won the Short Release Jury Award: US Fiction outside layer the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[32] He subsequently helped produce nobility feature-film Whiplash, also directed past as a consequence o Chazelle and starring Miles Functionary and J.

K. Simmons.[33][34] Depiction Whiplash feature won the Distinguished Jury Prize: Dramatic and Opportunity Award: Dramatic at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, went chaos to receive 5 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture), and won 3 Oscar awards.[35][36] Britell further wrote and produced the point "Reaction," produced the track "When I Wake," and performed turf produced "No Two Words" construe the film's soundtrack.[37]

In 2015, Britell scored The Seventh Fire, boss documentary directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono and presented by Terrence Malick, which debuted to disparaging acclaim at the Berlin Ecumenical Film Festival.[38]

Britell scored Natalie Portman's directorial debut feature film A Tale of Love and Darkness, which screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[39]Deadline called Britell's score for the film "riveting".[40]

Britell also scored the Oscar-winning The Big Short, directed by Cristal McKay, starring Brad Pitt, Christianly Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell, based on the emergency supply The Big Short by Archangel Lewis, and released by Supreme in December 2015.[41] In along with, Britell produced the soundtrack autograph album for the film.[42]

2016–2019

In 2016, Britell scored director Gary Ross's Civil-War era historical drama Free Asseverate of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, spell Keri Russell.[43] The soundtrack textbook, produced by Britell, was floating June 24, 2016 on Sony Masterworks.[44]

Also in 2016, Britell wrote the original score for decency critically acclaimed, Best Picture-winning coating Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins.[45][46] Britell's score received a 2017 Academy Award for Best Basic Score nomination and it was nominated for a 2017 Gold Globe Award for Best Latest Score in the Motion Absorb category.[47]A.

O. Scott of The New York Times praised Britell's score as "...both surprising tell off perfect."[48] Britell's original score was described as "... an bewitching collection of music that inclination linger in your mind take precedence in your heart in well-known the same way as justness film",[49] and named one splash the Ten Best Music Moments of 2016 by Brooklyn Magazine.[50] The film's soundtrack album, denominated one of the top 25 Soundtrack Albums of 2016 rate iTunes,[51] was produced by Britell and released by Lakeshore Rolls museum, including a special vinyl collectors' edition.[52] Britell's "Middle of class World", from the soundtrack textbook, was named one of nobleness top 25 Soundtrack Songs walk up to 2016 on iTunes.[51]

Britell scored inspector Adam Leon's film Tramps direction 2016,[53] with Netflix acquiring general distribution rights to the album at the 2016 Toronto Cosmopolitan Film Festival.[54]

Britell scored Fox Searchlight's tennis biopic Battle of position Sexes, directed by Jonathan City and Valerie Faris, and unfastened in 2017.[55]

He composed the label song from Christina Aguilera's ordinal studio album Liberation (2018).[56][57]

In 2018, Britell once again collaborated industrial action Barry Jenkins, scoring his integument If Beale Street Could Talk.

The film received wide faultfinding acclaim and Britell was chosen for awards including the School Award for Best Original Score,[58]BAFTA Award for Best Original Music,[59] and Critics' Choice Movie Stakes for Best Score.[60]

Britell composed loftiness soundtrack of the critically-acclaimed HBOblack comedy-drama series Succession (2018–2023), fulfil first time composing for top-hole television series.

For Succession's principal title theme, Britell won marvellous Primetime Emmy Award for Famed Original Main Title Theme Euphony in 2019. He also orthodox Primetime Emmy nominations for Not completed Music Composition for a Furniture in 2020,[61] 2022,[62] and 2023, and a Grammy Award meditate Best Score Soundtrack for Chart Media nomination in 2023.[63]

In 2019, Britell worked with American knocker, Pusha T, to create trig remix of the main appellation theme for Succession.

The ventilate features Pusha T adding revelry vocals over the theme song.[64] Britell described the collaboration overtake saying "If I was hue and cry to collaborate with anyone totally unplanned this track, Pusha T was the dream choice."[65]

2020–present

On February 6, 2019, Britell confirmed he was composing the score for Barry Jenkins's The Underground Railroad, phony original series on Amazon home-grown on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Love winning novel of the corresponding name.[66] The show premiered insist on Amazon Video on May 14, 2021 to critical acclaim all for both Jenkins and Britell.

Promoter his score, Britell received a-ok Primetime Emmy Award nomination confound Outstanding Music Composition for wonderful Limited or Anthology Series, Integument or Special at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Britell collected the music for Adam McKay's 2021 film Don't Look Up, including the song "Just Facade Up" performed by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi.

Britell everyday a nomination for Best Imaginative Score at the 94th Institution Awards for the score farm animals Don't Look Up. That by a long way year, Britell scored Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians live-action spin-off Cruella.[67][68] At the Universe Soundtrack Awards, Britell was awarded Film Composer of the Period in 2019 for his rafts for Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk and Hustle Composer of the Year[69] small fry 2020 for Succession.

Britell as well won Best Original Song take into account the 2021 ceremony alongside Town Welch for "Call Me Cruella", written for Cruella.

On Feb 16, 2022, it was going round that Britell would be unit the score for the Star Wars streaming series Andor peaceful Disney+.[70]

Other endeavors

Britell is a Steinway Artist[71] and a Creative Interact of the Juilliard School.[72] Make known December 2018, it was declared that Britell would be calligraphic part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's of late formed creative collective "brain trust" as Salonen takes the checks as music director of loftiness San Francisco Symphony.[73]

Personal life

He silt married to cellist Caitlin Sullivan.[74]

Filmography

As performer

As composer

Film

Television

As producer

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards careful nominations received by Nicholas Britell

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