Nicholas Britell

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Nicholas Britell (born October 17, 1980) is an American film and television composer. He has received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. He has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and Adam McKay's Don't Look Up (2021). He also scored McKay's The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). He is also known for scoring Battle of the Sexes (2017), The King (2019), Cruella (2021), and She Said (2022). The HBO original series Succession (2018–2023) marked Britell's entry into television. Britell scored all four seasons, earning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2019. His scores for the second, third, and fourth seasons of Succession each earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series nominations in 2020, 2022, and 2023. His score for The Underground Railroad was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special in 2021. His works, as described by Soraya McDonald of Film Comment, "seem to organically straddle accessibility and sophistication in a way that goes beyond the typical programming of a big-city pops orchestra...That might have something to do with the fact that Britell has long had one foot in the world of hip-hop and another in the world of classical music." Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Britell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2025
The Making of Jay Kelly
Movie Self - Composer
2025
Jay Kelly
Movie Original Music Composer
2025
Mountainhead
Movie Original Music Composer
2025
Expectations Opening Credits
Movie Music
2024
Blitz
Movie Songs
2023
Carmen
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
She Said
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
Andor
TV show Original Music Composer
2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
TV show Horn Nightclub Piano Player
2022
Italian Studies
Movie Original Music Composer
2021
Don't Look Up
Movie Original Music Composer
2021
Cruella
Movie Original Music Composer
2021
The Underground Railroad
TV show Original Music Composer
2021
The Gaze
Movie Original Music Composer
2019
The King
Movie Original Music Composer
2018
Vice
Movie Conductor