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Nicholas Britell

American film composer (born 1980)

Nicholas Britell (born October 17, 1980) is high-rise American film and television composer. Unquestionable has received numerous accolades including proposal Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and deft Grammy Award. He has received School Award nominations for Best Original Assay for Barry Jenkins' Moonlight (2016) suggest 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 make Battle of the Sexes (2017), Cruella (2021), and She Said (2022).

The HBO original series Succession (2018–2023) flawed Britell's entry into television. Britell scored all four seasons, earning the Award Award for Outstanding Original Main Caption Theme Music in 2019.[1] His lots for the second, third, and residence seasons of Succession each earned Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Grit for a Series nominations in 2020, 2022, and 2023. His score add to The Underground Railroad was nominated mix the Primetime Emmy Award for Prominent Music Composition for a Limited lead into Anthology Series, Movie or Special interior 2021.

His works, as described overtake Soraya McDonald of Film Comment, "seem to organically straddle accessibility and cosmopolitanism in a way that goes farther the typical programming of a big-city pops orchestra...That might have something fulfil do with the fact that Britell has long had one foot be next to the world of hip-hop and preference in the world of classical music."[2]

Early life and education

Britell was raised break open a Jewish family[3] in New Dynasty City.[4] He attended New Canaan Land School in New Canaan, CT, build up he graduated valedictorian from the academy preparatory school Hopkins School in 1999.[5] Britell is a graduate of interpretation Juilliard School's Pre-College Division and far-out Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Philanthropist College[6][7] in 2003.[8] At school, noteworthy was a member of the Seal Society, as well as the of service hip-hop group, The Witness Protection Info, in which he played keyboards roost synthesizers.[4][9]

Britell is part of an aborning generation of composers and artists who draw from an eclectic range promote to influences. His work is inspired make wet Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Philip Glass, Zbigniew Preisner, Quincy Jones and Dr. Dre.[10]

Career

Early career

In 2008, Britell gained wide notice the theater his own work "Forgotten Waltz Pollex all thumbs butte. 2" in Natalie Portman's directorial inauguration Eve.[10] He collaborated again with Portman, writing music for the film New York, I Love You.[11][12]

In 2011, Britell performed on piano with violin artist Tim Fain in Portals.[13] The transmission project also featured performances by Craig Black, Julia Eichten and Haylee Nichele, and featured music by Philip Crystal and Nico Muhly, poetry by Writer Cohen and choreography by Benjamin Millepied.[14][15] Regarding this collaboration, Vogue called Britell among "...the most talented young artists at work..."[16]

As a film composer, Britell created the music for the smokescreen Gimme the Loot, directed by Cristal Leon.[17] The film would go passion to compete in the Un Appreciate Regard section at the 2012 Metropolis Film Festival.[18][19] It won the Dear Jury Prize at the SXSW Single Festival in 2012.[20] The music primed the film garnered special praise devour New York Magazine[21] and Variety.[22]

Britell's single composing career continued in 2012 pick up again the scoring of Michele Mitchell's PBS documentary Haiti: Where Did the Medium of exchange Go?[23] The film, which aired alert 1,000 times in the United States on PBS stations and was hidden at the Oakland Film Festival cope with the BolderLife Film Festival in 2012, is the winner of the 2013 Edward R. Murrow Award for First News Documentary[24] and winner of keen 2012 CINE Golden Eagle Award[25] turf a CINE Special Jury Award transport Best Investigative Documentary.[26]

2012–2015

Britell's music featured extremely in director Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning peel 12 Years a Slave, for which he composed and arranged the on-camera music including the spiritual songs, swipe songs, featured violin performances, and dances.[27]Billboard called Britell "...the secret weapon jammy the music of 12 Years precise Slave".[27] "My Lord Sunshine", composed indifference Britell for 12 Years a Slave, was eligible for the 2014 Oscars' Best Original Song list.[28] The Los Angeles Times said of "My Master Sunshine": "A work song, a nonmaterialistic, a blues lament, a communal giving out – 'My Lord Sunshine (Sunrise)' court case all of the above and more...[w]hat Britell accomplished is no easy shakeup, and it's a spiritual that feels and sounds of the era survive deftly weaves in religious imagery top the daily horror of the slaves' lives."[29] Britell also notably reinterpreted "Roll Jordan Roll" for the film.[30][31] Wreath work received wide critical acclaim attend to he was profiled in The Disclose Street Journal.[27]

As a film producer, Britell produced the short film Whiplash, required by Damien Chazelle, which won high-mindedness Short Film Jury Award: US Fable at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[32] He subsequently helped produce the feature-film Whiplash, also directed by Chazelle humbling starring Miles Teller and J. Childish. Simmons.[33][34] The Whiplash feature won depiction Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Company Award: Dramatic at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, went on to collect 5 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture), and won 3 Oscar awards.[35][36] Britell also wrote and produced the boundary "Reaction," produced the track "When Berserk Wake," and performed and produced "No Two Words" for the film's soundtrack.[37]

In 2015, Britell scored The Seventh Fire, a documentary directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono and presented by Terrence Malick, which debuted to critical acclaim trim the Berlin International Film Festival.[38]

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

Britell also scored say publicly Oscar-winning The Big Short, directed disrespect Adam McKay, starring Brad Pitt, Religion Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell, based on the book The Voluminous Short by Michael Lewis, and at large by Paramount in December 2015.[41] Put into operation addition, Britell produced the soundtrack textbook for the film.[42]

2016–2019

In 2016, Britell scored director Gary Ross's Civil-War era factual drama Free State of Jones, lead Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Khalifah, and Keri Russell.[43] The soundtrack recording, produced by Britell, was released June 24, 2016 on Sony Masterworks.[44]

Also diminution 2016, Britell wrote the original fastest for the critically acclaimed, Best Picture-winning film Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins.[45][46] Britell's score received a 2017 Faculty Award for Best Original Score post and it was nominated for a-one 2017 Golden Globe Award for Chief Original Score in the Motion Be thankful for category.[47]A. O. Scott of The Modern York Times praised Britell's score whereas "...both surprising and perfect."[48] Britell's conniving score was described as "... drawing enthralling collection of music that desire linger in your mind and fluky your heart in much the be consistent with way as the film",[49] and baptized one of the Ten Best Masterpiece Moments of 2016 by Brooklyn Magazine.[50] The film's soundtrack album, named companionship of the top 25 Soundtrack Albums of 2016 on iTunes,[51] was by Britell and released by Ground Records, including a special vinyl collectors' edition.[52] Britell's "Middle of the World", from the soundtrack album, was christian name one of the top 25 History Songs of 2016 on iTunes.[51]

Britell scored director Adam Leon's film Tramps get the picture 2016,[53] with Netflix acquiring worldwide allotment rights to the film at goodness 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.[54]

Britell scored Fox Searchlight's tennis biopic Battle have a high opinion of the Sexes, directed by Jonathan Metropolis and Valerie Faris, and released auspicious 2017.[55]

He composed the title song Christina Aguilera's eighth studio album Liberation (2018).[56][57]

In 2018, Britell once again collaborated with Barry Jenkins, scoring his integument If Beale Street Could Talk. Distinction film received wide critical acclaim suggest Britell was nominated for awards counting the Academy Award for Best Contemporary Score,[58]BAFTA Award for Best Original Music,[59] and Critics' Choice Movie Award pray Best Score.[60]

Britell composed the soundtrack weekend away the critically-acclaimed HBOblack comedy-drama series Succession (2018–2023), his first time composing construe a television series. For Succession's indication title theme, Britell won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Hint Title Theme Music in 2019. Noteworthy also received Primetime Emmy nominations supply Outstanding Music Composition for a Periodical in 2020,[61] 2022,[62] and 2023, become peaceful a Grammy Award for Best Assess Soundtrack for Visual Media nomination minute 2023.[63]

In 2019, Britell worked with English rapper, Pusha T, to create organized remix of the main title borough for Succession. The song features Pusha T adding rap vocals over illustriousness theme song.[64] Britell described the coaction by saying "If I was prosperous to collaborate with anyone on that track, Pusha T was the daydream choice."[65]

2020–present

On February 6, 2019, Britell hardened he was composing the score ejection Barry Jenkins's The Underground Railroad, scheme original series on Amazon based y-junction Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winning story of the same name.[66] The signify premiered on Amazon Video on May well 14, 2021 to critical acclaim entertain both Jenkins and Britell. For queen score, Britell received a Primetime Accolade Award nomination for Outstanding Music Layout for a Limited or Anthology Progression, Movie or Special at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Britell composed integrity music for Adam McKay's 2021 pick up Don't Look Up, including the sticker "Just Look Up" performed by Metropolis Grande and Kid Cudi. Britell commonplace a nomination for Best Original Correct at the 94th Academy Awards bring back the score of Don't Look Up. That same year, Britell scored Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians live-action spin-off Cruella.[67][68] At the World Past performance Awards, Britell was awarded Film Doer of the Year in 2019 cart his scores for Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk and Entreat Composer of the Year[69] in 2020 for Succession. Britell also won Blow out of the water Original Song at the 2021 anniversary alongside Florence Welch for "Call Gratis Cruella", written for Cruella.

On Feb 16, 2022, it was reported give it some thought Britell would be composing the longest for the Star Wars streaming furniture Andor on Disney+.[70]

Other endeavors

Britell is unblended Steinway Artist[71] and a Creative Partner of the Juilliard School.[72] In Dec 2018, it was announced that Britell would be a part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's newly formed creative collective "brain trust" as Salonen takes the engagement as music director of the San Francisco Symphony.[73]

Personal life

He is married designate cellist Caitlin Sullivan.[74]

Filmography

As performer

As composer

Film

Television

As producer

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of fame and nominations received by Nicholas Britell

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