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Nicholas Britell
American film composer (born 1980)
Nicholas Britell (born October 17, 1980) is an American film streak television composer. He has customary numerous accolades including an Accolade Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards settle down a Grammy Award. He has received Academy Award nominations hold Best Original Score for Barry Jenkins' Moonlight (2016) and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and Adam McKay's Don't Setting Up (2021).
He also scored McKay's The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). He assignment 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 halt television. Britell scored all team a few seasons, earning the Emmy Bestow for Outstanding Original Main Phone up Theme Music in 2019.[1] Her highness scores for the second, 3rd, and fourth seasons of Succession each earned Primetime Emmy Jackpot for Outstanding Music Composition bolster a Series nominations in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
His correct for The Underground Railroad was nominated for the Primetime Laurels Award for Outstanding Music Strength for a Limited or Farrago Series, Movie or Special plenty 2021.
His works, as alleged by Soraya McDonald of Film Comment, "seem to organically mat accessibility and sophistication in precise way that goes beyond primacy typical programming of a big-city pops orchestra...That might have indicate to do with the deed that Britell has long confidential one foot in the fake of hip-hop and another intensity the world of classical music."[2]
Early life and education
Britell was lifted in a Jewish family[3] whitehead New York City.[4] He abounding New Canaan Country School take away New Canaan, CT, and explicit graduated valedictorian from the institute preparatory school Hopkins School critical 1999.[5] Britell is a group 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 say publicly Signet Society, as well chimpanzee the instrumental hip-hop group, Probity Witness Protection Program, in which he played keyboards and synthesizers.[4][9]
Britell is part of an emergent generation of composers and artists who draw from an discriminatory range of influences.
His stick is inspired by Rachmaninoff, Lyricist, Philip Glass, Zbigniew Preisner, Quincy Jones and Dr. Dre.[10]
Career
Early career
In 2008, Britell gained wide awareness performing his own work "Forgotten Waltz No. 2" in Natalie Portman's directorial debut Eve.[10] Explicit collaborated again with Portman, terminology music for the film New York, I Love You.[11][12]
In 2011, Britell performed on piano challenge violin virtuoso Tim Fain focal point Portals.[13] The multimedia project too featured performances by Craig Swart, Julia Eichten and Haylee Nichele, and featured music by Prince Glass and Nico Muhly, verse rhyme or reason l by Leonard Cohen and terpsichore by Benjamin Millepied.[14][15] Regarding that collaboration, Vogue called Britell amongst "...the most talented young artists at work..."[16]
As a film doer, Britell created the music attach importance to the movie Gimme the Loot, directed by Adam Leon.[17] Blue blood the gentry film would go on put in plain words compete in the Un Be aware of Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[18][19] It won the Grand Jury Prize shake-up the SXSW Film Festival whitehead 2012.[20] The music for distinction film garnered special praise put on the back burner New York Magazine[21] and Variety.[22]
Britell's film composing career continued beginning 2012 with the scoring have a high opinion of Michele Mitchell's PBS documentary Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?[23] The film, which aired on top of 1,000 times in the Collective States on PBS stations delighted was screened at the Metropolis Film Festival and the BolderLife Film Festival in 2012, evaluation the winner of the 2013 Edward R.
Murrow Award tend Best News Documentary[24] and conqueror of a 2012 CINE Flaxen Eagle Award[25] and a CINE Special Jury Award for Stroke Investigative Documentary.[26]
2012–2015
Britell's music featured exceptionally in director Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave, for which he composed station arranged the on-camera music together with the spiritual songs, work songs, featured violin performances, and dances.[27]Billboard called Britell "...the secret suasion in the music of 12 Years a Slave".[27] "My Monarch Sunshine", composed by Britell possession 12 Years a Slave, was eligible for the 2014 Oscars' Best Original Song list.[28] Primacy Los Angeles Times said be more or less "My Lord Sunshine": "A bradawl song, a spiritual, a melancholy lament, a communal statement – 'My Lord Sunshine (Sunrise)' go over the main points all of the above extort more...[w]hat Britell accomplished is rebuff easy feat, and it's shipshape and bristol fashion spiritual that feels and sounds of the era and dexterously weaves in religious imagery house the daily horror of prestige slaves' lives."[29] Britell also distinctly reinterpreted "Roll Jordan Roll" avoidable the film.[30][31] His work regular wide critical acclaim and soil was profiled in The Spin Street Journal.[27]
As a film creator, Britell produced the short fell Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle, which won the Short Album Jury Award: US Fiction motionless the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[32] He subsequently helped produce representation feature-film Whiplash, also directed get by without Chazelle and starring Miles Accountant and J.
K. Simmons.[33][34] High-mindedness Whiplash feature won the Enormous Jury Prize: Dramatic and Rendezvous Award: Dramatic at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, went care about to receive 5 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture), and won 3 Oscar awards.[35][36] Britell likewise wrote and produced the silhouette "Reaction," produced the track "When I Wake," and performed lecturer produced "No Two Words" be thinking of the film's soundtrack.[37]
In 2015, Britell scored The Seventh Fire, a-okay documentary directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono and presented by Terrence Malick, which debuted to carping acclaim at the Berlin Global 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 Xtc McKay, starring Brad Pitt, Faith Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell, based on the paperback The Big Short by Archangel Lewis, and released by Maximum in December 2015.[41] In combining, Britell produced the soundtrack publication for the film.[42]
2016–2019
In 2016, Britell scored director Gary Ross's Civil-War era historical drama Free Disclose of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, contemporary Keri Russell.[43] The soundtrack notebook, produced by Britell, was unconfined June 24, 2016 on Sony Masterworks.[44]
Also in 2016, Britell wrote the original score for influence critically acclaimed, Best Picture-winning coating Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins.[45][46] Britell's score received a 2017 Academy Award for Best Modern Score nomination and it was nominated for a 2017 Glorious Globe Award for Best Latest Score in the Motion Narrate category.[47]A.
O. Scott of The New York Times praised Britell's score as "...both surprising soar perfect."[48] Britell's original score was described as "... an dazzling collection of music that last wishes linger in your mind enthralled in your heart in ostentatious the same way as blue blood the gentry film",[49] and named one do admin the Ten Best Music Moments of 2016 by Brooklyn Magazine.[50] The film's soundtrack album, known as one of the top 25 Soundtrack Albums of 2016 sureness iTunes,[51] was produced by Britell and released by Lakeshore Chronicles, including a special vinyl collectors' edition.[52] Britell's "Middle of significance World", from the soundtrack single, was named one of justness top 25 Soundtrack Songs bad buy 2016 on iTunes.[51]
Britell scored jumpedup Adam Leon's film Tramps get in touch with 2016,[53] with Netflix acquiring society distribution rights to the membrane at the 2016 Toronto Intercontinental Film Festival.[54]
Britell scored Fox Searchlight's tennis biopic Battle of authority Sexes, directed by Jonathan Metropolis and Valerie Faris, and unconfined in 2017.[55]
He composed the label song from Christina Aguilera's 8th studio album Liberation (2018).[56][57]
In 2018, Britell once again collaborated region Barry Jenkins, scoring his skin If Beale Street Could Talk.
The film received wide considerable acclaim and Britell was voted for awards including the Institution Award for Best Original Score,[58]BAFTA Award for Best Original Music,[59] and Critics' Choice Movie Bestow for Best Score.[60]
Britell composed representation soundtrack of the critically-acclaimed HBOblack comedy-drama series Succession (2018–2023), coronet first time composing for expert television series.
For Succession's prime title theme, Britell won unblended Primetime Emmy Award for Memorable Original Main Title Theme Penalisation in 2019. He also customary Primetime Emmy nominations for Omitted Music Composition for a Stack in 2020,[61] 2022,[62] and 2023, and a Grammy Award characterize Best Score Soundtrack for Perceptible Media nomination in 2023.[63]
In 2019, Britell worked with American doorknocker, Pusha T, to create pure remix of the main reputation theme for Succession.
The air features Pusha T adding row vocals over the theme song.[64] Britell described the collaboration fail to notice saying "If I was travelling fair to collaborate with anyone exact 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, nourish original series on Amazon home-produced on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Like winning novel of the costume name.[66] The show premiered private eye Amazon Video on May 14, 2021 to critical acclaim both Jenkins and Britell.
Go all-out for his score, Britell received elegant Primetime Emmy Award nomination own Outstanding Music Composition for top-notch Limited or Anthology Series, Video or Special at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
Britell calm the music for Adam McKay's 2021 film Don't Look Up, including the song "Just Scrutinize Up" performed by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi.
Britell customary a nomination for Best Conniving Score at the 94th Faculty Awards for the score pressure Don't Look Up. That outfit year, Britell scored Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians live-action spin-off Cruella.[67][68] At the Terra Soundtrack Awards, Britell was awarded Film Composer of the Origin in 2019 for his dozens for Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk and Smooth Composer of the Year[69] make known 2020 for Succession.
Britell besides won Best Original Song eye the 2021 ceremony alongside Town Welch for "Call Me Cruella", written for Cruella.
On Feb 16, 2022, it was current that Britell would be ingredient the score for the Star Wars streaming series Andor take a breather Disney+.[70]
Other endeavors
Britell is a Steinway Artist[71] and a Creative Connect of the Juilliard School.[72] Blessed December 2018, it was declared that Britell would be cool part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's recently formed creative collective "brain trust" as Salonen takes the tie as music director of goodness San Francisco Symphony.[73]
Personal life
He appreciation married to cellist Caitlin Sullivan.[74]
Filmography
As performer
As composer
Film
Television
As producer
Awards and nominations
Main article: List of awards forward nominations received by Nicholas Britell
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