Nicholas Britell
Born: 1980-10-17 in New York, New York, USA
Known For: Sound
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Jay Kelly ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mountainhead ... (Original Music Composer)
- Expectations Opening Credits ... (Music)
2024
- Blitz ... (Songs)
2023
- Carmen ... (Original Music Composer)
2022
- Andor ... (Original Music Composer)
- Italian Studies ... (Original Music Composer)
- Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Horn Nightclub Piano Player
- She Said ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- Cruella ... (Original Music Composer)
- Don't Look Up ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Gaze ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Underground Railroad ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- The King ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- Succession ... (Original Music Composer)
- Vice ... (Conductor)
- If Beale Street Could Talk ... (Original Music Composer)
2017
- Battle of the Sexes ... (Original Music Composer)
2016
- Free State of Jones ... (Original Music Composer)
- Moonlight ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tramps ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Uncondemned ... (Original Music Composer)
2015
- The Big Short ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Tale of Love and Darkness ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Seventh Fire ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Real American ... (Original Music Composer)
2013
- 12 Years a Slave ... (Songs)
- Whiplash ... (Producer)
2012
- Gimme the Loot ... (Original Music Composer)
2008
- New York, I Love You ... (Original Music Composer)
2005
- Domino One as Charles Davenport
2004
- Hammer and Cycle ... (Original Music Composer)