Mica Levi received a European Film Award for Best Composer and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music nomination, and won multiple other awards for this first movie composition.
20 Facts About Mica Levi
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Mica Levi then collaborated again with Glazer on his next film, the acclaimed The Zone of Interest, and two short films.
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In 2017, Mica Levi received their first Academy Awards nomination for Pablo Larrain's Jackie.
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Mica Levi was a German Jew, and he was arrested, but he escaped and hid out on a farm nearby.
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Mica Levi decided the best time to ski across to neutral territory would be New Year's Eve, because the guards would be drunk.
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Micaela Rachel Levi, known as Mica Levi or Micachu, was born in 1987 in Guildford, Surrey, England and grew up in Watford, near London.
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Mica Levi is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent; their grandfather was a German Jewish violinist who managed to escape from the Nazis during World War II and fled to the United Kingdom.
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Mica Levi has a sister, Francesca, who is a video artist and has worked with them on various art projects.
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Mica Levi began learning the violin at the age of four and learned to play the viola as a child.
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The score was widely acclaimed for pushing the boundaries of music and sound design and Mica Levi was nominated for multiple awards.
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In 2023, Mica Levi composed the score for Glazer's fourth feature film The Zone of Interest.
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In 2016, Mica Levi completed their second major film score, for Pablo Larrain's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis biopic Jackie.
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Mica Levi was nominated for Best Original Score at the 89th Academy Awards but lost to Justin Hurwitz for La La Land.
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In 2017, Mica Levi worked with their sister, director Francesca Mica Levi, on the soundtrack to The Colour of Chips, an experimental film conceived with Colm McAuliffe as part of The Unfilmables project, produced by Live Cinema UK.
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That same year, Mica Levi scored the science-fiction film Marjorie Prime and, in association with musicians Demdike Stare and Gruff Rhys, contributed to the soundtrack for artist Phil Collins' Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels which was screened at the Manchester International Festival and then broadcast by the BBC.
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In 2019, Mica Levi composed the soundtrack for Colombian director Alejandro Landes's Monos.
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Later that same year, Mica Levi composed the score for Mangrove, the first, feature-length episode of Steve McQueen's Small Axe series for the BBC and Amazon Studios.
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Mica Levi is known for their various collaborations with English singer and songwriter Tirzah, a close friend they met at Purcell.
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Mica Levi notably produced the Devotion, Colourgrade and Trip9love albums.
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In 2021, Mica Levi released their solo debut album Ruff Dog.