Nicholas Britell has received numerous accolades including a Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, and a Grammy Award.
40 Facts About Nicholas Britell
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Nicholas Britell has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, and Adam McKay's Don't Look Up.
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Nicholas Britell scored McKay's The Big Short, and Vice.
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Nicholas Britell scored all four seasons, earning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2019.
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That might have something to do with the fact that Nicholas Britell has long had one foot in the world of hip-hop and another in the world of classical music.
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Nicholas Britell was raised in a Jewish family, in New York City.
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Nicholas Britell graduated valedictorian from the college preparatory school Hopkins School in 1999.
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Nicholas Britell is a graduate of the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University in 2003.
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Nicholas Britell is part of an emerging generation of composers and artists who draw from an eclectic range of influences.
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Nicholas Britell's work is inspired by Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Philip Glass, Zbigniew Preisner, Quincy Jones and Dr Dre.
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In 2008, Nicholas Britell gained wide notice performing his own work "Forgotten Waltz No 2" in Natalie Portman's directorial debut Eve.
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Nicholas Britell collaborated again with Portman, writing music for the film New York, I Love You.
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In 2011, Nicholas Britell performed on piano with violin virtuoso Tim Fain in Portals.
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Nicholas Britell's music featured prominently in director Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave, for which he composed and arranged the on-camera music including the spiritual songs, work songs, featured violin performances, and dances.
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Nicholas Britell's work received wide critical acclaim and he was profiled in The Wall Street Journal.
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Nicholas Britell subsequently helped produce the feature-film Whiplash, directed by Chazelle and starring Miles Teller and JK Simmons.
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In 2015, Nicholas Britell scored The Seventh Fire, a documentary directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono and presented by Terrence Malick, which debuted to critical acclaim at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Nicholas Britell scored Natalie Portman's directorial debut feature film A Tale of Love and Darkness, which screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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Nicholas Britell scored the Oscar-winning The Big Short, directed by Adam McKay, starring Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell, based on the book The Big Short by Michael Lewis, and released by Paramount in December 2015.
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In 2016, Nicholas Britell scored director Gary Ross's Civil-War era historical drama Free State of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, and Keri Russell.
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The soundtrack album, produced by Nicholas Britell, was released June 24,2016 on Sony Masterworks.
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Also in 2016, Nicholas Britell wrote the original score for the critically acclaimed, Best Picture-winning film Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins.
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Nicholas Britell's score received a 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Score nomination and it was nominated for a 2017 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in the Motion Picture category.
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The film's soundtrack album, named one of the top 25 Soundtrack Albums of 2016 on iTunes, was produced by Nicholas Britell and released by Lakeshore Records, including a special vinyl collectors' edition.
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Nicholas Britell scored director Adam Leon's film Tramps in 2016, with Netflix acquiring worldwide distribution rights to the film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Nicholas Britell composed the title song from Christina Aguilera's eighth studio album Liberation.
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In 2018, Nicholas Britell collaborated with Barry Jenkins, scoring his film If Beale Street Could Talk.
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The film received wide critical acclaim and Nicholas Britell was nominated for awards including the Academy Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score.
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Nicholas Britell composed the soundtrack of the critically-acclaimed HBO black comedy-drama series Succession, his first time composing for a television series.
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For Succession's main title theme, Nicholas Britell won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2019.
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Nicholas Britell received Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series in 2020 and 2022, and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media nomination in 2023.
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On February 6,2019, Nicholas Britell confirmed he was composing the score for Barry Jenkins's The Underground Railroad, an original series on Amazon based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name.
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Nicholas Britell composed the music for Adam McKay's 2021 film Don't Look Up, including the song "Just Look Up" performed by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi.
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Nicholas Britell received a nomination for Best Original Score at the 94th Academy Awards for the score of Don't Look Up.
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That same year, Nicholas Britell scored Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians live-action spin-off Cruella.
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At the World Soundtrack Awards, Nicholas Britell was awarded Film Composer of the Year in 2019 for his scores for Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk and Television Composer of the Year in 2020 for Succession.
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Nicholas Britell won Best Original Song at the 2021 ceremony alongside Florence Welch for "Call Me Cruella", written for Cruella.
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On February 16,2022, it was reported that Nicholas Britell would be composing the score for the Star Wars streaming series Andor on Disney+.
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Nicholas Britell is a Steinway Artist and a Creative Associate of the Juilliard School.
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In December 2018, it was announced that Nicholas Britell would be a part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's newly formed creative collective "brain trust" as Salonen takes the reins as music director of the San Francisco Symphony.