About

Known credits:
35
Birthday:
1980-10-17
Place of birth:
New York, New York, USA
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Nicholas Britell

Overview

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."

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Known for

Acting

2005 Domino One Actor Charles Davenport 58
Average

Production

2014 Whiplash Production Co-Producer 83
Very good
2013 Whiplash Production Producer 66
Fair

Sound

2025 Jay Kelly Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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2025 Mountainhead Sound Original Music Composer 57
Average
2025 Expectations Opening Credits Sound Music 58
Average
2024 Blitz Sound Songs 59
Average
2023 Carmen Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2022 She Said Sound Original Music Composer 66
Fair
2022 Andor Sound Theme Song Performance 82
Very good
2022 Italian Studies Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2021 Don't Look Up Sound Original Music Composer 70
Good
2021 Cruella Sound Original Music Composer 78
Good
2021 The Underground Railroad Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
2021 The Gaze Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2019 The King Sound Original Music Composer 70
Good
2018 Vice Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
2018 Vice Sound Conductor 68
Fair
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk Sound Original Music Composer 66
Fair
2018 Succession Sound Original Music Composer 82
Very good
2017 Battle of the Sexes Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
2016 The Uncondemned Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2016 Moonlight Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
2016 Tramps Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2016 Free State of Jones Sound Original Music Composer 65
Fair
2015 The Big Short Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
2015 A Tale of Love and Darkness Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2015 The Real American Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2015 The Seventh Fire Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2014 Cymbeline Sound Songs 55
Average
2013 12 Years a Slave Sound Songs 78
Good
2012 Gimme the Loot Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2008 New York, I Love You Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2005 Domino One Sound Music 58
Average
2004 Hammer and Cycle Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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