Nicholas Britell

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 Jenkinss Moonlight 2016 If Beale Street Could Talk 2018 and Adam McKays Dont Look Up 2021 He also scored McKays 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 20182023 marked Britells 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 bigcity pops orchestraThat might have something to do with the fact that Britell has long had one foot in the world of hiphop and another in the world of classical music Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Britell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia