Nicholas Britell

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1980-10-17 (45 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

Nicholas Britell

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 televisio...

Acting

2005

Domino One

as Charles Davenport

Production

2005

Domino One

as Music

2021

Don't Look Up

as Original Music Composer

2022

She Said

as Original Music Composer

2021

Cruella

as Original Music Composer

2022

Italian Studies

as Original Music Composer

2021

The Gaze

as Original Music Composer

2015

The Seventh Fire

as Original Music Composer

2016

Free State of Jones

as Original Music Composer

2015

The Real American

as Original Music Composer

2018

Vice

as Conductor

2008

New York, I Love You

as Original Music Composer

2013

Whiplash

as Producer

2015

The Big Short

as Original Music Composer

2015

A Tale of Love and Darkness

as Original Music Composer

2016

Moonlight

as Original Music Composer

2017

Battle of the Sexes

as Original Music Composer

2018

If Beale Street Could Talk

as Original Music Composer

2018

Vice

as Original Music Composer

2016

Tramps

as Original Music Composer

2016

The Uncondemned

as Original Music Composer

2012

Gimme the Loot

as Original Music Composer

2019

The King

as Original Music Composer

2023

Carmen

as Original Music Composer

2024

Blitz

as Songs

2013

2014

Cymbeline

as Songs

2004

Hammer and Cycle

as Original Music Composer

2014

Whiplash

as Co-Producer

2025

Mountainhead

as Original Music Composer

2025

Jay Kelly

as Original Music Composer

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