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Nicholas Britell

The Underground Railroad

Academy Award-nominated composer Nicholas Britell is known for his critically acclaimed scores, including those for Barry Jenkins’ 2018 If Beale Street Could Talk and Jenkins’ 2017 Academy Award Best Picture winner Moonlight. He has also written the score for Adam McKay’s The Big Short and Vice, as well as the score for the Netflix feature The King. For TV, Britell scores HBO’s Succession, for which he won an Emmy. Britell’s upcoming projects include Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad series for Amazon, HBO’s Succession’s Season 3 and Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up for Netflix.

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Events featuring Nicholas Britell
Events featuring Nicholas Britell