Nicholas Britell

Nicholas Britell may be the most emotionally precise film composer working today. His scores for Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Don't Look Up earned three Academy Award nominations, and there is a trembling, chopped-and-screwed tenderness to his strings that I find unmistakable. A Harvard-trained pianist and conductor, he brings classical rigor to deeply contemporary storytelling. Add an Emmy and you have an artist at the peak of his powers. What I love is how he amplifies a film's emotional core rather than decorating it. Britell is one of the few composers whose new projects I will follow blindly.

Name (English)

Nicholas Britell

Name (Japanese)

ニコラス・ブリテル

Reading

にこらす・ぶりてる

Born

October 17, 1980 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

composer / film score composer / pianist / conductor / film producer

University

Harvard University

• Official sitehttps://www.nicholasbritell.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nicholasbritell/
• Xhttps://x.com/NicholasBritell
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Britell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15429514

Tags

• New York
• composer
• film score composer
• pianist

Last updated

2026-06-21

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