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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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Britell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Set against the soot of Philadelphia and the neon of New York, the story follows Kitty Foyle (Margaret Qualley), a "shanty Irish" girl with a white-collar soul. Kitty is caught in the gears of the American class system, navigating a life defined by the men who love her and the woman she is determined to become. The heart of her conflict is Wyn Strafford VI (Gavin Casalegno), the "Golden Boy" of the Philadelphia Main Line. Their romance is a fever dream of collegiate sweaters and secret trysts, but it is perpetually haunted by the icy silhouette of Mrs. Strafford (Elizabeth Mitchell). When the family’s "Old Money" walls prove impenetrable, Kitty flees to New York, trading her frayed ribbons for the sharp, navy-blue armor of a career girl. In Manhattan, Kitty finds a new blueprint for existence at the Art Deco empire of Delphine Detaille (January Jones). Under the mentorship of the razor-sharp Stacy Lee Balla (Maddie Ziegler) and the transformative touch of stylist Giono (Justice Smith), Kitty is reborn. It is here she meets Dr. Mark Eisen (Ben Platt), a man of science and grit who offers her a "New Hope" - a life of mutual respect rather than social performance. When the death of her father, the cynical but soulful Pop Foyle (David Costabile), and a scandalous, secret tragedy force Kitty to face her past, she must decide: return to the "Main Line" as a ghost of herself, or forge a future in a city that doesn't care who her father was. The film ends not with a wedding, but with a transformation. Kitty Foyle stands at a Grand Central platform, her iconic blue coat a vibrant strike against the grey. She isn't choosing a man; she is choosing herself.
