Age: 45
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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.
Nicholas Britell
Composer
for Composer in The Great Gatsby (2022)
Suggested by lancasterdoddfrank
Dialogue pulled directed from the novel and no scenes cut. Shot on 65mm. Two scenes added: The first being a riff on the scene from Baz Luhrmann's adaptation where Carraway looks out the window during the apartment party and sees the city with the trumpet playing. Instead, Carraway will retreat to a fire escape during the party at night and look across the street into different apartments as a trumpeter on a neighboring fire escape plays. Catherine will come out to join him and conversation will ensue. Scene serves as a display of the Jazz Age at its best. The second scene will take place during a party at Gatsby's later in the film. Nick will be in the dredges of drunkenness when he encounters a woman who introduces herself as Columbia ("Like the University?"). They will retreat outside to talk and as they overlook the revelry, she will, over the course of the conversation, shatter his illusions about the Jazz Age (in part, through mentioning the struggles many other people are under and alluding to the coming Great Depression in an almost prophetic way), and serve to help begin his descent into disenchantment. She will walk away and when Nick tries to look for her, she will have seemingly disappeared into the crowd
