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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 Manchurian Candidate
Suggested by lancasterdoddfrank
Set in 2024. Special forces team gets captured in a Sub-Saharan African country by Chinese forces who are actually working as minor partners for a U.S. far right Christo-fascist thinktank called the Manchurian Institute, which is fronted as a U.S.-China foreign affairs thinktank by Korean War veterans following the war. Brainwashing scene rips off Parallax View and includes showing clips from Alan Lomax archives of church singing from the 80s. Involvement of American fascist conspiracy goes way further in this version than previous adaptations. Twist is that they were ultimately responsible attempting to assassinate moderate Republican presidential candidate and the Chinese were minor allies. Unclear throughout whether Eugenie character is involved with the brainwashing and works for the Manchurian Institute or not. Republicans and Democrats explicitly mentioned. Jordan is a Democrat who is frequently tagged as a socialist, Shaw is a Republican. Themes of national delusion, patriotism, jingoism, mass surveillance, PTSD, disinformation, separation of church & state, near-peer war, AI, dreams, domestic fascism. Ray and Jocelyn relationship inspired by Mary Matalin and James Carville. Stuff taken from both films and book. Ends with characters talking about how a forthcoming Congressional hearing and new coverage will expose it all and one character jokes about how no one will therefore no what really happened. Relationship between Mrs. Iselin and Raymond explicitly incestuous.
