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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’: The Hearable Texture of Nicholas Britell’s Score | Vice

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[Barry Jenkins] brought over composer Nicholas Britell, who supplied the hearable texture to Moonlight’s sound, along with his own changeless cinematic talent for stripping scenes to their most bare sentiments.  – Vice

Academy Award®-winning Director Barry Jenkins talks about the burden of honoring James Baldwin in this interview over at Vice.  Vice’s Noel Ransome also spoke with Composer Nicholas Britell about he made the magic happen once again in his latest collaboration with Jenkins.  There’s also a bonus video interview. 

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Review: Nicholas Britell’s Lush and Devastating ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Score | Vox

As in Moonlight, sometimes Tish and Fonny look directly into the camera, into our eyes, daring us not to look away, letting us fall in love with them. Mixed with Nicholas Britell’s haunting score, the result is a blend of joy, compassion, and deep sadness.  – Vox

If you’ve seen If Beale Street Could Talk in theaters or on Digital VOD, then you understand how much Nicholas Britell’s score plays an important role in the atmosphere of the film which takes place in the early 1970s and based on the James Baldwin novel by the same name.  Read the full review over at Vox where they describe the score as “lush and devastating.”

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GRAMMYs 2020: Nicholas Britell’s Academy Award Nominated ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’

The swooning score by Nicholas Britell harkens back to the hypnotic strings of his Moonlight soundtrack, this time infused with sounds of jazz instead of the chop-and-screw technique used for that last film. As in something like In The Mood For Love, the period details almost fade into the background, the film evoking a nostalgic mood without overdoing it on the popular music.” – Birth.Movies.Death

As we head into the end of the year, we take a look back at one of the most unforgettable film scores of the year: Nicholas Britell’s If Beale Street Could Talk!  The Barry Jenkins-helmed film and Britell’s score earned critical acclaim far and wide, garnering eight reviews over at Birth.Movies.Death, including a rapturous review of the score.  The film’s Regina King won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards for the film, Jenkins earned a nomination for Best Adapted Screen Play, and Britell received the Best Score Oscar nomination.

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World Soundtrack Awards Nominations: Congratulations To Our Friends and Partners!

Lakeshore Records congratulates our friends and partners on their World Soundtrack Awards Nominations: Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk), Kris Bowers (When They See Us), Jeff Russo (“Star Trek”, “Legion”, “The Umbrella Academy”) and Guest Of Honor, two-time Academy Award®-nominated Composer Marco Beltrami In concert!

The World Soundtrack Awards will take place on October 18 in Ghent, Belgium.

 

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Lakeshore Congratulates Soundtrack Partners On ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards Nominations!

Lakeshore Records congratulations soundtrack partners If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell), Mandy (Jóhann Jóhannsson) and One Strange Rock (Daniel Pemberton) on their ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards nominations! ASCAP members have until Sunday, April 14 to turn in their votes. Congratulations to all the nominees this year!

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2018 ASCAP Film Score of the Year – films theatrically released in the US in 2018

MANDY Jóhann Jóhannsson
2018 ASCAP Film Score of the Year – films theatrically released in the US in 2018

ONE STRANGE ROCK Daniel Pemberton
2018 ASCAP TV Composer of the Year – television programs that initially aired in the US in 2018

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