Film and TV composer Nicholas Britell will get the Miami Film Festival’s Art of Light (Composer) Award at this year’s event, which runs March 3-12.
Britell is also set to attend the festival, staged by Miami Dade College, as composer and executive producer on Carmen, Benjamin Millepied’s modern day music and dance take, starring Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal, on the classic romance story.
Britell earned Oscar nominations for his scores for Don’t Look Up, If Beale Street Could Talk and Moonlight and has also worked on projects including The Big Short, limited series The Underground Railroad and Emmy winner Succession.
Miami Film Festival programming director Lauren Cohen commented: “Music is what brings a film to life, intensifying the emotions that the audience can feel, and Nicholas Britell’s scores remind us just how essential music is to the telling of a story. We are delighted to present him with the Art of Light (Composer), Award at the 2023 Miami Film Festival.
