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Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In front of an audience at the Virginia Film Festival, and a piano, one of the leading film composers of his generation reflects on how he was shaped by both classical and hip-hop music, how his best known scores for TV (the main title theme for 'Succession') and film (Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight' and 'If Beale Street Could Talk') came to be, and how his score for Noah Baumbach's new film was composed and employed differently than any of his others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.4	Good evening, everyone.
0:44.7	My name is Scott Feinberg, and I'm the Executive Editor of Awards coverage at The Hollywood Reporter,
0:50.3	as well as the host of our awards-chattered podcast for which tonight's conversation is being recorded.
0:53.2	I'll say this for those tuning in.
0:56.7	We are coming to you live from the Virginia Film Festival program of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and I want to thank the FES
1:01.1	artistic director, Ilya, Elia Tobis, and executive director Jody Kilbasa for hosting us.
1:15.1	It's a privilege and pleasure to be in this great city and Commonwealth and to have the opportunity tonight to sit down with one of the great artists of his
1:19.5	generation who also happens to be a class act and lovely guy who I feel lucky to call
1:25.8	a friend Mr. Nicholas Prattel,
1:29.3	but I don't want him to come out yet because I have a few more things to say.
1:32.3	Nick is only 45, but few film and TV composers of any age have a resume that can compare with his.
1:39.3	The New York Times has described him as a screen composer at the forefront of his generation,
1:45.0	a chameleonic, sensitive creator of distinct sound worlds.
1:49.0	They also argue, quote, more than any other contemporary composer,
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