Emile Mosseri | |
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Born | August 11, 1985 |
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Genres | Film score, classical music, indie rock |
Website | emilemosseri |
Emile Mosseri (born August 11, 1985) is an American composer, pianist, singer and producer based in Los Angeles. He has scored films including The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), [1] Minari (2020), [2] and Kajillionaire (2020), [3] and composed for television shows like HBO's Random Acts of Flyness, and season 2 of Amazon's Homecoming. [4] He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for his work in Minari. [5] Mosseri is a member of the indie-rock band The Dig, as well as a recording artist and touring musician. He studied film scoring at Berklee College of Music. [6] He is the younger brother of Adam Mosseri. [7]
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2018 | Random Acts of Flyness (HBO) | Terence Nance | [8] |
2019 | The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Joe Talbot | [1] [6] [9] |
2020 | Homecoming (Season 2) (Amazon) | Kyle Patrick Alvarez | [4] |
Kajillionaire | Miranda July | [3] | |
Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | [2] | |
2022 | When You Finish Saving the World | Jesse Eisenberg | [10] |
Stutz | Jonah Hill | [11] |
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