Peter Nashel | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Years active | 1988–present |
Peter Nashel is an American composer. [1] He has composed scores for a number of films and television series including, I, Tonya , Marco Polo , and Totally Under Control . [2] [3] [4] He is the founder and principal of the music production company, duotone audio group. [5]
Nashel was born and grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. [6] He studied at both the Tanglewood Institute in Boston and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, before moving on to Wesleyan University in Connecticut. At Wesleyan, he studied under Bill Barron and graduated in 1988. [7]
Nashel has worked on numerous film and television scores. In 2001, he earned his first screen credit as composer for his work on the Sundance award-winning feature film, The Deep End , starring Tilda Swinton. [8] In the ensuing years, he composed the music for several features including Bee Season , the 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche, [9] The Night Listener (2006), based on Armistead Maupin’s novel of the same name and starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette, [10] the academy-award winning documentary film No End in Sight (2007) and the 2009 thriller Carriers . [11] More recently, he scored the 2017 Oscar-winning black comedy, I, Tonya directed by Craig Gillespie and Book Club (2018), starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candace Bergen. [12]
He has also worked on numerous television and documentary projects. He composed scores for the TV series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009), Rubicon (2010), Lie to Me (2010–2011), Marco Polo (2014–2016), Mike (2022) and Alaska Daily (2022), among others. [13] [14] His documentary work includes Freakonomics (2010), Totally Under Control (2020), The Crime of the Century (2021) and Boom! Boom! The World Vs Boris Becker . [15] [16] [17]
As Composer
| Year | Title | Note |
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| 2001 | The Deep End | Feature film |
| 2002 | The Trials of Henry Kissinger | Documentary film |
| 2005 | Bee Season | Feature film |
| 2006 | The Night Listener | Feature film |
| Wedding Daze | Feature film | |
| 2006-2012 | Iconoclasts | Docuseries |
| 2007 | No End in Sight | Documentary film |
| 2007-2009 | Dirty Sexy Money | 23 Episodes |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You | Feature film |
| 2008-2009 | Life on Mars | 17 Episodes |
| 2009 | Carriers | Feature film |
| Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Documentary film | |
| 2010 | Freakonomics | Documentary film |
| Rubicon | 12 Episodes | |
| 2010-2011 | Lie to Me | 13 Episodes |
| 2012 | Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream | Documentary film |
| 2013 | The Trials of Cate McCall | Feature film |
| 2014 | Dukhtar | Feature film |
| 2014-2016 | Marco Polo | 20 Episodes |
| 2015 | Younger | 12 Episodes |
| 2016-2017 | Incorporated | 10 Episodes |
| 2017 | I, Tonya | Feature film |
| 2018 | Nigerian Prince | Feature film |
| Book Club | Feature film | |
| 2019 | 30 for 30 : Qualified | Documentary film |
| 2020 | The Innocence Files | Docuseries |
| Totally Under Control | Documentary film | |
| 2021 | The Crime of the Century | Documentary film |
| 2022 | Mike | 8 Episodes |
| 2022 | The Magic of Passion | Short film |
| 2022-2023 | Alaska Daily | 11 Episodes |
| 2023 | Boom! Boom! The World Vs Boris Becker | 2 Episodes |
| Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
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| 2019 | Won | BMI Film & TV Awards | Film Music | Book Club | [18] |
| 2020 | Nominated | Critics' Choice Documentary Awards | Best Score | Totally Under Control | [19] |
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