Michael Abels

Michael Abels

出生 : 1962-10-08, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

略歴

Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer best known for his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out and Us, for which Abels won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, and multiple' critics awards. The hip-hop influenced score for Us was short-listed for the Oscars and was even named “Score of the Decade” by TheWrap. Other recent media projects include the films Bad Education, Nightbooks, Fake Famous, and the docu-series Allen v. Farrow. Current releases include Beauty which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix, Breaking (formerly 892) which premiered at Sundance, and his third collaboration with Jordan Peele, Nope. Abels’ works also includes many concert works, such as At War With Ourselves for the Kronos Quartet, Isolation Variation for Hilary Hahn, and the opera Omar co-composed with Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Rhiannon Giddens. Some of these pieces are available on the Cedille Records, including Delights & Dances and Winged Creatures. Current commissions include a work for the National Symphony Orchestra and a guitar concerto for Mak Grgić. Abels is co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective, an advocacy group to increase visibility of composers of color in film, gaming and streaming media.

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Michael Abels
Michael Abels
Michael Abels

参加作品

Chevalier
Chevalier
Music Producer
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court. Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Chevalier
Chevalier
Music Arranger
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court. Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Landscape with Invisible Hand
Landscape with Invisible Hand
Music
Two teenagers come up with a plan to ensure their families' futures when an occupying alien race's promise of economic prosperity leaves most of humanity impoverished and desperate.
Breaking
Breaking
Original Music Composer
Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.
NOPE／ノープ
NOPE／ノープ
Original Music Composer
「ゲット・アウト」「アス」で高い評価を受けるジョーダン・ピールの長編監督第3作。広大な田舎町の空に突如現れた不気味な飛行物体をめぐり、謎の解明のため動画撮影を試みる兄妹がたどる運命を描いた。 田舎町で広大な敷地の牧場を経営し、生計を立てている一家。ある日、一家の長男が、家業をサボって町に繰り出す妹にうんざりしていたところ、突然空から異物が降り注いでくる。その謎の現象が止んだかと思うと、直前まで会話していた父親が息絶えていた。長男は、父親の不可解な死の直前に、雲に覆われた巨大な飛行物体のようなものを目撃したことを妹に明かす。兄妹はその飛行物体の存在を収めた動画を撮影すればネットでバズるはずだと、飛行物体の撮影に挑むが、そんな彼らに想像を絶する事態が待ち受けていた。 「ゲット・アウト」でもピール監督とタッグを組んだダニエル・カルーヤが兄、「ハスラーズ」のキキ・パーマーが妹を演じるほか、「ミナリ」のスティーブン・ユァンが共演。
Beauty
Beauty
Original Music Composer
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.
Fake Famous
Fake Famous
Original Music Composer
Explores the meaning of fame and influence in the digital age through an innovative social experiment. Following three Los Angeles-based people with relatively small followings, the film explores the attempts made to turn them into famous influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to “engage” with their social media accounts.
オールデイ・アンド・ア・ナイト: 終身刑となった僕
オールデイ・アンド・ア・ナイト: 終身刑となった僕
Original Music Composer
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
バッド・エデュケーション
バッド・エデュケーション
Orchestrator
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
バッド・エデュケーション
バッド・エデュケーション
Original Music Composer
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
See You Yesterday
See You Yesterday
Original Music Composer
As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.
アス
アス
Original Music Composer
鬼才ジョーダン・ピール監督によるサプライズ・スリラー。幼い頃自分にそっくりな少女に遭遇し、ショックから失語症となったヒロイン。大人になった彼女に、再び邪悪なドッペルゲンガーたちの恐怖が襲いかかる。
ゲット・アウト
ゲット・アウト
Original Music Composer
ニューヨークに暮らすアフリカ系アメリカ人の写真家クリスは、ある週末に白人の彼女ローズの実家へ招待される。若干の不安とは裏腹に過剰な歓迎を受けるものの、黒人の使用人がいることに妙な違和感を覚える。翌日、亡くなったローズの祖父を讃えるパーティに多くの友人が集まるが、何故か白人ばかり。そんななか、黒人の若者を発見し携帯で撮影すると、フラッシュが焚かれた瞬間彼は鼻から血を流し急に豹変し、「出ていけ！」と襲い掛かってくる。“何かがおかしい”と感じたクリスは、ローズと一緒に実家から出ようするが…。