---
name: "Nicolas Jaar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nicolas-jaar"
fi1m_id: "nicolas-jaar"
imdb_id: "nm4111273"
tmdb_id: 1470259
wikidata_id: "Q261566"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "10 January 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T23:28:42.360543+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nicolas Jaar

## Identity

Nicolas Jaar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nicolas-jaar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nicolas-jaar
- **IMDb ID:** nm4111273
- **TMDB ID:** 1470259
- **Wikidata ID:** Q261566
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jaar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261566, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4111273/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1470259

Composer. Born 10 January 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 10 January 1990, New York City, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Nicolás Jaar
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jaar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261566, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4111273/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1470259

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dheepan*](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md) (68)

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## Biography

Nicolas Jaar is an American composer and musician born on 10 January 1990 in New York City. He studied comparative literature at Brown University, graduating in 2012, and began releasing electronic music in the late 2000s.

Jaar composed the score for Jacques Audiard's *Dheepan* (2015), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His other film scores include *Ema* (2019) and *Beginning* (2020).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, pitchfork.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dheepan* (2015), Fi1m 68, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Blanquita* (2023), Thanks
- *Sonora* (2021), as Songs
- *Omnipresence* (2021), Music
- *Beginning* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Ema* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Against All Logic* (2018), as Compositor
- *Jaar. Lament of the Images* (2017), Music
- *Dheepan* (2015), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)

## Gallery

- ![- Piknic Electronik (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/4169084/gallery-7da8d698704b.jpg) - Piknic Electronik (2012) — basic_sounds, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Nicolas_Jaar.jpg/1280px-Nicolas_Jaar.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![- Piknic Electronik (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/4169084/gallery-588fe0f28f50.jpg) - Piknic Electronik (2012) — basic_sounds, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Nicolas_Jaar_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Nicolas Jaar](https://film.one/media/person/4169084/gallery-81e4a648abac.jpg) Nicolas Jaar — Pascal Montary, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Nicolas_Jaar_live_at_Rex_Club_Paris.jpg/1280px-Nicolas_Jaar_live_at_Rex_Club_Paris.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nicolas Jaar playing live with his band at the Rex Club in Paris in April 2011.](https://film.one/media/person/4169084/gallery-04d94ad7ba68.jpg) Nicolas Jaar playing live with his band at the Rex Club in Paris in April 2011. — Pascal Montary, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Nicolas_Jaar_live_at_Rex_Club_Paris_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Nicolas_Jaar_live_at_Rex_Club_Paris_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nicolas Jaar playing live with his band at the Rex Club in Paris in April 2011.](https://film.one/media/person/4169084/gallery-5f4976f561e5.jpg) Nicolas Jaar playing live with his band at the Rex Club in Paris in April 2011. — Pascal Montary, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Nicolas_Jaar_live_at_Rex_Club_Paris_%28cropped_close%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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