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The 20th annual World Soundtrack Awards saw composers Nicholas Britell and Hildur Guðnadóttir take home prizes for their musical works featured in HBO’s Succession and Todd Philip’s Joker, respectively. Britell, whose Succession theme song took home an Emmy award in 2019, received the World Sountrack Award’s TV…

Icelandic composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir won the Oscar on Sunday night for her evocative Original Score for Todd Phillips’ Joker, becoming the first solo female to win the honor and capping a historic trophy-season spree in which she also won a Grammy, an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award in a span of…

EXCLUSIVE: $1BN+ global box office and 11 Oscar nominations isn't enough for Warner Bros' Joker. The pic is gearing up for an international live-in-concert run that will commence in London on April 30. The news comes two days after the film's composer Hildur Guðnadóttir picked up the Original Music BAFTA having also…

This morning, Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir earned her first Oscar nomination, becoming one of only seven women in the award show's history to be put up for Best Original Score. "I think it’s just magnificent to be able to be a part of this conversation, and to shed some light to the situation of women in the…

UPDATED with video of speech: When Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir won the award for Best Original Score at the 77th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday the victory had a historic backbeat that went beyond her haunting themes. The Icelandic native was only the second woman to ever win the award and becomes the first solo…

For composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, the last year has been "beyond crazy"—a whirlwind that she still hasn't fully been able to fathom. Earning her first Emmy for her work on HBO's Chernobyl, Guðnadóttir hit on another water-cooler phenomenon with Todd Phillips' Joker, tapping into the "psychological turbulence" spiraling…

Rising star composer Hildur Gudnadottir, who recently won an Emmy for her Chernobyl score, told a story at Deadline’s recent The Contenders London about how Joaquin Phoenix connected to a specific piece of music she had written for Joker. In an unusual chronology, the Icelandic composer wrote much of the score before…

Warner Bros presented a very eclectic but solidly awards-friendly slate at The Contenders London today, headed up by Todd Phillips' recent Venice Golden Lion winner Joker. "Most composers have a director they work with, but I — accidentally — had an actor," laughed Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. In this case, the…