Hildur Guðnadóttir

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Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has toured with Animal Collective and Sun O))). She has also produced solo works. Hildur has gained international recognition for her film and television scores, including for the action thriller film Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), and the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), the latter of which won her a Primetime Emmy Award and a Grammy Award. For her score to the 2019 psychological thriller film Joker, Hildur won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, making her the first solo female composer to win in both. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hildur Guðnadóttir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2026
National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona
Movie Music
2026
Closure
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
The Sound of The Mountains
Movie Music
2026
The Bride!
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Movie Original Music Composer
2025
Hedda
Movie Original Music Composer
2025
Chopin, a Sonata in Paris
Movie Music
2024
Joker: Folie à Deux
Movie Original Music Composer
2024
Utan ord – i filmmusikens värld
Movie Self
2023
A Haunting in Venice
Movie Original Music Composer
2023
The Fundraiser
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
Women Talking
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
TÁR
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
Out of the Darkness
Movie Music
2020
Last and First Men
Movie Musician
2019
Joker
Movie Original Music Composer

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2019
Chernobyl
TV show Original Music Composer
2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Movie Original Music Composer
2018
Mary Magdalene
Movie Original Music Composer
2017
Journey's End
Movie Original Music Composer
2017
Tom of Finland
Movie Original Music Composer
2017
Strong Island
Movie Original Music Composer
2016
Arrival
Movie Musician
2016
The Oath
Movie Original Music Composer
2014
End of Summer
Movie Original Music Composer
2014
Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air
Movie Music
2014
Cathedrals
Movie Original Music Composer
2013
Graduates: Freedom Is Not for Free
Movie Music
2013
Jîn
Movie Original Music Composer
2012
Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio de Janeiro
Movie Original Music Composer
2012
A Hijacking
Movie Original Music Composer
2011
The Bleeding House
Movie Music
2005
Made in Hollywood
TV show Self
2004
Farmer Johns World
Movie Music
1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
1944
Golden Globe Awards
TV show Self - Nominee