Hildur Gudnadottir won Oscar after working with Psychological thriller movie Joker, 2019

Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir has
some of the character’s things in common. She smiles and laughs a lot and
inside of her there is also a sadness. But the Icelandic cellist-composer communicates
its darkness through music rather than aggression.

The 37 years old Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir, is an Icelandic composer and musician. She has played and recorded classically trained cellist with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has toured with Animal Collective and Sunn O)). She’s also created plays on solo. Let’s continue to read the rest of Hildur Gudnadottir wiki below.

Hildur Gudnadottir works psychological thriller film joker, 2019

According to Hildur Gudnadottir wiki, her film and television scores, including the action thriller film Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), and the HBO drama miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Grammy Award, have gained Hildur international recognition. Hildur has received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for her work in the 2019 psychological thriller film Joker, the fourth woman to win in the category. She has also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, as well as the BAFTA Best Original Music Award, making her the first single woman to win in both.

“My solo music started as
a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an
instrument, without any outside dialogue,” Guðnadóttir says. “A lot
of my music is kind of contemplative, and somehow that always tends to tilt on
the darker side. My inner conversation is apparently quite dark.”

The Island composer Hildur has won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for her work on the movie Todd Phillips. … Oscar 2020

Joker’s Hildur Gudnadóttir won the Oscar at the Academy Awards Sunday night for the best original score. The composer and Icelandic singer is the first woman to win for a dramatic work.

Hildur speech after holding Oscar for Joker,

 “The music was able to inspire Joaquin’s performances, and I didn’t know that was going to be the process. When Todd sent me the first dailies and that was the first thing they sent me, it was so incredible that that was Joaquin’s channel through the music.”

She composed the music for the 2019 film Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Robert de Niro, and directed by Todd Phillips, for whom she received the Premio Soundtrack Stars Award at the 76th International Film Festival in Venice and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, becoming the first single woman to win the Golden Globe Awards in this category. Hildur won the Best Original Score award at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the fourth woman to be honored in the Oscars for her score, as well as the first woman to win since the categories Original Dramatic Score and Original Musical or Comedy Score were merged in 2000.

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Long term Husband of Hildur, best Life Partner

She’s a married woman. Hildur married Sam Slater, who is an English musician, music producer, and sound artist with whom she has worked on numerous projects including Chernobyl and Joker.Hildur lives in Berlin with her son who was born in 2012. But in the Oscar acceptance speech, Hildur thanks to her mother and her late son Cody. It was sad to believe that the beautiful couple, Sam and Hildur lost their first child, and missed the success of his mother in an Oscar ceremany.

She also used to share a studio with frequent collaborator, Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Personal life or Hildur Gudnadottir wiki

Hildur is a composer, clarinet player, and teacher from a family of musicians her boss, Guðni Franzson, is. Her mum, Ingveldur Guðrún Ólafsdóttir, is an opera singer, and her brother, from the band Agent Fresco, is ðórarinn Guðnason. She was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1982, and brought up in Hafnarfjörður.

Since she was 5 Guðnadóttir has been pulling her cello around and making music. Before she was born, she was called by her pregnant mother, literally, “War, Daughter of God,” and she announced she would be a cellist. “I am an Islander,” laughs she. “We are so dramatic everyone.”

 At the age of five, Hildur started playing
cello and played her first professional gig around 10 next to her mother at a
restaurant. She attended the Reykjavik Music School, and studied composition
and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the University of the Arts
in Berlin.