
Person
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Sound · Born 1982-09-04 · Reykjavík, Iceland
Biography
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.
Known for

Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Original Music Composer

Chernobyl
Original Music Composer

Joker
Original Music Composer

Arrival
Musician

The Oscars
Self

The Bride!
Original Music Composer

Made in Hollywood
Self

Joker: Folie à Deux
Original Music Composer

Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Original Music Composer
Filmography
- 2026National Theatre Live: Electra/PersonaMusic
- 2026The Sound of the MountainsMusic
- 2026The Bride!Original Music Composer
- 2026ClosureOriginal Music Composer
- 202628 Years Later: The Bone TempleOriginal Music Composer
- 2025HeddaOriginal Music Composer
- 2025Chopin, a Sonata in ParisMusic
- 2024Joker: Folie à DeuxOriginal Music Composer
- 2024Utan ord – i filmmusikens världSelf
- 2023A Haunting in VeniceOriginal Music Composer
- 2023The FundraiserOriginal Music Composer
- 2022Women TalkingOriginal Music Composer
- 2022TÁROriginal Music Composer
- 2022Out of the DarknessMusic
- 2020Last and First MenMusician
- 2019JokerOriginal Music Composer
- 2019ChernobylOriginal Music Composer
- 2018Sicario: Day of the SoldadoOriginal Music Composer
- 2018Mary MagdaleneOriginal Music Composer
- 2017Journey's EndOriginal Music Composer
- 2017Tom of FinlandOriginal Music Composer
- 2017Strong IslandOriginal Music Composer
- 2016ArrivalMusician
- 2016The OathOriginal Music Composer
- 2014End of SummerOriginal Music Composer
- 2014Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the AirMusic
- 2014CathedralsOriginal Music Composer
- 2013Graduates: Freedom Is Not for FreeMusic
- 2013JînOriginal Music Composer
- 2012Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio de JaneiroOriginal Music Composer
- 2012A HijackingOriginal Music Composer
- 2011The Bleeding HouseMusic
- 2005Made in HollywoodSelf
- 2004Farmer Johns WorldMusic
- 1953The OscarsSelf
- 1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee
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