Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir created the soundtrack for “Joker,” which opened earlier this month and is now the biggest R-rated film in history. She wrote most of the score before the movie ...

Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is already in the history books after she won the best original score Oscar for “Joker” (2019). Now, she could break a new record with two bonafide awards contenders.

Hildur Guðnadóttir grew up on Agatha Christie mysteries. “I totally lived for those novels,” the composer says. Ever since then, she has wanted to sink her teeth into story by the famous author.

In a story about an elite classical conductor, who is constantly wielding a symphony orchestra, a traditional score “would just be too cluttered,” says composer Hildur Guðnadóttir — “cre ...

Richard Foster speaks to a supergroup of four "serious geologists" about heavy metal alchemy and making novel instruments.

Hildur Guðnadóttir er hátíðarlistamaður Listahátíðar í Reykjavík 2026 og þrír viðburðir verða á dagskrá þar sem tónlist ...

Hildur Guðnadóttir verður hátíðarlistamaður á Listahátíð í Reykjavík sumarið 2026. Á fjögurra daga hátíðinni verður ferill ...

After Hildur Guðnadóttir won 2020’s Oscar for best original score for her work on Joker, the composer was flooded with offers. “I’ve been writing and playing music for over two decades ...

Hildur GuðnadóttirCourtesy of Camille Blake ... For “A Haunting in Venice,” Guðnadóttir abandoned her usual practice of creating processed musical sounds on the computer, choosing ...

Upon winning an Oscar for scoring Joker, Hildur Guðnadóttir dedicated it “to the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters, who hear the music bubbling within,” telling them in her ...

Hildur Guðnadóttir, the composer behind the original compositions of Lydia Tár, leans into the latter camp. While at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, where she picked up the prize for best ...

Along with working with acts like Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, and Sunn O))), Icelandic composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir made music for last year’s Joker: Folie À Deux as well as ...