“Joker’s Hildur Gudnadóttir won the Oscar for best original score at Sunday night’s Academy Awards,” writes Jordan Wilson in Sunday’s (2/9) Hollywood Reporter. “The Icelandic musician and composer is the first woman to win for a dramatic composition. Rachel Portman and Anne Dudley previously won for best original musical or comedy score. Portman won for Emma in 1996, and Dudley for The Full Monty in 1997. The Academy combined the two score categories—the former, and best dramatic score— into a single category in 2000…. Fellow nominees in the category included Alexandre Desplat for Little Women, Randy Newman for Marriage Story, Thomas Newman for 1917 and John Williams for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.… Gudnadóttir … finished her acceptance speech with a call-to-arms to creative women all over the world. ‘To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within, please speak up—we need to hear your voices,’ Gudnadóttir said. The composer also won a Golden Globe in addition to taking home BAFTA and Critics’ Choice awards for scoring Joker. She also previously scored the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries Chernobyl.”
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