Hildur Guðnadóttir

Composer
Music Department
Soundtrack

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Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2014)

Hildur Guðnadóttir was born on 4 September 1982 in Iceland. She is a composer, known for Joker (2019), Women Talking (2022) and Tár (2022). She is married to Sam Slater. They have one child.

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Won 1 Oscar
- 50 wins & 55 nominations total

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Known for

Joker

8.4

Composer

2019

Women Talking

6.9

Composer

2022

Tár

7.4

Composer(score by)

2022

Joker: Folie à Deux

5.2

Composer

2024

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Composer

Joker: Folie à Deux
5.2
- Composer
- 2024
A Haunting in Venice
6.5
- Composer
- 2023
The Fundraiser
8.5
Short
- Composer
- 2023
Chrysalis
7.8
Short
- Composer
- 2022
Women Talking
6.9
- composer
- 2022
Tár
7.4
- Composer (score by)
- 2022
Batman: Aftermath
Short
- composer
- 2022
Út úr myrkrinu
- Composer
- 2022
Fractured Ice
Video
- Composer (music:)
- 2021
Battlefield 2042
3.8
Video Game
- Composer
- 2021
Battlefield 2042 - Exodus
7.9
Short
- Composer
- 2021
Becoming Joker
6.9
Short
- Composer
- 2019
Joker
8.4
- Composer
- 2019
Chernobyl
9.3
TV Mini Series
- Composer
- 2019
Trapped
8.0
TV Series
- Composer
- 2015–2019

Music Department

Música para aeropuertos
Podcast Series
- perfomer: It's showtime
- 2024
A Haunting in Venice
6.5
- musician: cello
- 2023
Women Talking
6.9
- score producer
- score recorder
- 2022
Tár
7.4
- soloist: cello
- 2022
Battlefield 2042
3.8
Video Game
- dorophone, percussion, pipe & voice
- 2021
Candyman
5.9
- cello and voice
- 2021
Last and First Men
6.7
- musician: vocals, cello, percussion
- 2020
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
7.1
- musician: cello, halldoraphone, piano and bowed instruments
- 2018
Mary Magdalene
5.9
- musician: percussion
- 2018
The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy
9.0
Short
- composer: theme music
- 2018
The Mercy
6.0
- musician: solo cello & vocals
- 2018
The Departure
7.1
- composer: additional music
- 2017
Autumn Lights
5.1
- cello soloist
- 2016
Arrival
7.9
- musician: cello (as Hildur Gudnadottir)
- 2016
Trapped
8.0
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- 2015–2016

Soundtrack

Amsterdam
6.1
- writer: "Le Soleil Rouge"
- 2022
Tár
7.4
- writer: "For Petra" ("For Petra")
- 2022
BBC Proms
TV Series
- writer: "Selections from Battlefield 2042"
- 2022
More Than Ever
6.7
- performer: "Elevation", "Strokur", "Opaque", "Bær", "Unveiled"
- writer: "Elevation", "Strokur", "Opaque", "Bær", "Unveiled"
- 2022
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
6.3
- writer: "Miguel Takes Money", "The Kidnap", "Start a War", "Journey to Border"
- 2021
Diminishing Returns
4.1
Podcast Series
- Soundtrack
- 2019
Notes on a Scene
TV Series
- writer: "Defeated Clown"
- 2019
Joker
8.4
- performer: "Rooftop"
- writer: "Rooftop"
- 2019
The Virtues
8.1
TV Mini Series
- performer: "Elevation"
- writer: "Elevation"
- 2019
Chernobyl
9.3
TV Mini Series
- performer: "Líður"
- writer: "Líður"
- 2019
Journey's End
6.7
- performer: "Elevation", "Unveiled", "Renner Upp", "Poka", "Iridescence", "Leyfdu Ljosinu", "Baer", ".Casting"
- writer: "Elevation", "Unveiled", "Renner Upp", "Poka", "Iridescence", "Leyfdu Ljosinu", "Baer", ".Casting"
- 2017
Atelier
6.4
Short
- performer: "UNVEILED"
- writer: "UNVEILED"
- 2017
The Handmaid's Tale
8.4
TV Series
- performer: "Heyr Himnasmiður"
- performer: "Erupting Light"
- writer: "Erupting Light" ...
- 2017
Trapped
8.0
TV Series
- writer: "Ófærð (Trapped) - Opening Theme" (uncredited)
- 2015–2016
The Revenant
8.0
- performer: "Stoukur"
- writer: "Stoukur", "Whitten"
- 2015

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Finding 'Joker': How Joaquin Phoenix & Todd Phillips Retcon Batman's Foe

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Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air

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Alternative names
- Hildur Gudnadottir
Born
- September 4, 1982
- Iceland
Spouse
- Sam Slater? - present (1 child)
Parents
Relatives
- Þórarinn Guðnason(Sibling)
Publicity listings
- 2 Interviews

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Trivia
First solo woman to win Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score which she earned for Joker (2019), a feat which she then repeated at the subsequent Bafta and Academy awards in 2020.