Icelandic composer Hildur Gudnadóttir will receive the career achievement award at the 21st Zurich Film Festival , Zurich announced Thursday. An Oscar winner for her score to Todd Phillips’ Joker , making her the first-ever solo female artist to win the Academy Award for best score, Gudnadóttir is also known for her music for Todd Field’s Tár (2022) and Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice (2023) and for her Emmy-winning score for HBO’s Chernobyl (2019). She will be honored at the festival’s “Cinema in Concert” gala on Oct. 2.

“Hildur Gudnadóttir is one of the most innovative composers of our time,” said festival director Christian Jungen. “She knows how to use experimental sounds to shape mainstream pop culture and lend it atmospheric depth. She is an inquisitive mus

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