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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hildurgunadttir.jpg]]
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3	->''"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."''
4	-->-- '''Hildur''' in her Best Original Score MediaNotes/AcademyAward acceptance speech for ''Film/{{Joker\|2019}}''
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6	Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}ic musician and composer.
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8	Coming from a family of musicians, Hildur is a classically trained cellist as well as a singer, and she has collaborated with the likes of Pan Sonic, Music/ThrobbingGristle, Múm, Stórsveit Nix Noltes, Music/AnimalCollective and Music/SunnO on albums and/or concerts.
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10	She has also composed or performed music for films and television series since 2011, which is how she has gained the lion's share of her international recognition. Her scoring work on ''Film/{{Joker\|2019}}'' and ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' were particularly acclaimed and popular; the latter won her a Primetime Emmy, BAFTA and Grammy, and the former won her a BAFTA, Golden Globe, Grammy, and Oscar. With her ''Joker'' accolades, she is the first solo female composer to win an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA in the original music/score categories[[note]]Lisa Gerrard previously won a Golden Globe but shared hers with Music/HansZimmer for ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''; Hildur is also specifically the first female winner of the Oscar for Best Original Score, following the merging of the Original Dramatic Score and Original Musical or Comedy Score categories in 2000[[/note]] and the first person from Iceland to win an Oscar.
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12	Hildur was also friends and collaborated with a fellow Icelandic musician and composer, the late Music/JohannJohannsson, on films of Creator/DenisVilleneuve.
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14	!!Her solo albums include:
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16	* ''Mount A'' (2006)
17	* ''Without Sinking'' (2009)
18	* ''Leyfðu Ljósinu'' (2012)
19	* ''Saman'' (2014)
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21	!!Notable soundtracks of hers include:
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23	* ''The Bleeding House'' (2011, composed)
24	* ''Film/TheRevenant'' (2015, solo cello)
25	* ''Film/{{Sicario}}'' (2015, solo cello)
26	** ''Film/SicarioDayOfTheSoldado'' (2018, composed)
27	* ''Series/{{Trapped\|2015}}'' (2015-2019, composed with Jóhann Jóhannsson)
28	* ''Film/{{Arrival}}'' (2016, solo cello)
29	* ''Theatre/JourneysEnd'' (2017, composed with Music/NatalieHolt)
30	* ''Mary Magdalene'' (2018, composed in 2017 with Jóhann Jóhannsson)
31	* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' (2019, composed) -- MediaNotes/EmmyAward [[note]]Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series[[/note]], MediaNotes/GrammyAward [[note]] Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media[[/note]]
32	* ''Film/{{Joker\|2019}}'' (2019, composed) -- MediaNotes/GoldenGlobeAward [[note]]Best Original Score[[/note]], MediaNotes/{{BAFTA}} [[note]]Best Original Score[[/note]], MediaNotes/AcademyAward [[note]]Best Original Score[[/note]], MediaNotes/GrammyAward [[note]]Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media[[/note]]
33	** ''Film/JokerFolieADeux'' (2024, composed)
34	* ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' (2021, composed with Sam Slater)
35	* ''Film/{{Tar}}'' (2022, composed)
36	* ''Film/AHauntingInVenice'' (2023, composed)
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38	!!Tropes & Trivia in her works:
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40	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: She actually put a {{hazmat suit}} on, went into the decommissioned Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania that would be used to film ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', and recorded sounds there, including pumps, reactors and turbines. She then arranged them alongside classical instruments into a haunting soundtrack for the series.

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