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On Jan. 5, Gudnadottir made history by becoming
the first solo female Golden Globe winner for best original
score since the introduction of the category in 1947.
Lisa Gerrard won the 2000 award for Gladiator but in
collaboration with Hans Zimmer.
Gudnadottir has a BAFTA nomination for the same film, won an
Emmy in September for the HBO/Sky series "Chernobyl", has been
nominated for music's biggest honor, a Grammy, for the same
series, and is also an Oscar nominee for the "Joker" score.
"Normally I spend most of my time in Berlin in my studio or just
with my son on the football fields... it has been hugely
surprising how many ears I seemed to have reached in the last
year, it is a wonderful surprise," she told Reuters.
Gudnadottir, who is an accomplished cellist and singer and who
started training aged four, puts her success down to a spot of
luck and the "big awakening" ushered in by the #metoo movement.
"There has been a lot of discussion in the last years about the
position of women in the film industry, music industry and just
in general you know: where are the women?," she said.
The composer says it would be nice if all these 'milestones'
that she is achieving - she is only the 5th female composer to
be nominated for the Oscars in 92 years - were no longer
considered as such, but is grateful for the chance to be part of
the changing landscape.
"If one young girl starts writing music as a result of that then
it is totally worth it," Gudnadottir said.
Her contribution to "Joker" went well beyond the traditional
role of a score writer, who typically creates the music after
filming has finished. In the case of "Joker", Gudnadottir was
given the script to work off and ended up directly influencing
the film's most iconic moment: the bathroom dance, with her
haunting score.
Gudnadottir's influence on "Joker" is a reflection of the way
she approaches her projects. For "Chernobyl", she traveled to
Lithuania to record inside a nuclear reactor using the reactor
as a musical instrument in an attempt to capture the sound and
feel of radiation.
When the awards season is over, Gudnadottir who has a solo album
coming out, says she will take a break from film music and go
back to her roots as a musician.
The Grammy winners will be announced on January 26, the Oscars
on February 10.
(Reporting by Oliver Ellrodt and Tanya Wood; Editing by
Alexandra Hudson)
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