Hildur Gudnadottir is the first woman to win in the best original score category since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences combined all of the score categories into one in 2000.
Gudnadottir is one of only seven women to be nominated in any score composition category, only three have won.Hildur Gudnadottir accepts the Music - Original Score - award for 'Joker' onstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California. Gudnadottir is one of only seven women to be nominated in any score composition category, only three have won.
Heading into the Oscars Gudnadottir had won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Hollywood Critics Association and society of composers and lyricist awards for her work on "Joker." She was nominated alongside industry heavyweights including John Williams, Randy Newman, Thomas Newman and Alexandre Desplat.. He follows just behind the late Walt Disney, who had 59 Oscar nominations, for the most Academy Award nominations of all time.
"My fellow nominees, masters of the craft, it has been such an honor to get to know you all. It's been so special," she said. Gudnadottir's award was notably preceded by Irish maestro Eimear Noone, who became the first woman to conduct the Oscars orchestra.
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