Oscars: Hildur Gudnadóttir Becomes First Woman to Win Best Original Score

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Oscars: Hildur Gudnadóttir Becomes First Woman to Win Best Original Score
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Hildur Gudnadóttir finished her Oscars acceptance speech with a call-to-arms to creative women all over the world: 'To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within, please speak up'

The Icelandic musician and composer is the first woman to win for a dramatic composition.

Rachel Portman and Anne Dudley previously won for best original musical or comedy score. Portman won forin 1997. The Academy combined the two score categories — the former, and best dramatic score — into a single category in 2000. The categories had been previously split after Disney animated films won best original score six years in a row from 1990 to 1995.

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