It’s amazing how a score can impact a Hollywood composer’s career, similar to how a breakout movie can turn an actor’s fate around.
In the case of the careers of Michael Giacchino it was arguably The Incredibles which took him from being a videogame composer to blockbuster musicsmith, while for Alexandre Desplat’s, one can point to Birth which provoked Hollywood to call him nonstop.
Ludwig Göransson had a longstanding working relationship with USC bud Ryan Coogler, but it was his score for the director’s Black Panther which rocked him to a mega-tentpole stratosphere and ultimately a new working relationship with Christopher Nolan on 2020’s Tenet and last year’s Oppenheimer.
In anomaly for a composer, Göransson won an original score Oscar off his first nom for Black Panther. It wouldn’t be out of the norm to see the Swedish born composer taking the stage again at the Dolby Theatre to collect his second original Oscar win for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
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