With a BAFTA and a Golden Globe already under his belt, Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson has collected an Academy Award for his score for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

He triumphed over veteran John Williams (composer on the otherwise undistinguished Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), the late Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon), Jerskin Fendrix (for Poor Things; his first film score) and Laura Karpman (American Fiction).

Oppenheimer also collected Oscars for Best Picture, Best Directing (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) and cleaned up in the Best Editing and Best Cinematography categories. Emma Stone collected her second Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Poor Things. Her first was in 2016 for La La Land.

Ludwig Göransson. Photo © Universal Studios

It is Göransson’s second Oscar statuette: his score for the Marvel superhero movie Black Panther won an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2019 (as well as a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media).

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