The Mandalorian’s Ludwig Göransson is set to be honoured at Variety’s 10th Annual Artisans Awards, taking place February 11th at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, for his highly acclaimed score for Oppenheimer.
Variety’s 10th annual Artisans Awards celebrates craftspeople responsible for the visual magic in the biggest films of the year. The tribute at the coastal city’s Arlington Theatre also includes a panel with the honorees moderated by Jazz Tangcay, Variety’s senior artisans editor.
Ludwig Göransson – Composer, “Oppenheimer”
Göransson’s score for “Oppenheimer” has been hailed by many as the best score of the year. Over two and a half hours of music fills the film as J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) races to build the atomic bomb. Göransson crafted a score that, like the cinematography and storytelling, takes audiences inside Oppenheimer’s perspective and head. The core instrument was the violin. “You can go from the most romantic melodic tone and within a split second turn the tremolo into something neurotic and manic,” says the composer. Notably, much of the score was done before Christopher Nolan had even shot the film.
We send our congratulations to Göransson.
