Hildur Guðnadóttir (C) Camille Blake Hildur Gudnadóttir never imagined doing anything but making music. "I never really made a decision to become a musician, it was just the normal thing to do in my family," says the Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning composer of Joker, Tár and HBO's Chernobyl, winner of this year's career achievement award at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival. "Everyone in my family is either into music or into medicine. It's nurses or doctors or physiotherapists or musicians. And the musicians are the majority.