First solo woman to win Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score which she earned for Joker (2019), a feat which she then repeated at the subsequent Bafta and Academy awards in 2020.
She is the first woman to win the Academy Award for 'Best Original Score'. Three previous women had won in separate versions of the music score category, but never in the combined category.
She is the first Icelander to win an Oscar.
Her name is pronounced: HIL-dur GVUDNA-duh-tir.
Resides in Berlin, Germany.
She is the second woman to win an Oscar and an Emmy Award for music score since Rachel Portman.