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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

British composer Daniel Blumberg wins best original score Oscar for The Brutalist

Mark Hamill presents Daniel Blumberg with the Oscar for best original score.
Mark Hamill presents Daniel Blumberg with the Oscar for best original score. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

The young British composer Daniel Blumberg has won his first Oscar for his second-ever musical score for a feature film, for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.

Blumberg, 34, won the Bafta award last month for the score, which has met with considerable praise and which plays a prominent role in the film. The Brutalist is the story of a fictitious Hungarian architect, László Tóth, who moves to the US after surviving the Holocaust.

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