Former Yuck frontman Daniel Blumberg gained Greatest Unique Rating for The Brutalist on the 2025 Oscars final night time (March 2).
Off the again of a current Bafta win for the rating, the composer gained his first Oscar yesterday for his efforts soundtracking the sprawling drama, which charts the lifetime of fictitious Hungarian architect, László Tóth – a task that additionally gained Adrien Brody the Academy Award for Greatest Actor – who strikes to the US after surviving the Holocaust.
Blumberg’s work was nominated alongside the scores for Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Depraved and The Wild Robotic, and gave a glowing description of his artistic relationship with director Brady Corbet, who enlisted him to attain his third movie after Scott Walker had labored on the primary two.
“I’ve been an artist for 20 years, since I used to be a young person,” he mentioned, “and once I met Brady, I met my creative soulmate.” He went on to thank the “hard-working, radical musicians” who helped carry out his rating for the movie.
NME’s five-star-review of The Brutalist famous “Blumberg’s jagged steam-roller of a rating”, which employed jazz infused piano, sax and towering percussion to convey Tóth’s mounting despair.
Earlier this 12 months, the musician instructed Pitchfork that when the movie was in post-production, he and the sound workforce would have screenings with Corbet, and he bumped into an issue the place each time he watched the movie, he cried on the finish.
Daniel Blumberg – former frontman of Yuck – has gained an Oscar for his soundtrack for #TheBrutalist. Right here’s the vocalist/guitarist and his band speaking to NME 15 years in the past about their sound and “huge riffs”#Oscars #Yuck pic.twitter.com/Hr7ao2QAI3
— NME (@NME) March 3, 2025
“The primary time it occurred, I simply ran out the room,” he recalled. “I simply keep in mind standing in the bathroom of this post-production studio simply crying with Brady.”
Previous to engaged on The Brutalist, Blumberg performed in indie rock outfit Yuck, and left the band again in 2013 to concentrate on solo initiatives, happening to launch ‘Unreal‘ the identical 12 months. Some years later in 2021, Yuck introduced that they had been disbanding.
Blumberg is about to attain the upcoming Amanda Seyfried-starring Ann Lee, which was co-written by Corbet and directed by his associate Mona Fastvold.
