Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have won a Golden Globe for their work on the 2024 sports drama film, Challengers.

The pair, who have also composed music for films such as Gone Girl and Queer, bagged this year’s award for Best Original Score for their work on the Luca Guadagnino-directed movie which stars Zendaya as tennis player Tashi Duncan.

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Reznor and Ross were also nominated for Best Original Song for Compress / Repress – also of the Challengers soundtrack – though didn’t win. Their award for Best Original Score marked their third win at the Globes, as they formerly won within the same category in 2010 for The Social Network, and also in 2020 for the Pixar film, Soul.

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The duo are also composing the score for a brand new gaming franchise which is being developed by Naughty Dog, the studio behind gaming smash hits such as Crash Bandicoot, The Last Of Us, and Uncharted. Titled Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, it is currently in development for PlayStation 5.

In a recent interview with IndieWire, they explained why they have flourished as composers outside of Nine Inch Nails: “What we’re looking for [from film] is the collaborative experience with interesting people. We haven’t gotten that from the music world necessarily, for our own choice. You mentioned disillusionment with the music world? Yes. The culture of the music world sucks,” Reznor said.

“That’s another conversation, but what technology has done to disrupt the music business in terms of not only how people listen to music but the value they place on it is defeating. I’m not saying that as an old man yelling at clouds, but as a music lover who grew up where music was the main thing. Music [now] feels largely relegated to something that happens in the background or while you’re doing something else. That’s a long, bitter story.”

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