1. Daniel Blumberg is known for his score for the 2024 film The Brutalist, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2025.
17 Facts About Daniel Blumberg
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In 2005, when he was only 15 years old, Blumberg co-founded and sang vocals for the band Cajun Dance Party, releasing their only album, The Colourful Life, in 2008.
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From 2009 to 2013, Daniel Blumberg was frontman and guitarist for the indie rock band Yuck, whose self-titled 2011 debut was released to positive reviews.
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Daniel Blumberg left Yuck in 2013 to focus on projects, the first of which was Unreal by Hebronix, a solo project by Blumberg produced by Neil Michael Hagerty, which was released by ATP Recordings in 2013.
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Since 2013, Daniel Blumberg has worked mostly around Cafe Oto utilising Oto Project Space and working regularly with Seymour Wright, Billy Steiger, Tom Wheatley, Ute Kanngiesser, Ross Lambert and Elvin Brandhi.
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Minus was recorded by Scott Walker's producer Peter Walsh with a group of radical musicians whom Daniel Blumberg met at Cafe Oto including Billy Steiger, Tom Wheatley, Ute Kanngiesser and Terry Day.
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Daniel Blumberg performed in various configurations across Europe in support of the album including Hamburg Elbphilharmonie alongside Arto Lindsay, plus international festivals including Katowice Ars Cameralis, The Hague Crossing Border, Milan Triennale and End of the Road Festival.
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Pitchfork scored it 7.6 and contended that "Daniel Blumberg uses improvisation and repetition to break free from traditional modes of songwriting".
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In May 2022, Daniel Blumberg won his first Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score for The World To Come.
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Daniel Blumberg composed the score to Brady Corbet's 2024 film The Brutalist, which stars Adrien Brody as the Hungarian Jewish architect Laszlo Toth who survives the Holocaust and constructs a new life in America.
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Daniel Blumberg's score has since been seen as one of the best scores of 2024, receiving a variety of accolades, including a BAFTA Award as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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Daniel Blumberg is a visual artist working primarily in the medium of drawing.
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Daniel Blumberg creates figurative drawings with the ancient technique of silverpoint, using watercolour and graphite.
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Daniel Blumberg presented his first solo show UN-ERASE-ABLE in 2019 at Union Gallery in London displaying a selection of his silverpoint miniatures which he calls "micrograms".
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Daniel Blumberg exhibited in digital media at Homecooking for whom he created a series called SILVER DINNER combining drawing with music, performance and video in collaboration with Keiji Haino and Elvin Brandhi.
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Daniel Blumberg composed the music for Marianna Simnett's video piece "Dance, Stanley Dance" which premiered at Matts Gallery, London in May 2020.
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From 20 June 2020 to 10 January 2021, Daniel Blumberg exhibited a large graphite drawing at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam for the exhibition Black Album, White Cube alongside artists including Albert Oehlen, Scott King and Mark Leckey.