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Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch (born 7 August 1979) is a British composer, conductor, and music producer known for his work on film scores. He has contributed to over 50 feature films since the mid-2000s, including notable works like Blade Runner 2049, Shazam!, It, It Chapter Two, The Invisible Man, Hidden Figures, A Cure for Wellness, The Flash, Twisters, Alien: Romulus, Kraven the Hunter and Predator: Killer of Killers. His work has earned recognition, including a joint nomination with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer for Best Original Score at the 74th Golden Globe Awards for Hidden Figures, as well as nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Blade Runner 2049. In 2020, Wallfisch was nominated for Film Composer of the Year for the second consecutive year at the World Soundtrack Awards. Wallfisch's film compositions have contributed to movies with a combined worldwide box office revenue of over $2.5 billion. In 2019, Variety acknowledged his achievements by including him in their Billion Dollar Composer series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Wallfisch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
City of Darkness is a 2022 American science fiction action film written, co-produced, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Anne Hathaway, Tom Hiddleston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sharlto Copley, Alexa Davalos, Morgan Freeman, Amy Adams, Alexandra Shipp, and Michael Caine. In the film, a former scientist-turned-assassin named Dakota Houston sets out to give the world back its freedom, which was taken by the ruthless and corrupt world leader Armando Kraone. City of Darkness premiered in Los Angeles on February 29th, 2022, and was released on March 17th; it was a major box-office success, grossing $618 million worldwide. The film was met with widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its ambition, direction, musical score, action sequences, the dark tone, dramatic characters, visual effects, emotion, and Hathaway, Hiddleston, Abdul-Mateen, Copley, Davalos and Caine's performances, as well as for its groundbreaking storytelling. It is widely considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, as well as one of Villeneuve's finest works, and is considered to be his masterpiece. In 2027, City of Darkness was selected by the United States National Film Board as one of the top ten best films of 2022.
