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Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theater, dance, television and films. His work is stylized by its blending of traditional orchestration with contemporary electronic elements. Jóhann released solo albums from 2002 onward. In 2016, he signed with Deutsche Grammophon, through which he released his last solo album, Orphée. Some of his works in film include the original scores for Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners, Sicario, and Arrival, and James Marsh's The Theory of Everything. Jóhannsson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for both The Theory of Everything and Sicario, and won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for the former. He earned a second Golden Globe nomination for Arrival. He was a music and sound consultant on Mother!, directed by Darren Aronofsky in 2017. His scores for Mary Magdalene and Mandy were released posthumously. His only directorial work, Last and First Men, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2017, where he also performed the score live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
In a dystopian future in the United States, a new justice system has been implemented to reduce prison overcrowding. Criminals are imprisoned in a vertical prison called "The Tower", where each level has a cell with two beds and a hole in the center of the floor that connects all the levels. Each day, food is delivered to a platform that runs down the Tower. However, the quantity and quality of food varies by level, with the highest level receiving the best food, while the lowest level barely receives enough to survive. The story follows two inmates, one from the upper levels and one from the lower level, who come together to try to change the unfair system and escape the Tower. As the levels drop, they are met with despair, violence and madness, and discover that the only way to escape is to work together.
