Benjamin Wallfisch is honored to have been nominated alongside Academy Award® winning composer Hans Zimmer in the 2018 Critics' Choice Awards, for their original score for BLADE RUNNER: 2049. The universally critically acclaimed film, directed by Denis Villeneuve, stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.
Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new Blade Runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former Blade Runner who's been missing for 30 years.
Tim Grierson, Screen International, Sep 29, 2017A ravishing visual colossus, Blade Runner 2049 more than lives up to its predecessor’s legacy as a groundbreaking mixture of sound, images and mood.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 29 Sept 2017The largely electronic musical score by Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer provides a kind of aural neon: gaunt, harsh, angular, like the noise of machinery. It’s an incredible lucid dream.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times, Oct 2, 2017Take a moment to absorb and interpret and appreciate the vibrant and gorgeous and sometimes brutal and mind-bending and occasionally incomprehensible hallucinatory epic that is Blade Runner 2049, which stands with the likes of “The Godfather Part II” and “Terminator 2” and “Aliens” as a sequel worthy of the original classic
