Jonny Greenwood

Jonny Greenwood doesn’t just score films; he builds their nervous systems. The same instinct for sonic sabotage that sent his guitar skittering and shrieking through Radiohead's anthems finds its purest expression in his long collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson. From the curdling industrial dread of There Will Be Blood to the haunted, gorgeous ache of Phantom Thread, Greenwood conjures the ghosts of 20th-century modernism—Penderecki’s swarming strings, Messiaen’s uncanny modes—for deeply human ends. He’ll detour to record devotional music in a 15th-century fort for the Junun project or lock into frantic post-punk with The Smile, always guided by a singular focus on tension and its beautiful, unnerving release.