Trent Reznor
![Reznor in February 2008](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Trent_Reznor-FEB2008_%28cropped%2C_but_higher_quality%29_%282%29.jpg)
Reznor began his career in the mid-1980s as a member of synth-pop bands such as Option 30, The Innocent, and Exotic Birds. He has contributed to the albums of artists such as Marilyn Manson, whom he mentored, rapper Saul Williams and Halsey. Alongside his wife Mariqueen Maandig and long-time Nine Inch Nails collaborators Atticus Ross and Rob Sheridan, he formed the post-industrial group How to Destroy Angels in 2009.
Beginning in 2010, Reznor, alongside Atticus Ross, began to work on film and television scores. The duo have scored many of David Fincher's films, including ''The Social Network'' (2010), ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2011), ''Gone Girl'' (2014), ''Mank'' (2020), and ''The Killer'' (2023). They won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for both ''The Social Network'' and ''Soul'' (2020). They won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series for ''Watchmen'' (2019).
In 1997, Reznor appeared on ''Time'' list of the year's most influential people, and ''Spin'' magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music".
Reznor is also the co-creator of the virtual supergroup, WitchGang, with Atticus Ross. Provided by Wikipedia