After Reznor brought industrial grind into the mainstream with Nine Inch Nails, the mainstream made him a partner—and he's made some of his best, most adventurous music for big-budget Hollywood productions.
Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor can’t have known how different a line like
“I don’t believe in your institutions”would sound decades later.
Nine Inch Nails have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Reznor and his composing partner Atticus Ross have an Emmy, a Bafta, two Grammies, three Golden Globes, two Oscars, and a Country Music Award.
Reznor is now a respected elder statesman to goths and queers everywhere, having married industrial aesthetics to pop instincts, influenced more by Prince and Bowie than Skinny Puppy.
Author's summary: Reznor changed movie soundtracks forever.