Trent Reznor's film composition career has been a huge success so far, and he enjoys the praise from the movie industry more than the awards he has collected as a member of Nine Inch Nails. He would rather win an Oscar than a Grammy.
"Having won a couple Grammys for stupid s-t — best metal performance — it's hard to feel good about the integrity of that," Reznor told The Hollywood Reporter recently. "If that's how much you're paying attention to what you're giving out, why should I think that really means anything?"
Reznor has never been a fan of the awards show, but that relationship worsened in January when his show-closing performance at the Grammys — with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac — was cut short for a commercial.
"I can look now and say I should have expected something like that, you know? But more than anything it was just insulting," the singer said a month later.
On the flip side of his career, Reznor happens to enjoy his little buddy Oscar.
"When the Oscar [nomination] came up, it felt very different," he said about the honor in 2010 for his work on David Fincher's The Social Network. "I can't tell if that's because I'm older or it felt like it's coming from a more sincere pedigree. ... And particularly in a field we'd just gotten into, to see that, 'Hey, you think [we] deserve this?' It felt nice."
Reznor's third effort alongside Fincher, Gone Girl, came out last month, and there is more Oscar buzz surrounding the singer's score, which he did with collaborator Atticus Ross.
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