Watch: 37-Minute Talk With Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross About Scoring David Fincher's 'Gone Girl'

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — Nine inch Nails frontman and frequent collaborator, respectively — first worked with David Fincher in 2010 on “The Social Network,” and the collaboration proved incredibly fruitful. The pair won an Oscar for their work on their Original Score and re-teamed with Fincher on “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” This year, they collaborated with the director a third time on “Gone Girl,” and the partnership has already garnered Reznor and Ross a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. We love the score so much here, we ranked it among the 15 Best Film Scores of 2014.

The duo recently sat down for a Q&A about their score at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Right off the bat, they discuss how they first sorted out their process for composing films, which they arrived at via their initial collaboration with Fincher. Reznor reminisces about how Fincher called him a few years ago to work on the score for “The Social Network,” promising to...