She has also worked in film music, notably writing and performing scores for two Stanley Kubrick movies, "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) and "The Shining" (1980), as well as Walt Disney's "Tron" (1982).
Skupaj z Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Tawakkul Karman je leta 2011 prejela Nobelovo nagrado za mir "za njihovo nenasilno prizadevanje za varnost žensk in za pravico žensk sodelovati pri izgradnji miru.