 In 1991, Byrne released a classical instrumental album "The Forest", where some of the tracks were already featured as a score for 1988 Robert Wilson theatre piece of the same name.His work has been extensively used in film soundtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor", which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.In 2004, "Lead Us Not into Temptation" included tracks and musical experiments from his score to "Young Adam".