Hans Zimmer

German film composer

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Born:September 12, 1957

Age:69

Zodiac Sign:Virgo

Born in:Frankfurt, Germany

Languages:English, German

Musician Pianist Guitarist Film Score Composer Record Producer Composer

Links

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Famous For

Bands

Helden

Movies & TV

Soundbreaking

Songs & Albums

Kung Fu PandaMadagascar: Escape 2 AfricaMadagascar 3: Europe's Most WantedRangoKung Fu Panda 2

Awards

Academy Award for Best Original Score (2022)Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (2021)Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (2021)Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2020)Disney Legends (2019)

Hans Zimmer

German film composer

Biography

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film composer and music producer, based in London (touring in Melbourne, Australia). He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Grammy Awards, as well as nominations for seven Primetime Emmy Awards. Zimmer was also named one of the Top 100 Living Geniuses by The Daily Telegraph in 2007. His works integrate electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. He has won the Academy Award for Best Original Score twice, for The Lion King (1994) and for Dune (2021). His works include Rain Man (1988), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), The Last Samurai (2003), The Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012), the Pirates of the Caribbean series (2006–2011), Inception (2010), Man of Steel (2013), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), No Time to Die (2021), the Dune series (2021–), and F1 (2025). Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation studios and works with other composers through the company he co-founded, Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures. His studio in Santa Monica, California, has an extensive range of computer equipment and keyboards, allowing demo versions of film scores to be created quickly. Zimmer has collaborated with filmmaker Christopher Nolan on six films, from Batman Begins (2005) to Dunkirk. He has also worked on multiple projects with directors such as Ridley and Tony Scott, Ron Howard, Guy Ritchie, and Denis Villeneuve.

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Quotes

“When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will begin to sound like Kung Fu Panda.”

— Quoted in Tim Masters, Hans Zimmer: I don't write music in 3D, BBC News (July 2011).

“There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.”

— Quoted in Tim Masters, Hans Zimmer: I don't write music in 3D, BBC News (July 2011).

“Nobody beat me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing, and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right, I better do it well.”

— Hans Zimmer - making of GLADIATOR Soundtrack at 2:56

Quotes sourced from the Wikiquote article "Hans Zimmer", available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Photos

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Hans Zimmer at the The Dark Knight Premiere

The Sound Of 007 With Dame Shirley Bassey, Jamie Cullum, Skin, Lulu, Ella Eyre, Garbage, Don Black, Hans Zimmer, Paloma Faith, David Arnold and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Royal Albert Hall - Tuesday 4th October 2022

Starmus 2016. Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Hans Zimmer brought his spectacular live show to Britain's biggest indoor arena - the Manchester Arena (aka AO) above Man Vic station on Friday 16th June 2023. With the Orchestra of the Odessa Opera in residence and host of talented multi-instrumentalists, there wre up to 45 people on stage at any one time. Zimmer seemed to be enjoying himself and engaged widely with the audience during a two-part three hour set that covered music from 31 film scores. The ariel ballet sequence accompanying Interstellar was magical. Manc lad Johnny Marr of the The The and The Smiths joined his son Nile Marr on guitar for the last couple of numbers; Niall being a permanent member of Zimmer's entourage.

Concert donné par Hans Zimmer, le jeudi 2 juin 2016 au Zénith Nantes Métropole de Saint-Herblain.

Hans Zimmer's piano at the "Warped Side of the Universe" concert in the Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando, Florida. Flickr Tags: Orlando Florida Walt Disney Theater Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Warped Side of the Universe Concert Hans Zimmer Interstellar Piano.