Film Composers
Hans Zimmer (born 1957)
Born in Frankfurt, Germany
He plays piano, keyboard and guitar.
He played keyboard and synthesizer with the bands Helden and The Buggles. The Buggles recorded the song Video Killed the Radio Star.
He began working on movie scores in the 1980’s. His first big movie was Rain Man in 1988. The score of Rain Man was nominated for an Academy Award.
In 1995, he received an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the animated movie The Lion King.
“His scores are broadly thematic, ethnically diverse, and immensely popular with a younger generation of film music fans.”
His score for the movie Gladiator is one of the best selling film score albums of all time.
He also works with other composers on music for movies.
He has written: television music
film music:
Days of Thunder
The Lion King
A League of Their Own
The Prince of Egypt
Mission: Impossible 2
Black Hawk Down
The DaVinci Code
The Simpsons Movie
Pearl Harbor
Hannibal
The Ring
Shark Tale
Gladiator (with Lisa Gerrard)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (with, and credited to Klaus Badelt) He also wrote the music for the other Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The Rock (with Nick Glennie-Smith and Harry Gregson-Williams)
Madagascar (with Heitor Pereira, James Dooley)
Batman Begins (with James Newton Howard)
Kung Fu Panda (with John Powell)
Hans Zimmer (born 1957)
Born in Frankfurt, Germany
He plays piano, keyboard and guitar.
He played keyboard and synthesizer with the bands Helden and The Buggles. The Buggles recorded the song Video Killed the Radio Star.
He began working on movie scores in the 1980’s. His first big movie was Rain Man in 1988. The score of Rain Man was nominated for an Academy Award.
In 1995, he received an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the animated movie The Lion King.
“His scores are broadly thematic, ethnically diverse, and immensely popular with a younger generation of film music fans.”
His score for the movie Gladiator is one of the best selling film score albums of all time.
He also works with other composers on music for movies.
He has written: television music
film music:
Days of Thunder
The Lion King
A League of Their Own
The Prince of Egypt
Mission: Impossible 2
Black Hawk Down
The DaVinci Code
The Simpsons Movie
Pearl Harbor
Hannibal
The Ring
Shark Tale
Gladiator (with Lisa Gerrard)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (with, and credited to Klaus Badelt) He also wrote the music for the other Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The Rock (with Nick Glennie-Smith and Harry Gregson-Williams)
Madagascar (with Heitor Pereira, James Dooley)
Batman Begins (with James Newton Howard)
Kung Fu Panda (with John Powell)
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