Hans Zimmer

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Works

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Film & TV

Sound · Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Oscars, four Grammys, and has been nominated for three Emmys and a Tony. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph in 2007. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since…

Known for

• Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert — Self2025
• The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2025
• Glory of Kings 2025·Co-creation Night2025
• The World of Hans Zimmer: A New Dimension — Self2025
• Pioniere der Filmmusik - Europas Sound für Hollywood — Self - Interviewee2024
• The World of Hans Zimmer — Self2024
• The Making of The Tattooist of Auschwitz — Self2024
• True Love: Making The Creator — Self2023
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self2023
• Ennio — Self2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1957

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,743,213

Total plays

146,526,791

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, and The Dark Knight Trilogy. Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hans+Zimmer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,255x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,623x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,797x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,988x

5. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,572x

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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.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “I wrote the notes, but the notes are only a tiny part of the journey for me. The team that surrounds me, speaks the same language.”

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Official website

Link to the official site · 17,134 chars · not written by Vinony