Hans Zimmer - wikipedia Hans Zimmer Hans Zimmer Hans Zimmer in June 2014 Background information Birth name Hans Florian Zimmer ( 1957 - 09 - 12 ) 12 September 1957 ( age 60 ) Frankfurt am Main, West Germany Genres Soundtrack Occupation ( s ) Composer, record producer Instruments Piano, keyboard, synthesizer, guitar Years active 1977 -- present Labels Remote Control Productions Website hanszimmer.com Hans Florian Zimmer ( German : ( ˈhans ˈfloːʁi̯aːn ˈtsɪmɐ ) ( listen ) ; 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, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Blade Runner 2049. 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 studios and works with other composers through the company that he 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 's works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has received four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early career 2.2 Hollywood film scoring 2.3 1990s 2.4 2000s 2.5 2010s 3 Personal life 4 Awards 5 Discography 6 References 7 External links Early life Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. As a young child, he lived in Königstein - Falkenstein, where he played the piano at home but had piano lessons only briefly as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons. In one of his Reddit AMAs, he said `` My formal training was 2 week ( s ) of piano lessons. I was thrown out of 8 schools. But I joined a band. I am self - taught. But I 've always heard music in my head. And I 'm a child of the 20th century ; computers came in very handy. '' He moved to London as a teenager, where he attended Hurtwood House school. In a speech at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival, Zimmer stated that he is Jewish, and talked about his mother surviving the war thanks to her escape from Germany to England in 1939. In an interview with Mashable in February 2013, he said of his parents `` My mother was very musical, basically a musician and my father was an engineer and an inventor. So, I grew up modifying the piano, shall we say, which made my mother gasp in horror, and my father would think it was fantastic when I would attach chainsaws and stuff like that to the piano because he thought it was an evolution in technology. '' In an interview with the German television station ZDF in 2006, he commented : `` My father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend. '' Career Early career Zimmer began his career playing keyboards and synthesizers in the 1970s, with the band Krakatoa. He worked with the Buggles, a new wave band formed in London in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley. Zimmer can be seen briefly in the Buggles ' music video for the 1979 song `` Video Killed the Radio Star ''. After working with the Buggles, he started to work for the Italian group Krisma, a new wave band formed in 1976 with Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser. He was a featured synthesist for Krisma 's third album, Cathode Mamma. He has also worked with the band Helden ( with Warren Cann from Ultravox ). Both Zimmer ( on keyboards ) and Cann ( on drums ), were invited to be part of the Spanish group Mecano for a live performance in Segovia ( Spain ) in 1984. Two songs from this concert were included in the `` Mecano : En Concierto '' album released in 1985 only in Spain. In 1985, he contributed to the Shriekback album Oil & Gold. In 1980, Zimmer co-produced a single, `` History of the World, Part 1, '' with, and for, UK punk band The Damned, which was also included on their 1980 LP release, `` The Black Album, '' and carried the description of his efforts as `` Over-Produced by Hans Zimmer. '' While living in London, Zimmer wrote advertising jingles for Air - Edel Associates. In the 1980s, Zimmer partnered with Stanley Myers, a prolific film composer who wrote the scores for over sixty films. Zimmer and Myers co -- founded the London -- based Lillie Yard recording studio. Together, Myers and Zimmer worked on fusing the traditional orchestral sound with electronic instruments. Some of the films on which Zimmer and Myers worked are Moonlighting ( 1982 ), Success is the Best Revenge ( 1984 ), Insignificance ( 1985 ), and My Beautiful Laundrette ( 1985 ). Zimmer 's first solo score was Terminal Exposure for director Nico Mastorakis in 1987, for which he also wrote the songs. Zimmer acted as score producer for the 1987 film The Last Emperor, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. One of Zimmer 's most durable works from his time in the United Kingdom was the theme song for the television game show Going for Gold, which he composed with Sandy McClelland in 1987. In an interview with the BBC, Zimmer said : `` Going For Gold was a lot of fun. It 's the sort of stuff you do when you do n't have a career yet. God, I just felt so lucky because this thing paid my rent for the longest time. '' Hollywood film scoring A turning point in Zimmer 's career occurred with the 1988 film Rain Man. Hollywood director Barry Levinson was looking for someone to score Rain Man, and his wife heard the soundtrack CD of the anti-apartheid drama A World Apart, for which Zimmer had composed the music. Levinson was impressed by Zimmer 's work and hired him to score Rain Man. In the score, Zimmer uses synthesizers ( mostly a Fairlight CMI ) mixed with steel drums. Zimmer explained that `` It was a road movie, and road movies usually have jangly guitars or a bunch of strings. I kept thinking do n't be bigger than the characters. Try to keep it contained. The Raymond character does n't actually know where he is. The world is so different to him. He might as well be on Mars. So, why do n't we just invent our own world music for a world that does n't really exist ? ''. Zimmer 's score for Rain Man was nominated for an Academy Award in 1989, and the film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. A year after Rain Man, Zimmer was asked to compose the score for Bruce Beresford 's Driving Miss Daisy which, like Rain Man, won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Driving Miss Daisy 's instrumentation consisted entirely of synthesizers and samplers, played by Zimmer. According to an interview with Sound On Sound magazine in 2002, the piano sounds heard within the score come from the Roland MKS -- 20, a rackmount synthesizer. Zimmer joked : `` It did n't sound anything like a piano, but it behaved like a piano. '' 1990s `` I listen to ( Zimmer 's ) music and I do n't even have to shut my eyes. I can see the pictures. And that 's why, in many respects, I know I can talk pictures with Hans. He responds to pictures. '' -- Ridley Scott, director and producer and frequent collaborator with Zimmer. The soundtrack to Ridley Scott 's 1991 film Thelma & Louise by Zimmer featured the trademark slide guitar performance by Pete Haycock on the `` Thunderbird '' theme in the film. As a teenager, Zimmer was a fan of Haycock, and their collaboration on film scores includes K2 and Drop Zone. For the 1992 film The Power of One, Zimmer traveled to Africa in order to use African choirs and drums in the recording of the score. On the strength of this work, Walt Disney Animation Studios approached Zimmer to compose the score for the 1994 film The Lion King. This was to be his first score for an animated film. Zimmer said that he had wanted to go to South Africa to record parts of the soundtrack, but was unable to visit the country as he had a police record there `` for doing ' subversive ' movies '' after his work on The Power of One. Disney studio bosses expressed fears that Zimmer would be killed if he went to South Africa, so the recording of the choirs was organized during a visit by Lebo M. Zimmer won numerous awards for his work on The Lion King, including an Academy Award for Best Original Score, a Golden Globe, and two Grammys. In 1997, the score was adapted into a Broadway musical version which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1998. As of April 2012, the musical version of The Lion King is the highest grossing Broadway show of all time, having grossed $853.8 million. Crimson Tide -- `` Roll Tide '' A clip from the score of the 1995 film Crimson Tide. Problems playing this file ? See media help. Zimmer 's score for Tony Scott 's 1995 film Crimson Tide won a Grammy Award for the main theme, which makes heavy use of synthesizers in place of traditional orchestral instruments. For The Thin Red Line ( 1998 ), Zimmer said that the director Terrence Malick wanted the music before he started filming, so he recorded six and a half hours of music. Zimmer 's next project was The Prince of Egypt ( 1998 ), which was produced by DreamWorks Animation. He introduced Ofra Haza, an Israeli Yemenite singer, to the directors, and they thought she was so beautiful that they designed one of the characters in the film to look like her. 2000s In the 2000s, Zimmer has composed scores for Hollywood blockbuster films including three Ridley Scott films, Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down and Hannibal ( 2001 ), followed by The Last Samurai ( 2003 ), Madagascar ( 2005 ), The Da Vinci Code ( 2006 ), The Simpsons Movie ( 2007 ), Angels & Demons ( 2009 ), and Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ). Other work in the 2000s included the Spanish language film Casi Divas, and The Burning Plain ( 2009 ). He composed the theme for the television boxing series The Contender and worked with Lorne Balfe on the music for Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2, which was his first video game project. Zimmer also collaborated with composers Borislav Slavov and Tilman Sillescu to create the score for the video game Crysis 2. In October 2000, Zimmer performed live in concert for the first time with an orchestra and choir at the 27th Annual Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent. While writing the score for The Last Samurai, Zimmer felt that his knowledge of Japanese music was extremely limited. He began doing extensive research, but the more he studied, the less he felt he knew. Finally, Zimmer took what he had written to Japan for feedback and was shocked when he was asked how he knew so much about Japanese music. Hans Zimmer at The Dark Knight premiere in 2008 During the scoring of The Last Samurai in early 2003, Zimmer was approached by the producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with whom he had worked previously on Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, The Rock, and Pearl Harbor. Bruckheimer had finished shooting Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl but was unhappy with the music composed for the film by Alan Silvestri and wanted a replacement score. Bruckheimer wanted Zimmer to rescore the film, but due to his commitments on The Last Samurai, the task of composing and supervising music for Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl was given to Klaus Badelt, one of Zimmer 's colleagues at Media Ventures. Zimmer provided some themes that were used in the film, although he is not credited on screen. Zimmer was hired as the composer for the three subsequent films in the series, Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man 's Chest ( 2006 ), Pirates of the Caribbean : At World 's End ( 2007 ), and Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides ( 2011 ), collaborating with Rodrigo y Gabriela for the last. Zimmer is also noted for his work on the scores of Christopher Nolan 's Batman Begins ( 2005 ) and The Dark Knight ( 2008 ), on which he collaborated with James Newton Howard. For the soundtrack of The Dark Knight, Zimmer decided to represent the character of The Joker by a single note played on the cello by his long - time colleague Martin Tillman. Zimmer commented `` I wanted to write something people would truly hate. '' The scores for these films were disqualified from receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score due to too many composers being listed on the cue sheet. Zimmer succeeded in reversing the decision not to nominate The Dark Knight in December 2008, arguing that the process of creating a modern film score was collaborative and that it was important to credit a range of people who had played a part in its production. Zimmer explained his approach to scoring with other musicians in an interview with Soundtrack.net in 2006 : `` Originally I had this idea that it should be possible to create some kind of community around this kind of work, and I think by muddying the titles -- not having `` you are the composer, you are the arranger, you are the orchestrator '' -- it just sort of helped us to work more collaboratively. It was n't that important to me that I had `` score by Hans Zimmer '' and took sole credit on these things. It 's like Gladiator : I gave Lisa Gerrard the co-credit because, even though she did n't write the main theme, her presence and contributions were very influential. She was more than just a soloist, and this is why I have such a problem with specific credits. '' For the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, `` The Daily Variety '' reported that Zimmer purchased an out - of - tune piano for 200 dollars and used it throughout the scoring process because of its `` quirkiness ''. For the 2011 sequel, Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows, Zimmer and director Guy Ritchie incorporated authentic Romani gypsy music, which they researched by visiting Slovakia, Italy, and France. The gypsy music in the film is played by Romani virtuoso musicians. 2010s For the 2010 film Inception, Zimmer used electronic manipulation of the song `` Non, je ne regrette rien ''. The horn sound in the score, described by Zimmer as `` like huge foghorns over a city '' became a popular feature in film trailers, with Zimmer commenting `` It 's funny how that sort of thing becomes part of the zeitgeist. But I suppose that 's exactly what trailers are looking for : something iconic lasts less than a second, and shakes the seats in the theater. '' In 2012, Zimmer composed and produced the music for the 84th Academy Awards with Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes. He also composed a new version of the theme music for ABC World News. Zimmer also composed the score for The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment of Christopher Nolan 's The Dark Knight Trilogy. The film was released in July 2012. Zimmer described himself as `` devastated '' in the aftermath of the 2012 Aurora shooting, which occurred at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, commenting `` I just feel so incredibly sad for these people. '' He recorded a track entitled `` Aurora '', a choral arrangement of a theme from the Dark Knight Rises soundtrack, to raise money for the victims of the shooting. He co-composed the music for the television series The Bible, which was broadcast in March 2013, with Lorne Balfe and Lisa Gerrard, and the score for 12 Years a Slave, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in March 2014. Zimmer composed the Tomorrowland Hymn for the Tomorrowland festival to celebrate its tenth anniversary in July 2014. Zimmer composed the music for the 2014 film The Amazing Spider - Man 2 alongside `` The Magnificent Six '', which consisted of Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr, Michael Einziger, Junkie XL, Andrew Kawczynski, and Steve Mazzaro. Zimmer also composed the music for Christopher Nolan 's 2014 film Interstellar, which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. He partnered with Junkie XL to compose the music for the 2016 film Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice. In an interview with BBC News in March 2016, Zimmer said that he was retiring from composing the music for superhero films, saying of Batman v Superman `` This one was very hard for me to do, to try to find new language ''. Zimmer composed the main theme for the 2016 BBC nature documentary Planet Earth II, presented by David Attenborough. Zimmer composed the main theme for the 2016 Netflix production The Crown. He also composed the score for Christopher Nolan 's 2017 film Dunkirk, basing part of the score on a recording of a ticking watch that he had been given by Nolan. Personal life Zimmer 's first wife was a model, Vicki Carolin, with whom he has a daughter, model Zoe Zimmer. Zimmer lives in Los Angeles with his second wife Suzanne Zimmer with whom he has an additional three children. Awards Zimmer 's Star on the `` Boulevard der Stars '' in Berlin Zimmer has received a range of honors and awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in film Composition from the National Board of Review, the Frederick Loewe Award in 2003 at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, ASCAP 's Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement, and BMI 's Richard Kirk Award for lifetime achievement in 1996. In December 2010, Zimmer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He dedicated the award to his publicist and long term friend Ronni Chasen, who had been shot and killed in Beverly Hills the previous month. Academy Awards 1995 : The Lion King ( Best Original Score ) Golden Globe Awards 1995 : The Lion King 2001 : Gladiator ( shared with Lisa Gerrard ) Grammy Awards 1995 : The Lion King ( Best Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying Vocals ) 1995 : The Lion King ( Best Musical Album For Children ) 1996 : Crimson Tide 2009 : The Dark Knight ( shared with James Newton Howard ) Satellite Award 1998 : The Thin Red Line 2001 : Gladiator 2003 : The Last Samurai 2011 : Inception Saturn Awards 2009 : The Dark Knight ( shared with James Newton Howard ) 2011 : Inception 2014 : Interstellar Classical BRIT Awards 2008 : The Dark Knight ( shared with James Newton Howard ) 2013 : Best Composer of the Year ( for The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel ) 2013 : Outstanding Contribution to Music in association with Raymond Weil WAFCA Awards 2011 : Inception 2013 : 12 Years a Slave BFCA Awards 2000 : Gladiator DFWFCA Awards 2014 : Interstellar World Soundtrack Awards 2011 : Inception Stephen Hawking Medal 2016 : Interstellar Discography Main article : Hans Zimmer discography References Jump up ^ `` Hans Zimmer ''. 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Official website Hans Zimmer on IMDb Interview with Hans Zimmer in Film Score Monthly Interview with Hans Zimmer about Sherlock Holmes from C Music TV Focus.De Interviews with Hans Zimmer Hans Zimmer Soundtracks The Lion King The Thin Red Line Gladiator Mission : Impossible 2 Beyond Rangoon Black Hawk Down Spirit : Stallion of the Cimarron Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl Batman Begins The Da Vinci Code Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man 's Chest Pirates of the Caribbean : At World 's End The Simpsons Movie Pirates of the Caribbean : Soundtrack Treasures Collection The Dark Knight Sherlock Holmes Inception Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows The Dark Knight Rises Man of Steel The Lone Ranger 12 Years a Slave Rush The Amazing Spider - Man 2 Interstellar Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice Dunkirk Blade Runner 2049 Related Discography Remote Control Productions Book Awards for Hans Zimmer Academy Award for Best Original Score 1930s Louis Silvers ( 1934 ) Max Steiner ( 1935 ) Leo F. Forbstein ( 1936 ) Charles Previn ( 1937 ) Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Alfred Newman ( 1938 ) Herbert Stothart / Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken ( 1939 ) 1940s Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington / Alfred Newman ( 1940 ) Bernard Herrmann / Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace ( 1941 ) Max Steiner / Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld ( 1942 ) Alfred Newman / Ray Heindorf ( 1943 ) Max Steiner / Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon ( 1944 ) Miklós Rózsa / Georgie Stoll ( 1945 ) Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff ( 1946 ) Miklós Rózsa / Alfred Newman ( 1947 ) Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens ( 1948 ) Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton ( 1949 ) 1950s Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens ( 1950 ) Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin ( 1951 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman ( 1952 ) Bronisław Kaper / Alfred Newman ( 1953 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin ( 1954 ) Alfred Newman / Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch ( 1955 ) Victor Young / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby ( 1956 ) Malcolm Arnold ( 1957 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Andre Previn ( 1958 ) Miklós Rózsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby ( 1959 ) 1960s Ernest Gold / Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman ( 1960 ) Henry Mancini / Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal ( 1961 ) Maurice Jarre / Ray Heindorf ( 1962 ) John Addison / Andre Previn ( 1963 ) Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Andre Previn ( 1964 ) Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal ( 1965 ) John Barry / Ken Thorne ( 1966 ) Elmer Bernstein / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby ( 1967 ) John Barry / Johnny Green ( 1968 ) Burt Bacharach / Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman ( 1969 ) 1970s Francis Lai / The Beatles ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ) ( 1970 ) Michel Legrand / John Williams ( 1971 ) Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell / Ralph Burns ( 1972 ) Marvin Hamlisch / Marvin Hamlisch ( 1973 ) Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola / Nelson Riddle ( 1974 ) John Williams / Leonard Rosenman ( 1975 ) Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman ( 1976 ) John Williams / Jonathan Tunick ( 1977 ) Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti ( 1978 ) Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns ( 1979 ) 1980s Michael Gore ( 1980 ) Vangelis ( 1981 ) John Williams / Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse ( 1982 ) Bill Conti / Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman ( 1983 ) Maurice Jarre / Prince ( 1984 ) John Barry ( 1985 ) Herbie Hancock ( 1986 ) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su ( 1987 ) Dave Grusin ( 1988 ) Alan Menken ( 1989 ) 1990s John Barry ( 1990 ) Alan Menken ( 1991 ) Alan Menken ( 1992 ) John Williams ( 1993 ) Hans Zimmer ( 1994 ) Luis Enríquez Bacalov / Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz ( 1995 ) Gabriel Yared / Rachel Portman ( 1996 ) James Horner / Anne Dudley ( 1997 ) Nicola Piovani / Stephen Warbeck ( 1998 ) John Corigliano ( 1999 ) 2000s Tan Dun ( 2000 ) Howard Shore ( 2001 ) Elliot Goldenthal ( 2002 ) Howard Shore ( 2003 ) Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ( 2004 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2005 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2006 ) Dario Marianelli ( 2007 ) A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Michael Giacchino ( 2009 ) 2010s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross ( 2010 ) Ludovic Bource ( 2011 ) Mychael Danna ( 2012 ) Steven Price ( 2013 ) Alexandre Desplat ( 2014 ) Ennio Morricone ( 2015 ) Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Score John Williams ( 1998 ) Gabriel Yared ( 1999 ) Lisa Gerrard / Hans Zimmer ( 2000 ) Howard Shore ( 2001 ) John Williams ( 2002 ) Howard Shore ( 2003 ) Howard Shore ( 2004 ) John Williams ( 2005 ) Philip Glass ( 2006 ) Jonny Greenwood ( 2007 ) A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Michael Giacchino ( 2009 ) Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross ( 2010 ) Ludovic Bource ( 2011 ) John Williams ( 2012 ) Steven Price ( 2013 ) Antonio Sánchez ( 2014 ) Ennio Morricone ( 2015 ) Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score 1940s Life with Father -- Max Steiner ( 1947 ) The Red Shoes -- Brian Easdale ( 1948 ) The Inspector General -- Johnny Green ( 1949 ) 1950s Sunset Boulevard -- Franz Waxman ( 1950 ) September Affair -- Victor Young ( 1951 ) High Noon -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1952 ) On the Beach -- Ernest Gold ( 1959 ) 1960s The Alamo -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1960 ) The Guns of Navarone -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1961 ) To Kill a Mockingbird -- Elmer Bernstein ( 1962 ) ( 1963 ) The Fall of the Roman Empire -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1964 ) Doctor Zhivago -- Maurice Jarre ( 1965 ) Hawaii -- Elmer Bernstein ( 1966 ) Camelot -- Frederick Loewe ( 1967 ) The Shoes of the Fisherman -- Alex North ( 1968 ) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- Burt Bacharach ( 1969 ) 1970s Love Story -- Francis Lai ( 1970 ) Shaft -- Isaac Hayes ( 1971 ) The Godfather -- Nino Rota ( 1972 ) Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- Neil Diamond ( 1973 ) The Little Prince -- Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe ( 1974 ) Jaws -- John Williams ( 1975 ) A Star is Born -- Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams ( 1976 ) Star Wars -- John Williams ( 1977 ) Midnight Express -- Giorgio Moroder ( 1978 ) Apocalypse Now -- Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola ( 1979 ) 1980s The Stunt Man -- Dominic Frontiere ( 1980 ) ( 1981 ) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial -- John Williams ( 1982 ) Flashdance -- Giorgio Moroder ( 1983 ) A Passage to India -- Maurice Jarre ( 1984 ) Out of Africa -- John Barry ( 1985 ) The Mission -- Ennio Morricone ( 1986 ) The Last Emperor -- David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cong Su ( 1987 ) Gorillas in the Mist -- Maurice Jarre ( 1988 ) The Little Mermaid -- Alan Menken ( 1989 ) 1990s The Sheltering Sky -- Richard Horowitz, Ryuichi Sakamoto ( 1990 ) Beauty and the Beast -- Alan Menken ( 1991 ) Aladdin -- Alan Menken ( 1992 ) Heaven & Earth -- Kitarō ( 1993 ) The Lion King -- Hans Zimmer ( 1994 ) A Walk in the Clouds -- Maurice Jarre ( 1995 ) The English Patient -- Gabriel Yared ( 1996 ) Titanic -- James Horner ( 1997 ) The Truman Show -- Burkhard Dallwitz, Philip Glass ( 1998 ) 1900 -- Ennio Morricone ( 1999 ) 2000s Gladiator -- Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer ( 2000 ) Moulin Rouge ! -- Craig Armstrong ( 2001 ) Frida -- Elliot Goldenthal ( 2002 ) The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King -- Howard Shore ( 2003 ) The Aviator -- Howard Shore ( 2004 ) Memoirs of a Geisha -- John Williams ( 2005 ) The Painted Veil -- Alexandre Desplat ( 2006 ) Atonement -- Dario Marianelli ( 2007 ) Slumdog Millionaire -- A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Up -- Michael Giacchino ( 2009 ) 2010s The Social Network -- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross ( 2010 ) The Artist -- Ludovic Bource ( 2011 ) Life of Pi -- Mychael Danna ( 2012 ) All Is Lost -- Alex Ebert ( 2013 ) The Theory of Everything -- Jóhann Jóhannsson ( 2014 ) The Hateful Eight -- Ennio Morricone ( 2015 ) La La Land -- Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) Satellite Award for Best Original Score 1996 -- 1999 Gabriel Yared ( 1996 ) James Horner ( 1997 ) Hans Zimmer ( 1998 ) Danny Elfman ( 1999 ) 2000 -- 2009 Hans Zimmer ( 2000 ) Craig Armstrong ( 2001 ) Elliot Goldenthal ( 2002 ) Hans Zimmer ( 2003 ) John Swihart ( 2004 ) Harry Gregson - Williams ( 2005 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2006 ) Alberto Iglesias ( 2007 ) A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Rolfe Kent ( 2009 ) 2010 -- present Hans Zimmer ( 2010 ) Marco Beltrami ( 2011 ) Alexandre Desplat ( 2012 ) Steven Price ( 2013 ) Antonio Sánchez ( 2014 ) Carter Burwell ( 2015 ) Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) Saturn Award for Best Music Bernard Herrmann ( 1973 ) Miklós Rózsa ( 1974 / 75 ) David Raksin ( 1976 ) John Williams / John Williams ( 1977 ) John Williams ( 1978 ) Miklós Rózsa ( 1979 ) John Barry ( 1980 ) John Williams ( 1981 ) John Williams ( 1982 ) James Horner ( 1983 ) Jerry Goldsmith ( 1984 ) Bruce Broughton ( 1985 ) Alan Menken ( 1986 ) Alan Silvestri ( 1987 ) Christopher Young ( 1988 ) Alan Silvestri ( 1989 / 90 ) Loek Dikker ( 1991 ) Angelo Badalamenti ( 1992 ) Danny Elfman ( 1993 ) Howard Shore ( 1994 ) John Ottman ( 1995 ) Danny Elfman ( 1996 ) Danny Elfman ( 1997 ) John Carpenter ( 1998 ) Danny Elfman ( 1999 ) James Horner ( 2000 ) John Williams ( 2001 ) Danny Elfman ( 2002 ) Howard Shore ( 2003 ) Alan Silvestri ( 2004 ) John Williams ( 2005 ) John Ottman ( 2006 ) Alan Menken ( 2007 ) James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer ( 2008 ) James Horner ( 2009 ) Hans Zimmer ( 2010 ) Michael Giacchino ( 2011 ) Danny Elfman ( 2012 ) Frank Ilfman ( 2013 ) Hans Zimmer ( 2014 ) John Williams ( 2015 ) Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) Note : The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release ; the ceremonies are usually held the next year. 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Question: who is the music director of pirates of the caribbean
Answer: Hans Florian Zimmer