Hans Zimmer

**Hans Florian Zimmer** (born 12 September 1957) is a German movie score composer, music producer and musician. He has written music for over 100 movies.

His works include _The Lion King_ (1994), _Crimson Tide_ (1995), _Gladiator_ (2000), _Batman Begins_ (2005), _The Dark Knight_ (2008), _Inception_ (2010), _Rango_ (2011), _The Dark Knight Rises_ (2012), _Man of Steel_ (2013), _The Amazing Spider-Man 2_ (2014), _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ (2016), _Dunkirk_ (2017), _Widows_ (2018) and _The Lion King_ (2019).

His most recent work was _No Time to Die_ (2021), _Wonder Woman 1984_ (2021) and _Dune_ (2021), for which he won another Academy Award.

## Career

Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. Before becoming known as a film score composer, he wrote commercial jingles and was even part of the band The Buggles, known for their 1979 one-hit "Video Killed the Radio Star". He is in charge of the movie music division at DreamWorks studios. He also works with other composers through the company he founded, Remote Control Productions.

Zimmer's works are notable for combining electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has been given four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Classical BRIT Award, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by _The Daily Telegraph_.

In 2000, Zimmer's score for _Gladiator_ became one of the best-selling movie score albums ever. He also composed video game scores such as _Call of Duty_ and _Fortnite_.

##### 1980s

|width="30"|Year|width="175"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1987**|||||||||
|Jerry Rees|rowspan="4"|Additional voices|||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1988**||||||||
|Robert Zemeckis|||||||||
|George Scribner|||||||||
|**1989**|||||||||
|Ron Clements John Musker|||||||||

##### 1990s

|width="30"|Year|width="175"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1990**|||||||||
|Hendel Butoy Mike Gabriel|rowspan="18"|Additional voices|||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1991**||||||||
|Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise|||||||||
|Phil Nibbelink Simon Wells|||||||||
|**1992**|||||||||
|John Musker Ron Clements|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1994**||||||||
|Roger Allers Rob Minkoff|||||||||
|Rob Reiner|||||||||
|rowspan="4"|**1995**||||||||
|Billy Crystal|||||||||
|Mike Gabriel Eric Goldberg|||||||||
|Peter Yates|||||||||
|John Lasseter|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1996**||||||||
|Harold Becker|||||||||
|Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1997**||||||||
|Mark Dindal|||||||||
|Ron Clements John Musker|||||||||
|rowspan="6"|**1998**||||||||
|Frederik Du Chau|||||||||
|Barry Cook Tony Bancroft|||||||||
|Eric Darnell Tim Johnson|||||||||
|Darrell Rooney|||||||||
|John Lasseter|Male Ants||||||||
|Brenda Chapman Steve Hickner Simon Wells|rowspan="3"|Additional voices|||||||
|rowspan="5"|**1999**||||||||
|Maurice Joyce|||||||||
|Kevin Lima Chris Buck|||||||||
|Brad Bird|Jim the Soldier, General Rogard's Army||||||||
|Rob Reiner|rowspan="2"|Additional voices|||||||
|John Lasseter|||||||||

##### 2000s

|width="30"|Year|width="175"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|**2000**||||||||
|Jun Falkenstein Andrew Stanton|rowspan="14"|Additional voices|||||||
|Ian Harrowell Douglas McCarthy|||||||||
|Don Bluth Gary Goldman|||||||||
|Peter Lord Nick Park|||||||||
|Kevin Lima|||||||||
|Mark Dindal|||||||||
|rowspan="5"|**2001**||||||||
|Chuck Sheetz|||||||||
|Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson|||||||||
|Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise|||||||||
|**Animation:** Tom Sito Piet Kroon **Live-action:** Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly|||||||||
|Pete Docter David Silverman|||||||||
|rowspan="5"|**2002**||||||||
|John Kafka|Direct-to-video||||||||
|Chris Wedge|||||||||
|Chris Sanders Dean DeBlois|||||||||
|Hayao Miyazaki|Fire Chief||||||||
|Ron Clements John Musker|Male Alien #2, Pirates||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**2003**||||||||
|Francis Glebas|rowspan="14"|Additional voices|||||||
|Andrew Stanton|||||||||
|Aaron Blaise Robert Walker|||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**2004**||||||||
|Timothy Björklund|||||||||
|Will Finn John Sanford|||||||||
|Brad Bird|||||||||
|rowspan="5"|**2005**||||||||
|Frank Nissen|Direct-to-video||||||||
|Chris Wedge|||||||||
|Eric Darnell Tom McGrath|||||||||
|Elliot M. Bour|||||||||
|Mark Dindal|||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**2006**||||||||
|Matthew O'Callaghan|||||||||
|Carlos Saldanha|||||||||
|John Lasseter|||||||||

##### 2010s

|width="30"|Year|width="175"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|**2018**||||||||
|Nick Park|rowspan="2"|Additional voices|||||||
|Brad Bird|||||||||

#### Television

|width="30"|Year|width="175"|Title|width="300"|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1999**-**2003**|||||||
|Additional voices|||||||
|**2003**-**2004**|||||||
|Additional voices|5 episodes||||||

##### 1980s

|width="30"|Year|width="200"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Studio / Publisher|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1982**|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Jerzy Skolimowski|Miracle Films|rowspan="11"|Composed with Stanley Myers|||||
|rowspan="2"|**1984**||||||||
|Gaumont Film Company|||||||||
|Éric Rochat|Cannon Film Distributors||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1985**||||||||
|Stephen Frears|Working Title Films Channel Four Films||||||||
|Nicolas Roeg|Recorded Picture Company Zenith Productions||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1986**||||||||
|Nico Mastorakis|Omega Entertainment||||||||
|Michael Anderson|Alliance Communications Playboy Productions||||||||
|rowspan="4"|**1987**||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Nico Mastorakis|rowspan="3"|Omega Entertainment||||||
|Franco Rosso|Channel Four Films Cannon Film Distributors||||||||
|rowspan="6"|**1988**||||||||
|Philip Saville|Film4 Productions Cannon Films||||||||
|Chris Menges|Atlantic Releasing Corporation||||||||
|Francis Megahy|Vestron Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists|rowspan="2"|Composed with Stanley Myers||||||
|Bernard Rose|Working Title Films Vestron Pictures||||||||
|Barry Levinson|Barris Industries Guber-Peters Company United Artists Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|Nominated–Academy Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|Andrew Birkin|rowspan="2"|Vestron Pictures|||||||
|rowspan="4"|**1989**||||||||
|Michael Almereyda|||||||||
|Ridley Scott|Paramount Pictures|1st of 9 collaborations with R. Scott|||||||
|Nick Broomfield|Film4 Productions Working Title Films||||||||
|Bruce Beresford|The Zanuck Company Warner Bros. Pictures|Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media|||||||

##### 1990s

|width="30"|Year|width="200"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Studio / Publisher|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|**1990**||||||||
|Bernard Rose|LIVE Entertainment PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Working Title Films New Line Cinema||||||||
|John Badham|Interscope Communications Universal Pictures||||||||
|Pat O'Connor|Channel Four Films||||||||
|Tony Scott|Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Paramount Pictures|1st of 4 collaborations with T. Scott|||||||
|John Schlesinger|Morgan Creek Productions 20th Century Fox Sony Pictures||||||||
|Peter Weir|Umbrella Entertainment Touchstone Pictures||||||||
|rowspan="5"|**1991**||||||||
|Ron Howard|Imagine Entertainment Universal Pictures|1st of 8 collaborations with Howard|||||||
|Ridley Scott|Pathé Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Film Music|||||||
|Mike Nichols|Paramount Pictures||||||||
|Charles Finch|August Entertainment Columbia TriStar|Composed with Mark Mancina|||||||
|Franc Roddam|Paramount Pictures|Composed with Chaz Jankel|||||||
|rowspan="4"|**1992**||||||||
|Richard Donner|Columbia Pictures||||||||
|John G. Avildsen|Regency Enterprises Le Studio Canal+ Village Roadshow Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures||||||||
|Penny Marshall|Columbia Pictures||||||||
|Barry Levinson|Baltimore Pictures 20th Century Fox|Composed with Trevor Horn Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Music|||||||
|rowspan="6"|**1993**||||||||
|John Badham|Warner Bros. Pictures|Composed with Nick Glennie-Smith|||||||
|Percy Adlon|Transmundo Films||||||||
|John Whitesell|Columbia Pictures||||||||
|Tony Scott|Morgan Creek Productions Davis Films Warner Bros. Pictures||||||||
|Jon Turteltaub|Walt Disney Pictures||||||||
|Bille August|Constantin Film Miramax Films||||||||
|rowspan="4"|**1994**||||||||
|James L. Brooks|Gracie Films Columbia Pictures|1st of 4 collaborations with Brooks|||||||
|Penny Marshall|Cinergi Pictures Touchstone Pictures||||||||
|Roger Allers Rob Minkoff|Walt Disney Animation Studios Walt Disney Pictures|Original songs by Elton John & Tim Rice Composed with Nick Glennie-Smith and Mark Mancina Academy Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|||||||
|John Badham|Paramount Pictures||||||||
|rowspan="5"|**1995**||||||||
|Tony Scott|Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Hollywood Pictures|Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Music|||||||
|John Boorman|Castle Rock Entertainment Columbia Pictures||||||||
|Chris Columbus|1492 Pictures 20th Century Fox||||||||
|Lasse Hallström|Warner Bros. Pictures|Composed with Graham Preskett|||||||
|Nicolas Roeg|Castle Hill||||||||
|rowspan="6"|**1996**||||||||
|Dan Ireland|Sony Pictures Classics The Kushner-Locke Company Cineville|with Harry Gregson-Williams|||||||
|John Woo|20th Century Fox||||||||
|Brian Henson|Jim Henson Productions Walt Disney Pictures|Original songs by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil|||||||
|Michael Bay|Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Hollywood Pictures|1st of 6 collaborations with Bay Composed with Nick Glennie-Smith & Harry Gregson-Williams Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Music|||||||
|Tony Scott|Mandalay Entertainment Scott Free Productions TriStar Pictures||||||||
|Penny Marshall|The Samuel Goldwyn Company Touchstone Pictures|Nominated–Academy Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|rowspan="3"|**1997**||||||||
|Bille August|Bavaria Film Constantin Film Det Danske Filminstitut Greenland Film Production Nordisk Film|with Harry Gregson-Williams|||||||
|Mimi Leder|DreamWorks Pictures||||||||
|James L. Brooks|Gracie Films TriStar Pictures|Nominated–Academy Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|rowspan="3"|**1998**||||||||
|James Moll|October Films|Documentary film|||||||
|Simon Wells Brenda Chapman Steve Hickner|DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures|Original songs by Stephen Schwartz Nominated–Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|Terrence Malick|Phoenix Pictures 20th Century Fox|Nominated–Academy Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1999**||||||||
|Brad Bird|Warner Bros. Feature Animation Warner Bros.|His first score for an animated movie. Performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande.|||||||
|Hugh Johnson|Morgan Creek Productions Warner Bros. Pictures|Composed with John Powell|||||||

##### 2000s

|width="30"|Year|width="200"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Studio / Publisher|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|**2000**||||||||
|Barry Levinson|DreamWorks Pictures <small>(US)</small> Columbia Pictures <small>(International)</small>||||||||
|John Woo|Cruise/Wagner Productions Paramount Pictures||||||||
|Ridley Scott|Scott Free Productions Red Wagon Entertainment DreamWorks Pictures <small>(US)</small> Universal Pictures <small>(International)</small>|Composed with Lisa Gerrard Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated–Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Music|||||||
|Eric "Bibo" Bergeron Don Paul|DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures|Composed with John Powell Nominated–Annie Award Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Music|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Brad Bird|rowspan="2"|Warner Bros. Family Entertainment|rowspan="2"|His first and only score for an animated movie. Performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande.||||
|rowspan="6"|**2001**||||||||
|Ridley Scott|Revolution Studios Jerry Bruckheimer Films Scott Free Productions Columbia Pictures||||||||
|Penny Marshall|Gracie Films Columbia Pictures||||||||
|Michael Bay|Jerry Bruckheimer Films Touchstone Pictures|Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|Ridley Scott|Dino De Laurentiis Company Scott Free Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Universal Pictures||||||||
|Werner Herzog|Channel Four Films <small>(UK)</small> Fine Line Features <small>(US)</small>|rowspan="2"|Composed with Klaus Badelt||||||
|Sean Penn|Franchise Pictures Morgan Creek Productions Warner Bros.||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**2002**||||||||
|Kelly Asbury Lorna Cook|DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures|Features lyrics and vocals by Bryan Adams Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|Gore Verbinski|DreamWorks Pictures|1st of 7 collaborations with Verbinski Nominated–Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Score|||||||
|rowspan="4"|**2003**||||||||
|Edward Zwick|Radar Pictures The Bedford Falls Company Cruise/Wagner Productions Warner Bros.|Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|Nancy Meyers|Columbia Pictures <small>(US)</small> Warner Bros. <small>(International)</small>||||||||
|Ridley Scott|ImageMovers Scott Free Productions Saturn Films Warner Bros.||||||||
|Antoine Fuqua|Revolution Studios Cheyenne Enterprises Columbia Pictures||||||||
|rowspan="5"|**2004**||||||||
|James L. Brooks|Gracie Films Columbia Pictures|Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|||||||
|Piet De Rycker|Warner Bros. Family Entertainment|Composed with Nick Glennie-Smith & Henning Lohner|||||||
|Vicky Jenson Bibo Bergeron Rob Letterman|DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures||||||||
|Antoine Fuqua|Jerry Bruckheimer Films Touchstone Pictures||||||||
|Jonathan Frakes|StudioCanal Working Title Films Universal Pictures||||||||
|rowspan="5"|**2005**||||||||
|Gore Verbinski|Escape Artists Paramount Pictures|Composed with James S. Levine|||||||
|Piet De Rycker|Rothkirch Cartoon Film Warner Bros. Family Entertainment|Composed with Nick Glennie-Smith|||||||
|Eric Darnell Tom McGrath|DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures|1st of 3 collaborations with Darnell 1st of 5 collaborations with McGrath Nominated–Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production Replaced Harry Gregson-Williams|||||||
|Nick Park Steve Box|DreamWorks Animation Aardman Animation DreamWorks Pictures|Composed with Julian Nott|||||||
|Christopher Nolan|DC Comics Syncopy Inc. Legendary Pictures Warner Bros.|1st of 7 collaborations with Nolan 1st superhero film Composed with James Newton Howard Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Music|||||||
|rowspan="3"|**2006**||||||||
|Gore Verbinski|Jerry Bruckheimer Films Walt Disney Pictures|Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|||||||
|Ron Howard|Imagine Entertainment Rainmaker Digital Effects Columbia Pictures|Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated–Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|||||||
|Nancy Meyers|Relativity Media Waverly Films Columbia Pictures <small>(US)</small> Universal Pictures <small>(International)</small>|Composed with Heitor Pereira|||||||

#### Short films

|width="30"|Year|width="200"|Title|width="150"|Director|width="300"|Studio / Publisher|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1986**|||||||||
|Matthew Jacobs|||||||||
|**1990**|||||||||
|Paul Bamborough|Channel Four Films Working Title Films||||||||
|**1991**|||||||||
|Jessie Nelson|Chanticleer Films||||||||
|**2008**|||||||||
|Raman Hui|DreamWorks Animation|Composed with Henry Jackman & John Powell Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form|||||||
|rowspan="2"|**2011**||||||||
|Simon J. Smith|DreamWorks Animation Pacific Data Images|Composed with Lorne Balfe|||||||
|Tony Leondis|DreamWorks Animation|Composed with Lorne Balfe & John Powell|||||||
|**2012**|||||||||
|David Silverman|Gracie Films Film Roman 20th Century Fox|_The Simpsons_ animated short Composed with James Dooley|||||||
|**2016**|||||||||
|Rodolphe Guenoden|DreamWorks Animation|Composed with Lorne Balfe & John Powell|||||||

#### Television

|width="30"|Year|width="200"|Title|width="300"|Network|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1985**|||||||
|CBS|Television film||||||
|rowspan="2"|**1987**||||||
|ITV Yorkshire|||||||
|BBC|With Sandy McClelland||||||
|**1988**|||||||
|BBC|rowspan="2"|Miniseries|||||
|**1992**|||||||
|BBC Global Television Network|||||||
|**1993**|||||||
|FOX|Television film Theme music only Score composed by Mark Mancina||||||
|**1993**–**1994**|||||||
|CBS|Theme music only Score composed by Mark Mancina and John Van Tongeren||||||
|**1994**–**1995**|||||||
|Columbia Pictures Television Gracie Films ABC FOX|Theme music only Score composed by Alf Clausen||||||
|**2000**–**2001**|||||||
|RTL Group|Theme music only Score composed by Matthias Weber, Justin Burnett, James S. Levine & Geoff Zanelli||||||
|**2010**|||||||
|HBO DreamWorks Playtone|Miniseries Theme music only Score composed by Geoff Zanelli & Blake Neely Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special||||||
|**2011**–**2016**|||||||
|Revelations Entertainment Discovery Communications|Documentary series Theme music only with Jacob Shea||||||
|**2011**|||||||
||Documentary series; 1 episode||||||
|**2013**|||||||
|Lightworkers Media History|Miniseries Composed with Lisa Gerrard & Lorne Balfe||||||
|rowspan="3"|**2015**||||||
||Boxing program||||||
|A&E Networks History|Miniseries Theme music only Score composed by Lorne Balfe||||||
|NBC|Music director only Score composed by Lorne Balfe||||||
|rowspan="2"|**2016**||||||
|BBC|Documentary series; 6 episodes Composed with Jasha Klebe & Jacob Shea Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Original Music||||||
|Sony Pictures Television Left Bank Pictures Netflix|Theme music only Score composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams||||||
|rowspan="2"|**2017**||||||
|National Geographic|Theme music only Score composed by Lorne Balfe Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music||||||
|BBC|Documentary series; 7 episodes Composed with David Fleming & Jacob Shea||||||
|**2018**|||||||
|HBO|Documentary film Composed with Dan Reynolds||||||
|**2019**|||||||
|BBC|Documentary series; 7 episodes Composed with Jacob Shea||||||

## Other websites

- 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

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Hans Zimmer
- **img**: Hans Zimmer 2010.jpg
- **img capt**: Hans Zimmer receiving his star at the
Hollywood Walk of Fame (2010)
- **image size**: 220px
- **background**: non_performing_personnel
- **birth name**: Hans Florian Zimmer
- **birth place**: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- **instrument**: Piano, Keyboard instrument, Keyboard, MIDI keyboard, MIDI Master Keyboard, Synthesizer, Guitar
- **genre**: Movie score, Video game music
- **occupation**: Composer
- **years active**: 1977–present
- **url**: [http://www.hanszimmer.com www.hanszimmer.com]