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. In 2016, Zimmer was one of the inaugural winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.
Awards
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer | Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frederick Loewe Award Academy Award for Best Original Score, Grammy Awards, Classical BRIT Awards and Golden Globes. Four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award The Lifetime Achievement Award in film Composition from the National Board of Review.
where did 12 years a slave take place
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Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana
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what is the film about?
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A story of a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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mention a few of its marketing scenarios?
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During its marketing campaign, "12 Years a Slave" received unpaid endorsements by celebrities such as Kanye West and P. Diddy. In a video posted by Revolt, Combs urged viewers to see "12 Years a Slave" by stating: "This movie is very painful but very honest, and is a part of the healing process.
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where did the first screening happen?
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Telluride Film Festival
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when did such a festival start?
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The festival was started in 1974
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for the aforementioned film, where did the festival organized?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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in what style is the festival conducted?
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Each year, an artist is selected to produce the poster art for the festival. The sole requirement for the poster is that the word SHOW be featured.
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who composed the score for the aforementioned film?
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Hans Zimmer
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name a few accolades received by him?
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Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer. Zimmer's works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. 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, "Interstellar", "Gladiator", "Crimson Tide", "Inception", "Dunkirk", and "The Dark Knight Trilogy". 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".
Hans Zimmer | Introduction
This is the discography of Hans Zimmer, an award-winning German composer and music producer. Zimmer has composed and produced over one hundred soundtracks and film scores. Of them, about 50 soundtracks and songs were nominated for awards. He won one Academy Award ("The Lion King"), four Satellite Awards ("The Thin Red Line", "Gladiator", "The Last Samurai", ""), two Golden Globe Awards ("The Lion King", "Gladiator"), four Grammy Awards (two prizes for "The Lion King", "Crimson Tide", "The Dark Knight"), three Saturn Awards ("The Dark Knight", "Inception", "Interstellar"), two Annie Awards ("Kung Fu Panda", "Secrets of the Furious Five"), and one WAFCA Award ("Inception").
Hans Zimmer discography | Introduction
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. In 2016, Zimmer was one of the inaugural winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.
Hans Zimmer | Awards
Hans Zimmer was nominated for Best Original Score at the 62nd Golden Globe Awards and Cloris Leachman was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role at the 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Spanglish (film) | Accolades
These are for films which Zimmer did not serve as main composer, but still contributed original music to the score
Hans Zimmer discography | As other
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 didn't sound anything like a piano, but it behaved like a piano."
Hans Zimmer | Hollywood film scoring
"The Thin Red Line" – Hans Zimmer
3rd Golden Satellite Awards | Best Original Score
"The Last Samurai" – Hans Zimmer
8th Golden Satellite Awards | Best Original Score
Due to Academy rules, only Hans Zimmer was officially nominated for Best Original Score, and not Lisa Gerrard at the time. However, the pair did win the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score as co-composers.
Gladiator (2000 film) | Accolades
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 don't be bigger than the characters.
Hans Zimmer | Hollywood film scoring
Try to keep it contained. The Raymond character doesn't actually know where he is. The world is so different to him. He might as well be on Mars. So, why don't we just invent our own world music for a world that doesn'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.
Hans Zimmer | Hollywood film scoring
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. "It's funny how that sort of thing becomes part of the zeitgeist," he said. "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".
Hans Zimmer | 2010s
"The Dark Knight" – James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2008 | Best Original Score
These are for films and other media which Zimmer did not compose the score, but for which he produced the soundtrack.
Hans Zimmer discography | As score producer
The Satellite Award for Best Original Score is an annual award given by the International Press Academy. Hans Zimmer is both the most awarded and the most nominated composer in this category, with four wins and nine nominations.
Satellite Award for Best Original Score | Introduction
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.
Hans Zimmer | Early career
He moved to London as a teenager, where he attended Hurtwood House school. During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by the film scores of Ennio Morricone and has cited "Once Upon a Time in the West" as the score that inspired him to become a film composer. In a speech at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival, Zimmer stated that he is Jewish, and talked about his mother surviving World War II 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.
Hans Zimmer | Early life
"Gladiator" – Hans Zimmer and Lisa Girrard
5th Golden Satellite Awards | Best Original Score
The soundtrack features instrumental pieces composed by Hans Zimmer and songs by various artists. Zimmer's work was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score – Musical or Comedy.
As Good as It Gets | Soundtrack
Glenn Kay of "CinemaStance" wrote positively by stating, "the score by Hans Zimmer is sparse and repetitive, but incredibly effective at invoking an emotional response when it's used." Drew McWeeny of "HitFix" highly praised the score and said, "The score by Hans Zimmer is just as heart-breaking as the script or the performances."
12 Years a Slave (score) | Critical reception
The film received a nomination for the César Award for Best First Feature Film for director Jérôme Salle.
Anthony Zimmer | Accolades
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, Colorado 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.
Hans Zimmer | 2010s
The film score was composed by Hans Zimmer, with additional music from John Powell. The album was nominated for Best Dramatic Score at the 71st Academy Awards. It was Hans Zimmer's fifth Oscar nomination as a composer, but he lost out to Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" (music by Nicola Piovani). The album was released by RCA Victor and conducted by Gavin Greenaway. Among the music not written by Zimmer which appears in the film is "In Paradisum" from "Requiem" by Gabriel Fauré and the opening minutes of "The Unanswered Question" by Charles Ives. Zimmer wrote several hours of music, and an abundance of different themes, before Malick started to shoot the film.
The Thin Red Line (1998 film) | Music
Bruckheimer had finished shooting "" 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, "" (2006), "" (2007), and "" (2011), collaborating with Rodrigo y Gabriela for the last.
Hans Zimmer | 2000s
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. , the musical version of "The Lion King" is the highest grossing Broadway show of all time, having grossed $853.8 million. 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.
Hans Zimmer | 1990s
This film was nominated for six Academy Awards: Best Color Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Set Decoration (Color), Best Costume Design (Color), Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (Walter Scharf), Best Song ("Thumbelina"), and Best Sound Recording. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Awards and honors
Hans Zimmer was initially asked to score the film, but he gave the assignment to his colleague Klaus Badelt since he was working on another project at that time. However, he ended up writing most of the themes, including "He's A Pirate".
He's a Pirate | Production
In May 2008, he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2009, he was awarded a Grammy alongside Hans Zimmer for the score soundtrack album to "The Dark Knight". In October 2015, he was honored with the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award during the annual Hollywood in Vienna concert.
James Newton Howard | Awards
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. 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".
Hans Zimmer | 2000s
Zinman conducted the soundtrack of the 1993 film of the New York City Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker". In 2009 he led the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in the filmscore "180°: If Your World Is Suddenly Upside-Down", composed by "Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg"; this won the Suisa prize for "Best Original Score" at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010.
David Zinman | Filmscores
The score received critical acclaim. Reviewing for "BBC News", Nicholas Barber felt, "Hans Zimmer's music makes the film seem even more colossal than it would otherwise: Zimmer invokes the original meaning of 'pulls out all the stops', rattling our teeth with reverberating pipe-organ chords." Scott Foundas, a chief film critic at "Variety", stated, "Hans Zimmer contributes one of his most richly imagined and inventive scores, which ranges from a gentle electronic keyboard melody to brassy, Strauss-ian crescendos. Many critics have noted distinct similarities between the score and the work of Philip Glass, especially "Koyaanisqatsi" (1982). However, despite "Interstellar"'s near-identical central melody and instrumentation, few have criticized Zimmer when drawing the comparison.
Interstellar (soundtrack) | Critical response
Hansegård has been the recipient of several awards:
Hallgrim Hansegård | Awards
16 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:
Franz Waxman | Legacy
In the 2000s, Zimmer 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 "", 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".
Hans Zimmer | 2000s
Werner R. Heymann was nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture.
That Uncertain Feeling (film) | Award and honors
Christopher Orr of "The Atlantic" praised the score most highly stating, "the score by Hans Zimmer represents his best work in years, an eerie, discomfiting soundscape that buzzes like angry locusts and drums like approaching thunder." Mark Kermode of "The Observer" highlights the significance of music in the piece writing, "More significant still is the role of music (composer Hans Zimmer earned one of the film's 10 Bafta nominations this week), with McQueen building upon the experiments of "Shame" to explore further the dramatic depths of song" Ed Gonzalez of "Slant Magazine" praised the score and said "The film's immaculate score, by Hans Zimmer, and sound design, so thick with thunder, wind, the chirping of crickets, hammers beating nails into wood, whips tearing black bodies to shreds, work in tandem to strongly convey the bucolic, sinister atmosphere of the antebellum South." Gregory Ellwood of "HitFix" called it "one of Hans Zimmer's more moving scores in some time" Brad Brevet of "Rope of Silicon" also praised the score in stating, "The best score in a movie I have heard this year has been Hans Zimmer's for 12 Years a Slave." and further stating "It's lovely and threatening at the same time." A.A.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Critical reception
The film was nominated for four Blockbuster Entertainment Awards; Favorite Actor – Suspense, Favorite Actress - Suspense, Favorite Supporting Actor – Suspense and Favorite Supporting Actress – Suspense. Danny Elfman was also nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Original Score at the 5th Golden Satellite Awards, but lost out to Gladiator (Hans Zimmer).
Proof of Life | Awards
In 2006 he received the Theodore Thomas Award presented by the Conductors' Guild.
David Zinman | Awards
"Doctor Zhivago" - Maurice Jarre
23rd Golden Globe Awards | <a href="Golden%20Globe%20Award%20for%20Best%20Original%20Score">Best Music, Original Score</a>
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 has collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay, Guy Ritchie and Christopher Nolan.
Hans Zimmer | Introduction
Rimmer received a number of prizes and awards in recognition of his contributions to music, including:
John Rimmer (composer) | Honors and awards
These include the first three and the fifth Bourne films, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "United 93", "Jumper", "Green Zone" and "". His work on "Happy Feet", "Ferdinand" and "" has earned him 3 Grammy nominations. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "How to Train Your Dragon". Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams and Zimmer himself.
John Powell (film composer) | Introduction
Maurice Jarre won the Oscar for Best Original Music Score for his scoring of "A Passage to India". In his acceptance speech for the award, Jarre remarked "I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year".
Amadeus (film) | Accolades
He explains: "Anthony's character is for me somebody at the extreme range of whatever is humanly imaginable somehow." Zimmer also did not want the score to sound like a "modern day orchestra". The character Mason Verger had his own "theme", which become more "perverted" as the film progressed, according to Zimmer. Dante's sonnet was put to music by Zimmer and Patrick Cassidy titled Vide cor Meum for the opera scene in Florence. Tracksounds.com wrote positively of Zimmer's score. "Zimmer truly crafts a score worthy of most fans' full attention ... the classical elements, and yes, even the monologue combine to make this an intense listening experience." In a poll by British Classic FM listeners to find the greatest film soundtrack of all time, "Hannibal" ranked at 59.
Hannibal (2001 film) | Music
Critic Jeffrey M. Anderson for "The San Francisco Examiner"The San Francisco Examiner writes, "rumbling and thundering sound effects and music". At "The Irish Times", Donald Clarke wrote that "Hans Zimmer slumps on the biggest pipe organ in town". For NPR, Chris Klimek stated that Zimmer's gives a church-organ score. Joe Morgenstern for "Wall Street Journal" felt that "At one point the orchestral churnings of Hans Zimmer's score suggest something epic under way". American film critic Peter Travers at "Rolling Stone" noted, "thrilling images "oomphed" by Hans Zimmer's score, and you'll get the meaning of "‘rock the house.‘" For "The Globe and Mail", Liam Lacey stated, "Throughout, Hans Zimmer's music throbs obtrusively, occasionally fighting with the dialogue for our attention." "As usual, Nolan's frequent collaborator Hans Zimmer has come up with a score that fits the impossible dimensions of the film, and the music adds tremendously to the excitement", said critic Rene Rodriguez, writing for "The Miami Herald".
Interstellar (soundtrack) | Critical response
For his theatre works Gantschacher got some important awards:
Herbert Gantschacher | Awards
Lange was nominated five times for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
Arthur Lange | Awards
As of 2012, Reiser was awarded the German film prize Deutscher Filmpreis five times. In 2005, he was the 12th recipient of the Rheingau Music Prize, as "a composer who repeatedly and majestically succeeds in meeting the particular dramaturgical needs entailed by film scores, and thus suffusing each individual work with its own unique sound".
Niki Reiser | Awards
It is now awarded by the federal jury for theater, and given by a representative of the above-mentioned Swiss society for theater.
Hans-Reinhart-Ring | Introduction
He was honoured with the Humboldt Prize in 1993, and the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize from the German Academic Exchange Service in 1997. He received Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize from the University of Tübingen in 2002, and was awarded the 2006 Theodor Lessing Prize for Criticism.
Moshe Zimmermann | Awards and recognition
Von Gierke won Film Award in Gold for "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" during German Film Awards and Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement for "Nosferatu", at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.
Henning von Gierke | Awards
"Time Out London"s Dave Calhoun exclaimed, "Listen to unnerving silence as well as Hans Zimmer's organ-heavy score!" Tim Robey of "The Telegraph" felt "With the vast sounds of a composer set loose on his grandest ever assignment. But it relies less on Straussian majesty à la "" than something rather more pointed: the hypnotic, metronomically surging, and oddly sacred homage Zimmer gives us to "Koyaanisqatsi", by Philip Glass." Todd McCarthy, reviewing for "The Hollywood Reporter", praised it as, "soaring, sometimes domineering and unconventionally orchestrated wall-of-sound score" Richard Corliss of "Time" called it "pounding organ score". Jeremy Aspinall of "Radio Times" called the score subtle but evocative.
Interstellar (soundtrack) | Critical response
It will be interesting to see where he goes from here." Danny Graydon of "Empire" film magazine gave the score a positive review, stating that "DreamWorks' latest family comedy about a big-bonced super-villain sees Hans Zimmer (with long-time collaborator Lorne Balfe) revisit some of his less-appreciated work. Those who get bored with Zimmer's reliance on electronics in his blockbuster scores will find much to enjoy here: it's a fun, quirky orchestral effort mixing parodic moments (Giant Blue Head) with brassy fanfares (Stars and Tights) and pretty romance (Rejection in the Rain). It's not teeming with originality, but worth a listen to hear Zimmer leave his comfort zone."
Megamind: Music from the Motion Picture | Reception
In 2005 the American Film Institute respectively ranked Herrmann's scores for "Psycho" and "Vertigo" #4 and #12 on their list of the 25 greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:
Bernard Herrmann | American Film Institute
Dimitri Tiomkin had the same number of wins, but out of only 5 nominations. Other notable achievers include Maurice Jarre (10 nominations, 4 wins), Alan Menken (5 nominations, 3 wins) and Alexandre Desplat (11 nominations, 2 wins). Artists like Jerry Goldsmith (9 nominations) and Michel Legrand (7 nominations) were nominated several times but never received the award. Dimitri Tiomkin, Alan Menken and Howard Shore are the only composers to win two consecutive awards. Additionally, Dimitri Tiomkin received "Special Achievement Awards" for his services to film music in 1955 and 1957, as did Hugo Friedhofer in 1958. The most recent recipient of this award was Hildur Guðnadóttir for the film "Joker".
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score | Introduction
Kämmerling received the prize Niedersachsenpreis in 1985. Since 1999 he was an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2000 he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria. He was an honorary member of Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the International Music Council), since 2005.
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling | Awards
Stothart received 12 Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. Academy Award Nominations:
Herbert Stothart | Awards
Fred Zinnemann was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival for his work on "Act of Violence".
Act of Violence | Awards and honors
Hans Zimmer, Jablonsky's mentor, also helped to compose the score.
Transformers (film) | Music
On 6 January 2020, it was announced that Zimmer would be taking over as composer for the "James Bond" film "No Time to Die" after previous composer Dan Romer left the project. Zimmer will also compose the score for "Hillbilly Elegy". On 26 February 2020, Major League Soccer released an anthem for its 25th season, which was composed by Zimmer.
Hans Zimmer | 2020s
He was nominated as head of the department again in 1938 for "The Life of Emile Zola" (composed by Steiner).
Leo F. Forbstein | Oscar nominations and win
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". Zimmer wrote the theme for Tony Scott's 1993 film "True Romance", which he based on Carl Orff's "Gassenhauer". "Gassenhauer" had previously been used in the 1973 film "Badlands", which had a similar story of a young man and a girl on the run following a violent crime. The catchy theme, played on nine marimbas, contrasts starkly with the violence of the film.
Hans Zimmer | 1990s
French film composer Alexandre Desplat has the most nominations (11), with 1 win. Howard Shore has the most wins (3) from 6 nominations. Hans Zimmer has 9 nominations, which have resulted in 1 win. English musician Clint Mansell has 2 wins from 2 nominations, as does Mica Levi. Other notable achievers are Carter Burwell (4 nominations, 1 win), James Horner (4 nominations, 1 win), and Randy Newman (4 nominations, 1 win). Several composers have been nominated multiple times, but never received the award, including Danny Elfman, Philip Glass and Elliot Goldenthal. The 12th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (1999) saw the first two female composers, Jocelyn Pook and Rachel Portman, nominated for the award.
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score | Introduction
AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score César Award for Best Original Music Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Score Fright Meter Award for Best Score Grand Bell Award for Best Music Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score Satellite Award for Best Original Score
Marco Beltrami | <a href="Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards">Primetime Emmy Awards</a>
Internationally, German filmmakers such as Roland Emmerich or Wolfgang Petersen built successful careers as directors and producers. Hans Zimmer, a film composer, has become one of the world's most acclaimed producers of movie scores. Michael Ballhaus became a renowned cinematographer.
Cinema of Germany | 1990–Modern Germany
This is a list of the winners of the Bavarian Film Awards Prize for Best Film Score. 1987 Milan Bor 1990 Norbert Jürgen Schneider
Bavarian Film Awards (Best Film Score) | Introduction
Not since John Williams of the early 1980s has a film composer become such a mainstream attraction, and Zimmer indulges the attention by constantly unleashing his thought process and sense of humor in interviews that don't always make much sense when strung together." Jonathan Broxton of Movie Music UK stated that "In many ways, "The Dark Knight Rises" showcases the best and the worst of Hans Zimmer's musical personality in one all-encompassing score", "on the one hand, the intellectual design and intelligent use of Bane’s Chant shows Zimmer at his creative best, taking a simple idea and working it around to suggest complex concepts and subtle changes in context", and that "On the other hand, you have the same old arguments: the Zimmer sound permeating the Hollywood mainstream to such a degree that composers as talented as Alan Silvestri and Patrick Doyle are being asked to ape the style; the fact that Zimmer himself seems to be stuck in a rut, writing what in effect are little more than variations of the same score on almost every action film he tackles; the over-reliance on electronic enhancements, ghostwriters, arrangers, and so on and so on.
The Dark Knight Rises (soundtrack) | Reception
Fred Zinnemann" – From Here to Eternity"
11th Golden Globe Awards | <a href="Golden%20Globe%20Award%20for%20Best%20Director">Best Director – Motion Picture</a>
[...] It took a bit of persuading from [McQueen] to give me the confidence to do it". On April 30, 2013, it was officially announced that Zimmer was scoring the film.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Composition
Violinist Itzhak Perlman performed excerpts from the five nominees for Best Original Score.
78th Academy Awards | Ceremony information
In 1968, the award was originally set to be given to Dürrenmatt for his play, "Die Physiker", but was changed when that play came under criticism for being "anti-science".
Franz Grillparzer Prize | Prizes awarded by the Academy from 1947 to 1971
These awards and nominations are recorded by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences:
Bernard Herrmann | Academy Awards
Chris McEneany of AVForums stated that Zimmer, despite his excessive use of drums, "[came] up with a work that is blistering, beautiful, bold and, I have to say it, brilliant." Jørn Tillnes of Soundtrackgeek gave the score a rave review, stating, "The purists, the soundtrack geeks of old will no doubt hate this score and will use every ounce of their energy to bash it as nothing more than generic droning music. For the rest of us, I believe the new bold direction the Superman franchise is taking is both brilliant and brave. Superman deserves this score and so do you."
Man of Steel (soundtrack) | Critical response
He followed in 2008 with his eighth Oscar nomination for Edward Zwick's "Defiance". He also collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the scores for "Batman Begins" and its record-breaking sequel "The Dark Knight".
James Newton Howard | 1990s–2000s
Composer Hans Zimmer, who scored Nolan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy" and "Inception" (2010), returned to score "Interstellar". Nolan chose not to provide Zimmer with a script or any plot details for writing the film's music, but instead gave the composer a single page that told the story of a father leaving his child for work. It was through this connection that Zimmer created the early stages of the "Interstellar" soundtrack. Zimmer and Nolan later decided that a 1926 four-manual Harrison & Harrison organ would be the primary instrument for the score. Zimmer conducted 45 scoring sessions for "Interstellar", three times more than for "Inception".
Interstellar (film) | Sound design and music
The film was scored by Hans Zimmer, who won a Grammy Award for the main theme, which makes heavy use of synthesizers in place of traditional orchestral instruments. An extended cut, which incorporated seven minutes of deleted scenes, was released on DVD in 2006. When the film was released on Blu-ray two years later, however with the theatrical version only.
Crimson Tide (film) | Introduction
Zimmer convinced Nolan to keep it in the film and also integrated elements of the song into his score; in particular, the film's iconic brass instrument fanfare resembles a slowed-down version of the song's instrumentation. The trailers for the film feature specially composed music by Zack Hemsey, which does not appear on the official soundtrack. The soundtrack was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and a BAFTA.
Inception: Music from the Motion Picture | Production
Jacques Gamblin won the Silver Bear for Best Actor and Antoine Duhamel won Best Original Score at the Berlin International Film Festival both in 2001 and 2002. Emile Ghigo was nominated for Best Production Design and Antoine Duhamel was nominated for Best Original Score at the French Academy of Cinema. Bertrand Tavernier won Best Director, Best Film, and Best Screenplay at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Safe Conduct | Awards
In 2014, Zilber won an ACUM prize for his contribution to music. Initially, he was to be granted the lifetime achievement award, but due to his political views, the prize was downgraded to an award for his musical accomplishments. In 2016, Zilber was honored with the lifetime achievement award of the Israeli Union of Performing Artists.
Ariel Zilber | Awards and recognition
He won the Engel Prize, the Israel Music Institute Prize and the ACUM prize.
Haim Alexander | Awards
TV scoring credits •Bones (FOX) •Judging Amy (CBS) – Emmy nominated song "Best Kind of Answer"
Peter Himmelman | Film and TV composition credits
Jan Morgenstern won the 2014 Jerry Goldsmith award for "Best Score for an Animated Short Film" at the International Film Music Festival in Córdoba, Spain, for "Gran Dillama".
Caminandes | Awards
Jarre received three Academy Awards and received a total of nine nominations, eight for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song. He also won four Golden Globes and was nominated for ten. The American Film Institute ranked Jarre's score for "Lawrence of Arabia" #3 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list: Numerous additional awards include ASCAP's "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1993.
Maurice Jarre | Awards
On January 7, 2020, Hans Zimmer was announced as the composer for the film. On April 15, 2020, Kris Bowers was announced as another composer for the film. Both composers are taking over for James Newton Howard who scored the first film. Zimmer and Howard both previously worked together on the scores for "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" in Christopher Nolan’s "Dark Knight Trilogy".
Space Jam: A New Legacy | Music
In collaboration with Harry Gregson-Williams, he contributed additional music to the Tony Scott film "Domino" (2005), and served as the composer on the Dutch film "Blind", which was nominated for Best Original Music Score at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2007 and received the Grand Prix award for Best Original Music Score at the 2008 Aubagne International Film Festival. Holkenborg continues to work in the film and television industry, collaborating with composer Hans Zimmer on Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises". The film marks the fourth scoring collaboration between Holkenborg and Zimmer, including "Megamind" (2010), "Inception" (2010) and "" (2012).
Junkie XL | Composing for film
2006 - "Special Recognition" by the German Academy of Performing Arts on the Film Festival Baden-Baden for the production team of Wut.
August Zirner | Awards
The score by Andreas Grimm was awarded in the "Best Music" category at the 2005 German Film Critics Association Awards.
Der Wixxer | Critical reception
His awards include the Hanns Eisler Composition Prize (2001), the Stuttgart Composition Prize (2003), and the International Rostrum of Composers (for "Terzenseele", 2006). In 2008 he was awarded the Förderpreis Musik (of the Kunstpreis Berlin) and a scholarship to the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2010 he received the Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize.
Arnulf Herrmann | Introduction
The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three, for Best Screenplay (Alvin Sargent), Best Supporting Actor (Jason Robards), and Best Supporting Actress for Redgrave, who drew scattered boos on Oscar night for her "Zionist hoodlums" acceptance speech. Zinnemann thought that Fonda's acting was extraordinary and she also deserved an Oscar.
Fred Zinnemann | 1970s
"Sunset Boulevard" – Franz Waxman
8th Golden Globe Awards | <a href="Golden%20Globe%20Award%20for%20Best%20Original%20Score">Best Music, Original Score - Motion Picture</a>
Jarre was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three in the Best Original Score category for "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), and "A Passage to India" (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He also won four Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards, and a Grammy Award.
Maurice Jarre | Introduction
In the early 1990s, Haycock was asked by Hans Zimmer to collaborate on film scores for "K2" (1991), and "Toys" (1992). Other film scores they worked on were for "Drop Zone" (1994), and "The Dilemma" (2011), among others. Haycock's slide guitar contributed to "Thunderbird", the theme music for the 1991 film, "Thelma & Louise". Haycock was asked by Zimmer to re-create his performance, with a live symphony orchestra for the recording of "Wings of a Film", which was a compilation album of Zimmer's successful film scores. Haycock began composing music of his own for film and television. Along with Holt, he composed music for the 1992 film "One False Move".
Pete Haycock | Film scores
In 2002 Hans Bemmann was awarded the Rheinischer Literaturpreis Siegburg.
Hans Bemmann | Awards
Dmitri Shostakovich and Duke Ellington were both nominated the same year but lost to arrangers of "West Side Story". The scores of "Midnight Express" by Giorgio Moroder in 1979, "Slumdog Millionaire" by A. R. Rahman in 2009, and "The Social Network" by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross in 2011 are the only scores with electronic based music ever to win the award. In addition, the electronic-based scores of "Witness" by Maurice Jarre in 1986, "Rain Man" by Hans Zimmer in 1989, and "Her" by William Butler, and Owen Pallett in 2014 have also been nominated. Noted nominated composers known for their music mostly outside the film world include: Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Peter Maxwell Davies, Randy Newman, Richard Rodney Bennett, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Artie Shaw, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Jonny Greenwood.
Academy Award for Best Original Score | Notable nominees
The festival screens a selection of films in honor of the recipient, an outstanding personality in the international film community who has made extraordinary contributions to motion pictures as an art form. Previous recipients have included John Malkovich, Michael Haneke, William Friedkin, Julie Christie, Alan Parker, D.A. Pennebaker, Claude Chabrol, Susan Sarandon, Jules Dassin, Melanie Griffith and Michael Caine, Isabelle Huppert and Udo Kier, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Rupert Everett, Ellen Burstyn and Bryan Cranston, Emma Thompson and Terry Gilliam, as well as Antonio Banderas and Ralph Fiennes.
Filmfest München | The CineMerit Award
Hans Zimmer began working on the score in 2016, continued for eleven months, and eventually created a 100-minute demo. For intensity, the script was written to accommodate the auditory illusion of a Shepard tone, which had previously been explored in Nolan's 2006 film "The Prestige". This was coupled with the sound of Nolan's own pocket watch, which he recorded and sent to Zimmer to be synthesised. Additional music was provided by Lorne Balfe, Andrew Kawczynski, Steve Mazzaro, and Benjamin Wallfisch. "Nimrod" from Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations" is part of the theme, which was slowed down to six beats per minute with added bass notes to avoid it sounding sentimental.
Dunkirk (2017 film) | Music
James Southall of Movie Wave awarded the score five stars, calling it "Zimmer’s finest work in a number of years", and Jim Lochner of Film Score Click Track, who said "Inception is one thrilling and trippy musical ride", awarding the score four and a half stars out of five.
Inception: Music from the Motion Picture | Critical reception
Berlin International Film Festival British Academy Film Awards Cannes Film Festival
Sidney Lumet | Other awards
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 Feature Animation 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".
Hans Zimmer | 1990s
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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Film Composer of the Year | 2010s