Hans Zimmer

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Hans Zimmer is a German film composer and record producer

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BirthdaySeptember 12, 1957
NationalityGerman
FamousMusicians, Music Composer
SpousesSuzanne Zimmer, Vicki Carolin (m. 1982–1992)
Known asHans Florian Zimmer
ChildrensJake Zimmer
Universities
  • Hurtwood House
Founder / Co-Founder
  • Remote Control Productions
Birth PlaceFrankfurt am Main, West Germany
Height178
GenderMale
FatherHans J. Zimmer
MotherBrigitte Zimmer
Net Worth$92 million as of May 12,2017
Sun SignVirgo
Born inFrankfurt am Main, West Germany
Famous asMusic Composer
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Who is Hans Zimmer?

There are only a few musicians working in Hollywood today who deserve as much respect and fame that Hans Zimmer has earned. Hans Zimmer is a German film composer and record producer who has been dominating Hollywood with his sharp musical talent since the late 80s until now. To this date, the music maestro has provided music to more than 150 films and having done scores for acclaimed films like ‘The Gladiator’, ‘The Lion King’, ‘Inception’ and ‘The Dark Knight Trilogy’, he still continues to be at the prime of his career. Having worked with some of the greatest filmmakers in Hollywood, Hans has made movies feel epic with his score full of orchestral operatic sounds. He moved from Germany to the UK, then to the USA and brought his unique style in his music to create the mood and environment in films. He integrates electronic music with the classic orchestral arrangements and creates magic out of it. His association with many big Hollywood filmmakers, especially Christopher Nolan, the ace film director, has been a mega success. Over the course of his illustrious career, Zimmer has been conferred upon with many honours such as four Grammy Awards, One Academy Award and two Golden Globe awards. He presently works at the DreamWorks studios as the head of film music division and works in collaboration with other musicians as well to nurture them.

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Childhood & Early Life

Hans Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, on 12th September 1957, to an engineer father and housewife mother. He said that his mother was a musical woman so he naturally developed a taste for music. However, once he was admitted to piano classes, he disliked it stating that he didn’t want any formal training in music. He constantly got thrown out of the schools due to the lack of concentration in the classes.

With the arrival of computer and the evolution of electronic music with that, Zimmer got hooked and started playing on that. The piano lessons he learned as a kid somehow stayed with him and he developed a fresh sound out of them. Upon gifted a piano, Zimmer spent very little time learning to play it and more in modifying it.

He was a creative kid and when his father died, he became overly depressed. Music became an essential pillar of support for him apart from his mother and hence, his love for music kept growing until he embarked into adulthood, and started taking his music career seriously.

Career

In the early 70s, Hans Zimmer embarked on a career in music after making a move to the UK and joined a few bands here and there, where he played mainly Keyboards and Synthesizers. Simultaneously, he worked in the advertisements to make the ends meet. In 1980, he received mild fame through an LP he did with the Buggles, titled ‘The Age of Plastic’.

A brief stint with Ultravox gained him further exposure and for the UK punk rock band ‘The Damned’, he worked on an album titled ‘The Black Album’. His first stint with film score happened during an association with Stanley Meyers, who was a prolific film composer and along with him, Zimmer developed his style of mixing orchestral music with classical sounds and worked on films like ‘Moonlighting’ and ‘Insignificance’.

After scoring for a few more films came the first turning point of his professional career, when he got the chance to provide score to the film ‘The Last Emperor’, a 1987 film which went on to receive the Academy Award for Original Score. He also composed music for the TV show ‘Going for Gold’, which he said was his first job from which he made enough money to pay his rent. In the very next year came ‘Rain Man’ that established his strong foothold in Hollywood.

Director Barry Levinson was looking for a composer for his film ‘Rain Man’. His wife had heard Zimmer’s work, so he was immediately summoned. The music of the film was a big hit, and so was the movie. Zimmer received an Academy Award nomination for his music and the film received four Oscar awards. In the film, Zimmer introduced a relatively low regarded sound, resulting from a mix of synthesizers and samplers, and carried on his style of music in his very next project titled ‘Driving Miss Daisy’.

For Ridley Scott directed film ‘Thelma and Louise’, Zimmer made alterations in his music by introducing Slide Guitar and in 1992, for the film ‘The Power of One’; he travelled to Africa to introduce himself to African choirs and drums. The things he learned there helped him greatly in bagging Disney’s mega animation film ‘The Lion King’. The film was a massive critical and commercial success and due credit was given to Zimmer for his excellent work as a musician. The film ended up roaring loud at award functions and Zimmer won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and two Grammys.

Thereafter, Zimmer worked with many acclaimed filmmakers such as Tony Scott and Terrence Malick. For latter’s film ‘The Thin Red Line’, Zimmer was asked to do the music before the shooting started. This was a new way to work and Zimmer was used to create music according to the edits and shots but somehow, he managed to record a beautiful score which was six and a half hour long.

By then, Hans Zimmer had become the ‘go-to’ guy for the biggest of Hollywood filmmakers. He continued his association with Ridley Scott, by providing score for his mega budget historical epic ‘The Gladiator’, an instant classic. His other projects in early 2000s include ‘The Last Samurai’ and ‘Madagascar’ and later, he worked on ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘Angels and Demons’. For ‘The Last Samurai’, Zimmer researched extensively on understanding the subtle nuances of Japanese instruments, and ended up becoming a huge fan.

Apart from that, he forayed into the big budget action franchises with Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’ series and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise. He led the team of composers who worked on the soundtrack of second instalment of Batman series ‘The Dark Knight’, and this one project made Zimmer a worldwide phenomenon and despite the film not being nominated for the Original Score at the Academy Awards due to some issues, this project sparked the discussion about whether he is the greatest film composer ever.

His association with Christopher Nolan continued for the ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, the last film in the cult trilogy, and out of the trilogy Nolan hired him for scoring the music for his magnum opus ‘Inception’. Nolan, who served as the executive producer of the newly established DC cinematic universe, asked Zimmer to compose the score for first two DC films ‘Man of Steel’ and ‘Batman V Superman: The Dawn of Justice’, both directed by Zack Snyder. Zimmer agreed but after composing the latter, he took retirement from superhero genre films.

Zimmer continues to work on films and TV series until now and received an Academy Award nomination for Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’. Recently, Zimmer composed the score for BBC documentary ‘Planet Earth 2’ and for the 2006 Netflix production ‘The Crown’, he composed the theme music. He also owns a music studio in California and is the head of Remote Control Productions, a music production company.

Personal Life

Hans Zimmer’s first marriage was to a model named Vicki Carolin. The couple had a daughter, who happens to be a successful model, Zoe Zimmer. After Hans’s marriage with Vicki ended, he started dating Suzanne Zimmer, with whom he presently lives in Los Angeles along with their three children.

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Hans Zimmer's awards

YearNameAward

Academy Awards(Oscars)

1995Best Music, Original ScoreThe Lion King (1994)

Golden Globe Awards

2001Best Original Score - Motion PictureGladiator (2000)
1995Best Original Score - Motion PictureThe Lion King (1994)

ASCAP Film And Television Music Awards

2017Top Box Office FilmsBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
2017Top Box Office FilmsInferno (2016)
2017Top Box Office FilmsKung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
2016Most Performed Themes and UnderscoreWinner
2015Top Box Office FilmsInterstellar (2014)
2015Top Box Office FilmsThe Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
2015Top Box Office FilmsSon of God (2014)
2014Top Box Office FilmsThe Lone Ranger (2013)
2014Top Box Office FilmsMan of Steel (2013)
2013Top Box Office FilmsThe Dark Knight Rises (2012)
2013Top Box Office FilmsMadagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
2012Top Box Office FilmsKung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
2012Top Box Office FilmsPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
2012Top Box Office FilmsRango (2011)
2012Top Box Office FilmsSherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
2011Top Box Office FilmsInception (2010)
2011Top Box Office FilmsMegamind (2010)
2010Top Box Office FilmsIt's Complicated (2009)
2010Top Box Office FilmsAngels & Demons (2009)
2010Top Box Office FilmsSherlock Holmes (2009)
2009Top Box Office FilmsThe Dark Knight (2008)
2009Top Box Office FilmsKung Fu Panda (2008)
2009Top Box Office FilmsMadagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
2008Top Box Office FilmsPirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
2008Top Box Office FilmsThe Simpsons Movie (2007)
2007Top Box Office FilmsThe Da Vinci Code (2006)
2007Top Box Office FilmsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
2006Top Box Office FilmsBatman Begins (2005)
2006Top Box Office FilmsMadagascar (2005)
2006Top Box Office FilmsThe Ring Two (2005)
2005Top Box Office FilmsShark Tale (2004)
2004Top Box Office FilmsThe Last Samurai (2003)
2003Top Box Office FilmsBlack Hawk Down (2001)
2003Top Box Office FilmsThe Ring (2002)
2003Top Box Office FilmsSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
2002Top Box Office FilmsHannibal (2001)
2002Top Box Office FilmsPearl Harbor (2001)
2001Top Box Office FilmsMission: Impossible II (2000)
2001Top Box Office FilmsGladiator (2000)

Grammy Awards

2009Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual MediaThe Dark Knight (2008)
1996Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for TelevisionCrimson Tide (1995)
1995Best Musical Album for ChildrenThe Lion King (1994)
1995Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying VocalsThe Lion King (1994)

Hans Zimmer biography timelines

  • // 12th Sep 1957
    Hans Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, on 12th September 1957, to an engineer father and housewife mother. He said that his mother was a musical woman so he naturally developed a taste for music. However, once he was admitted to piano classes, he disliked it stating that he didn’t want any formal training in music. He constantly got thrown out of the schools due to the lack of concentration in the classes.
  • // 1980
    In the early 70s, Hans Zimmer embarked on a career in music after making a move to the UK and joined a few bands here and there, where he played mainly Keyboards and Synthesizers. Simultaneously, he worked in the advertisements to make the ends meet. In 1980, he received mild fame through an LP he did with the Buggles, titled ‘The Age of Plastic’.
  • // 1987
    After scoring for a few more films came the first turning point of his professional career, when he got the chance to provide score to the film ‘The Last Emperor’, a 1987 film which went on to receive the Academy Award for Original Score. He also composed music for the TV show ‘Going for Gold’, which he said was his first job from which he made enough money to pay his rent. In the very next year came ‘Rain Man’ that established his strong foothold in Hollywood.
  • // 1992
    For Ridley Scott directed film ‘Thelma and Louise’, Zimmer made alterations in his music by introducing Slide Guitar and in 1992, for the film ‘The Power of One’; he travelled to Africa to introduce himself to African choirs and drums. The things he learned there helped him greatly in bagging Disney’s mega animation film ‘The Lion King’. The film was a massive critical and commercial success and due credit was given to Zimmer for his excellent work as a musician. The film ended up roaring loud at award functions and Zimmer won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and two Grammys.
  • // 2006
    Zimmer continues to work on films and TV series until now and received an Academy Award nomination for Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’. Recently, Zimmer composed the score for BBC documentary ‘Planet Earth 2’ and for the 2006 Netflix production ‘The Crown’, he composed the theme music. He also owns a music studio in California and is the head of Remote Control Productions, a music production company.

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Hans Zimmer's FAQ

  • What is Hans Zimmer birthday?

    Hans Zimmer was born at 1957-09-12

  • Where is Hans Zimmer's birth place?

    Hans Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany

  • What is Hans Zimmer nationalities?

    Hans Zimmer's nationalities is German

  • Who is Hans Zimmer spouses?

    Hans Zimmer's spouses is Suzanne Zimmer, Vicki Carolin (m. 1982–1992)

  • Who is Hans Zimmer childrens?

    Hans Zimmer's childrens is Jake Zimmer

  • What was Hans Zimmer universities?

    Hans Zimmer studied at Hurtwood House

  • Which company or organization was founded by Hans Zimmer?

    Hans Zimmer was the founder/co-founder of Remote Control Productions

  • How tall is Hans Zimmer?

    Hans Zimmer's height is 178

  • Who is Hans Zimmer's father?

    Hans Zimmer's father is Hans J. Zimmer

  • Who is Hans Zimmer's mother?

    Hans Zimmer's mother is Brigitte Zimmer

  • What is Hans Zimmer's sun sign?

    Hans Zimmer is Virgo

  • How famous is Hans Zimmer?

    Hans Zimmer is famouse as Music Composer

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