Composer
HANS ZIMMER won the Golden Globe Award last year, in addition to receiving his seventh Oscar nomination, for the award-winning hit "Gladiator." In 1994, he won both the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his score for the blockbuster "The Lion King," which also spawned one of the most successful soundtrack albums ever. Zimmer has also garnered Oscar nominations for "The Prince of Egypt," "The Thin Red Line," "As Good As It Gets," "Rain Man" and "The Preacher's Wife." This year, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his score for "Pearl Harbor."
Zimmer's music for "The Lion King" has been continuing to draw applause in the award-winning stage production of the musical. The show earned the 1998 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album. The composer also reunited with "The Lion King" songwriters Elton John and Tim Rice for DreamWorks' animated musical "The Road to El Dorado."
Zimmer has composed the music for over 70 feature films, most recently scoring the animated adventure "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," and collaborating again with "Gladiator" director Ridley Scott on "Black Hawk Down" and "Hannibal." His diverse list of credits also includes "Crimson Tide," for which he won a Grammy, "Thelma & Louise," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Mission: Impossible 2," "The Peacemaker," "The Rock," "Broken Arrow," "Nine Months," "Beyond Rangoon," "Cool Runnings," "A League of Their Own," "Black Rain," "Backdraft," "Green Card," "True Romance," "Days of Thunder" and "My Beautiful Launderette."
In addition to his composing work, Zimmer heads DreamWorks' film music division. His appointment marks the first time that a composer has headed the music department of a major studio since the days of Dimitri Tiomkin at MGM and Alfred Newman at Twentieth Century Fox.
