131-490: Hans Florian Zimmer ( German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈfloːʁi̯aːn ˈtsɪmɐ] ; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Oscars , four Grammys , and has been nominated for three Emmys and a Tony . Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph in 2007. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since
262-457: A symphony orchestra ) or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – known as playback singers – and recorded by a sound engineer . The term is less frequently applied to music written for media such as live theatre , television and radio programs, and video games , and said music is typically referred to as either the soundtrack or incidental music . Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music, depending on
393-532: A "source cue") comes from an on screen source that can actually be seen or that can be inferred (in academic film theory such music is called " diegetic " music, as it emanates from the " diegesis " or "story world"). An example of "source music" is the use of the Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in Michael Cimino 's The Deer Hunter . Alfred Hitchcock 's 1963 thriller The Birds
524-728: A Nation (a sequel to The Birth of a Nation ) and Camille Saint-Saëns ' music for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1908. It was preceded by Nathaniel D. Mann 's score for The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays by four months, but that was a mixture of interrelated stage and film performance in the tradition of old magic lantern shows. Most accompaniments at this time, these examples notwithstanding, comprised pieces by famous composers, also including studies. These were often used to form catalogues of photoplay music , which had different subsections broken down by 'mood' and genre: dark, sad, suspense, action, chase, etc. German cinema , which
655-484: A background chord. Though "the scoring of narrative features during the 1940s lagged decades behind technical innovations in the field of concert music," the 1950s saw the rise of the modernist film score. Director Elia Kazan was open to the idea of jazz influences and dissonant scoring and worked with Alex North, whose score for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) combined dissonance with elements of blues and jazz. Kazan also approached Leonard Bernstein to score On
786-458: A character's car radio), are not considered part of the score, although the score's composer will occasionally write an original pop song based on their themes, such as James Horner 's " My Heart Will Go On " from Titanic , written for Celine Dion . A film score may also be called a background score , background music , film soundtrack , film music , screen composition , screen music , or incidental music . The composer usually enters
917-574: A child of the 20th century; computers came in very handy." Zimmer attended the Ecole d'Humanité , an international boarding school in the Canton of Bern , Switzerland. He moved to London as a teenager and 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
1048-452: A companion documentary on the DVD, Spielberg gave Williams complete freedom with the music and asked him to record the cue without pictures; Spielberg then re-edited the scene later to match the music. In some circumstances, a composer will be asked to write music based on their impressions of the script or storyboards without seeing the film itself and has more freedom to create music without
1179-676: A day. ZDF is financed by a license fee of €18.36 per month, which must be paid by all households in Germany except handicapped people and persons on social aid. ZDF shares the income with ARD and Deutschlandradio . The fees are not collected directly by ZDF but by the Beitragsservice (commonly known by its former name, GEZ), an organization comprising the ARD member broadcasters, ZDF, and Deutschlandradio . ZDF also receives income from sponsorships, programming and advertising sales. As ZDF
1310-413: A defining genre of classical music in the late 20th century, if only because it is the brand of classical music heard more often than any other. In some cases, film themes have become accepted into the canon of classical music . These are mostly works from already noted composers who have done scores; for instance, Sergei Prokofiev 's score to Alexander Nevsky , or Vaughan Williams ' score to Scott of
1441-404: A fee. Sometimes called library music, the music is owned by production music libraries and licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media. Examples of firms include Warner Chappell Production Music, Jingle Punks, Associated Production Music, FirstCom Music, VideoHelper and Extreme Music. Unlike popular and classical music publishers, who typically own less than 50 percent of
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#17327918654821572-671: 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 in May 2014, Zimmer revealed that it was difficult growing up in post-War Germany being Jewish and said, "I think my parents were always wary of me telling the neighbors" that they were Jewish. In an interview with Mashable in February 2013, he said of his parents: "My mother
1703-406: A film score been released on CD. The origins of film music are disputed, although they are generally considered to have aesthetic roots in various media forms associated with nineteenth-century Romanticism . According to Kurt London , film music "began not as a result of any artistic urge, but from a dire need of something which would drown the noise made by the projector. For in those times there
1834-517: A growing number of important activities in new media. ZDF Enterprises owns a Dutch TV production and distribution company, Off the Fence. ZDF also operates various channels in cooperation with other networks: Arte , 3sat , KI.KA , and Phoenix . ZDF's animated station-identity mascots , the Mainzelmännchen (a play on the words "Mainz" and " Heinzelmännchen "), created by Wolf Gerlach for
1965-494: 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. Zimmer's score for the 1998 film The Thin Red Line is regarded as one of his most important works. The nine-minute cue at
2096-470: A hybrid of orchestral and electronic instruments. Since the invention of digital technology and audio sampling , many modern films have been able to rely on digital samples to imitate the sound of acoustic instruments, and many scores are created and performed wholly by the composers themselves, by using music composition software , synthesizers, samplers, and MIDI controllers . Songs such as pop songs and rock songs are usually not considered part of
2227-417: A leeway of 3–4 frames late or early allows the composer to be extremely accurate. Using a technique called Free Timing, a conductor will use either ( a ) a stopwatch or studio size stop clock, or ( b ) watch the film on a screen or video monitor while conducting the musicians to predetermined timings. These are represented visually by vertical lines (streamers) and bursts of light called punches. These are put on
2358-412: A major influence on their own forays into film scoring. When sound came to movies, director Fritz Lang barely used music in his movies anymore. Apart from Peter Lorre whistling a short piece from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt , Lang's movie M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder was lacking musical accompaniment completely and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse only included one original piece written for
2489-449: A metronome value (e.g. 88 Bpm). A composer would use a written click if he or she planned to conduct live performers. When using other methods such as a metronome, the conductor has a perfectly spaced audible click playing. This can yield stiff and lifeless performances in slower more expressive cues. A standard BPM value can be converted to a written click where X represents the number of beats per bar and W represents time in seconds by using
2620-525: A mixing of original compositions (in this case by Giuseppe Becce ) and library music / folk tunes, which were artistically included into the score by the composer. Much of this influence can be traced further back to German Romantic forms of music. Richard Wagner 's ideas on Gesamtkunstwerk and leitmotif in his operas were later picked up on by prominent film composer Max Steiner . Steiner and his contemporary Erich Korngold both immigrated from Vienna, bringing with them musical structures and ideologies of
2751-476: A number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues , which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers under the guidance of or in collaboration with the film's director or producer and are then most often performed by an ensemble of musicians – usually including an orchestra (most likely
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#17327918654822882-415: A same director. John Williams ' professional relationship with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas is one of the most prominent in film history, with Williams scoring all but five of Spielberg's films, and all the installments of both of Lucas' blockbuster franchises ( Star Wars and Indiana Jones ); Williams won all five of his Oscars in his collaborations with the two. Additionally, Danny Elfman did
3013-545: A score that plays almost continuously throughout. In some instances, film composers have been asked by the director to imitate a specific composer or style present in the temp track. On other occasions, directors have become so attached to the temp score that they decide to use it and reject the original score written by the film composer. One of the most famous cases is Stanley Kubrick 's 2001: A Space Odyssey , where Kubrick opted for existing recordings of classical works, including pieces by composer György Ligeti rather than
3144-432: A second transmitter network on UHF channels, which required new reception equipment. For older receivers, a converter was sold for about 80 DM (equivalent to €195 in 2021). As with the earlier ARD television network, the location of the transmitters was carefully planned to ensure the entire country would be able to receive the programming. To test the transmitters and encourage the public to purchase UHF receivers,
3275-511: 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 instalment of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy . The film was released in July 2012. Zimmer described himself as "devastated" in
3406-405: 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. For the 1992 film The Power of One , Zimmer travelled 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
3537-505: A unique and grabbing sound that create a memorable scene. One example of this is in the "Lord of The Rings" score where Howard Shore used specific melodic idea to refer to The Shire using a tin flute to evoke a Celtic feel. He does this many times through all three films in the trilogy to refer back when a character is feeling nostalgic or reminiscent ( Lawson, Macdonald ,2018). In other scores you'll find not only original orchestration but also an incorporation of popular music, that represents
3668-672: Is John Williams ' score for the Star Wars saga, and the numerous themes in Star Wars music associated with individual characters such as Darth Vader , Luke Skywalker , and Princess Leia . Similarly, the music of the Lord of the Rings film series featured recurring themes for many main characters and places. Another notable example is Jerry Goldsmith 's Klingon theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), which later composers in
3799-489: Is a station, not a network, the station is broadcast throughout Germany, with no regional variations or affiliates, using a number of signal repeaters. ZDF transmitters broadcast a digital signal. Analog signals were gradually phased out, a process which lasted from 2002 to 2008. ZDF does not run any transmitters itself. Throughout the analogue days, all ZDF transmitters were run by the Deutsche Bundespost which
3930-509: Is an example of a Hollywood film with no non-diegetic music whatsoever. Dogme 95 is a filmmaking movement, started in Denmark in 1995, with a manifesto that prohibits any use of non-diegetic music in its films. The artistic merits of film music are frequently debated. Some critics value it highly, pointing to music such as that written by Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Aaron Copland , Bernard Herrmann , and others. Some consider film music to be
4061-450: Is capable of performing the music as written, and even allowing them to introduce performance techniques and flourishes to enhance the score. In many cases, time constraints determined by the film's post-production schedule dictate whether composers orchestrate their own scores, as it is often impossible for the composer to complete all the required tasks within the time frame allowed. Over the years several orchestrators have become linked to
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4192-401: Is known as "spotting". Occasionally, a filmmaker will actually edit their film to fit the flow of music, rather than have the composer edit their score to the final cut. Director Godfrey Reggio edited his films Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi based on composer Philip Glass 's music. Similarly, the relationship between director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone was such that
4323-737: 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), which he co-composed with James Newton Howard . For
4454-418: Is required for the film in terms of style and tone. The director and composer will watch the entire film, taking note of which scenes require original music. During this process, composers will take precise timing notes so that they know how long each cue needs to last, where it begins, where it ends, and of particular moments during a scene with which the music may need to coincide in a specific way. This process
4585-547: Is reserved for the states . Therefore, the court ruled only the states had the right to set up a television broadcaster. (Conversely, the same decision supported new longwave broadcaster Deutschlandfunk , which had been established by the federal government in November 1960; its focus was on external broadcasting and therefore under the federal government's remit to conduct foreign relations.) After this decision, in March 1961,
4716-418: 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. 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
4847-549: The First Broadcasting Judgment blocked the plan. While building and maintaining telecommunications infrastructure, such as television transmitters, is a responsibility of the federal government under article 87f of the Basic Law , the constitution does not extend these duties to running a television or radio broadcaster. Under Article 30, any power or duty not explicitly assigned to the federal government
4978-605: The Star Trek film series quoted in their Klingon motifs, and which was included on numerous occasions as a theme for Worf , the franchise's most prominent Klingon character. Michael Giacchino employed character themes in the soundtrack for the 2009 animated film Up , for which he received the Academy Award for Best Score. His orchestral soundtrack for the television series Lost also depended heavily on character and situation-specific themes. " Source music " (or
5109-716: The London Symphony Orchestra (performing film music since 1935) the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (an orchestra dedicated mostly to recording), the BBC Philharmonic , and the Northwest Sinfonia . The orchestra performs in front of a large screen depicting the film, The conductor and musicians habitually wear headphones that sound a series of clicks called a "click-track" that changes with meter and tempo, assisting to synchronize
5240-477: The photorealistic animated remake of Disney's The Lion King , directed by Jon Favreau . On 22 August 2018, Zimmer was also announced as the composer for Wonder Woman 1984 . On 18 March 2019, it was announced that Zimmer would be scoring Denis Villeneuve 's Dune . In June 2019, Zimmer was hired to create sounds for BMW 's concept vehicle, the Vision M Next . He produced and composed warning sounds for
5371-549: The soundtrack of The Dark Knight , Zimmer decided to represent the villain of the Joker by a single note played on the cello by his long-time colleague Martin Tillman . Zimmer said: "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
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5502-575: The 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Lion King (1994), and for Dune (2021). His works include Gladiator , The Last Samurai , the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Dark Knight trilogy , Inception , Man of Steel , Interstellar , Dunkirk , No Time to Die , and the Dune series. Zimmer spent
5633-479: 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
5764-528: 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
5895-438: 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), Kung Fu Panda (2008), which he co-composed with John Powell , Angels & Demons (2009), and Sherlock Holmes (2009). Other work in
6026-456: The Antarctic . Others see the great bulk of film music as meritless. They consider that much film music is derivative, borrowing heavily from previous works. Composers of film scores typically can produce about three or four per year. The most popular works by composers such as John Williams are still far from entering the accepted classical canon, although there is a growing appreciation for
6157-1057: The Career Achievement Award "for excellence in film music composition" from the National Board of Review in 2003, the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2003, the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award in 2003, and the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award from the BMI Film Music Awards in 1996. In December 2010, Zimmer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . He dedicated
6288-574: 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
6419-741: 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 and 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
6550-577: 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 don't have a career yet. God, I just felt so lucky because this thing paid my rent for the longest time." A turning point in Zimmer's career occurred with
6681-635: The Waterfront (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlier works by Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky with its "jazz-based harmonies and exciting additive rhythms." A year later, Leonard Rosenman , inspired by Arnold Schoenberg , experimented with atonality in his scores for East of Eden (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). In his ten-year collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock , Bernard Herrmann experimented with ideas in Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960). The use of non-diegetic jazz
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#17327918654826812-592: The ZDF Television Council in 2021. In 1959, the government of Konrad Adenauer began preparations to form a second nationwide television network with the intention of competing with ARD . Adenauer perceived ARD's news coverage to be too critical of his government, and believed that two of the organizations primarily responsible for its news reporting – the Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk , which produced
6943-689: The ZDF Treaty. Directors General since the start of ZDF: The supervising board supervises the work of the intendant. They pay special attention to the budget. The supervising board has 14 members: The Television Board supervises ZDF and authorizes the budget. They also elect the Director General. The board has 60 members: ZDF became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union in 1963. It also has numerous individual cooperation agreements with broadcasters around
7074-468: The aftermath of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting , which occurred at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises: "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. Zimmer co-composed the music for the television series The Bible , which
7205-641: The award to his publicist and long-term friend Ronni Chasen , who had been shot and killed in Beverly Hills the previous month. In June 2016, Zimmer was one of the inaugural winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication . In November 2017, a main-belt asteroid — (495253) 2013 OC 8 —discovered by Polish astronomers Michał Kusiak and Michał Żołnowski , was named "Hanszimmer". As of 2022, Zimmer has received twelve Academy Award nominations for his work, with two wins;
7336-465: The broader contribution of composers such as Williams among some classical composers and critics; for example, the Norwegian contemporary classical composer Marcus Paus has said that he considers Williams to be "one of the great composers of any century" who has "found a very satisfying way of embodying dissonance and avant-garde techniques within a larger tonal framework" and who "might also have come
7467-430: The capacity that they had no need to mask the sounds of a projector mechanism. As these early films began to move out of exhibition spaces and into vaudeville theaters, the role of film began to shift as well. Given that vaudeville theaters typically employed musicians, it is likely that this is the point when it became commonplace for film to be accompanied by music. Audiences at the time would have come to expect music in
7598-439: The channel's launch in 1963, quickly became popular and are still shown between commercials. In 1976, Otl Aicher , a graphic designer, created ZDF's corporate design. A new design for ZDF was created by Lee Hunt in February 2000. Administratively, ZDF is headed by a director general ( Intendant ), who is elected by the ZDF Television Council, the composition of which is in turn determined by "societally relevant groups" named in
7729-460: The climax of the film, "The Journey to the Line", uses a recurring theme based on four chords, combined with a "ticking clock" motif that has been featured in a range of subsequent scores composed by Zimmer. The piece has been used in numerous trailers and video games, and has earned the nickname "the forbidden cue" due to the tendency of film makers to use it as a temp track for dramatic scenes. In
7860-542: The closest of any composer to realizing the old Schoenbergian utopia that children of the future would be whistling 12-tone rows." Even so, considering they are often the most popular modern compositions of classical music known to the general public, major orchestras sometimes perform concerts of such music , as do pops orchestras . In 1983, a non-profit organization, the Society for the Preservation of Film Music ,
7991-493: The copyright in a composition, music production libraries own all of the copyrights of their music, meaning that it can be licensed without seeking the composer's permission, as is necessary in licensing music from normal publishers. This is because virtually all music created for music libraries is done on a work for hire basis. Production music is therefore a very convenient medium for media producers – they can be assured that they will be able to license any piece of music in
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#17327918654828122-432: The creative process towards the end of filming at around the same time as the film is being edited , although on some occasions the composer is on hand during the entire film shoot, especially when actors are required to perform with or be aware of original diegetic music. The composer is shown an unpolished "rough cut" of the film before the editing is completed and talks to the director or producer about what sort of music
8253-914: The days of the first cable pilot projects. The first Europe-wide satellite broadcast via Astra 1C began in August 1993 during the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA – "International Broadcasting Exhibition") in Berlin . In the same decade, these new technologies were used to enable digital broadcasting of ZDF. Today, ZDF is available free-to-air throughout Europe on Astra 19.2°E . ZDF operates two digital channels: ZDFneo (aimed at 18- to 45-year-olds) and ZDFinfo (documentaries). Both are transmitted in SD and HD. A commercial subsidiary called ZDF Studios GmbH manages programme sales, acquisitions, international coproductions, and
8384-540: 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
8515-579: 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
8646-823: 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 Pictures and DreamWorks Animation 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 Christopher Nolan , Ridley Scott , Ron Howard , Gore Verbinski , Michael Bay , Guy Ritchie , Denis Villeneuve and Tony Scott . Zimmer
8777-479: The electric car line. These sounds are both for those on the interior and on the exterior, and could help warn pedestrians that an electric car is approaching. On 6 January 2020, it was announced that he would be taking over as composer for the James Bond film No Time to Die after previous composer Dan Romer left the project. Speaking on scoring for No Time to Die , Zimmer told The Hindu , "Having done
8908-726: The era and or the character being portrayed. Many films do this like " Guardians of the galaxy", or the " Back to the Future". In the Robert Zemeckis, Alan Silvestri orchestrates a composition that is accompanied by tracks such as; "The power of love", and "Back in Time" both by Huey Lewis and The News. This creates a sense of lightness that deviates from the fanfare-like main theme.( Lawson, Macdonald ,2018). Many scores often try to draw from worldly influence to create sound that cements itself into popular culture. An example of this would be
9039-564: The federal government allowed the ARD network to create a temporary secondary channel, ARD 2, which was broadcast daily from 8 to 10 pm. ARD 2 began broadcasting on 1 May 1961 in the transmission area of Hessischer Rundfunk and a month later expanded nationwide. The SPD -led states of Hamburg , Bremen , Lower Saxony , and Hesse appealed to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany , which on 28 February 1961 in
9170-539: 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
9301-462: The film by the Music Editor at points specified by the composer. In both instances, the timings on the clock or lines scribed on the film have corresponding timings which are also at specific points (beats) in the composer/conductor score. A written click track is a method of writing bars of music in consistent time values (e.g. 4 beats in :02⅔ seconds) to establish a constant tempo in lieu of
9432-455: The film is played by Romani musicians. 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
9563-470: The film or on the album and are contracted individually (and if so, the orchestra contractor is credited in the film or the soundtrack album ). However, some films have recently begun crediting the contracted musicians on the albums under the name Hollywood Studio Symphony after an agreement with the American Federation of Musicians . Other performing ensembles that are often employed include
9694-414: The film's score, although songs do also form part of the film's soundtrack. Although some songs, especially in musicals , are based on thematic ideas from the score (or vice versa), scores usually do not have lyrics, except for when sung by choirs or soloists as part of a cue. Similarly, pop songs that are dropped into a specific scene in a film for emphasis or as diegetic music (e.g., a song playing on
9825-405: The filmmaker prior to the final orchestral recording. The length of time a composer has to write the score varies from project to project; depending on the post-production schedule, a composer may have as little as two weeks or as much as three months to write the score. In normal circumstances, the actual writing process usually lasts around six weeks from beginning to end. The actual material of
9956-608: 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
10087-644: The finale of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the films Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America were edited to Morricone's score as the composer had prepared it months before the film's production ended. In another example, the finale of Steven Spielberg 's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was edited to match the music of his long-time collaborator John Williams : as recounted in
10218-543: The first being at the 67th Academy Awards for the 1994 film The Lion King and the second being for the 2021 film Dune at the 94th Academy Awards . On 2 October 2018, Zimmer received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2019, Zimmer was inducted as a Disney Legend . Film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film . The score comprises
10349-456: 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
10480-465: The following equation: 60 b p m ( x ) = W {\displaystyle {\frac {60}{bpm}}(x)=W} Written clicks are expressed using 1/3 second increments, so the next step is to round the decimal to either 0, 1/3, or 2/3 of a second. The following is an example for 88 BPM: 60 88 ( 4 ) = 2.72 {\displaystyle {\frac {60}{88}}(4)=2.72} 2.72 rounds to 2.66, so
10611-483: The instrument of ratification on 9 July 1962. The station began broadcasting from Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main on 1 April 1963, with a speech by the first director general (Intendant), Karl Holzamer. The channel broadcast its first programme in colour in 1967. In 1974, ZDF moved its base of operations to Mainz-Lerchenberg, after briefly being located in Wiesbaden . Since 5 October 1996, ZDF has broadcast 24 hours
10742-608: The late Romantic period. In France, before the advent of talkies, Erik Satie composed what many consider the first "frame by frame" synchronous film score for director René Clair 's avant-garde short Entr'acte (1924). Anticipating "spotting" techniques and the inconsistencies of projection speeds in screenings of silent films, Satie took precise timings for each sequence and created a flexible, aleatoric score of brief, evocative motifs which could be repeated and varied in tempo as required. American composers Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland cited Satie's music for Entr'acte as
10873-495: The library at a reasonable rate. ZDF ZDF ( German: [ˌtsɛt.deːˈʔɛf] ), short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ( German: [ˈtsvaɪtəs ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈfɛʁnzeːn] ; lit. ' Second German Television ' ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate . Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution , and
11004-428: The movie by Hans Erdmann played at the very beginning and end of the movie. One of the rare occasions on which music occurs in the movie is a song one of the characters sings, that Lang uses to put emphasis on the man's insanity, similar to the use of the whistling in M . Early attempts at the synchronization of sound and image were failures, in large part due to mechanical and technological limitations. Phonographs ,
11135-410: 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
11266-552: The music with the film. More rarely, the director will talk to the composer before shooting has started, so as to give more time to the composer or because the director needs to shoot scenes (namely song or dance scenes) according to the final score. Sometimes the director will have edited the film using "temp (temporary) music": already published pieces with a character that the director believes to fit specific scenes. Most films have between 45 and 120 minutes of music. However, some films have very little or no music; others may feature
11397-476: The nature of the films they accompany. While the majority of scores are orchestral works rooted in Western classical music , many scores are also influenced by jazz , rock , pop , blues , new-age and ambient music , and a wide range of ethnic and world music styles. Since the 1950s, a growing number of scores have also included electronic elements as part of the score, and many scores written today feature
11528-513: The need to adhere to specific cue lengths or mirror the emotional arc of a particular scene. This approach is usually taken by a director who does not wish to have the music comment specifically on a particular scene or nuance of a film and which can instead be inserted into the film at any point the director wishes during the post-production process. Composer Hans Zimmer was asked to write music in this way in 2010 for director Christopher Nolan 's film Inception ; composer Gustavo Santaolalla did
11659-695: The new motto of FIFA, "Living Football" was also used as television intro theme for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Also in 2018, Zimmer remixed the UEFA Champions League Anthem with rapper Vince Staples for EA Sports' FIFA video game FIFA 19 , with it also featuring in the game's reveal trailer. Zimmer composed the score for Dark Phoenix , directed by Simon Kinberg , contrary to his 2016 statements of not scoring another superhero film following his experience working on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice . Also for 2019, he scored
11790-511: The nightly Tagesschau – were too close to the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) to ever be able to report neutrally on his Christian Democratic Union government. The new television company called the Freies Fernsehen Gesellschaft (Free Television Society) but derisively called Adenauer-Fernsehen (Adenauer's television) by critics, was founded on 25 July 1960. The Deutsche Bundespost began constructing
11921-410: The only medium available for recorded sound in the early twentieth century, were difficult if not impossible to synchronize with the rotation of film projectors. In the cases where an attempt was made, sound was further limited by an inability to properly amplify it. However, in the 1920s improvements in radio technology allowed for the amplification of sound, and the invention of sound on film allowed for
12052-431: The only work that I've done that's worth anything is working for Sir David Attenborough on those programmes, because it's the only thing that actually means something to this world and ultimately might have an impact on how we approach this world." Zimmer composed the main theme for the 2016 Netflix production The Crown . Also in 2016 Zimmer released an online course teaching the basics of film scoring. He next composed
12183-430: The orchestrator with copious notes outlining which instruments are being asked to perform which notes, giving the orchestrator no personal creative input whatsoever beyond re-notating the music on different sheets of paper as appropriate. Other composers are less detailed, and will often ask orchestrators to "fill in the blanks", providing their own creative input into the makeup of the ensemble, ensuring that each instrument
12314-404: The orchestrator's job is to take the single-line music written by the composer and "flesh it out" into instrument-specific sheet music for each member of the orchestra to perform. Some composers like Ennio Morricone orchestrate their own scores themselves, without using an additional orchestrator. Some composers provide intricate details in how they want this to be accomplished and will provide
12445-601: 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." "I listen to [Zimmer's] music and I don'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
12576-459: The recording of the choirs was organised 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
12707-497: The same thing when he wrote his Oscar-winning score for Brokeback Mountain . When writing music for film, one goal is to sync dramatic events happening on screen with musical events in the score. There are many different methods for syncing music to picture. These include using sequencing software to calculate timings, using mathematic formulas and free timing with reference timings. Composers work using SMPTE timecode for syncing purposes. When syncing music to picture, generally
12838-589: The score by Alex North , although Kubrick had also hired Frank Cordell to do a score. Other examples include Torn Curtain (Bernard Herrmann), Troy (Gabriel Yared), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Alan Silvestri), Peter Jackson's King Kong (Howard Shore), Air Force One (Randy Newman) and The Bourne Identity (Carter Burwell). Films often have different themes for important characters, events, ideas or objects, an idea often associated with Wagner 's use of leitmotif . These may be played in different variations depending on
12969-459: The score depends on several different variables that factor into how a composer may write. Things like; the emotion the composer is trying to convey, the character on screen, the scenery and geography of the set, along with multiple more different variables. A composition could consist of different instrumentation, varying genres, and different influential styles. Each composer has their own Inspirations and their own pragmatic impressions that create
13100-508: 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. Zimmer also worked on the score for Denis Villeneuve 's Blade Runner 2049 . Hans Zimmer and co-composer Benjamin Wallfisch took over scoring duties after Jóhann Jóhannsson left the project. In 2018, Zimmer composed the score for the new FIFA Anthem , called "Living Football" in reference to
13231-3855: The score for all the movies directed by Tim Burton , with the exception of Ed Wood (score by Howard Shore ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (score by Stephen Sondheim ). Other documented instance of director-composer relationships includes: Bernard Herrmann with Alfred Hitchcock ; Jerry Goldsmith with Joe Dante and Franklin Schaffner ; Ennio Morricone with Sergio Leone , Mauro Bolognini , and Giuseppe Tornatore ; Henry Mancini with Blake Edwards ; Georges Delerue with François Truffaut ; Alan Silvestri with Robert Zemeckis ; Angelo Badalamenti with David Lynch ; James Newton Howard with M. Night Shyamalan ; Éric Serra with Luc Besson ; Patrick Doyle with Kenneth Branagh ; Dave Grusin with Sydney Pollack ; Howard Shore with David Cronenberg , Peter Jackson , and Martin Scorsese ; Carter Burwell with Joel & Ethan Coen ; Bill Conti with John G. Avildsen ; Lalo Schifrin with Don Siegel , Stuart Rosenberg , and Brett Ratner ; Hans Zimmer with Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan ; Harry Gregson-Williams with Tony Scott and Andrew Adamson ; Clint Mansell with Darren Aronofsky ; Dario Marianelli with Joe Wright ; Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross with David Fincher ; Steve Jablonsky with Michael Bay , Mychael Danna with Ang Lee and Atom Egoyan , Terence Blanchard with Spike Lee , Randy Newman with John Lasseter ; Thomas Newman with Sam Mendes ; David Newman with Danny Devito , Brian Levant , and Stephen Herek ; John Debney with Jon Favreau and Garry Marshall ; Gabriel Yared with Anthony Minghella ; Joe Kraemer with Christopher McQuarrie ; Michael Giacchino with J. J. Abrams and Brad Bird ; James Horner with James Cameron and Ron Howard ; John Barry with Bryan Forbes , Anthony Harvey , Terence Young , and Guy Hamilton ; Elmer Bernstein with John Landis , John Sturges , and Robert Mulligan ; Maurice Jarre with David Lean , Peter Weir , and Georges Franju ; Philip Glass with Godfrey Reggio ; Cliff Martinez and David Holmes with Steven Soderbergh ; Akira Ifukube with Ishirō Honda ; A. R. Rahman with Mani Ratnam ; George Fenton with Richard Attenborough , Nicholas Hynter , Ken Loach , and Stephen Frears ; Klaus Badelt and Ernst Reijseger with Werner Herzog ; Randy Edelman with Ivan Reitman and Rob Cohen ; Marc Shaiman with Rob Reiner ; Elliot Goldenthal with Julie Taymor and Neil Jordan ; Rachel Portman with Beeban Kidron , Lasse Hallström , and Jonathan Demme ; Christophe Beck with Shawn Levy ; Arthur B. Rubinstein and David Shire with John Badham ; John Powell with Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass ; Trevor Rabin with Renny Harlin and Jon Turteltaub ; Harald Kloser with Roland Emmerich ; David Arnold with Michael Apted and John Singleton ; Michael Kamen with Richard Donner , John McTiernan , and Terry Gilliam ; Jorge Arriagada with Raúl Ruiz ; Zbigniew Preisner with Krzysztof Kieślowski ; Mark Isham with Alan Rudolph and Robert Redford ; Basil Poledouris with John Millius ; Joseph Trapanese with Joseph Kosinski ; Jonny Greenwood and Jon Brion with Paul Thomas Anderson ; Brian Tyler with Justin Lin and Sylvester Stallone ; John Ottman with Bryan Singer ; Marco Beltrami with Wes Craven and Guillermo del Toro ; Tyler Bates with James Gunn , Zack Snyder , and Rob Zombie ; Pino Donaggio with Brian De Palma ; and Alexandre Desplat with Wes Anderson , Roman Polanski , and George Clooney . Many companies provide music to various film, TV and commercial projects for
13362-421: 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
13493-541: The score from " The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". In this score by Ennio Morricone he uses a culmination of post-tonal music theory, celtic song, gregorian chant, and mariachi trumpets to create the sound of the spaghetti western, that is often associated with the wild west ( Kalinak 2010 ). Once the music has been written, it must then be arranged or orchestrated in order for the ensemble to be able to perform it. The nature and level of orchestration varies from project to project and composer to composer, but in its basic form
13624-401: The situation they represent, scattered amongst incidental music. The themes for specific characters or locations are known as a motif where the rest of the track is usually centered around the particular motif and the track develops in line with the motif. This common technique may often pass unnoticed by casual moviegoers, but has become well known among genre enthusiasts. One prominent example
13755-647: The spotting session has been completed and the precise timings of each cue determined, the composer will then work on writing the score. The methods of writing the score vary from composer to composer; some composers prefer to work with a traditional pencil and paper, writing notes by hand on a staff and performing works-in-progress for the director on a piano, while other composers write on computers using sophisticated music composition software such as Digital Performer , Logic Pro , Finale , Cubase , or Pro Tools . Working with software allows composers to create MIDI-based demos of cues, called MIDI mockups , for review by
13886-577: The states decided to establish a central nonprofit public television network independently of Adenauer's effort. On 6 June 1961, the state premiers signed at a premiers' conference in Stuttgart the interstate agreement on the "establishment of the public institution Second German Television ". On 1 December 1961, though not all states had ratified the agreement, it went into force in the states that had done so ( Baden-Württemberg , North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate ). The last state, Bavaria, filed
14017-405: The synchronization thereof. A landmark event in music synchronization with the action in film was achieved in the score composed by Max Steiner for David O. Selznick 's 1933 King Kong. A fine example of this is when the aborigine chief slowly approaches the unwanted visitors to Skull Island who are filming the natives' sacred rites. As he strides closer and closer, each footfall is reinforced by
14148-436: The three Batman movies—which are three movies to you but are 12 years of my life to me—I really understand where Daniel [Craig] was with this; he dedicated 16 years of his life to Bond... I wanted to not only do a good score but dig a little deeper and honour the man, the work and all the people who've been working on this for so long". On 26 February 2020, Major League Soccer released an anthem for its 25th season , which
14279-426: 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 wasn'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 didn't write the main theme, her presence and contributions were very influential. She
14410-415: 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
14541-684: The vaudeville space, and as such live musical accompaniment to films grew out naturally. Before the age of recorded sound in motion pictures, efforts were taken to provide suitable music for films, usually through the services of an in-house pianist or organist, and, in some cases, entire orchestras, typically given cue sheets as a guide. A pianist was present to perform at the Lumière brothers' first film screening in 1895. In 1914, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company sent full-length scores by Louis F. Gottschalk for their films. Other examples of this include Victor Herbert 's score in 1915 to The Fall of
14672-451: The work of one particular composer, often to the point where one will not work without the other. Once the orchestration process has been completed, the sheet music is physically printed onto paper by one or more music copyists and is ready for performance. When the music has been composed and orchestrated , the orchestra or ensemble then performs it, often with the composer conducting. Musicians for these ensembles are often uncredited in
14803-543: The written click is 4 beats in :02⅔ seconds. Once the composer has identified the location in the film with which to sync musically, he or she must determine the musical beat this event occurs on. To find this, conductors use the following equation, where bpm is beats per minute, sp is the sync point in real-time (i.e. 33.7 seconds), and B is the beat number in 1/3 increments (i.e. 49⅔). b p m ( s p ) 60 + 1 = B {\displaystyle {\frac {bpm(sp)}{60}}+1=B} Once
14934-403: 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. 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
15065-416: Was another modernist innovation, such as jazz star Duke Ellington 's score for Otto Preminger 's Anatomy of a Murder (1959). The following list includes all composers who have scored one of the 100 highest-grossing films of all time but have never been nominated for a major award (Oscar, Golden Globe etc.). Sometimes, a composer may unite with a director by composing the score for many films of
15196-465: Was as yet no sound-absorbent walls between the projection machine and the auditorium. This painful noise disturbed visual enjoyment to no small extent. Instinctively cinema proprietors had recourse to music, and it was the right way, using an agreeable sound to neutralize one less agreeable." On the contrary, film historian James Wierzbicki asserts that early film showings (such as the Lumière brothers ' first film screening) would have been social events to
15327-418: 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 . Bruckheimer had finished shooting Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl but was unhappy with the music composed for
15458-557: Was born in Frankfurt , 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 two weeks of piano lessons. I was thrown out of eight schools. But I joined a band. I am self-taught. But I've always heard music in my head. And I'm
15589-672: 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
15720-481: Was composed by Zimmer. In March 2020, Zimmer composed the score for Hillbilly Elegy . In 2022, he collaborated with Camila Cabello on the song "Take Me Back Home" for the documentary series Frozen Planet II . Zimmer worked on the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick , contributing to the main title credits and other tracks. Zimmer also composed the score for the film Dune (2021), which earned him his second Academy Award for Best Original Score . The film's music
15851-445: Was formed to preserve the "byproducts" of creating a film score, including the music manuscripts (written music) and other documents and studio recordings generated in the process of composing and recording scores which, in some instances, have been discarded by movie studios . The written music must be kept to perform the music on concert programs and to make new recordings of it. Sometimes only after decades has an archival recording of
15982-409: Was founded by all federal states of Germany ( Bundesländer ). ZDF is financed by television licence fees and advertising revenues. The broadcaster is well known for its famous programmes heute , a newscast established in 1963, and Wetten, dass..? , an entertainment show that premiered in 1981, with a suspension from 2014 to 2021. Norbert Himmler, ZDF's director general, was elected by
16113-616: Was highly influential in the era of silent movies, provided some original scores such as Fritz Lang 's movies Die Nibelungen (1924) and Metropolis (1927) which were accompanied by original full scale orchestral and leitmotific scores written by Gottfried Huppertz , who also wrote piano-versions of his music, for playing in smaller cinemas. Friedrich W. Murnau's movies Nosferatu (1922 – music by Hans Erdmann ) and Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926 – music by Werner Richard Heymann ) also had original scores written for them. Other films like Murnau's Der letzte Mann contained
16244-406: Was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend." 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
16375-408: Was later privatised as Deutsche Telekom 's subsidiary T-Systems Media Broadcast. (This is in contrast to the other public German broadcaster, ARD, which owns its main transmitters.) ZDF was not previously allowed to use ARD's transmitters. ZDF has used both ARD and Telekom transmitters since changes to the law in the 1990s, and since the digital switchover. ZDF has also been relayed by cable since
16506-628: Was model Vicki Carolin, with whom he has a daughter. The couple divorced in 1992. On 3 April 2020, Zimmer filed for divorce from his second wife, Suzanne Zimmer, with whom he married in 1995 and had three children. On 15 June 2023, Zimmer proposed to his partner Dina De Luca on stage at London's O2 Arena during one of his shows. Zimmer has received a range of honours and awards, including the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award at Hollywood in Vienna in 2018,
16637-499: Was more than just a soloist, and this is why I have such a problem with specific credits. For the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes , 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 music, which they researched by visiting Slovakia, Italy, and France. The music in
16768-459: 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,
16899-401: Was released in several different volumes. He also composed the score for the sequel , released in 2024. As of 2024, Zimmer has begun writing music for a potential third Dune film while Villeneuve has started on the film's script. During the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix , Zimmer announced he will be scoring F1 , a film starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski . Zimmer's first wife
17030-485: 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 . He later composed the score for the 2017 BBC nature documentary Blue Planet II alongside Jacob Shea and David Fleming, also presented by David Attenborough. In an interview with Kirsty Wark on BBC Radio, Zimmer said in October 2022: "I think
17161-482: 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 said: "My father died when I
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