Monday, 16 June 2008
Hans Zimmer
Artist: Hans Zimmer
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Industrial
New Age
Discography:
The Simpsons Movie
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
The Da Vinci Code
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Pirates Of The Caribbean (Dead Man's Chest)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
The Ring, The Ring Two
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Spanglish
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Madagascar
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
Thunderbirds
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Thunderbirds
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Shark Tale
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Lauras Stern
Year: 2004
Tracks: 23
King Arthur - Xpanded Score (cd2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
King Arthur - Xpanded Score (cd1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
King Arthur
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
The Ring
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
The Last Samurai
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Tears Of The Sun
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Matchstick Men
Year: 2003
Tracks: 22
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Spirit
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Black Hawk Down - Xpanded Score (cd2)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Black Hawk Down - Xpanded Score (cd1)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Black Hawk Down
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
The Wings of a Film
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
The Pledge
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Riding in Cars with Boys
Year: 2001
Tracks: 1
Peal Harbor
Year: 2001
Tracks: 18
Invincible
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture
Year: 2001
Tracks: 18
Mission Impossible 2
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Mark Mancina and The Hans Zimmer Collaboration
Year: 2000
Tracks: 21
Hannibal
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Gladiator
Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
Follow Your Dreams
Year: 2000
Tracks: 24
An Everlasting Piece
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
The Thin Red Line
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
The Last Days
Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
Prince Of Egypt, The (Complete Score CD1)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 17
Prince of Egypt - Xpanded Score
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Prince Of Egypt
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
CD2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
As Good As It Gets: Music From The Motion Picture
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
As Good As It Gets (Oscar Promo)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
As Good as It Gets
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
The Peacemaker
Year: 1997
Tracks: 5
Smilla s Sense Of Snow
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Peacemaker
Year: 1997
Tracks: 40
The Whole Wide World
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
The Rock
Year: 1996
Tracks: 8
The Fan
Year: 1996
Tracks: 13
Something to talk about
Year: 1995
Tracks: 7
Nine Months
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Crimson Tide - Xpanded Score
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Crimson Tide
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Broken Arrow (sfx score)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 27
Broken Arrow
Year: 1995
Tracks: 8
Renaissance Man
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Mr. Bill (The Renaissance Man)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Lion King
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Drop Zone
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Beyond Rangoon
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
True Romance
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
The House Of The Spirits
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Point of No Return
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
Das Geisterhaus
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Cool Runnings
Year: 1993
Tracks: 2
Calendar Girl
Year: 1993
Tracks: 1
Toys
Year: 1992
Tracks: 13
The Power of One
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Radio Flyer
Year: 1992
Tracks: 4
Millennium
Year: 1992
Tracks: 18
League of their own
Year: 1992
Tracks: 2
Thelma And Louise
Year: 1991
Tracks: 18
Regarding Henry
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
K2
Year: 1991
Tracks: 2
Green Card
Year: 1991
Tracks: 13
Backdraft
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Pacific Heights
Year: 1990
Tracks: 4
Days of Thunder - Xpanded Score
Year: 1990
Tracks: 29
Days Of Thunder
Year: 1990
Tracks: 29
New Music in Films
Year: 1989
Tracks: 3
Driving Miss Daisy
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
Rain Man
Year: 1988
Tracks: 22
Black rain
Year: 1988
Tracks: 27
A World Apart
Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
Castaway
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
TV Theme
Year:
Tracks: 2
Trailer - Small Treasure
Year:
Tracks: 27
The Rock [Expanded]
Year:
Tracks: 24
Composer Hans Zimmer was born September 12, 1957 in Frankfurt, Germany; after relocating to London as a adolescent, he later wrote publicizing jingles for Air-Edel Associates, and in 1980 collaborated with the Buggles on their LP The Age of Plastic and its attendant score "Video Killed the Radio Star." A stretch with Ultravox followed in front Zimmer following surfaced with the Italian avant-garde group Krisma; he then formed a partnership with film composer Stanley Myers, and together they founded the London-based Lillie Yard recording studio. Zimmer and Myers' moving-picture show exercise of the period, which included material for pictures including Moonlighting, Winner Is the Best Revenge, Insignificance, and the acclaimed My Beautiful Launderette, made significant strides in fusing the traditional orchestral aesthetic of film composition with state of the art electronics, and proved highly influential on uncounted soundtracks to follow.
In 1986 Zimmer joined David Byrne and Ryuichi Sakamoto on their Oscar-winning score to The Last Emperor; his run on the apartheid drama A World Apart was his first-class honours degree major solo credit, and light-emitting diode to his Academy Award-nominated grievance for 1988's Best Picture-winning demolish Rain Man. The undermentioned year Zimmer once again composed the soundtrack for a Best Picture winner, this time Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy; a remarkably prolific author, by the time the '90s dawned his music was a Hollywood staple, with a number of hits including Black Rain, Backdraft, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, and Years of Thunder. Zimmer scored his biggest commercial hit in 1994 with his work on Disney's The Lion King; the film's soundtrack garnered multitudinous awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and 2 Grammys. Later altered for the Broadway stage, The Lion King took home the 1998 Tony for Best Musical as advantageously.
In 1995, Zimmer likewise earned a Grammy for his work on Ruddy Tide, which was prestigious as Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture. Another Academy Award nomination followed for 1996's The Preacher's Wife; that same year, he earned BMI's prestigious Richard Kirk Award for lifetime accomplishment. 1997 byword Zimmer realize another Oscar nom for his work on the James L. Brooks comedy As Good as It Gets, repeating the exploit for the one-third consecutive year in 1998 with his score for the Terence Malick chef-d'oeuvre The Thin Red Line. His contributions to The Prince of Egypt likewise earned a Golden Globe bid earlier that same year.
The 2000s marked an auspicious clip in the composer's career, as he continued scoring the biggest A-list films of the time of year, averaging iI or trine blockbusters a year, including Hannibal, Prizefighter, The Last Samurai, Batman Begins, and The Da Vinci Code. In 2007, Silva Screen Records released Plastic film Music of Hans Zimmer, a double-disc set highlight his achievements as a movie-music shaper. Later in 2007, he reworked Alf Clausen's zany Simpsons base into a traditional symphonious film score on The Simpsons Movie.