Person · Composer
Hans Zimmer
b. 1957
Wrote the music for 115 films on this site, including Gladiator (2000), The Dark Knight (2008) and Interstellar (2014).
He has won the Academy Award for Best Original Score twice, for The Lion King (1994) and for Dune (2021).
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Zimmer has collaborated with Christopher Nolan on six films, from Batman Begins (2005) to Dunkirk.
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In their own words
I wrote the notes, but the notes are only a tiny part of the journey for me. The team that surrounds me, speaks the same language.
The Music of Dune: Part Two - Behind the Scenes | Hans Zimmer, Denis Villeneuve & Cast | WaterTower (7 March 2024) · Wikiquote: Hans Zimmer · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Regulars
Films in this guide
Best known
- Gladiator 2000composer
- The Dark Knight 2008composer
- Interstellar 2014composer
- Inception 2010composer
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003composer
- Batman Begins 2005composer
1980s
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)composer
- The Lightship (1985)composer
- A World Apart (1988)composer
- Burning Secret (1988)composer
- Rain Man (1988)composer
- Black Rain (1989)composer
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)composer
- Twister (1989)composer
1990s
- Bird on a Wire (1990)composer
- Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)composer
- Days of Thunder (1990)composer
- Fools of Fortune (1990)composer
- Green Card (1990)composer
- Pacific Heights (1990)composer
- Backdraft (1991)composer
- Regarding Henry (1991)composer
- Thelma & Louise (1991)composer
- White Fang (1991)composer
- A League of Their Own (1992)composer
- Radio Flyer (1992)composer
- The Power of One (1992)composer
- Toys (1992)composer
- Calendar Girl (1993)composer
- Point of No Return (1993)composer
- The House of the Spirits (1993)composer
- True Romance (1993)composer
- Younger and Younger (1993)composer
- Drop Zone (1994)composer
- I'll Do Anything (1994)composer
- Renaissance Man (1994)composer
- Beyond Rangoon (1995)composer
- Crimson Tide (1995)composer
- Nine Months (1995)composer
- Something to Talk About (1995)composer
- Two Deaths (1995)composer
- Broken Arrow (1996)composer
- Muppet Treasure Island (1996)composer
- The Fan (1996)composer
- The Preacher's Wife (1996)composer
- The Rock (1996)composer
- As Good as It Gets (1997)composer
- The Peacemaker (1997)composer
- The Thin Red Line (1998)composer
- Chill Factor (1999)composer
2000s
- An Everlasting Piece (2000)composer
- Gladiator (2000)composer
- Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)composer
- Black Hawk Down (2001)composer
- Hannibal (2001)composer
- Invincible (2001)composer
- Pearl Harbor (2001)composer
- Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)composer
- The Ring (2002)composer
- Matchstick Men (2003)composer
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)composer
- Something's Gotta Give (2003)composer
- Tears of the Sun (2003)composer
- The Last Samurai (2003)composer
- King Arthur (2004)composer
- Spanglish (2004)composer
- Thunderbirds (2004)composer
- Batman Begins (2005)composer
- The Weather Man (2005)composer
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)composer
- The Da Vinci Code (2006)composer
- The Holiday (2006)composer
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)composer
- Frost/Nixon (2008)composer
- The Dark Knight (2008)composer
- Angels & Demons (2009)composer
- It's Complicated (2009)composer
- Pirate Radio (2009)composer
- Sherlock Holmes (2009)composer
2010s
- How Do You Know (2010)composer
- Inception (2010)composer
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)composer
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)composer
- Son of Morning (2011)composer
- The Dilemma (2011)composer
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)composer
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)composer
- Man of Steel (2013)composer
- Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)composer
- Rush (2013)composer
- The Lone Ranger (2013)composer
- Interstellar (2014)composer
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)composer
- Winter's Tale (2014)composer
- Chappie (2015)composer
- Freeheld (2015)composer
- The Woman in Gold (2015)composer
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)composer
- Hidden Figures (2016)composer
- Inferno (2016)composer
- The Last Face (2016)composer
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017)composer
- Dunkirk (2017)composer
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales (2017)composer
- Widows (2018)composer
- Dark Phoenix (2019)composer
2020s
- Hillbilly Elegy (2020)composer
- Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)composer
- Dune (2021)composer
- No Time to Die (2021)composer
- The Survivor (2021)composer
- The Unforgivable (2021)composer
- The Son (2022)composer
- Top Gun: Maverick (2022)composer
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (2023)composer
- The Creator (2023)composer
- Blitz (2024)composer
- Dune: Part Two (2024)composer
- Eden (2024)composer
- Ella McCay (2025)composer
- F1 (2025)composer