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 Filmmakers: Hans Zimmer (Composer)German-born composer Hans Zimmer (Music) returns for his third collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski on “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,” having “overproduced” the score for “The Curse of the Black Pearl” and then taken on scoring responsibilities for “Dead Man's Chest.”
Zimmer is recognized as one of the film industry's most respected and innovative composers. For his impressive body of work, he has been honored with countless awards, including the Academy Award, two Golden Globes, three Grammys and a Tony Award. The German-born composer began studying music as a child, and first enjoyed success as a member of the alternative rock band The Buggles, whose single “Video Killed the Radio Star” became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to be aired on MTV in 1981.
Zimmer entered the world of film music in London during a long collaboration with famed composer and mentor Stanley Myers, which included his debut film “My Beautiful Laundrette.” He soon began work on several successful solo projects, including the critically acclaimed “A World Apart,” and during these years Zimmer pioneered the use of combining old and new musical technologies. Today, this work has earned him the reputation of being the father of integrating the electronic musical world with traditional orchestral arrangements.
A turning point in Zimmer's career came in 1988 when he was asked to score “Rain Man” for director Barry Levinson. The film went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture of the Year and earned Zimmer his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. The next year, Zimmer composed the score for another Best Picture Oscar recipient, “Driving Miss Daisy,” starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.
Having already scored two Best Picture winners, in the early `90s Zimmer cemented his position as a pre-eminent talent with the award-winning score for “The Lion King.” The soundtrack has sold over 15 million copies to date and earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score, a Golden Globe, an American Music Award, a Tony and two Grammy Awards. In total, Zimmer's work has been nominated for eight Golden Globes, seven Grammys and seven Oscars for “Rain Man,” “Gladiator,” “The Lion King,” “As Good As It Gets,” “The Preacher's Wife,” “The Thin Red Line” and “The Prince of Egypt.”
With his career in full swing, Zimmer was anxious to replicate the mentoring experience he had benefited from under Stanley Myers' guidance. With state-of-the-art technology and a supportive creative environment, Zimmer was able to offer film scoring opportunities to young composers at his Santa Monica-based musical “think tank” Remote Control Productions. This approach helped launch the careers of such notable composers as Mark Mancina, John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Nick Glennie-Smith and Klaus Badelt.
In 2000 Zimmer scored the music for Ridley Scott's “Gladiator,” for which he received an Oscar nomination, in addition to Golden Globe and Broadcast Film Critics Awards for his epic score. It sold more than three million copies worldwide and spawned a second album “Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture,” released on the Universal Classics/Decca label. Zimmer's other scores that year included “Mission: Impossible 2,” “The Road to El Dorado” and “An Everlasting Piece,” directed by Barry Levinson.
Some of his other impressive scores include “Pearl Harbor”; “The Last Samurai,” Gore Verbinski's “The Ring” and “The Weather Man;” four films directed by Ridley Scott, “Matchstick Men,” “Hannibal,” “Black Hawk Down” (also produced by Bruckheimer) and “Thelma and Louise”; Penny Marshall's “Riding in Cars With Boys” and “A League of Their Own”; Quentin Tarantino's “True Romance”; “Tears of the Sun”; “Backdraft,” “Days of Thunder”; “Smilla's Sense of Snow” and the animated “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” for which he also co-wrote four of the songs with Bryan Adams, including the Golden Globe nominated “Here I Am.”
His recent credits include “Batman Begins”; last summer's blockbusters “The Da Vinci Code” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest,” which marked his seventh project with Jerry Bruckheimer, and Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy “The Holiday,” starring Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jude Law.
In 2000, at the 27th annual Flanders International Film Festival, Zimmer performed live for the first time in concert with a 100-piece orchestra and a 100-piece choir. Choosing selections from his impressive body of work, Zimmer performed newly orchestrated concert versions of “Gladiator,” “Mission: Impossible 2,” “Rain Man,” “The Lion King” and “The Thin Red Line.” The concert was recorded by Decca and released as a concert album entitled “The Wings Of A Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer.”
Zimmer's additional honors and awards include the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in Film Composition from the National Board of Review, and the Frederick Loewe Award in 2003 at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. He has also received ASCAP's Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Upcoming for Zimmer is the highly anticipated “The Simpsons Movie,” due out in the summer of 2007.
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  FilmmakersGore Verbinski Director
Jerry Bruckheimer Producer
Ted Elliott Screenwriter
Terry Rossio - Screenwriter
Dariusz Wolski Photography
Rick Heinricks Prod. Designer
Penny Rose Costume Designer
Craig Wood Editor
Stephen Rivkin Editor
Hans Zimmer Composer
John Knoll Visual Effects
Charles Gibson Visual Effects
John Frazier Special Effects
Allen Hall Special Effects
George Marshall Ruge Stunts
Ve Neill Makeup Effects
CastJohnny Depp as Sparrow
Orlando Bloom as Will
Keira Knightley as Elizabeth
Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa
Stellan Skarsgard as Bootstrap
Bill Nighy as Davy Jones
Chow Yun-Fat as Sao Feng
Jack Davenport as Norrington
Kevin R. McNally as Gibbs
Jonathan Pryce as Governor
Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma
Tom Hollander as Beckett
Lee Arenberg as Pintel
Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti
Keith Richards as Teague
David Bailie as Cotton
David Schofield as Mercer
Martin Klebba as Marty
Reggie Lee as Tai Huang
Vanessa Branch as Giselle
Lauren Maher as Scarlett
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