Hans Zimmer won an Oscar for his work on The Lion King and has been nominated for his work in nine more films, including Gladiator, aboveHans ZimmerThe biggest beast in film music after John Williams, Hans Zimmer broke through in 1988 with his synth-soaked score for Rain Man. The German went on to win an Oscar for the non Elton John bits of The Lion King and has been nominated for his work in nine more films, including Gladiator and The Thin Red Line, on which he road-tested the ticking-clock motif that became one of his trademarks. He has built up a close relationship with Christopher Nolan, working on the director’s Batman trilogy, Inception and Interstellar. His excruciatingly tense music — with more ticking — was arguably the most important part of Nolan’s Dunkirk. Not bad for the man who once wrote the theme tune

Source: The Times August 06, 2020 15:56 UTC