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1. Hans Zimmer

2. Personal life
● Zimmer's first wife was a model, Vicki Carolin, with whom he has a
daughter, model Zoe Zimmer.
● Zimmer lives in Los Angeles with his second wife Suzanne Zimmer
with whom he has an additional three children.

3. Information
● Born: 12. september 1957 (60)
● Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
● Birth name: Hans Florian Zimmer
● Years active: 1977-present
● Occupation: Composer, record producer

4. Awards
● Academy Awards (11 nomination):
● - 1995 (The Lion King)
● Golden Globes (14 nomination):
● - 1995 (The Lion King)
● - 2001 (Gladiator)
● Florida Film Critics Circle Awards (2 nomination):
● - 2017 (Blade Runner 2049)

5. Awards 2
● Zimmer's works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds
with traditional orchestral arrangements.
● He has received four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards,
two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award.
● He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published
by The Daily Telegraph.

6. Early life
● 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.
● He moved to London as a teenager, where he attended Hurtwood
House school.
● 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.

7. Rain Man
● A turning point in Zimmer's career occurred with the 1988 film Rain
Man.
● Zimmer’s score for Rain Man 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.

8. Inception
● 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, with
Zimmer commenting "It's funny how that sort of thing becomes part
of the zeitgeist
● But I suppose that's exactly what trailers are looking for: something
iconic lasts less than a second, and shakes the seats in the theater."

9. Early career
● Zimmer began his career playing keyboards and synthesizers in
the 1970s, with the band Krakatoa.
● In the 1980s, Zimmer partnered with Stanley Myers, a prolific
film composer who wrote the scores for over sixty films.
● One of Zimmer's most durable works from his time in the United
Kingdom was the theme song for the television game show
Going for Gold, which he composed with Sandy McClelland in
1987.

10. DreamWorks
● Zimmer spent 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 studios and
works with other composers through the company that he founded,
Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures.