Hans Zimmer to be honored with Lifetime Acheivement Award.

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http://variety.com/2014/film/news/zurich-film-festival-to-honor-composer-hans-zimmer-1201256021/

 

The Zurich Film Festival is to honor composer Hans Zimmer with a special lifetime award.

 

Composer Hans Zimmer

 

Michael Lewis for Variety

July 1, 2014 | 05:32AM PT

Leo Barraclough

MUNICH — The Zurich Film Festival is to honor composer Hans Zimmer with a special lifetime award.

The award will be presented on Oct. 1 at the Tonhalle Zurich at a ceremony that will feature excerpts from some of Zimmer’s scores, such as those for “The Lion King” and “Gladiator.”

German-born Zimmer has scored more than 100 films, which have, combined, grossed over $22 billion at the box office. He has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, three Grammys and a Tony. He received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.

Some of his most recent works include “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” “12 Years a Slave,” Ron Howard’s “Rush,” Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel,” the Christopher Nolan-directed films “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” and Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”

Some of Zimmer’s most notable works include “Rain Main,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Thelma & Louise,” “The Thin Red Line,” “Mission: Impossible II,” “Hannibal,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, the “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar” films, “Frost/Nixon” and “The Da Vinci Code.”

Zimmer is in production on the score for Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” which is releasing in November.

 

Congratulations to Hans for a lifetime of sumptuous, culture defining ear-sex!!!

 

 

 

 

[miketheavenger]

Congratulations to Hans Zimmer. I'm especially proud because he's one of the few Germans to have had a successful career in Hollywood. But German or not, he is certainly in my Top 5 favorite Composers of all time (I do think he's not on the same level as John Williams, but who is, really?).

[Omario]

deservedly so 

[Jack Nevada]

Who gives a shit about "Zurich Film Festival"?

[CoolioD1]

I've decided Tommy Wiseau is getting the Coolio Lifetime Achievement award for contribution to framed pictures of spoons.

 

someone make a thread.

[lilmac]

Well deserved!  He's my favorite composer after James Horner and John Williams.  

[Rorschach]

[#ED]

No reason to criticize. Simply applaud.

[Lordmandeep]

They play  this for 10 hours to really celebrate him 

 

[Dark 33Legend of the Sith]

Gladiator soundtrack would be enough on its own.

[Goffe]

I have been listening all of his scores for the past few months, currently listening The Last Samurai (never watched the movie), what amazing score. His scores are mostly good to masterpieces with very few exceptions.

[Lordmandeep]

Hans Zimmer elevated a lot of his films with his amazing soundtracks.

 

 

Gladiator already had a great ending with some spectacular dialogue and acting, but the sweeping score and music elevated the scene into one of the best endings ever.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72uwmHsFSAg

[Ash Skywalker]

Recently i'm into this more:

[Alpha]

Congrats, Zimmer. Your film scores always astonish.

[ChD]

To be honest, Zimmer is my favorite composer out there and I doubt anyone will ever manage to replace him. Yeah, I acknowledge the fact that Williams score might be better than Zimmer's (never been a big fan) but Zimmer's sound is exactly the kind of sound I love.

 

Really happy for him.

[lilmac]

Loved Crimson Tide. That score is what put him on the map.

[Feracious]

Well deserved.