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Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German Oscar and Golden Globe award-winning film score composer.

Born in Frankfurt, Zimmer began his musical career playing keyboards and synthesizers with, among others, the bands Ultravox and The Buggles ("Video Killed the Radio Star"). He was also a member of electro-wave band Krisma. In the late 1980s, he worked with veteran film composer Stanley Myers during Zimmer's stay at Air-Edel recording studios. His breakthrough came in 1988, with the score for Rain Man, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Since then, Zimmer has composed music for many major movies, such as Muppet Treasure Island, Crimson Tide, The Rock, True Romance, Gladiator, Driving Miss Daisy, The Prince of Egypt, Pearl Harbor, The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk Down, Backdraft, The Last Samurai, Batman Begins (with James Newton Howard), The Weather Man, The Da Vinci Code and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. In 1995, he received an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the animated movie The Lion King. He also composed the theme for the boxing show The Contender.

Zimmer is known for using electronics and synthesizers in his music.

Other composers like Steve Jablonsky, James Dooley, Heitor Pereira and Geoff Zanelli are working in Zimmer's studio RemoteControlProductions / Remote Control Productions (formerly known as MediaVentures ). Accomplished composers including Harry Gregson-Williams, Mark Mancina, John Powell and Klaus Badelt are also all former members of the studio.

Hans Zimmer has a daughter and is residing is Los Angeles, California.

Hans Zimmer is currently represented by The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.