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Hans Zimmer

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The Resume

    (September 12, 1957- )
    Composed scores for the films 'Rain Man (1988),' 'True Romance (1993),' 'The Lion King (1994),' 'As Good as it Gets (1997),' 'The Thin Red Line (1998),' 'Gladiator (2000),' 'Hannibal (2001),' 'Black Hawk Down (2001),' 'Pearl Harbour (2001),' 'The Last Samurai (2003),' 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)' and 'Shark Tale (2004)'

Why he might be annoying:

    His middle name is Florian.
    He smokes.
    His long-time business partner, Jay Rifkin, filed a $10 million suit against him for conspiring to take over their music studio; Hans successfully counter-sued accusing Rifkin of embezzling money from their business.
    His scores are always being used in movie trailers.
    He claims to only be happy with a few of the scores from his entire filmography.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He composed over 100 film scores in his career.
    He frequently works with Ridley Scott.
    His style cannot be categorized and is often hard to recognize due to his ability to fuse classical orchestral music with rock, synthesized sounds and world music, and his gift for working on any genre of film.
    Steven Spielberg is a big fan of his, and they would most likely be frequent collaborators if not for Spielberg's loyalty to his close friend John Williams.
    He won an Oscar in 1995 for his composition on 'The Lion King' and has been nominated for 5 others.
    He won Golden Globes for his compositions on 'The Lion King' in 1995 and 'Gladiator' in 2001 and has been nominated for 4 others.

Credit: The Gent


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 213 Votes: 47.89% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 15 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 14 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 32 Votes: 59.38% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 52 Votes: 59.62% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 143 Votes: 52.45% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 185 Votes: 53.51% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 227 Votes: 42.73% Annoying