Zimmer has received a total of 10 Golden Globe nominations, 10 Grammy nominations and 9 Oscar nominations, the most recent for Christopher Nolan's Inception. The film scores Zimmer has done this for speak for themselves, whether it has been for drama in Rain Man, action in Ridley Scott's Black Rain, historical in Gladiator, war in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line or the dark comic-book world of The Dark Knight. In the middle of Zimmer's unparalleled pace of taking on new projects, his ability to re-invent genres is what is perhaps most striking. Zimmer's career has been marked by a unique ability to adeptly move between genres-between smaller films and comedies (such as Driving Miss Daisy, Green Card, True Romance, As Good as It Gets and Something's Gotta Give) and big blockbusters (including Crimson Tide, Mission: Impossible 2, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, The Last Samurai, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Batman Begins and The Da Vinci Code) With Zimmer's subsequent move to Hollywood, he expanded the range of genres he explored, and his first venture into the world of animation, 1994's The Lion King, brought Zimmer the Oscar. Levinson's instinct was right: the score's Oscar nomination that followed would be the first of nine. It was Zimmer's solo work in 1988's A World Apart, however, that gained the attention of director Barry Levinson, who then asked him to score Rain Man, Zimmer's first American film. Not long after meeting established film composer Stanley Myers, the two founded the London-based Lillie Yard Recording Studios together, collaborating on such films as My Beautiful Laundrette. But the world of film music was what Zimmer really wanted to be involved with. It was known that his interest in music began early and, after a move from Germany to the U.K., would lead to playing with and producing various bands, including The Buggles, whose Video Killed the Radio Star was the first music video to ever appear on MTV. Not much is known of Hans Zimmer's early life. 1.2.2 Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.
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