HANS ZIMMER (Composer) won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for Disney's "The Lion King", as well as a Golden Globe, two Grammys, and a Tony Award (for the film's subsequent Broadway incarnation). For his outstanding score for Ridley Scott's "Gladiator", he won the Golden Globe and Broadcast Film Critics Award and received another Oscar nomination. The album sold 3,000,000 units worldwide and spawned a follow-up album, "Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture." The acclaimed composer also collected another 5 Academy nominations for his music on "Rain Man", "As Good As It Gets", "The Thin Red Line", "The Preacher's Wife" and "The Prince of Egypt".

Among his numerous and diverse credits are scores for "Driving Miss Daisy", "Mission: Impossible 2", "The Road To El Dorado", Barry Levinson's "Green Card", "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron", "The Rock", and the epic historical war drama, "Pearl Harbor".