Composer Hans Zimmer has been announced as the winner of this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the 2013 Classic BRIT Awards. The Academy Award- , Golden Globe- and Grammy-winning composer of such films as The Lion King, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, The Dark Knight and Inception will be honored with the award at this year’s ceremony on October 2 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Zimmer is the second film composer to be honored with the Outstanding Contribution to Music award following John Barry who received the award posthumously in 2011. Last year, John Williams was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award. To learn more about the Classic Brit Awards and to buy tickets for the event, visit the official event website.
Hans Zimmer to Be Honored with Classic Brit Award
Posted: August 14, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Classic Brit Awards, Hans Zimmer
Isn’t it yet time, for him, to withdraw from public life? Please Hans, stop doing soundtracks!
Well deserved. Please Hans, never stop doing soundtracks!
I love some of Zimmer’s work. He’s Composed some great works, but I wouldn’t call it an outstanding contribution to music. What about John Williams, James Horner, Howard Shore, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Thomas Newman, Jerry Goldsmith, and that’s only naming a few. Now those guys have made an OUTSTANDING contribution to music.
Well, love this man or hate him – he did change the face of contemporary film music. Listen to “Black Rain;” “Crimson Tide;” throught to “Gladiator.” It seems now with success, is followed by an inordinate ammount of criticism.
From being the progeny of Stanley Myers, to becoming the innovator, now tenure that built “Remote Control,” it has either damned him through incessant success, or proven that the art of film music has to evolve, regardless of how we feel about it.
Anyway…Congratulations, Hans!
He deserved it, for he is a really talented man and he did an outstanting contribution. I am really annoyed by his recent work since ‘Inception’ and I don’t like his RC working style, but this doesn’t mean, that he never did anything good. And to create a style, that is copied in so many ways…this is an contribution. And the style itself is not bad, just what people do with it nowadays.