PremiumOscar 2022: Dune composer Hans Zimmer wins second Oscar three decades after his first
The music composer won his second Academy Award for his work in Dune.
Last Updated: 07.20 PM, Mar 28, 2022
Hans Zimmer is one of the most revered music composers working currently and is also a fan favourite. The composer has now won his second Academy Award for Original Score, after 27 years since winning his first.
Zimmer was awarded the Oscar for his music from Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi fantasy thriller, Dune. This was the composer’s 12th Oscar nomination, having won his first Oscar in 1995 for The Lion King.
Rain Man (1989), The Preacher’s Wife (1997), As Good as It Gets (1998), The Prince of Egypt (1999), The Thin Red Line (1999), Gladiator (2001), Sherlock Holmes (2010), Inception (2011), Interstellar (2015), and Dunkirk (2018) were his other nominations for Best Original Score.
Zimmer is touring and was not available at the Dolby Theatre to receive his award. The musician took to Twitter to share his acceptance of the Oscar. “It’s 2am in Amsterdam, and my daughter Zoë woke me up to go to the hotel bar. Wow!!” he wrote, sharing a picture of him in a bathrobe with the mini Oscar statuette.
Dune, which is directed by Denis Vilenueve and backed by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures stars Timothée Chalamet in the lead. The highly ambitious project became a big hit with the fans and also bagged Oscars for production design, editing, sound, along with Hans Zimmer’s score.
Also starring Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem, the movie is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert of the same name.
The second part of the movie is slated to hit theatres in 2023.