Hans Zimmer picks favorite scores of his own; do you agree?

Composer Hans Zimmer has had a career that spans more than 40 years, but what does he consider his greatest scores? The post Hans Zimmer picks favorite scores of his own; do you agree? appeared first on JoBlo.

May 9, 2025 - 13:53

Hans Zimmer picks favorite scores of his own; do you agree?

Inception. The Thin Red Line. Driving Miss Daisy. Gladiator. Dune. Any one of these films – and dozens upon dozens more – could be argued as Hans Zimmer’s best score. But what does Zimmer consider the peak of his oeuvre?

Guy with a Movie Camera aka Reece Feldman recently challenged Hans Zimmer to find out what the composer thought of his own scores. To start off the single-elimination tournament, it was Pirates of the Caribbean against The Lion King, for which Zimmer earned his first Oscar. Zimmer easily picked the 1994 Disney classic for personal reasons, also noting it was his first score for an animated film. “Lion King is written for my daughter. I didn’t really wanna do the movie. I didn’t really want to do animation. And then the movie really surprised me because it’s about the father dying and my father died when I was six years old. I never dealt with it and suddenly I had to go and deal with that.”