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New York, NY -- November 19, 2003 -- The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures will present respected
award-winning composer Hans Zimmer with the 2003 Career Achievement Award
for Film Music Composition at the annual gala on Tuesday, January 13, 2004
in New York City.
Hans
Zimmer's latest score, for the film The Last Samurai, marks a career
milestone for the world-famous composer: his 100th film score.
With little formal training, Zimmer began his film music career in the mid
1980s in London after achieving success as a pop recording artist in the group
THE BUGGLES ("Video Killed The Radio Star," literally launched MTV); and after
several collaborations with composer Stanley Meyers (The Deer Hunter, My
Beautiful Launderette), Zimmer made his solo debut with A World Apart
in 1988.
Zimmer's
film credits include The Lion King, for which he won an Academy Award,
a Golden Globe, a Grammy and a Tony, in addition to six other Oscar-nominated
scores, including those for Best Picture winners Rain Man and Driving
Miss Daisy, along with The Thin Red Line, As Good As it Gets, The Preachers
Wife and The Prince of Egypt. Additional credits include Mission
Impossible 2, Black Hawk Down, A League of Their Own, True Romance,
the Grammy-winning Crimson Tide, and five films with director Ridley
Scott, including Thelma & Louise, Hannibal, the multi-award
winning Gladiator and, most recently, Matchstick Men. A pioneer
in the use of synthesizers, digital instruments, and the latest computer technology,
Zimmer is widely considered to be the father of integrating electronic
sound with traditional orchestral arrangements.
Previous
honorees for this award include Ennio Morricone, John Williams, and Elmer
Bernstein.
The
full list of 2003 winners including Best Film and Best Actor and Actress will
be released on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003. The National Board of Review,
with no commercial ties to the industry, was founded in 1909 to support excellence
and free expression in film. The group screens over 300 films per year and
honors the very best in a variety of categories of film, direction and performance.
In addition, the NBR works to endow scholarships for film students and to
underwrite educational film programs.
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