Timothée Chalamet says Hans Zimmer is the greatest film composer of all-time

[lovelylaura23]

Timothée Chalamet says Hans Zimmer is the greatest film composer of all-time 🎵

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In an interview with Nardwuar, Swiss Chalet drops an opinion.

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Who's your favorite films composer, ONTD? I'm giving my shoutout to Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Comments

[benihime99]

Ennio Morricone, Clint Mansell, Howard Shore....

Be seriously timmy

[lamppost1911]

Clint Mansell is soooo good.

[ladychips]

that requiem for a dream score, wow. and when it was used in the two towers promo??

[lamppost1911]

I wouldn’t say he’s the greatest but I’m obligated to show my love for Thomas Newman 🧡🧡

[scriptedending]

yesssss

[lamppost1911]

This score deserved such a better movie. Not to be dramatic but it was such a comfort during a shit time. It’s insane to me he doesn’t have an Oscar.

[lovelylaura23]

I still love his ASOUE score.

[scriptedending]

While Hans is a perfectly valid answer, I think it's a fool's errand to pick any one film composer as the best, because there are so many great ones.

But if I had to choose, it'd be John Williams.

[lamppost1911]

John Williams is iconic. You can’t argue that.

[thereinventions]

Ramin Djwadi, Nicolas Britell, Clint Mansell, Ennio Morricone.

[tilney]

Britell is a genius

[nemo_de_la_meer]

I feel like for nostalgia and thematic factor, John Williams has a lot of composers beat. Not many composers do 'theme' music. Howard Shore for the LOTR films is the last composer that really handled that well in films. I feel like a lot of scores are just atmospheric music and nothing with a theme.

Like, this scene becomes something. Tense, frantic, but then triumphant. Same with E.T:

Sorry, get bent Timothee.

[mhfromnh]

Williams should've won for Close Encounters

[nemo_de_la_meer]

Ditto on that.