Hanz Zimmer and Danny Elfman are two of my favourites and I had the great honour of seeing Danny live several years ago. Absolutely fantastic evening, especially when the Batman ’89 and Batman Returns soundtracks were playing.
Whilst I was familiar with Hanz’s work through Dreamworks, I think I became more interested in his work after hearing the score that he did for ‘King Arthur’ back in 2004 (great film if anyone hasn’t watched it. Especially the director’s cut).
John Williams of course is in there and has composed some of my favourite film pieces.
The late James Horner did the soundtrack to my favourite film ‘The Mask of Zorro’ and it really annoyed me that when he died, everyone kept prasing his ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’ scores as though they were the only two films he had ever done! I guess everyone forgot about the first ‘Land Before Time’ film and ‘An American Tale’…