Hans Zimmer and Joe Walker ACE

Long time friends and collaborators, Hans Zimmer and Joe Walker ACE have had the pleasure of working together on five feature films. Their first was Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, followed up by Dune director Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049. After that came Widows (again with McQueen), Dune and their upcoming film, The Unforgivable. Feature films aside, their relationship dates back even much further than that. Both creative talents were part of a BBC TV series called First Born in 1988. And while Hans filled the roll he's become most known for by scoring three episodes of the series, twice Oscar®-nominated film editor Joe Walker actually contributed as a sound editor and not a picture editor for First Born. In fact, musically trained Walker began his career as a sound editor before switching to cutting picture.

HANS ZIMMER

The work of legendary composer Hans Zimmer is notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980's, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995), Crimson Tide, Gladiator, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune. In addition to his Academy award, he has received four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards and two Golden Globes. He was also named to the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph.

JOE WALKER ACE

Formally trained in music and with a career that began as a sound editor, Joe's decision to pursue a life as a picture editor clearly paid off as he is one of the most celebrated feature film editors working today; having been nominated for an Oscar® for his work on the films 12 Years a Slave and The Arrival. Those films also notched Joe two of this three BAFTA nominations, with the third being for Blade Runner 2049.

The Details

In our discussion with the dynamic "DUNE" duo of Hans Zimmer and Joe Walker ACE we talk about:

• How Hans's early film scores messed with the monitors
• Creating "the voice"
• The horizontal and vertical editing Joe Walker does within the frame
• Building a better bagpipe
• The brief and inauspicious careers of Hans Zimmer, film editor and Joe Walker, sound editor

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