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Hans Zimmer Gave His Own Oscar Acceptance Speech In A Hotel Bar At 2am With A Plastic Statue

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Updated 10:55 29 Mar 2022 GMT+1Published 10:56 29 Mar 2022 GMT+1

Hans Zimmer Gave His Own Oscar Acceptance Speech In A Hotel Bar At 2am With A Plastic Statue

Zimmer is one of the greatest movie composers of all time, from The Lion King, to The Dark Knight, to Dune

Cameron Frew

Cameron Frew

Hans Zimmer's trumped everyone with his Oscar speech: he was on tour, in a hotel robe at 2:00am, with a plastic statuette.

He is, without a doubt, one of the greatest movie composers of all time: Gladiator, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, No Time To Die and Dune, among many others.

It's Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic which brought him his second Academy Award, nearly 30 years after winning for The Lion King. Sadly, he wasn't in attendance at the Dolby Theatre ceremony to accept it - but he improvised.

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Check out Zimmer's speech below:

Zimmer's Dune score emerged victorious over Nicholas Britell for Don't Look Up, Germaine Franco for Encanto, Alberto Iglesias for Parallel Mothers and Jonny Greenwood for The Power of the Dog.

Zimmer is currently performing on his European tour. Shortly after the win was announced, he posted two photos of him with his 'Oscar' and wrote on Twitter: "It’s 2am in Amsterdam, and my daughter Zoë woke me up to go to the hotel bar. Wow!"

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He later posted a video thanking members of his orchestra for their incredible work on Dune.

He said: "Let me say this, had it not been for you and most of these people in this room, this would never have happened.

"Had it not been for all the musicians in this band, all the musicians in my life, who have given me the confidence to go and do these things.

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"Had it ultimately not been for Denis Villeneuve very quietly one day saying it to me, 'Have you ever heard of a book called Dune?' and I instantly knew I had found my soulmate.

"Seriously, usually, you discuss things with a director, but with Denis, he starts a sentence and I finish it, I start a sentence, he finishes it. That's it."

In the caption, he added: "Thank you to @TheAcademy, but most importantly, to all the @DuneMovie musicians and our leader Denis Villeneuve.'

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Dune took home the most Oscars, winning a total of six awards: Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Visual Effects.

Dune's score comprises Loire Cotler's incredible vocals, throat-singing, his usual brand of 'braaams' and bagpipes - the latter of which made this Scotsman very happy.

Speaking to IndieWire, Zimmer explained: "I asked Denis about it and he said he wanted something ancient and organic for such an occasion, so I embraced it."

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Featured Image Credit: Hans Zimmer/Twitter

Topics: Oscars, Film and TV, Entertainment

Cameron Frew
Cameron Frew

Entertainment Editor at UNILAD. 2001: A Space Odyssey is the best film ever made, and Warrior is better than Rocky. That's all you need to know.

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