These comparisons are dumb tbh cuz Zimmer has done scores for more recent hype movies so most of this generation will root for HZ cuz they don't really care about the countless classic scores that Williams has done in his prime. They just see Batman and Inception - two of the most hyped up movies of their generation - and go with Hans immediately. Letting people in their early 20s compare artists who peaked in two different generations is usually a bad idea.

JT got classics no doubt, but I'm not gon sit here and say he's greater than MJ

That's what y'all are doing when you pick Hans

both goat. hard not to put Williams in 1st place tho

Duel of the Fates

Williams has the most iconic work obv

But I’d rather listen to Hans compositions

youngins

Tbh overall

Zimmer. Never cared for star wars or the soundtrack

hans but williams one of the most influential of all time

i know this is from the simpsons movie but i found it going through a lot of his soundtracks one day lol, this s*** is amazing

wow of all scores you pick this s*** lmfao

the song is great

Interstellar, TDK, last Samurai, Lion King, Pirates just undeniable work man

Wild how the score on Tenet sounds like copycat of Hans Zimmer

Nolan prolly told Ludwig tbh yeah just do some Hans s***, surprised I haven’t heard some clock yet

John is a much better composer overall, but Hans is a much better MEDIA composer, but a significant margin.

Hans has the ability to perfectly get into the minds of the characters, settings, and overall tone and emotions of a film and encapsulate that perfectly though music, Hans has never once done a score that distracted from the overall film, everything he does perfectly melds with the picture and he truly is the greatest FILM composer of all time, Thomas Newman is second. John, on the other hand, is an incredible composer, his catchy melodies, intricate harmonies, and lush orchestrations are the absolute best of any modern composer, and the only people that really rival him are the classical/romantic composers he studied. But the thing about John is that he’s not really the best film composer, he’s good don’t get me wrong, but he has almost no versatility at all, if you see John Williams name on a film you know exactly what kind of score you’re going to get, he’s basically been writing the same music his entire career, and I’ve found that he sometimes scores scenes in a way that distract from the picture or dialogue, whereas Hans writes music that will always fit what the film needs, he’s much more versatile in what he can do and that’s why he gets all different kinds of films, we’re talking about a guy that did Batman Begins and Madagascar in the same year, both are drastically different films with drastically different scores to match, if John Williams was doing them he’d have given both films almost the same score.

So to reiterate this, John Williams is a better composer, and Hans Zimmer is a better MEDIA composer.

No debate its John.

In 40 years though Ludwig Göransson will be better than both of them

Once I read that Hans father also died when he was young kid and that he wrote the Simba part from Lion King actually as a requiem for his Dad I realized he might be the goat. He was able to get into the character of SIMBA. Scene is moving btw no matter how old.

hans easily

If you want a composer with the skill level of John Williams but with the ability to score films (almost) as good as Hans you need to be listening to Bernard Herrmann

This s*** so f***ing beautiful, fam

Correct, another fun fact is that he only did the movie because he wanted to do a movie where he could bring his 6 year old daughter to the premiere, at the time he hadn’t done any films that were really made for a child audience, and when he get the offer he kept telling Disney he couldn’t do it because he couldn’t write “fuzzy animal” music but they kept insisting he was the right one to do the movie so he took it on, and when he saw the death scene he was brought back to the time when his dad died when he was young and realizing he never properly dealt with it he wrote the music as a sort of catharsis for it.

Disney made a good decision there...

the one that worked with Kobe

Gladiator >>> anything John Williams has ever done