Composer Hans Zimmer Sitting Out Oscar Race

Composer Hans Zimmer Sitting Out Oscar Race. Hans Zimmer is apparently tired of the game of musical chairs surrounding the Academy Awards race. The Oscar-winning composer told The Hollywood Reporter Saturday that he is not submitting any of his work for consideration. While he considers being nominated a big deal, Zimmer said he’d just rather observe this year.

“As soon as you get nominated, and I don’t care who you are — there are certainly people of better character than me — it all goes crazy,” Zimmer told THR. “You get the phone call at five o’clock and after that you have to do the interviews and then do the parties and meet all these people and do all these things. It’s disruptive, and I think it would be more interesting to observe it for a year.”

Zimmer’s eligible scores this year include “Rango,” and the sequels “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and the upcoming “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”

“It’s not like I’m not proud of ‘Rango,’ because I think it’s a pretty amazing little movie,” Zimmer told THR. “But another thing is I don’t really have (original) scores this year because I’ve done sequels. I don’t want to make a big thing out of it, but I just thought ‘no Ronni — I’ll take a break,’” Zimmer said of his decision to sit out the awards race.

Zimmer has been nominated for eight Oscars, and won for Best Original Score in 1995 for “The Lion King.” The composer used to represented by late publicist Ronni Chasen, who was tragically shot to death last year. Zimmer currently is composing the score to “The Dark Knight Rises.”