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Grammy Award Nomination, 2022 – Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media 2022 Academy Award – Music (Original Score), Hans Zimmer Legendary film composer Hans Zimmer presents the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the 2021 film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. From the beginning, director Denis Villeneuve had hoped to reunite with Zimmer for the film, based on their shared passion for the novel. Though initially approached by longtime collaborator Christopher Nolan to compose for his then-upcoming film Tenet, Zimmer ultimately chose to work on Dune, as the book was a "favorite" of his during his childhood and teen years. He last collaborated with Villeneuve, and editor Joe Walker, on Blade Runner 2049. Zimmer and Villeneuve both "agreed that the music would need to have a spirituality to it...a sanctified quality...that would elevate the soul and have the effect that only sacred music can", with the latter saying "I believe that is fully present in Hans' score". Zimmer approached the composition with a "fresh" perspective, "just from the book", having never seen the 1984 film adaptation by David Lynch. He built around the concept of Dune being a different civilization, and invented instruments to accompany that feeling. Villeneuve revealed that the former spent "months and months creating new instruments, defining, creating, and seeking new sounds, pushing the envelope". Zimmer based the score on mainly female voices due to the shared sentiment between himself and Villeneuve that the "power of the human voice" remains constant in any civilization, and that "the female characters in the film drive the story". This soundtrack is the second release in a series and follows Zimmer's The Dune Sketchbook (Music from the Soundtrack).