The Dark Knight is the Grammy award-winning soundtrack album to Christopher Nolan's 2008 film The Dark Knight, the sequel to Nolan's 2005 film Batman Begins. The soundtrack was released on July 15, 2008, in three editions: CD, limited edition CD digipak, and digital download. The 2CD Special Edition was released on December 9, 2008 along with the DVD. A limited edition 180-gram vinyl LP was released on August 12, 2008. The soundtrack was composed...
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The Dark Knight is the Grammy award-winning soundtrack album to Christopher Nolan's 2008 film The Dark Knight, the sequel to Nolan's 2005 film Batman Begins. The soundtrack was released on July 15, 2008, in three editions: CD, limited edition CD digipak, and digital download. The 2CD Special Edition was released on December 9, 2008 along with the DVD. A limited edition 180-gram vinyl LP was released on August 12, 2008. The soundtrack was composed by Batman Begins collaborators Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard and recorded in April 2008.
On February 8, 2009, the soundtrack was awarded the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture. In May 2009, the soundtrack won a Classical BRIT Award for Best Soundtrack.
Zimmer originally said the main Batman theme was purposely introduced at the end of Batman Begins, and would be fleshed out in the sequel as the character develops. Zimmer and Howard both believed that creating a heroic theme that a viewer could hum would ignore...
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