Driving Miss Daisy of $145,793,296. The film was released in the United Kingdom on February 23, 1990. "Driving Miss Daisy" was well received by critics, with particular emphasis on Morgan Freeman's and Jessica Tandy's performances. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 82% based on reviews from 60 critics, with an average score of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Warm and smartly paced, and boasting impeccable performances from Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy." On Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the film has a score of 81 based on 17
Hans Zimmer on Mars. So, why don't we just invent our own world music for a world that doesn't really exist?". Zimmer's score for "Rain Man" was nominated for an Academy Award in 1989, and the film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. A year after "Rain Man", Zimmer was asked to compose the score for Bruce Beresford's "Driving Miss Daisy" which, like "Rain Man", won an Academy Award for Best Picture. "Driving Miss Daisy"'s instrumentation consisted entirely of synthesizers and samplers, played by Zimmer. According to an interview with "Sound on Sound" magazine in 2002, the piano sounds heard within