Driving Miss Daisy African American housemaid named Idella (Esther Rolle). When Miss Daisy drives her 1946 Chrysler Windsor into her neighbor's yard, her forty-year-old son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd) buys her a 1949 Hudson Commodore and hires Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), an African American chauffeur. Miss Daisy at first refuses to let anyone else drive her, but gradually gives in. As Miss Daisy and Hoke spend time together, she gains appreciation for his many skills. After Idella dies in 1962, rather than hire a new maid, Miss Daisy decides to care for her own house and have Hoke do the cooking and the driving.
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