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James Newton Howard

Biography

American composer, orchestrator, and music producer James Newton Howard is an eight-time Academy Award nominee. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director M. Night Shyamalan. He is well known for his highly emotional and powerfully subtle music, supplying his talent to an array of films such as The Fugitive, The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village, the two Christopher Nolan Batman films; Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with Hans After Howard left the University of Southern California, he toured with Elton John as a keyboardist during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Howard also arranged strings for several of Elton's songs during this period including on the hits "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word", as well as playing additional keyboards and synthesizers on several of Elton's studio albums, including "Rock of The Westies" (1975), "Blue Moves" (1976), "21 At 33" (1980), and "The Fox" (1981). After his tenure with John, Howard toured briefly with Crosby, Stills and Nash before moving into film music in the mid-1980s. Howard scored the blockbuster Pretty Woman (1990). He received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for Barbra Streisand's drama The Prince of Tides (1991). Howard achieved four more best original score Oscar nominations, for the Harrison Ford action feature The Fugitive (1993), the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004) and most recently, Michael Clayton (2007). In addition, Howard received Best Song nods for scoring the Western epic Wyatt Earp (1994), Kevin Costner's Waterworld (1995), and Primal Fear (1996). Howard scored Space Jam (1996), Dante's Peak (1997) (theme only - score was composed by John Frizzell), and Collateral (2004). Howard has scored three Disney films which are Dinosaur (2000), Treasure Planet and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Howard also earned an Emmy nomination in 1995 the theme and pilot to the television drama, ER. He also won an Emmy for the them to Gideon's Crossing. He went on to win a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score for the feature King Kong. He went on to receive Oscar nominations for the features Michael Clayton (2007) and Defiace (2008).

Actor

Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again

1983

as Self - Keyboards

Documentaries

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

2015

as Self - Original Music Composer

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012

as Self - Original Music Composer.(archive footage)

Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil

2009

as Self

Deconstructing 'The Village'

2005

as Self

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'

2004

as Self

Making 'Signs'

2003

as Self - Composer

Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'

2000

as Self

Sound

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023

Original Music Composer

Pain Hustlers

2023

Original Music Composer

Day Twelve

2023

Music

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

2022

Original Music Composer

Jungle Cruise

2021

Original Music Composer

Raya and the Last Dragon

2021

Original Music Composer

News of the World

2020

Original Music Composer

A Hidden Life

2019

Original Music Composer

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018

Music Score Producer

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018

Original Music Composer

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018

Original Music Composer

Red Sparrow

2018

Original Music Composer

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017

Original Music Composer

Detroit

2017

Original Music Composer

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016

Original Music Composer

All the Way

2016

Original Music Composer

The Huntsman: Winter's War

2016

Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

Original Music Composer

Concussion

2015

Original Music Composer

Pawn Sacrifice

2015

Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

Original Music Composer

Nightcrawler

2014

Original Music Composer

Cut Bank

2014

Original Music Composer

Maleficent

2014

Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

Original Music Composer

Parkland

2013

Original Music Composer

After Earth

2013

Original Music Composer

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012

Music

The Bourne Legacy

2012

Original Music Composer

Snow White and the Huntsman

2012

Original Music Composer

Darling Companion

2012

Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games

2012

Original Music Composer

Larry Crowne

2011

Original Music Composer

Green Lantern

2011

Original Music Composer

Water for Elephants

2011

Original Music Composer

Gnomeo & Juliet

2011

Original Music Composer

The Green Hornet

2011

Original Music Composer

The Tourist

2010

Original Music Composer

Love & Other Drugs

2010

Original Music Composer

Inhale

2010

Original Music Composer

Salt

2010

Original Music Composer

The Last Airbender

2010

Original Music Composer

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

2010

Original Music Composer

Duplicity

2009

Original Music Composer

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009

Original Music Composer

Defiance

2008

Original Music Composer

Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

2008

Original Music Composer

The Dark Knight

2008

Original Music Composer

The Happening

2008

Original Music Composer

Mad Money

2008

Original Music Composer

The Water Horse

2007

Original Music Composer

The Water Horse

2007

Orchestrator

The Great Debaters

2007

Original Music Composer

Charlie Wilson's War

2007

Original Music Composer

I Am Legend

2007

Original Music Composer

Michael Clayton

2007

Original Music Composer

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

2007

Music Producer

The Lookout

2007

Original Music Composer

Blood Diamond

2006

Original Music Composer

Lady in the Water

2006

Original Music Composer

2006

Original Music Composer

Freedomland

2006

Original Music Composer

King Kong

2005

Original Music Composer

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

2005

Original Music Composer

Batman Begins

2005

Original Music Composer

The Interpreter

2005

Original Music Composer

Collateral

2004

Original Music Composer

The Village

2004

Original Music Composer

Hidalgo

2004

Original Music Composer

Peter Pan

2003

Original Music Composer

Dreamcatcher

2003

Original Music Composer

Treasure Planet

2002

Original Music Composer

The Emperor's Club

2002

Original Music Composer

Amongst the Shoes

2002

Original Music Composer

Unconditional Love

2002

Original Music Composer

Signs

2002

Original Music Composer

Big Trouble

2002

Original Music Composer

America's Sweethearts

2001

Original Music Composer

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

2001

Original Music Composer

Vertical Limit

2000

Original Music Composer

Unbreakable

2000

Original Music Composer

Unbreakable

2000

Orchestrator

Dinosaur

2000

Original Music Composer

Snow Falling on Cedars

1999

Original Music Composer

Mumford

1999

Original Music Composer

Wayward Son

1999

Music

Stir of Echoes

1999

Original Music Composer

Stir of Echoes

1999

Orchestrator

The Sixth Sense

1999

Original Music Composer

Runaway Bride

1999

Original Music Composer

A Perfect Murder

1998

Original Music Composer

The Postman

1997

Original Music Composer

The Devil's Advocate

1997

Original Music Composer

My Best Friend's Wedding

1997

Original Music Composer

Fathers' Day

1997

Original Music Composer

Dante's Peak

1997

Original Music Composer

One Fine Day

1996

Original Music Composer

Space Jam

1996

Original Music Composer

The Trigger Effect

1996

Original Music Composer

Primal Fear

1996

Original Music Composer

The Juror

1996

Original Music Composer

Eye for an Eye

1996

Original Music Composer

Restoration

1995

Original Music Composer

Waterworld

1995

Original Music Composer

French Kiss

1995

Original Music Composer

Outbreak

1995

Original Music Composer

Just Cause

1995

Original Music Composer

Junior

1994

Original Music Composer

Wyatt Earp

1994

Original Music Composer

Intersection

1994

Original Music Composer

Alive: 20 Years Later

1993

Original Music Composer

The Saint of Fort Washington

1993

Original Music Composer

The Fugitive

1993

Original Music Composer

Dave

1993

Original Music Composer

Falling Down

1993

Original Music Composer

Alive

1993

Original Music Composer

American Heart

1992

Original Music Composer

Night and the City

1992

Original Music Composer

Glengarry Glen Ross

1992

Original Music Composer

Diggstown

1992

Original Music Composer

A Private Matter

1992

Original Music Composer

The Prince of Tides

1991

Original Music Composer

Grand Canyon

1991

Original Music Composer

My Girl

1991

Original Music Composer

The Man in the Moon

1991

Original Music Composer

Dying Young

1991

Original Music Composer

Guilty by Suspicion

1991

Original Music Composer

King Ralph

1991

Original Music Composer

Descending Angel

1990

Original Music Composer

3 Men and a Little Lady

1990

Original Music Composer

Marked for Death

1990

Original Music Composer

Flatliners

1990

Original Music Composer

Pretty Woman

1990

Original Music Composer

Coupe de Ville

1990

Music

Major League

1989

Original Music Composer

Tap

1989

Original Music Composer

The Package

1989

Original Music Composer

Everybody's All-American

1988

Original Music Composer

Some Girls

1988

Original Music Composer

Off Limits

1988

Original Music Composer

Promised Land

1988

Original Music Composer

Russkies

1987

Original Music Composer

Five Corners

1987

Original Music Composer

Campus Man

1987

Original Music Composer

Nobody's Fool

1986

Original Music Composer

Tough Guys

1986

Original Music Composer

8 Million Ways to Die

1986

Original Music Composer

Wildcats

1986

Original Music Composer

Head Office

1985

Original Music Composer

James Newton Howard

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