James Newton Howard

Biography

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Dinosaur (2000), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Michael Clayton(2007) and the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, scoring eight of Shyamalan's films since The Sixth Sense (1999) and all of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P.J. Hogan, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Johnston, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Newton Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Oscars

as Self

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

as Self - Original Music Composer

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

as Self - Original Music Composer.(archive footage)

Making 'Signs'

as Self - Composer

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'

as Self

Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil

as Self

Deconstructing 'The Village'

as Self

Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again

as Self - Keyboards

Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'

as Self

The Eighth Blunder of the World

as Self