James Newton Howard

Personal Info

Known For

Sound

Known Credits

12

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-06-09 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As

  • James Howard Newton
  • James Newton-Howard

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).

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Sound

2023
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Original Music Composer
2023
All the Light We Cannot See as Music
2023
Pain Hustlers as Original Music Composer
2022
Willow as Original Music Composer
2022
Light & Magic as Original Music Composer
2022
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore as Original Music Composer
2021
Jungle Cruise as Original Music Composer
2021
Raya and the Last Dragon as Original Music Composer
2020
News of the World as Original Music Composer
2019
A Hidden Life as Original Music Composer
2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Music
2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Music Score Producer
2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Music
2018
Red Sparrow as Original Music Composer
2017
Roman J. Israel, Esq. as Music
2017
Detroit as Original Music Composer
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as Original Music Composer
2016
All the Way as Original Music Composer
2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War as Original Music Composer
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Original Music Composer
2015
Concussion as Original Music Composer
2015
Pawn Sacrifice as Original Music Composer
2015
What Lives Inside as Music
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Original Music Composer
2014
Nightcrawler as Original Music Composer
2014
Cut Bank as Original Music Composer
2014
Maleficent as Original Music Composer
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Original Music Composer
2013
Parkland as Original Music Composer
2013
After Earth as Original Music Composer
2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Music
2012
The Bourne Legacy as Original Music Composer
2012
Snow White and the Huntsman as Original Music Composer
2012
Darling Companion as Original Music Composer
2012
The Hunger Games as Original Music Composer
2011
Larry Crowne as Original Music Composer
2011
Green Lantern as Original Music Composer
2011
Water for Elephants as Original Music Composer
2011
Gnomeo & Juliet as Original Music Composer
2011
The Green Hornet as Original Music Composer
2010
The Tourist as Original Music Composer
2010
Love & Other Drugs as Original Music Composer
2010
Inhale as Original Music Composer
2010
Salt as Original Music Composer
2010
The Last Airbender as Original Music Composer
2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Original Music Composer
2009
Duplicity as Original Music Composer
2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic as Original Music Composer
2008
Defiance as Original Music Composer
2008
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love as Original Music Composer
2008
The Dark Knight as Original Music Composer
2008
The Happening as Original Music Composer
2008
Mad Money as Original Music Composer
2007
The Great Debaters as Original Music Composer
2007
The Water Horse as Original Music Composer
2007
The Water Horse as Orchestrator
2007
Charlie Wilson's War as Original Music Composer
2007
I Am Legend as Original Music Composer
2007
Michael Clayton as Original Music Composer
2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens as Music Producer
2007
The Lookout as Original Music Composer
2006
Blood Diamond as Original Music Composer
2006
Lady in the Water as Original Music Composer
2006
RV as Original Music Composer
2006
Freedomland as Original Music Composer
2005
King Kong as Original Music Composer
2005
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon as Original Music Composer
2005
Batman Begins as Original Music Composer
2005
The Interpreter as Original Music Composer
2004
Collateral as Original Music Composer
2004
The Village as Original Music Composer
2004
Hidalgo as Original Music Composer
2003
Peter Pan as Original Music Composer
2003
Dreamcatcher as Original Music Composer
2002
Treasure Planet as Original Music Composer
2002
The Emperor's Club as Music
2002
Amongst the Shoes as Original Music Composer
2002
Unconditional Love as Original Music Composer
2002
Signs as Original Music Composer
2002
Big Trouble as Original Music Composer
2001
America's Sweethearts as Original Music Composer
2001
Atlantis: The Lost Empire as Original Music Composer
2000
Vertical Limit as Original Music Composer
2000
Unbreakable as Original Music Composer
2000
Unbreakable as Orchestrator
2000
Dinosaur as Original Music Composer
1999
Snow Falling on Cedars as Original Music Composer
1999
Mumford as Music
1999
Wayward Son as Music
1999
Stir of Echoes as Original Music Composer
1999
The Sixth Sense as Original Music Composer
1999
Runaway Bride as Original Music Composer
1998
A Perfect Murder as Original Music Composer
1998
From the Earth to the Moon as Music
1997
The Postman as Original Music Composer
1997
The Devil's Advocate as Original Music Composer
1997
My Best Friend's Wedding as Original Music Composer
1997
Fathers' Day as Original Music Composer
1997
Dante's Peak as Original Music Composer
1996
One Fine Day as Original Music Composer
1996
Space Jam as Original Music Composer
1996
The Trigger Effect as Original Music Composer
1996
Primal Fear as Original Music Composer
1996
The Juror as Original Music Composer
1996
Eye for an Eye as Music
1995
Restoration as Original Music Composer
1995
Waterworld as Original Music Composer
1995
French Kiss as Original Music Composer
1995
Outbreak as Original Music Composer
1995
Just Cause as Original Music Composer
1994
Junior as Original Music Composer
1994
Wyatt Earp as Original Music Composer
1994
Intersection as Original Music Composer
1993
Alive: 20 Years Later as Original Music Composer
1993
The Saint of Fort Washington as Music
1993
The Fugitive as Original Music Composer
1993
Dave as Original Music Composer
1993
Falling Down as Music
1993
Alive as Original Music Composer
1992
American Heart as Original Music Composer
1992
Night and the City as Original Music Composer
1992
Glengarry Glen Ross as Original Music Composer
1992
Diggstown as Original Music Composer
1992
A Private Matter as Original Music Composer
1991
The Prince of Tides as Original Music Composer
1991
Grand Canyon as Original Music Composer
1991
My Girl as Original Music Composer
1991
The Man in the Moon as Music
1991
Dying Young as Original Music Composer
1991
Guilty by Suspicion as Original Music Composer
1991
King Ralph as Original Music Composer
1990
Descending Angel as Original Music Composer
1990
3 Men and a Little Lady as Original Music Composer
1990
Marked for Death as Original Music Composer
1990
Flatliners as Original Music Composer
1990
Pretty Woman as Original Music Composer
1990
Coupe de Ville as Music
1989
Major League as Original Music Composer
1989
Tap as Original Music Composer
1989
The Package as Music
1988
Everybody's All-American as Original Music Composer
1988
Some Girls as Original Music Composer
1988
Off Limits as Original Music Composer
1988
Promised Land as Original Music Composer
1987
Russkies as Original Music Composer
1987
Five Corners as Original Music Composer
1987
Campus Man as Original Music Composer
1986
Nobody's Fool as Music
1986
Tough Guys as Original Music Composer
1986
8 Million Ways to Die as Original Music Composer
1986
Wildcats as Original Music Composer
1985
Head Office as Original Music Composer
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