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).
| Sound | |
|---|---|
| 2012 | The Hunger Games … Music |
| 2012 | Snow White & the Huntsman … Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Green Lantern … Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Water For Elephants … Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet … Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | The Last Airbender … Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Love & Other Drugs … Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee Returns … Music |
| 2010 | The Tourist … Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Duplicity … Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Mad Money … Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight … Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton … Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | The Lookout … Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Charlie Wilson's War … Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | I Am Legend … Music |
| 2006 | RV … Music |
| 2006 | Blood Diamond … Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Lady in the Water … Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Freedomland … Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Batman Begins … Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | King Kong … Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | The Interpreter … Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | Hidalgo … Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | Collateral … Music |
| 2004 | The Village … Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | Dreamcatcher … Music |
| 2003 | Peter Pan … Music |
| 2002 | Signs … Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Treasure Planet … Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | America's Sweethearts … Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Atlantis: The Lost Empire … Music |
| 2000 | Dinosaur … Music |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit … Music |
| 2000 | Dinosaur … Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | Unbreakable … Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Runaway Bride … Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense … Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Stir of Echoes … Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | A Perfect Murder … Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Fathers' Day … Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | The Postman … Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | My Best Friend's Wedding … Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion … Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | The Juror … Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Space Jam … Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Primal Fear … Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | One Fine Day … Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Outbreak … Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Waterworld … Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Just Cause … Music |
| 1995 | French Kiss … Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Junior … Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Wyatt Earp … Music |
| 1993 | The Fugitive … Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Alive … Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Dave … Music |
| 1992 | American Heart … Music |
| 1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross … Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | The Prince of Tides … Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | King Ralph … Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | Dying Young … Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | My Girl … Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Pretty Woman … Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Three Men and a Little Lady … Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Marked for Death … Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Major League … Music |
| 1986 | Tough Guys … Original Music Composer |
| Writing | |
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| 2002 | Big Trouble … Musical |