A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
James Howard Newton
James Newton-Howard
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Born:
June 9, 1951
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).
Music:
1990 Coupe de Ville
1999 Wayward Son
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2023 Day Twelve
Music Producer:
1990 Coupe de Ville
1999 Wayward Son
2007 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2023 Day Twelve
Music Score Producer:
1990 Coupe de Ville
1999 Wayward Son
2007 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2023 Day Twelve
Orchestrator:
1990 Coupe de Ville
1999 Stir of Echoes
1999 Wayward Son
2000 Unbreakable
2007 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007 The Water Horse
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2023 Day Twelve
Original Music Composer:
1985 Head Office
1986 8 Million Ways to Die
1986 Nobody's Fool
1986 Tough Guys
1986 Wildcats
1987 Campus Man
1987 Five Corners
1987 Russkies
1988 Everybody's All-American
1988 Off Limits
1988 Promised Land
1988 Some Girls
1989 Major League
1989 Tap
1989 The Package
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady
1990 Coupe de Ville
1990 Descending Angel
1990 Flatliners
1990 Marked for Death
1990 Pretty Woman
1991 Dying Young
1991 Grand Canyon
1991 Guilty by Suspicion
1991 King Ralph
1991 My Girl
1991 The Man in the Moon
1991 The Prince of Tides
1992 A Private Matter
1992 American Heart
1992 Diggstown
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 Night and the City
1993 Alive
1993 Alive: 20 Years Later
1993 Dave
1993 Falling Down
1993 The Fugitive
1993 The Saint of Fort Washington
1994 Intersection
1994 Junior
1994 Wyatt Earp
1995 French Kiss
1995 Just Cause
1995 Outbreak
1995 Restoration
1995 Waterworld
1996 Eye for an Eye
1996 One Fine Day
1996 Primal Fear
1996 Space Jam
1996 The Juror
1996 The Trigger Effect
1997 Dante's Peak
1997 Fathers' Day
1997 My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 The Devil's Advocate
1997 The Postman
1998 A Perfect Murder
1999 Mumford
1999 Runaway Bride
1999 Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 Stir of Echoes
1999 The Sixth Sense
1999 Wayward Son
2000 Dinosaur
2000 Unbreakable
2000 Vertical Limit
2001 America's Sweethearts
2001 Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2002 Amongst the Shoes
2002 Big Trouble
2002 Signs
2002 The Emperor's Club
2002 Treasure Planet
2002 Unconditional Love
2003 Dreamcatcher
2003 Peter Pan
2004 Collateral
2004 Hidalgo
2004 The Village
2005 Batman Begins
2005 King Kong
2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005 The Interpreter
2006 Blood Diamond
2006 Freedomland
2006 Lady in the Water
2006 RV
2007 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007 Charlie Wilson's War
2007 I Am Legend
2007 Michael Clayton
2007 The Great Debaters
2007 The Lookout
2007 The Water Horse
2008 Defiance
2008 Mad Money
2008 The Dark Knight
2008 The Happening
2008 Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009 Duplicity
2010 Inhale
2010 Love & Other Drugs
2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010 Salt
2010 The Last Airbender
2010 The Tourist
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet
2011 Green Lantern
2011 Larry Crowne
2011 The Green Hornet
2011 Water for Elephants
2012 Darling Companion
2012 Snow White and the Huntsman
2012 The Bourne Legacy
2012 The Hunger Games
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2013 After Earth
2013 Parkland
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 Cut Bank
2014 Maleficent
2014 Nightcrawler
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2015 Concussion
2015 Pawn Sacrifice
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2016 All the Way
2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War
2017 Detroit
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018 Red Sparrow
2018 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2019 A Hidden Life
2020 News of the World
2021 Jungle Cruise
2021 Raya and the Last Dragon
2022 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2023 Day Twelve
2023 Pain Hustlers
2023 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Music:
1998 From the Earth to the Moon
2015 What Lives Inside
2023 All the Light We Cannot See
Original Music Composer:
1998 From the Earth to the Moon
2015 What Lives Inside
2022 Light & Magic
2022 Willow
2023 All the Light We Cannot See
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