James Newton Howard

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).

Cast

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

(Self - Original Music Composer.(archive footage))

Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again

(Self - Keyboards)

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'

(Self)

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

(Self - Original Music Composer)

Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil

(Self)

Making 'Signs'

(Self - Composer)

Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'

(Self)

The Eighth Blunder of the World

(Self)

Deconstructing 'The Village'

(Self)

The Oscars

(Self)

Hollywood in Vienna

(Self)
Crew

Pretty Woman

(Original Music Composer)

The Dark Knight

(Original Music Composer)

The Interpreter

(Original Music Composer)

King Kong

(Original Music Composer)

Batman Begins

(Original Music Composer)

French Kiss

(Original Music Composer)

Blood Diamond

(Original Music Composer)

Primal Fear

(Original Music Composer)

Space Jam

(Original Music Composer)

The Sixth Sense

(Original Music Composer)

The Prince of Tides

(Original Music Composer)

Signs

(Original Music Composer)

My Girl

(Original Music Composer)

A Perfect Murder

(Original Music Composer)

Hidalgo

(Original Music Composer)

King Ralph

(Original Music Composer)

A Private Matter

(Original Music Composer)

Marked for Death

(Original Music Composer)

The Last Airbender

(Original Music Composer)

Dinosaur

(Original Music Composer)

Michael Clayton

(Original Music Composer)

The Fugitive

(Original Music Composer)

Runaway Bride

(Original Music Composer)

Tough Guys

(Original Music Composer)

Junior

(Original Music Composer)

Charlie Wilson's War

(Original Music Composer)

America's Sweethearts

(Original Music Composer)

Stir of Echoes

(Original Music Composer)

The Village

(Original Music Composer)

Outbreak

(Original Music Composer)

3 Men and a Little Lady

(Original Music Composer)

The Lookout

(Original Music Composer)

One Fine Day

(Original Music Composer)

Alive

(Original Music Composer)

Dying Young

(Original Music Composer)

Mad Money

(Original Music Composer)

The Happening

(Original Music Composer)

Fathers' Day

(Original Music Composer)

Lady in the Water

(Original Music Composer)

My Best Friend's Wedding

(Original Music Composer)

Unbreakable

(Original Music Composer)

Waterworld

(Original Music Composer)

Treasure Planet

(Original Music Composer)

Glengarry Glen Ross

(Original Music Composer)

The Postman

(Original Music Composer)

The Juror

(Original Music Composer)

Freedomland

(Original Music Composer)

The Green Hornet

(Original Music Composer)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

(Original Music Composer)

Love & Other Drugs

(Original Music Composer)

Green Lantern

(Original Music Composer)

The Tourist

(Original Music Composer)

Duplicity

(Original Music Composer)

The Bourne Legacy

(Original Music Composer)

After Earth

(Original Music Composer)

Jungle Cruise

(Original Music Composer)

Water for Elephants

(Original Music Composer)

Snow White and the Huntsman

(Original Music Composer)

Diggstown

(Original Music Composer)

Parkland

(Original Music Composer)

Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

(Original Music Composer)

The Hunger Games

(Original Music Composer)

Off Limits

(Original Music Composer)

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

(Music)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

(Original Music Composer)

The Devil's Advocate

(Original Music Composer)

Maleficent

(Original Music Composer)

Nightcrawler

(Original Music Composer)

Five Corners

(Original Music Composer)

Descending Angel

(Original Music Composer)

The Water Horse

(Original Music Composer)

Cut Bank

(Original Music Composer)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

(Original Music Composer)

Some Girls

(Original Music Composer)

Defiance

(Original Music Composer)

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

(Original Music Composer)

Flatliners

(Original Music Composer)

The Water Horse

(Orchestrator)

Concussion

(Original Music Composer)

Larry Crowne

(Original Music Composer)

8 Million Ways to Die

(Original Music Composer)

Snow Falling on Cedars

(Original Music Composer)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

(Original Music Composer)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

(Original Music Composer)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

(Original Music Composer)

Inhale

(Original Music Composer)

Salt

(Original Music Composer)

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

(Original Music Composer)

Confessions of a Shopaholic

(Original Music Composer)

The Great Debaters

(Original Music Composer)

I Am Legend

(Original Music Composer)

RV

(Original Music Composer)

Dreamcatcher

(Original Music Composer)

Peter Pan

(Original Music Composer)

Unconditional Love

(Original Music Composer)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

(Original Music Composer)

Vertical Limit

(Original Music Composer)

The Trigger Effect

(Original Music Composer)

Just Cause

(Original Music Composer)

Wyatt Earp

(Original Music Composer)

Intersection

(Original Music Composer)

Dave

(Original Music Composer)

American Heart

(Original Music Composer)

Grand Canyon

(Original Music Composer)

Major League

(Original Music Composer)

Wildcats

(Original Music Composer)

Big Trouble

(Original Music Composer)

Amongst the Shoes

(Original Music Composer)

A Hidden Life

(Original Music Composer)

Alive: 20 Years Later

(Original Music Composer)

Collateral

(Original Music Composer)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

(Music Score Producer)

Wayward Son

(Music)

Coupe de Ville

(Music)

Night and the City

(Original Music Composer)

The Huntsman: Winter's War

(Original Music Composer)

Pain Hustlers

(Original Music Composer)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

(Original Music Composer)

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

(Original Music Composer)

The Emperor's Club

(Original Music Composer)

Mumford

(Original Music Composer)

Eye for an Eye

(Original Music Composer)

The Saint of Fort Washington

(Original Music Composer)

Falling Down

(Original Music Composer)

The Package

(Original Music Composer)

Unbreakable

(Orchestrator)

Campus Man

(Original Music Composer)

Detroit

(Original Music Composer)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

(Original Music Composer)

Nobody's Fool

(Original Music Composer)

Russkies

(Original Music Composer)

Day Twelve

(Music)

Red Sparrow

(Original Music Composer)

The Man in the Moon

(Original Music Composer)

Stir of Echoes

(Orchestrator)

Darling Companion

(Original Music Composer)

Restoration

(Original Music Composer)

Tap

(Original Music Composer)

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

(Music Producer)

Pawn Sacrifice

(Original Music Composer)

All the Way

(Original Music Composer)

Guilty by Suspicion

(Original Music Composer)

Gnomeo & Juliet

(Original Music Composer)

Everybody's All-American

(Original Music Composer)

Promised Land

(Original Music Composer)

Head Office

(Original Music Composer)

Raya and the Last Dragon

(Original Music Composer)

News of the World

(Original Music Composer)

Dante's Peak

(Original Music Composer)

The Lost Bus

(Original Music Composer)

From the Earth to the Moon

(Music)

Light & Magic

(Original Music Composer)

Willow

(Original Music Composer)

All the Light We Cannot See

(Music)

What Lives Inside

(Music)