James Newton Howard

Born June 9, 1951 · Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Sound 166

2020s

2010s

2019
A Hidden Life
Original Music Composer
77
2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Music Score Producer, Original Music Composer
57
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Original Music Composer
48
Red Sparrow
Original Music Composer
59
2017
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Original Music Composer
61
Detroit
Original Music Composer
76
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Original Music Composer
76
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Original Music Composer
71
All the Way
Original Music Composer
74
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Original Music Composer
47
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Original Music Composer
67
Concussion
Original Music Composer
65
Pawn Sacrifice
Original Music Composer
69
What Lives Inside
Music
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Original Music Composer
67
Nightcrawler
Original Music Composer
81
Cut Bank
Original Music Composer
52
Maleficent
Original Music Composer
64
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Original Music Composer
78
Parkland
Original Music Composer
58
After Earth
Original Music Composer
38
2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Music
The Bourne Legacy
Original Music Composer
62
Snow White and the Huntsman
Original Music Composer
57
Darling Companion
Original Music Composer
43
The Hunger Games
Original Music Composer
74
2011
Larry Crowne
Original Music Composer
51
Green Lantern
Original Music Composer
45
Water for Elephants
Original Music Composer
64
Gnomeo & Juliet
Original Music Composer
57
The Green Hornet
Original Music Composer
51
2010
The Tourist
Original Music Composer
47
Love & Other Drugs
Original Music Composer
61
Inhale
Original Music Composer
Salt
Original Music Composer
64
The Last Airbender
Original Music Composer
29
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Original Music Composer
63
The Secret of the Whales
Music

2000s

2009
Duplicity
Original Music Composer
63
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Original Music Composer
49
2008
Defiance
Original Music Composer
65
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
Original Music Composer
The Dark Knight
Original Music Composer
89
Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight
Original Music Composer
The Happening
Original Music Composer
40
Mad Money
Original Music Composer
49
2007
The Water Horse
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
66
The Great Debaters
Original Music Composer
72
Charlie Wilson's War
Original Music Composer
71
I Am Legend
Original Music Composer
70
Michael Clayton
Original Music Composer
77
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Music Producer
The Lookout
Original Music Composer
73
2006
Blood Diamond
Original Music Composer
73
Lady in the Water
Original Music Composer
45
RV
Original Music Composer
45
Freedomland
Original Music Composer
44
2005
King Kong
Original Music Composer
76
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Original Music Composer
Batman Begins
Original Music Composer
79
The Interpreter
Original Music Composer
62
2004
Collateral
Original Music Composer
76
The Village
Original Music Composer
56
Hidalgo
Original Music Composer
60
2003
Peter Pan
Original Music Composer
70
Dreamcatcher
Original Music Composer
46
2002
Treasure Planet
Original Music Composer
69
The Emperor's Club
Original Music Composer
61
Amongst the Shoes
Original Music Composer
Unconditional Love
Original Music Composer
Signs
Original Music Composer
68
Big Trouble
Original Music Composer
57
2001
America's Sweethearts
Original Music Composer
49
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Original Music Composer
61
2000
Vertical Limit
Original Music Composer
55
Unbreakable
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
70
Dinosaur
Original Music Composer
63

1990s

1999
Snow Falling on Cedars
Original Music Composer
Mumford
Original Music Composer
Wayward Son
Original Music Composer
Stir of Echoes
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
68
The Sixth Sense
Original Music Composer
79
Runaway Bride
Original Music Composer
51
Cuentas claras
Original Music Composer
1998
A Perfect Murder
Original Music Composer
60
From the Earth to the Moon
Music
85
1997
The Postman
Original Music Composer
45
The Devil's Advocate
Original Music Composer
70
My Best Friend's Wedding
Original Music Composer
64
Fathers' Day
Original Music Composer
46
Dante's Peak
Original Music Composer
52
1996
One Fine Day
Original Music Composer
61
Space Jam
Original Music Composer
60
The Trigger Effect
Original Music Composer
Primal Fear
Original Music Composer
71
The Juror
Original Music Composer
48
Eye for an Eye
Original Music Composer
52
1995
Restoration
Original Music Composer
66
Eye of the Stalker
Original Music Composer
Waterworld
Original Music Composer
61
French Kiss
Original Music Composer
58
Outbreak
Original Music Composer
64
Just Cause
Original Music Composer
53
1994
Junior
Original Music Composer
49
Wyatt Earp
Original Music Composer
56
Intersection
Original Music Composer
1993
Alive: 20 Years Later
Original Music Composer
The Saint of Fort Washington
Original Music Composer
72
The Fugitive
Original Music Composer
83
Dave
Original Music Composer
76
Falling Down
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Music Producer
71
Alive
Original Music Composer
66
1992
American Heart
Original Music Composer
Night and the City
Original Music Composer
58
Glengarry Glen Ross
Original Music Composer
81
Diggstown
Original Music Composer
66
A Private Matter
Original Music Composer
La Fichera Más Rápida del Oeste
Original Music Composer
1991
The Prince of Tides
Original Music Composer
67
Grand Canyon
Original Music Composer
My Girl
Original Music Composer
65
The Man in the Moon
Original Music Composer
77
Dying Young
Original Music Composer
52
Land of Men
Music
Guilty by Suspicion
Original Music Composer
65
King Ralph
Original Music Composer
47
1990
Descending Angel
Original Music Composer
3 Men and a Little Lady
Original Music Composer
52
Marked for Death
Original Music Composer
51
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Original Music Composer
Flatliners
Original Music Composer
60
Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
Original Music Composer
Pretty Woman
Original Music Composer
66
Coupe de Ville
Original Music Composer
The Image
Original Music Composer

1980s

1989
The Package
Original Music Composer
62
Major League
Original Music Composer
72
Tap
Original Music Composer
63
1988
Everybody's All-American
Original Music Composer
Go Toward the Light
Original Music Composer
Some Girls
Original Music Composer
54
Off Limits
Original Music Composer
56
Promised Land
Original Music Composer
60
1987
Russkies
Original Music Composer
Five Corners
Original Music Composer
65
Campus Man
Original Music Composer
1986
Nobody's Fool
Original Music Composer
Tough Guys
Original Music Composer
57
8 Million Ways to Die
Original Music Composer
39
Wildcats
Original Music Composer
51
1985
Head Office
Original Music Composer

Appearances9

2010s

2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Self - Original Music Composer
71
2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
2011
Hollywood in Vienna
Self · 1 episode

2000s

2009
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
Self
2005
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
2004
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
Self
2000
Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
Self

1980s

1983
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again
Self - Keyboards

1950s

1953
The Oscars
Self · 1 episode