James Newton Howard
- June 9, 1951
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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Known For
The Oscars
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
Hollywood in Vienna
Deconstructing 'The Village'
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again