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Born:
1951-06-09

Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Credits:
11 Total Roles

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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.

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Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 MOVIE Self - Original Music Composer
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games MOVIE Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
2011 Hollywood in Vienna TV Self
2009 Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil MOVIE Self
2006 The Eighth Blunder of the World MOVIE Self
2005 Deconstructing 'The Village' MOVIE Self
2004 City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral' MOVIE Self
2003 Making 'Signs' MOVIE Self - Composer
2000 Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense' MOVIE Self
1983 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again MOVIE Self - Keyboards

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