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Personal Info
Known For
Sound
Birthday
June 9, 1951
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- James Howard Newton
- James Newton-Howard
James Newton Howard
0.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.2
Self - Original Music Composer
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
8.2
Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
0.0
Self
Hollywood in Vienna
2011
🎬
5.3
Self
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
2009
🎬
0.0
Self
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006
4.7
Self
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
6.0
Self
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004
🎬
5.8
Self - Composer
Making 'Signs'
2003
5.0
Self
Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
2000
8.0
Self - Keyboards
Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again
1983
Credits
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - Original Music Composer
2015
7.2
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
2012
8.2
Hollywood in Vienna
as Self
2011
0.0
🎬
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
as Self
2009
5.3
🎬
The Eighth Blunder of the World
as Self
2006
0.0
Deconstructing 'The Village'
as Self
2005
4.7
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
as Self
2004
6.0
🎬
Making 'Signs'
as Self - Composer
2003
5.8
Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
as Self
2000
5.0
Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again
as Self - Keyboards
1983
8.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0