James Newton Howard

Personal Info

Birthday

June 9, 1951

(74 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As

James Howard Newton

James Newton-Howard

James Newton Howard

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).

Known For

Filmography

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