Howard Shore

Known For: Sound
Born: October 18, 1946
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Howard Shore

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, one for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He consistently collaborates with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films. Shore has also composed concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film, which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008; a short piece named Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and a s…

Filmography

Lorne

2026 · Self

Revelations: Making Dogma

2025 · Music

The Shrouds

2025 · Original Music Composer

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025 · Self - SNL Musical Director 1975 - 1980

Drift

2023 · Original Music Composer

Howard Shore Weekend - Eastern Promises

2023 · , Compositor

Howard Shore Weekend - The Lord of the Rings

2023 · , Musician

The Pale Blue Eye

2022 · Original Music Composer

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2022 · Main Title Theme Composer

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening

2022 · Main Title Theme Composer

Crimes of the Future

2022 · Original Music Composer

Pieces of a Woman

2020 · Original Music Composer

Funny Boy

2020 · Original Music Composer, Producer

Reunited Apart

2020 · Self

The Lost Prince

2020 · Original Music Composer

The Song of Names

2019 · Original Music Composer

The Catcher Was a Spy

2018 · Original Music Composer

Score: A Film Music Documentary

2017 · Self

Denial

2016 · Original Music Composer

Spotlight

2015 · Original Music Composer

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014 · Original Music Composer

Rosewater

2014 · Original Music Composer

Maps to the Stars

2014 · Original Music Composer

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013 · Original Music Composer

Jimmy P.

2013 · Original Music Composer

The Ephemerol Diaries: An Interview with Stephen Lack

2012 · Original Music Composer

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

Citizens of Cosmopolis

Citizens of Cosmopolis

2012 · Self

Cosmopolis

2012 · Original Music Composer

Hugo

2011 · Original Music Composer

A Dangerous Method

2011 · Original Music Composer

Howard Shore: A Composer's Dream

2011 · Self

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

2011 · Self

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

2010 · Original Music Composer

Edge of Darkness

2010 · Original Music Composer

Doubt

2008 · Original Music Composer

The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

2008 · Original Music Composer

To Each His Own Cinema

2007 · Original Music Composer

Eastern Promises

2007 · Original Music Composer

The Last Mimzy

2007 · Original Music Composer

The Departed

2006 · Original Music Composer

Scoring the Silence

2006 · Self

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

2005 · Self

A History of Violence

2005 · Original Music Composer

The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music

2005 · Self

Lord of the Brush

Lord of the Brush

2005 · Original Music Composer

The Aviator

2004 · Original Music Composer

Creating the Lord of the Rings Symphony

2004 · Self

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

2004 · Self

Ed Wood: The Theremin

2004 · Self - Composer

People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'

2004 · Self

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003 · Drinking Rohan Soldier (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Songs

Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special

2003 · Music

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002 · Original Music Composer

Gangs of New York

2002 · Original Music Composer

Music for Middle-earth

2002 · Self

Spider

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

2002 · Self

Panic Room

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001 · Original Music Composer

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

2001 · Self

The Score

2001 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

Esther Kahn

2000 · Original Music Composer

Camera

2000 · Original Music Composer

The Cell

2000 · Original Music Composer

The Yards

2000 · Conductor, Orchestrator, Original Music Composer

High Fidelity

2000 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Music Arranger

Dogma

1999 · Original Music Composer

eXistenZ

1999 · Original Music Composer

Analyze This

1999 · Original Music Composer

Gloria

1999 · Original Music Composer

The Game

1997 · Original Music Composer

Cop Land

1997 · Original Music Composer

Looking for Richard

1996 · Original Music Composer

That Thing You Do!

1996 · Original Music Composer

Crash

1996 · Original Music Composer

Striptease

1996 · Original Music Composer

The Truth About Cats & Dogs

1996 · Original Music Composer

Before and After

1996 · Original Music Composer

White Man's Burden

1995 · Original Music Composer

Moonlight and Valentino

1995 · Original Music Composer

Se7en

1995 · Original Music Composer

Nobody's Fool

1994 · Original Music Composer

Ed Wood

1994 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor

The Client

1994 · Original Music Composer

Philadelphia

1993 · Original Music Composer

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

M. Butterfly

1993 · Original Music Composer

Guilty as Sin

1993 · Original Music Composer

Sliver

1993 · Original Music Composer

Single White Female

1992 · Original Music Composer

Prelude to a Kiss

1992 · Original Music Composer

Naked Lunch

1991 · Original Music Composer

A Kiss Before Dying

1991 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Silence of the Lambs

1991 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Music Producer

Made in Milan

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Local Stigmatic

1990 · Original Music Composer

She-Devil

1989 · Original Music Composer

The Lemon Sisters

1989 · Original Music Composer

An Innocent Man

1989 · Original Music Composer

Signs of Life

1989 · Original Music Composer

Dead Ringers

1988 · Original Music Composer

Big

1988 · Original Music Composer

Moving

1988 · Original Music Composer

Nadine

1987 · Original Music Composer

Heaven

1987 · Original Music Composer

The Fly

1986 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Fire with Fire

1986 · Original Music Composer

After Hours

1985 · Original Music Composer

Places in the Heart

1984 · Additional Music

Nothing Lasts Forever

1984 · Original Music Composer

Videodrome

1983 · Original Music Composer

Scanners

1981 · Original Music Composer

Gilda Live

1980 · The Candy Slice Group, Musician, Music Director

The Brood

1979 · Original Music Composer

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

1978 · Original Music Composer

Saturday Night Live

1975 · Self - Bandleader, Musician at Plato’s Cave (uncredited), Self (uncredited), Deejay (uncredited), Shelley (uncredited)

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