James Newton Howard

Known For: Sound
Born: June 9, 1951
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

James Newton Howard

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, Iv…

Filmography

Remain

2027 · Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

2026 · Original Music Composer

Marty, Life Is Short

2026 · Original Music Composer

The Lost Bus

2025 · Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023 · Original Music Composer

All the Light We Cannot See

2023 · Original Music Composer

Pain Hustlers

2023 · Original Music Composer

Day Twelve

2023 · Music

Willow

2022 · Original Music Composer

LIGHT & MAGIC

2022 · Original Music Composer

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

2022 · Original Music Composer

Jungle Cruise

2021 · Original Music Composer

Raya and the Last Dragon

2021 · Original Music Composer

News of the World

2020 · Original Music Composer

A Hidden Life

2019 · Original Music Composer

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018 · Music Score Producer, Original Music Composer

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018 · Original Music Composer

Red Sparrow

2018 · Original Music Composer

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017 · Original Music Composer

Detroit

2017 · Original Music Composer

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016 · Original Music Composer

All the Way

2016 · Original Music Composer

The Huntsman: Winter's War

2016 · Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015 · Original Music Composer

Concussion

2015 · Original Music Composer

Pawn Sacrifice

2015 · Original Music Composer

What Lives Inside

2015 · Music

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

2015 · Self - Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014 · Original Music Composer

Nightcrawler

2014 · Original Music Composer

Cut Bank

2014 · Original Music Composer

Maleficent

2014 · Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013 · Original Music Composer

Parkland

2013 · Original Music Composer

After Earth

2013 · Original Music Composer

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012 · Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)

The Bourne Legacy

2012 · Original Music Composer

Snow White and the Huntsman

2012 · Original Music Composer

Darling Companion

2012 · Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games

2012 · Original Music Composer

Hollywood in Vienna

2011 · Self

Larry Crowne

2011 · Original Music Composer

Green Lantern

2011 · Original Music Composer

Water for Elephants

2011 · Original Music Composer

Gnomeo & Juliet

2011 · Original Music Composer

The Green Hornet

2011 · Original Music Composer

The Tourist

2010 · Original Music Composer

Love & Other Drugs

2010 · Original Music Composer

Inhale

2010 · Original Music Composer

Salt

2010 · Original Music Composer

The Last Airbender

2010 · Original Music Composer

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

2010 · Original Music Composer

The Secret of the Whales

2010 · Music

Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil

Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil

2009 · Self

Duplicity

2009 · Original Music Composer

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009 · Original Music Composer

Defiance

2008 · Original Music Composer

Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

2008 · Original Music Composer

The Dark Knight

2008 · Original Music Composer

The Happening

2008 · Original Music Composer

Mad Money

2008 · Original Music Composer

The Water Horse

2007 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

The Great Debaters

2007 · Original Music Composer

Charlie Wilson's War

2007 · Original Music Composer

I Am Legend

2007 · Original Music Composer

Michael Clayton

2007 · Original Music Composer

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

2007 · Music Producer

The Lookout

2007 · Original Music Composer

Blood Diamond

2006 · Original Music Composer

The Eighth Blunder of the World

The Eighth Blunder of the World

2006 · Self

Lady in the Water

2006 · Original Music Composer

RV

2006 · Original Music Composer

Freedomland

2006 · Original Music Composer

King Kong

2005 · Original Music Composer

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

2005 · Original Music Composer

Batman Begins

2005 · Original Music Composer

The Interpreter

2005 · Original Music Composer

Deconstructing 'The Village'

2005 · Self

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'

2004 · Self

Collateral

2004 · Original Music Composer

The Village

2004 · Original Music Composer

Hidalgo

2004 · Original Music Composer

Peter Pan

2003 · Original Music Composer

Dreamcatcher

2003 · Original Music Composer

Making 'Signs'

2003 · Self - Composer, Music

Treasure Planet

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Emperor's Club

2002 · Original Music Composer

Amongst the Shoes

2002 · Original Music Composer

Unconditional Love

2002 · Original Music Composer

Signs

2002 · Original Music Composer

Big Trouble

2002 · Original Music Composer

America's Sweethearts

2001 · Original Music Composer

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

2001 · Original Music Composer

Vertical Limit

2000 · Original Music Composer

Unbreakable

2000 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Dinosaur

2000 · Original Music Composer

Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'

2000 · Self

Snow Falling on Cedars

1999 · Original Music Composer

Mumford

1999 · Original Music Composer

Wayward Son

1999 · Original Music Composer

Stir of Echoes

1999 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

The Sixth Sense

1999 · Original Music Composer

Runaway Bride

1999 · Original Music Composer

A Perfect Murder

1998 · Original Music Composer

From the Earth to the Moon

1998 · Music

The Postman

1997 · Original Music Composer

The Devil's Advocate

1997 · Original Music Composer

My Best Friend's Wedding

1997 · Original Music Composer

Fathers' Day

1997 · Original Music Composer

Dante's Peak

1997 · Original Music Composer

One Fine Day

1996 · Original Music Composer

Space Jam

1996 · Original Music Composer

The Trigger Effect

1996 · Original Music Composer

Primal Fear

1996 · Original Music Composer

The Juror

1996 · Original Music Composer

Eye for an Eye

1996 · Original Music Composer

Restoration

1995 · Original Music Composer

Waterworld

1995 · Original Music Composer

French Kiss

1995 · Original Music Composer

Outbreak

1995 · Original Music Composer

Just Cause

1995 · Original Music Composer

Junior

1994 · Original Music Composer

ER: 24 Hours

1994 · Music

Wyatt Earp

1994 · Original Music Composer

Intersection

1994 · Original Music Composer

Alive: 20 Years Later

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Saint of Fort Washington

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Fugitive

1993 · Original Music Composer

Dave

1993 · Original Music Composer

Falling Down

1993 · Original Music Composer

Alive

1993 · Original Music Composer

American Heart

1992 · Original Music Composer

Night and the City

1992 · Original Music Composer

Glengarry Glen Ross

1992 · Original Music Composer

Diggstown

1992 · Original Music Composer

A Private Matter

1992 · Original Music Composer

The Prince of Tides

1991 · Original Music Composer

Grand Canyon

1991 · Original Music Composer

My Girl

1991 · Original Music Composer

The Man in the Moon

1991 · Original Music Composer

Dying Young

1991 · Original Music Composer

Land of Men

1991 · Music

Guilty by Suspicion

1991 · Original Music Composer

King Ralph

1991 · Original Music Composer

Descending Angel

1990 · Original Music Composer

3 Men and a Little Lady

1990 · Original Music Composer

Marked for Death

1990 · Original Music Composer

Flatliners

1990 · Original Music Composer

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

1990 · Original Music Composer

Pretty Woman

1990 · Original Music Composer

Coupe de Ville

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Package

1989 · Original Music Composer

Major League

1989 · Original Music Composer

Tap

1989 · Original Music Composer

Everybody's All-American

1988 · Original Music Composer

Some Girls

1988 · Original Music Composer

Off Limits

1988 · Original Music Composer

Promised Land

1988 · Original Music Composer

Russkies

1987 · Original Music Composer

Five Corners

1987 · Original Music Composer

Campus Man

1987 · Original Music Composer

Nobody's Fool

1986 · Original Music Composer

Tough Guys

1986 · Original Music Composer

8 Million Ways to Die

1986 · Original Music Composer

Wildcats

1986 · Original Music Composer

Head Office

1985 · Original Music Composer

Dune

1984 · Original Music Composer

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again

1983 · Self - Keyboards

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Behemoth!

— · Original Music Composer

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