Howard Shore

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-10-18 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Howard Shore

Biography

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...

Production

2005

A History of Violence

as Original Music Composer

2002

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

as Original Music Composer

2003

2000

High Fidelity

as Original Music Composer

1994

Ed Wood

as Original Music Composer

1993

M. Butterfly

as Original Music Composer

1999

Dogma

as Original Music Composer

1993

Mrs. Doubtfire

as Original Music Composer

2004

The Aviator

as Original Music Composer

1995

Se7en

as Original Music Composer

1992

Prelude to a Kiss

as Original Music Composer

1983

Videodrome

as Original Music Composer

1997

The Game

as Original Music Composer

1993

Sliver

as Original Music Composer

1991

Naked Lunch

as Original Music Composer

1996

Crash

as Original Music Composer

1999

eXistenZ

as Original Music Composer

1985

After Hours

as Original Music Composer

1997

Cop Land

as Original Music Composer

1989

She-Devil

as Original Music Composer

2002

Gangs of New York

as Original Music Composer

2007

Eastern Promises

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Last Mimzy

as Original Music Composer

1988

Big

as Original Music Composer

2001

The Score

as Original Music Composer

1994

Nobody's Fool

as Original Music Composer

2000

The Cell

as Original Music Composer

1986

The Fly

as Original Music Composer

1993

Philadelphia

as Original Music Composer

1981

Scanners

as Original Music Composer

1999

Analyze This

as Original Music Composer

1996

That Thing You Do!

as Original Music Composer

1992

Single White Female

as Original Music Composer

2002

Spider

as Original Music Composer

1979

The Brood

as Original Music Composer

2022

Crimes of the Future

as Original Music Composer

2011

Hugo

as Original Music Composer

2011

A Dangerous Method

as Original Music Composer

2012

Cosmopolis

as Original Music Composer

2012

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

as Original Music Composer

2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

as Original Music Composer

2018

The Catcher Was a Spy

as Original Music Composer

2023

Drift

as Original Music Composer

1986

1984

Nothing Lasts Forever

as Original Music Composer

1989

Signs of Life

as Original Music Composer

2014

1978

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

as Original Music Composer

2014

Maps to the Stars

as Original Music Composer

1988

Dead Ringers

as Original Music Composer

1991

The Silence of the Lambs

as Original Music Composer

2010

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

as Original Music Composer

2015

Spotlight

as Original Music Composer

1986

The Fly

as Conductor

1990

Made in Milan

as Original Music Composer

1994

The Client

as Original Music Composer

1996

Striptease

as Original Music Composer

2000

The Yards

as Orchestrator

2000

The Yards

as Conductor

1991

2025

The Shrouds

as Original Music Composer

2022

The Pale Blue Eye

as Original Music Composer

1984

Places in the Heart

as Additional Music

2020

The Lost Prince

as Original Music Composer

1987

Nadine

as Original Music Composer

1996

The Truth About Cats & Dogs

as Original Music Composer

2010

Edge of Darkness

as Original Music Composer

1993

Mrs. Doubtfire

as Orchestrator

2001

The Score

as Conductor

2001

The Score

as Orchestrator

1989

An Innocent Man

as Original Music Composer

1999

Gloria

as Original Music Composer

2019

The Song of Names

as Original Music Composer

1995

Moonlight and Valentino

as Original Music Composer

1996

Before and After

as Original Music Composer

2006

The Departed

as Original Music Composer

2020

Pieces of a Woman

as Original Music Composer

2016

Denial

as Original Music Composer

2005

Lord of the Brush

as Original Music Composer

2008

Doubt

as Original Music Composer

2000

The Yards

as Original Music Composer

1995

White Man's Burden

as Original Music Composer

2020

Funny Boy

as Original Music Composer

2002

Panic Room

as Original Music Composer

2014

Rosewater

as Original Music Composer

2020

Funny Boy

as Producer

1991

A Kiss Before Dying

as Original Music Composer

2000

Camera

as Original Music Composer

2007

To Each His Own Cinema

as Original Music Composer

1993

Guilty as Sin

as Original Music Composer

1989

The Lemon Sisters

as Original Music Composer

2000

Esther Kahn

as Original Music Composer

1996

Looking for Richard

as Original Music Composer

1987

Heaven

as Original Music Composer

1980

Gilda Live

as Musician

1980

Gilda Live

as Music Director

2008

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

as Original Music Composer

2000

High Fidelity

as Conductor

2000

High Fidelity

as Music Arranger

1990

The Local Stigmatic

as Original Music Composer

1994

Ed Wood

as Orchestrator

1994

Ed Wood

as Conductor

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