James Newton Howard

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-06-09 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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 Shyama...

Production

1990

Pretty Woman

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Dark Knight

as Original Music Composer

2005

The Interpreter

as Original Music Composer

2005

Batman Begins

as Original Music Composer

2005

King Kong

as Original Music Composer

1995

French Kiss

as Original Music Composer

2006

Blood Diamond

as Original Music Composer

1996

Primal Fear

as Original Music Composer

1996

Space Jam

as Original Music Composer

1999

The Sixth Sense

as Original Music Composer

1991

The Prince of Tides

as Original Music Composer

2002

Signs

as Original Music Composer

1991

My Girl

as Original Music Composer

1998

A Perfect Murder

as Original Music Composer

2004

Hidalgo

as Original Music Composer

1991

King Ralph

as Original Music Composer

1992

A Private Matter

as Original Music Composer

1990

Marked for Death

as Original Music Composer

2010

The Last Airbender

as Original Music Composer

2000

Dinosaur

as Original Music Composer

2007

Michael Clayton

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Fugitive

as Original Music Composer

1999

Runaway Bride

as Original Music Composer

1986

Tough Guys

as Original Music Composer

1994

Junior

as Original Music Composer

2007

Charlie Wilson's War

as Original Music Composer

2001

America's Sweethearts

as Original Music Composer

1999

Stir of Echoes

as Original Music Composer

2004

The Village

as Original Music Composer

1995

Outbreak

as Original Music Composer

1990

3 Men and a Little Lady

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Lookout

as Original Music Composer

1996

One Fine Day

as Original Music Composer

1993

Alive

as Original Music Composer

1991

Dying Young

as Original Music Composer

2008

Mad Money

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Happening

as Original Music Composer

1997

Fathers' Day

as Original Music Composer

2006

Lady in the Water

as Original Music Composer

1997

My Best Friend's Wedding

as Original Music Composer

2000

Unbreakable

as Original Music Composer

1995

Waterworld

as Original Music Composer

2002

Treasure Planet

as Original Music Composer

1992

Glengarry Glen Ross

as Original Music Composer

1997

The Postman

as Original Music Composer

1996

The Juror

as Original Music Composer

2006

Freedomland

as Original Music Composer

2011

The Green Hornet

as Original Music Composer

2022

2010

Love & Other Drugs

as Original Music Composer

2011

Green Lantern

as Original Music Composer

2010

The Tourist

as Original Music Composer

2009

Duplicity

as Original Music Composer

2012

The Bourne Legacy

as Original Music Composer

2013

After Earth

as Original Music Composer

2021

Jungle Cruise

as Original Music Composer

2011

Water for Elephants

as Original Music Composer

2012

Snow White and the Huntsman

as Original Music Composer

1992

Diggstown

as Original Music Composer

2013

Parkland

as Original Music Composer

2008

Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

as Original Music Composer

2012

The Hunger Games

as Original Music Composer

1988

Off Limits

as Original Music Composer

1997

The Devil's Advocate

as Original Music Composer

2014

Maleficent

as Original Music Composer

2014

Nightcrawler

as Original Music Composer

1987

Five Corners

as Original Music Composer

1990

Descending Angel

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Water Horse

as Original Music Composer

2014

Cut Bank

as Original Music Composer

2015

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

as Original Music Composer

1988

Some Girls

as Original Music Composer

2008

Defiance

as Original Music Composer

2005

1990

Flatliners

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Water Horse

as Orchestrator

2015

Concussion

as Original Music Composer

2011

Larry Crowne

as Original Music Composer

1986

8 Million Ways to Die

as Original Music Composer

1999

Snow Falling on Cedars

as Original Music Composer

2016

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

as Original Music Composer

2006

RV

as Original Music Composer

2010

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

as Original Music Composer

1996

The Trigger Effect

as Original Music Composer

2002

Big Trouble

as Original Music Composer

2000

Vertical Limit

as Original Music Composer

1991

Grand Canyon

as Original Music Composer

2010

Inhale

as Original Music Composer

2007

I Am Legend

as Original Music Composer

1995

Just Cause

as Original Music Composer

1994

Wyatt Earp

as Original Music Composer

1989

Major League

as Original Music Composer

2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

as Original Music Composer

2010

Salt

as Original Music Composer

2014

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

as Original Music Composer

2001

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

as Original Music Composer

2009

Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Original Music Composer

2003

Peter Pan

as Original Music Composer

2002

Unconditional Love

as Original Music Composer

1994

Intersection

as Original Music Composer

1986

Wildcats

as Original Music Composer

2002

Amongst the Shoes

as Original Music Composer

1993

Dave

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Great Debaters

as Original Music Composer

2003

Dreamcatcher

as Original Music Composer

1992

American Heart

as Original Music Composer

2019

A Hidden Life

as Original Music Composer

1993

Alive: 20 Years Later

as Original Music Composer

2004

Collateral

as Original Music Composer

1992

Night and the City

as Original Music Composer

2016

The Huntsman: Winter's War

as Original Music Composer

2023

Pain Hustlers

as Original Music Composer

2018

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

as Original Music Composer

2002

The Emperor's Club

as Original Music Composer

1989

The Package

as Original Music Composer

2017

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

as Original Music Composer

1996

Eye for an Eye

as Original Music Composer

1999

Mumford

as Original Music Composer

1993

Falling Down

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Saint of Fort Washington

as Original Music Composer

2000

Unbreakable

as Orchestrator

1987

Campus Man

as Original Music Composer

2017

Detroit

as Original Music Composer

2018

1986

Nobody's Fool

as Original Music Composer

1987

Russkies

as Original Music Composer

2023

Day Twelve

as Music

2018

Red Sparrow

as Original Music Composer

1991

The Man in the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1999

Stir of Echoes

as Orchestrator

2012

Darling Companion

as Original Music Composer

1995

Restoration

as Original Music Composer

1989

Tap

as Original Music Composer

2015

Pawn Sacrifice

as Original Music Composer

2016

All the Way

as Original Music Composer

1991

Guilty by Suspicion

as Original Music Composer

2011

Gnomeo & Juliet

as Original Music Composer

1988

Everybody's All-American

as Original Music Composer

1988

Promised Land

as Original Music Composer

1985

Head Office

as Original Music Composer

2021

Raya and the Last Dragon

as Original Music Composer

2020

News of the World

as Original Music Composer

1997

Dante's Peak

as Original Music Composer

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The Lost Bus

as Original Music Composer

1991

Land of Men

as Music

1984

Dune

as Original Music Composer

2003

1999

Wayward Son

as Original Music Composer

1990

Coupe de Ville

as Original Music Composer

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