James Newton Howard
Born: 1951-06-09 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For: Sound
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). He has also worked with other directors such as Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P.J. Hogan, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Johnston, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Newton Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
- The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping ... (Original Music Composer)
2025
- The Lost Bus ... (Original Music Composer)
2023
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ... (Original Music Composer)
- All the Light We Cannot See ... (Music)
- Pain Hustlers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Day Twelve ... (Music)
2022
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore ... (Original Music Composer)
- Willow ... (Original Music Composer)
- LIGHT & MAGIC ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- Jungle Cruise ... (Original Music Composer)
- Raya and the Last Dragon ... (Original Music Composer)
2020
- News of the World ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- A Hidden Life ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ... (Original Music Composer)
- Red Sparrow ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ... (Music Score Producer)
2017
- Roman J. Israel, Esq. ... (Original Music Composer)
- Detroit ... (Original Music Composer)
2016
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Huntsman: Winter's War ... (Original Music Composer)
- All the Way ... (Original Music Composer)
2015
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Concussion ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Original Music Composer
- Pawn Sacrifice ... (Original Music Composer)
- What Lives Inside ... (Music)
2014
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Maleficent ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nightcrawler ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cut Bank ... (Original Music Composer)
2013
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ... (Original Music Composer)
- After Earth ... (Original Music Composer)
- Parkland ... (Original Music Composer)
2012
- The Bourne Legacy ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Hunger Games ... (Original Music Composer)
- Darling Companion ... (Original Music Composer)
- Snow White and the Huntsman ... (Original Music Composer)
- The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
2011
- Larry Crowne ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gnomeo & Juliet ... (Original Music Composer)
- Green Lantern ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Green Hornet ... (Original Music Composer)
- Water for Elephants ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hollywood in Vienna as Self
2010
- Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang ... (Original Music Composer)
- Love & Other Drugs ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Last Airbender ... (Original Music Composer)
- Inhale ... (Original Music Composer)
- Salt ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Tourist ... (Original Music Composer)
2009
- Confessions of a Shopaholic ... (Original Music Composer)
- Duplicity ... (Original Music Composer)
- Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil as Self
2008
- The Dark Knight ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Happening ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mad Money ... (Original Music Composer)
- Defiance ... (Original Music Composer)
- Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love ... (Original Music Composer)
2007
- I Am Legend ... (Original Music Composer)
- Michael Clayton ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lookout ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Water Horse ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Great Debaters ... (Original Music Composer)
- Charlie Wilson's War ... (Original Music Composer)
- Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens ... (Music Producer)
2006
- Blood Diamond ... (Original Music Composer)
- RV ... (Original Music Composer)
- Freedomland ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lady in the Water ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Eighth Blunder of the World as Self
2005
- Batman Begins ... (Original Music Composer)
- King Kong ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Interpreter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Deconstructing 'The Village' as Self
2004
- Hidalgo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Collateral ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Village ... (Original Music Composer)
- City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral' as Self
2003
- Peter Pan ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dreamcatcher ... (Original Music Composer)
- Making 'Signs' as Self - Composer
2002
- Treasure Planet ... (Original Music Composer)
- Signs ... (Original Music Composer)
- Big Trouble ... (Original Music Composer)
- Unconditional Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Emperor's Club ... (Original Music Composer)
- Amongst the Shoes ... (Original Music Composer)
2001
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire ... (Original Music Composer)
- America's Sweethearts ... (Original Music Composer)
2000
- Dinosaur ... (Original Music Composer)
- Vertical Limit ... (Original Music Composer)
- Unbreakable ... (Original Music Composer)
- Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense' as Self
1999
- The Sixth Sense ... (Original Music Composer)
- Runaway Bride ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mumford ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wayward Son ... (Original Music Composer)
- Snow Falling on Cedars ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stir of Echoes ... (Original Music Composer)
1998
- From the Earth to the Moon ... (Music)
- A Perfect Murder ... (Original Music Composer)
1997
- The Devil's Advocate ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Postman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dante's Peak ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Best Friend's Wedding ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fathers' Day ... (Original Music Composer)
1996
- Primal Fear ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Juror ... (Original Music Composer)
- Space Jam ... (Original Music Composer)
- One Fine Day ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eye for an Eye ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Trigger Effect ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Waterworld ... (Original Music Composer)
- French Kiss ... (Original Music Composer)
- Just Cause ... (Original Music Composer)
- Outbreak ... (Original Music Composer)
- Restoration ... (Original Music Composer)
1994
- Junior ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wyatt Earp ... (Original Music Composer)
- Intersection ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- The Fugitive ... (Original Music Composer)
- Alive ... (Original Music Composer)
- Falling Down ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Saint of Fort Washington ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dave ... (Original Music Composer)
- Alive: 20 Years Later ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Diggstown ... (Original Music Composer)
- Glengarry Glen Ross ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Private Matter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Night and the City ... (Original Music Composer)
- American Heart ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- My Girl ... (Original Music Composer)
- King Ralph ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Man in the Moon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Grand Canyon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Prince of Tides ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dying Young ... (Original Music Composer)
- Guilty by Suspicion ... (Original Music Composer)
- Land of Men ... (Music)
1990
- Pretty Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Descending Angel ... (Original Music Composer)
- Flatliners ... (Original Music Composer)
- 3 Men and a Little Lady ... (Original Music Composer)
- Marked for Death ... (Original Music Composer)
- Coupe de Ville ... (Original Music Composer)
1989
- Major League ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tap ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Package ... (Original Music Composer)
1988
- Promised Land ... (Original Music Composer)
- Off Limits ... (Original Music Composer)
- Some Girls ... (Original Music Composer)
- Everybody's All-American ... (Original Music Composer)
1987
- Five Corners ... (Original Music Composer)
- Campus Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- Russkies ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- Wildcats ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tough Guys ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nobody's Fool ... (Original Music Composer)
- 8 Million Ways to Die ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- Head Office ... (Original Music Composer)
1984
- Dune ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again as Self - Keyboards
1953
- The Oscars as Self