James Newton Howard

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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.

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2027
Remain
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
Behemoth!
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
Marty, Life Is Short
Movie Original Music Composer
2025
The Lost Bus
Movie Original Music Composer
2023
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Movie Original Music Composer
2023
All the Light We Cannot See
TV show Original Music Composer
2023
Pain Hustlers
Movie Original Music Composer
2023
Day Twelve
Movie Music
2022
Willow
TV show Original Music Composer
2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV show Original Music Composer
2022
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Movie Original Music Composer
2021
Jungle Cruise
Movie Original Music Composer
2021
Raya and the Last Dragon
Movie Original Music Composer
2020
News of the World
Movie Original Music Composer
2019
A Hidden Life
Movie Original Music Composer

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2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Movie Music Score Producer
2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Movie Original Music Composer
2018
Red Sparrow
Movie Original Music Composer
2017
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Movie Original Music Composer
2017
Detroit
Movie Original Music Composer
2017
A Series of Unfortunate Events
TV show Original Music Composer
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Movie Original Music Composer
2016
All the Way
Movie Original Music Composer
2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Movie Original Music Composer
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Movie Original Music Composer
2015
Concussion
Movie Original Music Composer
2015
Pawn Sacrifice
Movie Original Music Composer
2015
What Lives Inside
TV show Music
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie Self - Original Music Composer
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Movie Original Music Composer
2014
Nightcrawler
Movie Original Music Composer
2014
Cut Bank
Movie Original Music Composer
2014
Maleficent
Movie Original Music Composer
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie Original Music Composer
2013
Parkland
Movie Original Music Composer
2013
After Earth
Movie Original Music Composer
2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Movie Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
2012
The Bourne Legacy
Movie Original Music Composer
2012
Snow White and the Huntsman
Movie Original Music Composer