Thomas Newman

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Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Film Awards, and 15 Academy Award nominations. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Little Women (1994), Meet Joe Black(1998), American Beauty and The Green Mile (both 1999), Pay It Forward (2000), In the Bedroom (2001), Road to Perdition and White Oleander (both 2002), Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), WALL-E (2008), the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), 1917 (2019), and Elemental (2023). In television, Newman has composed music for the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001), the 2003 miniseries Angels in America, and the Netflix biographical crime drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). In the latter, he co-composed with his daughter Julia Newman. He has collaborated with directors such as Robert Altman, Jon Avnet, Martin Brest, Frank Darabont, Todd Field, John Lee Hancock, John Madden, Sam Mendes, Andrew Stanton, and Steven Soderbergh. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2027
Star Wars: Starfighter
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
Anxious People
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
Onwards and Sideways
Movie Original Music Composer
2026
No Man's Mind
Movie Music
2026
In the Blink of an Eye
Movie Original Music Composer
2025
The Thursday Murder Club
Movie Original Music Composer
2024
Music by John Williams
Movie Self - Composer
2024
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
TV show Original Music Composer
2023
WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Movie Original Music Composer
2023
White Bird
Movie Original Music Composer
2023
Elemental
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
A Man Called Otto
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
The Sound of 007
Movie Self
2022
Operation Mincemeat
Movie Original Music Composer
2022
Dog
Movie Original Music Composer
2021
The Little Things
Movie Original Music Composer