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Randy Newman
Los Angeles, California, USA
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger. Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film compo…
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Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger. Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, he is known for his Americana-inspired songs, non-rhotic Southern-accented singing, and lyrics that are often mordant or satirical and delivered by an unreliable narrator. Since the 1990s, he has worked mainly in film scoring, most popularly for Disney and Pixar. Newman began his professional career in the early 1960s composing incidental music for television and later penning UK hits for acts such as Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. After he formed part of a creative circle at Warner Bros. Records in 1966, the company released his first solo album, Randy Newman (1968). Other artists subsequently enjoyed chart success with recordings of his songs "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (1967), "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (1968), and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1972). His own hits as a recording artist include "Short People" (1977), "I Love L.A." (1983), and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (1995). Three of his eleven studio albums have charted in the U.S. top 40: Good Old Boys (1974), Little Criminals (1977), and Harps and Angels (2008). Newman has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards (out of 22 nominations), three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and seven Golden Globe Awards. His award-winning film work includes Ragtime (1981), The Natural (1984), Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Pleasantville (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Cars (2006), The Princess and the Frog (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Marriage Story (2019). He was honored with the Recording Academy's Governors Award in 2003, a Disney Legend award in 2007,[5][6] and inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Toy Story 5
Movie Original Music Composer
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2026
The Last Critic
Movie
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2025
Radiator Springs Racers | Disneyland Resort
Movie Music
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2025
Pixar Pal-A-Round | Disneyland Resort
Movie Songs
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2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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2022
Piano Cinéma
Movie Original Music Composer
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2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Movie Raccacoonie (voice) (uncredited)
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2021
Monsters at Work
TV show Main Title Theme Composer
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2021
Hacks
TV show Randy Newman
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2019
Marriage Story
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Toy Story 4
Movie Conductor
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2017
Popular Voices at the BBC
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Cars 3
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul
Movie Self
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2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Movie Self
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2016
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
Movie Self
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2015
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Movie Self
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2015
Randy Newman at Baloise Session
Movie Self
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
Monsters University
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
Randy Newman: Live in Germany 2006
Movie Vocals / Piano
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2011
Hollywood in Vienna
TV show Self
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2011
All You Need Is Klaus
Movie Self
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2011
Hamburg Journal
TV show self
- 2010
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2010
Randy Newman: Live in London
Movie Himself
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2010
Toy Story 3
Movie Songs
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2010
Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs
TV show Music
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2010
Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess
Movie Self
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2009
The Princess and the Frog
Movie Cousin Randy (voice)
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2009
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Movie Self
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2008
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
Movie Self
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2008
Leatherheads
Movie Original Music Composer
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2007
Lyle Lovett - In Concert
Movie Himself
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2007
The Pixar Story
Movie Self
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2006
Geared-Up
Movie
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2006
Cars
Movie Original Music Composer
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2005
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
Movie Self
