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American composer, orchestrator, and music producer James Newton Howard is an eight-time Academy Award nominee. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director M. Night Shyamalan. He is well known for his highly emotional and powerfully subtle music, supplying his talent to an array of films such as The Fugitive, The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village, the two Christopher Nolan Batman films; Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with Hans After Howard left the University of Southern California, he toured with Elton John as a keyboardist during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Howard also arranged strings for several of Elton's songs during this period including on the hits "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word", as well as playing additional keyboards and synthesizers on several of Elton's studio albums, including "Rock of The Westies" (1975), "Blue Moves" (1976), "21 At 33" (1980), and "The Fox" (1981). After his tenure with John, Howard toured briefly with Crosby, Stills and Nash before moving into film music in the mid-1980s. Howard scored the blockbuster Pretty Woman (1990). He received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for Barbra Streisand's drama The Prince of Tides (1991). Howard achieved four more best original score Oscar nominations, for the Harrison Ford action feature The Fugitive (1993), the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004) and most recently, Michael Clayton (2007). In addition, Howard received Best Song nods for scoring the Western epic Wyatt Earp (1994), Kevin Costner's Waterworld (1995), and Primal Fear (1996). Howard scored Space Jam (1996), Dante's Peak (1997) (theme only - score was composed by John Frizzell), and Collateral (2004). Howard has scored three Disney films which are Dinosaur (2000), Treasure Planet and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Howard also earned an Emmy nomination in 1995 the theme and pilot to the television drama, ER. He also won an Emmy for the them to Gideon's Crossing. He went on to win a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score for the feature King Kong. He went on to receive Oscar nominations for the features Michael Clayton (2007) and Defiace (2008).
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1951-06-09
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 3
- info Birth Place Los Angeles, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by James Newton Howard
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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012-08-18
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Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again
1983-01-01
6
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004-12-14
7.2
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015-03-06
5.4
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
2009-07-26
5.5
Making 'Signs'
2003-01-07
5
Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
2000-03-28
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The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006-11-14
4.7
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005-01-11
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
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Hollywood in Vienna
2011-09-25
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Pretty Woman
1990-03-23
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The Dark Knight
2008-07-16
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The Interpreter
2005-04-08
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King Kong
2005-12-12
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Batman Begins
2005-06-10
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French Kiss
1995-05-05
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Blood Diamond
2006-12-08
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Primal Fear
1996-03-06
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Space Jam
1996-11-15
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The Sixth Sense
1999-08-06
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The Prince of Tides
1991-12-25
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Signs
2002-08-02
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My Girl
1991-11-27
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A Perfect Murder
1998-06-05
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Hidalgo
2004-02-04
0
King Ralph
1991-02-15
0
A Private Matter
1992-06-20
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Marked for Death
1990-10-05
0
The Last Airbender
2010-06-30
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Dinosaur
2000-05-19
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Michael Clayton
2007-09-28
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The Fugitive
1993-08-06
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Runaway Bride
1999-07-30
0
Tough Guys
1986-10-03
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Junior
1994-11-22
0
Charlie Wilson's War
2007-12-19
0
America's Sweethearts
2001-07-17
0
Stir of Echoes
1999-09-10
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The Village
2004-07-30
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Outbreak
1995-03-10
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3 Men and a Little Lady
1990-11-21
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The Lookout
2007-03-09
0
One Fine Day
1996-12-20
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Alive
1993-01-15
0
Dying Young
1991-06-20
0
Mad Money
2008-01-17
0
The Happening
2008-06-11
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Fathers' Day
1997-05-09
0
Lady in the Water
2006-07-20
0
My Best Friend's Wedding
1997-06-19
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Unbreakable
2000-11-22
0
Waterworld
1995-07-28
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Treasure Planet
2002-11-26
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Glengarry Glen Ross
1992-09-15
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The Postman
1997-12-25
0
The Juror
1996-02-02
0
Freedomland
2006-02-17
0
The Green Hornet
2011-01-12
0
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022-04-06
0
Love & Other Drugs
2010-11-04
0
Green Lantern
2011-06-14
0
The Tourist
2010-12-08
0
Duplicity
2009-03-18
0
The Bourne Legacy
2012-08-08
0
After Earth
2013-05-30
0
Jungle Cruise
2021-07-28
0
Water for Elephants
2011-04-15
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Snow White and the Huntsman
2012-05-30
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Diggstown
1992-08-14
0
Parkland
2013-10-02
0
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
2008-09-06
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The Hunger Games
2012-03-12
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Off Limits
1988-03-11
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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012-08-18
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023-11-15
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The Devil's Advocate
1997-10-17
0
Maleficent
2014-05-28
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Nightcrawler
2014-10-23
0
Five Corners
1987-09-11
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Descending Angel
1990-11-25
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The Water Horse
2007-12-25
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Cut Bank
2014-10-04
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015-11-18
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Some Girls
1988-09-09
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Defiance
2008-12-31
0
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005-09-23
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Flatliners
1990-08-10
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The Water Horse
2007-12-25
0
Concussion
2015-11-12
0
Larry Crowne
2011-06-30
0
8 Million Ways to Die
1986-04-25
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1999-12-22
0
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016-11-16
0
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013-11-15
0
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014-11-19
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Inhale
2010-08-27
0
Salt
2010-07-21
0
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010-03-26
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009-02-05
0
The Great Debaters
2007-12-25
0
I Am Legend
2007-12-12
0
RV
2006-04-28
0
Dreamcatcher
2003-03-21
0
Peter Pan
2003-12-18
0
Unconditional Love
2002-08-23
0
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001-06-02
0
Vertical Limit
2000-12-08
0
The Trigger Effect
1996-08-30
0
Just Cause
1995-02-17
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Wyatt Earp
1994-06-24
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Intersection
1994-01-21
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Dave
1993-05-07
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American Heart
1992-12-19
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Grand Canyon
1991-12-25
0
Major League
1989-02-16
0
Wildcats
1986-02-14
0
Big Trouble
2002-04-05
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Amongst the Shoes
2002-11-02
0
A Hidden Life
2019-08-27
0
Alive: 20 Years Later
1993-12-31
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Collateral
2004-08-04
0
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018-11-14
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Wayward Son
1999-09-20
0
Coupe de Ville
1990-03-09
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Night and the City
1992-10-16
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The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016-04-06
0
Pain Hustlers
2023-10-20
0
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018-10-26
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017-11-17
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The Emperor's Club
2002-11-22
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Mumford
1999-09-24
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Eye for an Eye
1996-01-12
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The Saint of Fort Washington
1993-11-03
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Falling Down
1993-02-26
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The Package
1989-01-25
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Unbreakable
2000-11-22
0
Campus Man
1987-04-10
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Detroit
2017-07-28
0
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018-11-14
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Nobody's Fool
1986-11-07
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Russkies
1987-11-06
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Day Twelve
2023-01-29
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Red Sparrow
2018-02-28
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The Man in the Moon
1991-09-30
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Stir of Echoes
1999-09-10
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Darling Companion
2012-04-20
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Restoration
1995-12-29
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Tap
1989-02-12
0
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007-05-19
0
Pawn Sacrifice
2015-09-16
0
All the Way
2016-05-23
0
Guilty by Suspicion
1991-03-15
0
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011-01-13
0
Everybody's All-American
1988-11-04
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Promised Land
1988-01-22
0
Head Office
1985-06-06
0
Raya and the Last Dragon
2021-03-03
0
News of the World
2020-12-25
0
Dante's Peak
1997-02-07
0
From the Earth to the Moon
1998-04-05
0
Light & Magic
2022-07-27
0
Willow
2022-11-30
0
All the Light We Cannot See
2023-11-02
0
What Lives Inside
2015-03-25